XANATOS

 Theres soo many reason why to love Gargoyles, but one of the most important was its villians. The series had some of the most amazing and deep villians capable to do the worst thing but still being iposible to hate. One of the most prominent representatives of this is Xanatos, the main villian of the series that represent greed, betrayal and all the worst of humanity while packed on a pretty handsome, charming, well manered and kind package.

I says Elisa Maza was the most important human being for the Gargoykes but Xanatos is perhaps pretty close since he put the entire destiny of the gargoyles in motion and i am really surprised that NECA released the Steel Clan Robots before Xanatos as the main villian. But finally, here he is, along side Elisa Maza on his tiny super small package.

Xanatos is taller than Elisa but still shorter than Demona or the rest of the Gargoyles, perfect in scale and unlike Elisa that have some flimsy legs, this man can stand on his own perfectly and stay that way for an infinite amount of time. He is articulated on the head, neck, shoulders, double articulation on the elbows, wrists, waist, legs, kneed, ankles and half feet.

Eevery single ball joint move perfectly and gives him a huge range of motion, despite him being a pretty pasive character. His pony tail dosnt block the head articulation since is made with soft plastic and while his waist only moves left and rigth and his ankles dosnt move that much thanks to his pants, everything else works wonderfully (specially the elbows).

I like his sculpt much more than Elisa´s tough this is maybe because i like him more than Elisa and his face feature are much more complex, with the strong jaw and seductive look on his eyes, even his "base head" looks very expresive. The hair is nicelly sculpted half way between cartoon and ralistic style as well as the pony tail.

His is pretty athletic tough since, under the soft plastic coat, his pecs looks really muscly. Like i said, the coat is made with soft plastic soo it dosnt get in the way of the articulations, it have a very few wrinkles of gravity  in specific places but not too many since i am sure Xanatos iron his entire attire. The buttons on his coat are perfectly sculpted as well as the ones on his shirt underneath as well as the neck collar.

The pants have more wrinkles but overall they are pretty plain as well a his shoes, that are made with more shiny plastic. Theres nothing more there tp talk about since, his entire looks is extremelly simple soo theres not many details too look at, just like with Elisa.

His pants are a mix od black paints with some darker washes here and there while his shoes are clean black while his shirt is gunmetal black and have a pretty nice and soft texture, the coat is painted n dark grey and dosnt have any other tone aside of the black buttons on the sleeve.

The skin tone is perfect (not completelly white but with a ligth taned mediterranean tone) as well as the hair tough i wish the hair had more different colors for shadows and ligth since its just plain brown. The eyes are perfectly definied as well as the lips on his sensual smile, a really good representation of Xanatos.

For the accesorys he have 3 sets of hands: closed fist, hands to hold the floppy disc and Eye of Odin and a pair to hold his riffle. All hands works perfectly and are easy to change. There is also an extra head that exchanges from the neck up and its a little tricky to use, but it works nice too and have Xanatos in a fierce angry expression with his teeth exposed. It looks good on him tough it dosnt have that much difference with the base smiling expresion.

He also comes with a floppy disc, that one fill with all the important information of his corporation and was stolen by a rival company. Yes...very 90s, only in the 90s you could put that much into this little discs...the item is pretty cute, pretty tiny and perfectly painted in grey with a white label and the metalic part on the top.

Nother accesory is the incomplete Eye of Odin nacklace. The sculpt is rpetty delicate and the necklace section is chained with little hooks and can be moved around tough is not flexible, soo it cant be sued as a necklace. The paint is totally gold with some black lines in the necklace section tough is incomplete....NECA FORGOT TO ADD THE PUPIL!! The blue round jewel that acts as the pupil of the ey is missing for some reason and looking at the internet, i seen all copys of the figure have the missing pupil.

While Elisa from the NYPD cant have a gun, Xanatos, as a good USA civilian citizen, comes with a big ass riffle with a pretty cool and futuristic sci-fy design, pretty classic from the 90s. The riffle tough comes in vibrant blues with some baby blue tones and dark blue details. This color make it looks extremelly silly, more like a toy gun or a water gun.

There is also a blast effect with a peg that can be unserted on the riffle mouth. The blast effect is supposed to be a laser soo is transluscent red with some explosion effects in both sides. It looks really good and is much easyer to display than the giant Thailog shooting effect tough, with the blue toy gun, this laser looks more like strawberry water.

And finally, there is Demona´s closed wings. The wings are made with soft plastic and feel very flimsy and delicate since they are not joined in the back, soo the only part that makes them stay close are the little hands on the front. Still i have no issues using this wings on Demona and they ahve the same blue color with the inside puple and metalic black on the outside.

I love tough how, while Goliath´s and Brooklyn´s wings hang from the necks, Demona´s wings hangd from the side of her arms, under the shoulders, much more like a dress. They are really femenine and suits her perfectly soo she can finally be close to Goliath or any other character without the anoying huge open wings.

I like Xanatos, he is one of the best characters of Gargoyles but as an action figure, he suffers the same issue as Elisa: he is pretty boring looking. This is not NECA´s fault of course, the figure itself is really well done except for the Eye of Odin, bit the part that excite me the most in here, in fact, Demona´s wings.

I think this is why NECA added the wings to both Xanatos and Elisa. Also i cant compare with old Kenner version because i never had the Xanatos figure before, only the one on his armor. But oh well, now we are missing only Lexington and Coldstone to finally complete the  collection!!

