LARA CROFT

 Its hard to belive but its been five years already since the last game of Tomb Raider and theres no trailer or info about a new game yet and made me wonder if Lara Croft finally stoped being as relevant as she was in the 90s. Maybe modern gamers ask more now? Or maybe Lara´s new design made her lost wath made her speciall? Tough i hope the classic archeological adventure never stops being popular since its one of my favorites but its been quiet some time since Uncharted ended as well....

But in the peak of its popularity, Lara Croft gives us some really amazing figures and toys to play with, like the Playmates original statues or the NECA action figures. But the last trilogy of Lara´s adventure bring with them Special Editions that included great figures. The first game came with Lara´s Play Arts Kai while the second; Rise of the Tomb Raider, came with this statue.

Part of the Special Edition of said game, this statue is deffinetly not small. With base included she is twice a modern action figure and as tall as the GECCO statues and thanks to the big base that cant be removed, she stands saffely. Tough i have to say that huge circular base really take out an awfull lot of space.

Displaying Lara Croft at the middle of her adventure in the snowy montain, this image could be perfect for the (way to ugly )cover of the game. We got Lara stansing on the rocky terrain, very well equiped with her bow, arrows, a rope, a knife, a revolver, two ice axe and a flare, while the chill wind moves her hair.

The pose fits her perfectly and have enough movement and dynamism to not be boring. The jacket and pants have a pretty sublte fabric texture but not too much, and i find it odd that she have her neck soo exposed in such a cold enviroment. But the best detailed parts are deffinetly the smallest, like the boots, they looks pretty amazing,  as well as the gun and arrows on her back.

The flare is made with transluscent orange plastic and the bow´s string is a real string. This small bits make this figure looks and feel much more natural.

Lara´s hair have a pretty good flowing sculpt, with every string perfectly defined. But i am not very sure about her face....is not like she is ugly, but i cant see Lara face fatures here. I am not sure of its the lack of expression or texture on her skin, but she dosnt looks too much like Lara Croft for me. Maybe is the shape of her face tough, a little two round of the sculpt of the eyes.

Ot maybe is the paint. The soft pink lips are good looking but her eyes are a little too simple...and perhaps a little too high as well? They are painted above the sculpt of the eyes soo it looks like she have big bags under the eyes. The dirt and blood on her face is nicelly painted tough as well as her hair, with different tones of brown.

Her greet jacket and pants have almost no paint at all and looks really plain. Theres some broken bits on her pants but they forggot to paint them as well but the golden mottif on the bow and the colors on the feathers in the arrows are perfectly painted. They even add some orange paint on the pal of her hand soo it looks like the flare is reflecting light. Pretty impresive attention to detail here!!! But again, only on the smallest sections.

There is a soft cover of snow on her jacket and pants and this are pretty much the only elemenst that makes them looks detailed but there is also blood, dirty and more snow on her hands and other sections.

Maybe this is all thanks to the character design but Lara Croft was soo easy to identify in the 90s and 2000s, but in here, someone who never played Rise of the Tomb Raider would have problems recognizing who this is. Theres no color palette or any other clue that tie her to her old design and i am glad she is not as cartoony sexual as she used to look, but sometimes realism can make some really dull characters.

Its weird....i think this is a very cool looking figure that looks great on any shelf of a female explorer but at the same time i find it kind of dull or boring...this is not the most memorable design of Lara and her lack of expression or any kind of face feature makes her even more plain looking.

But as part of a pack is not bad at all and she have enough to be really good looking on any adventure collection under the rigth ligth and distance.