BUBBLE HEAD NURSE

 And the couwntdow to Silent Hill 2 remake is still active and each monsth release new products based on the series, something unthinkable 20 years ago when Silent Hill was...well, very much alive. It never fails to amuse me how long it took to Konami to learn wath to do to Silent Hill but maybe they are already desesperate enough? It dosnt matter but one of the products they show on ther Silent Hill shodcase from monht ago was this Pop Up Parade Bubble Head Nurse.

I admit i am liking soo far this Pop Up Parade line from Good Smile Company, the quality is great and they are only 1/4 the price of thsoe crazy expensive Figma and Nendroids. I admit it pains me to let soo many Nendroids fly away but Good Smile Company prices are already delusional but this Pop Up Parade line is doing wonders fixing that.

A little bit taller than a Figma, this Bubble Head Nurse actually fit to any standar action figure collection like NECA or McFarlane and despite the shape of her legs, she can stand perfectly with the use of her base. Unlike the other Pop Up Parade, the Nurse base is a black and thick circle. Pretty simple but works good and dosnt looks bad with such a dark character.

The Nurse is walking, barelly standing with her legs and waist tiwsted, holding the iron pipe. A pretty basic pose for this character but is really well done and have sense of movement and weigth. This is almost the same pose of the GECCO Nurse, almost... only the head looking at frint and the arm with no pipe rised are the only elements that makes it different.

The plastic used here is pretty good, the arms are a little bit soft as well as her skirt (and yes....she actually have pantys sculpted and painted under the skirt). All the wrinkles hugging her body while she contorts looks pretty natural as well as the ripped sections that, instead of show skin, they show a weird fabric like material, almost like of if the Nurse is a ragg doll.

The skin tough lacks any kind of texture and i find the head sculpt a little bit exagerated. I mean, the weird shapes on her face are a little too prominent for my licking but i guess is neccesary at this scale. Tough she is using the strange....thing on her mouth. Time flys and i still dont udnerstand waths the thing on her mouth, is almost like a board or something.

The weird board is black with some kind of red markings on it. The worst thing is that i dont remember many Nurses in the game having this thingy and yet all the figures have it. I guess they tough leaving it out would make her looks way too simple, but i wish it was optional and detachable.

The paint work is really good but very limtied as well. Her skin have a mix of purples and greys with some darker shades in elbows and other particular areas to create a shadow while her uniform is almost the same color but a little bit more....redish? The uniform looks really dirty and natural but the color looks very similar to that of the Nurse skin.

The iron pipe is painted in metalic golden but somehow it also looks like is the same color of the entire Nurse. The only elements that stand out are the thing on her mouth and her white shoes. Again, the paint is very high quality but very monotone as well.

The head tough have some tiny and very difficult to see veins but this is the only area since the rest of her body is completelly clean. Almost all Pop Up Parade are anime characters soo i guess Good Smile is not that good with realistic paint at this point, this Bubble Head Nurse looks almost from an animel screenshot.

Theres not too much to complaing tough given the very low price of this figure and while the paint is a little basic, the sculpt and representation of the figure is perfect and she fits with most action figures collection as well. I am deffinetly going to get the Pyramid Head but i am also dissapointed to not see anything else....just Nurse and Pyramid over and over and over again...