TYRANT

 The begining of the century was a pretty exciting and interesting moment for Resident Evil since we were getting spin offs and remakes or even a prequel, stuff that elevated the hype for Resident Evil 4 and sky rocketed the mistery of wath was waiting in the future for the series. At the same time we got lots of action figures, from the fun ToyBiz line to the impresive japanese Moby Dick Toys and Palisades Marketing in the middle with 3 different series dedicated to the franchise as a whole.

With the first two figures of series 3 dedicated to CODE:Veronica (Chris and Wesker), the thirds figure was non other but the very first final boss of Resident Evil: Tyrant. And this guy is HUGE!!!! Literally twice the other figures and taller than Nemesis and Mr.X and i still remember how heavy felt the blister with him inside!!!

Somehow this guy is a little bit taller than the Moby Dick Toys figures wich makes me wonder how we get figures this big back then at such a low price....anyway, he can stand on his own but he needs a little bit of help balancing given how heavy is his top part, but most of the time he can stand just fine despite the missing base in series 3.

He is articulated on the head, chest, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knes and ankles, all cut joints that move only on a single direction, standar for back then figures, except the shoulders that are ball jointed as well as the head. The ehad tough cannot move too much thanks to the piece of flesh conecting from his heart to his face. This tissue is made with soft plastic and have some room to move to the sides but not too much.

The rest of the articulations are fine and moves perfectly within theyr limitations and the shulders give him a lot of movement freedom and are the main point for posing him. The giant arm tough is impresive how is able to keep the posing even with the heavy weigth of the giant claw but Palisades made an extremelly strong ball joint.

While this Tyrant cant be posed brake dancing, the sculpt is more than enough to make him a sight to fear. While Toy Biz and Moby Dick versions based the figures on the actual artwork of the first game, this one have a much more american comic flavor to it, with pretty exagerated details to make him more monster like. Even his musculature is extremelly super-heroic looking and gives him  apretty imposing frame.

On top of the amazing muscle structure, his skin is textured with lots of wrinkles giving him the look of a corpse. His giant (really in-human GIANT) heart is made with soft plastic and his skeletale visage is really menacing, with the veins covering his face and arms nicelly sculpted.

The color is really good. At this point Palisades finally get a hang of paint and give him a lots of blueish tones, withes and purples to follow his muscle structure and highlt the cadaveric effect on his skin. The veins on the arms, legs and face are vribrant red and erfectly painted and i particularlly like the bubble thingys on his leg, since they hace a weird wet looks and the intense red make them stand out from all the pale blues.

The heart have pretty soft and strong pinks with blue veins and the eyes really shine inside those dark sockets. His monster arm and chest have a lot of dark browns and blacks and i am not sure wath kind of tissue is this but looks almost like wood. Finally his claw have black nails and i love the sculpt of his claw...each one of them looks like black bone full with stretch marks and they arent completelly black, but have pretty dark browns as well to make them looks natural.

Overall, this guy is HUGE, HEAVY and extremelly cool looking. Is weird how he is not 100% accurate and instead have an exagerated design, but this guy was one of the best figures Palisades marketing ever produced and looks inponent on any horror collection or even around the other Resident Evil characters. Make other Tyrant looks like kids.