ELISA MAZA

 I already say this but i remember the long wait for Goliath to start the Gargoyles action figures series of NECA and the struggle that was wait for Demona, and after that Hudson, it was almost a year of wait between figure, but it seems NECA wants to finish this asap this 2023 and is releasing the rest of the line pretty fast to the point we are now getting the human figures.

Of course, theres not a more important human to the Gargoyles than Elisa Maza. I always aprecate how such an strong and independent and smart woman she was without needing to take spot light, shame the male characters or just being a Mary Sue since she was brave enough to admit she needed help  and could not do everything. She was a strong female model but the rest of the Gargoyles universe didnt saw it as something extraordinary, it was just natural....i really wish more female characters were like this in modern media, we really need more like Elisa and less like Sypha from Castlevania.

Sadlly, i have issues with this figure. First thing first, she is the same price as the rest of the line despite being really small and coming in a tiny box. Bronx have the same problem tough being a smaller than the rest figure but this seems a problem NECA will not aknowledge. 

Elisa is one head and a half smaller than Goliath soo this makes her the second smaller character in the line after Bronx wich is a good thing, she looks great with the rest of the figures, specially with Goliath and she can stand on her own most of the time, tough he thin legs feels strangelly flimsy since the knees are made with soft plastic, but most of the time she can keep balance and no need base.

She si articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, knees and ankles. Theres a double articulation on the elbows and knees and the rest are ball joints with good mobility except for her shoulders and waist. The shoulders dosnt move uo too much thanks to the jacket for some reason and the waist only moves left and rigth but the up and down is extremelly restricted. This mean is almost imposible to pull of a "Elisa on the arms of Goliath" kind of pose tough given to her simplicity she have a really good range of mobility even in her head with long hair.

The sculpt is good tough she is dressed in the most simple way the 90s had to offer. Her shoes have some sculpted details but i am not sure if they are boots or wath since they are just....black shoes. Her jeans have some nicelly placed wrinkles and het jacket have a good amount of zippers added for more realism but overall, its difficult to say more beyond this sicne theres not much detail. Tough she is not as curvy as she is in the cartoon, she have a very blocky shape.

Maybe is her face shape but theres something that dont convince me here and i cant point it out. Her nose, mouth and eyes are perfect looking but my biggest problem is deffinetly the hair....that hair!!! While the sculpted strands are good looking the shape is not...she dosnt have the bang covering her eye or the puffy section around her neck, in here the hair is just like some kind of hood or nun veil.

It open to the sides in a pretty unatural way and for some reason is long, very very long. It looks fake...like a wig and that really broke with the character. Is made with soft plastic and i am sure they did it this way soo it let her move her head with freedom, but i dont know....it looks shabby.

The paint is as simple as the sculpting. The shoes are just black and each part is cast in color plastic to avoid an unatural look. The shadowing and high ligths on the pants is really good and helps give them a denim look with different tones of blues and a pretty soft noise texture. The jacket have some dark shadows here and there and the silver in the zippers is perfectly painted.

Her skin color is perfect as well as her eyes, with the cat like eyelashes, they match nicelly Greg Guler character design. I wish tough that her lip stikc color was ligther but her face is looking great. The hair is black and while it have some dark blue high ligths here and there, i think is not enough, since the mass of hair is way too big it needed more softer blues to stand out.

In the accesorys part she comes with 3 pairs of hands: closed fists, hands to hold a gun and hands to hold her flashligth and badge. The hands change is pretty easy tough i wish they give her open relaxed hands as well to toucb Cagney. 

She have two extra heads aside of the serious base face espression. One have a warm smile pretty familiar to the character and looks nice and another with a weird lusty expression. I hate this last one...is the classic "hey! I am a strong and cool girl in a Disney movie poster" face expression that all Disney princess show on every single poster and artwork: with an eye brow up and half a cocky smile pretty out of character.

There is also an extra hair wig thingy being blown by the wind. At first i hated this second hair, it looked way too dramatic, but in the end it looks much better than the basic hair and the shape resembles much more Elisa´s hair from the cartoon. This second hair dosnt block any of the articulation and is made with soft plastic, the flowing of the strands is really really good tough i still thing is missing softer blues to make it looks better.

She also have a flashligth and her police badge. Both pretty small and easy to lose. She use the flashligth on the thrid chapter to explore Wyvern Castle and socover Bronx for the first time. The flashligth is all black with a tiny red button and a white bulb while the badge is even smaller and only have gold paint tough is a really good detail and looks good on her hand.

My favorite accesory tough must be Cagney the cat, her pet companion on her apartment. We didnt see much of Cagney beyond Hudson took care of him while Elisa was away traveling with Goliath and Bronx, but i am glad they added this little furry friend. 

The fur sculpt is noce looking while the whole creature is just grey his yellow eyes and black mouth painted. He is tiny tough have a ball jointed neck soo he can be posed looking at any side. Sadlly, the lack of articulation beyond of the ehad means he can be hold in a natural position by any of the characters and he is just posed walking on the ground.

And of course, the bigger item of the pack is Brooklyn´s closed wings. They have exactly the same leaterish texture and red colors in the inside and dark brown in the outside tough they are made with soft plastic. They fit nicelly into him tough they curl in the pointy ends and i love the way his little hands holds in the front. To be honest this was the most hyped part of this figure for me...this closed wings MUST be included with each character given they basic nature for the whole display.

And at last, an item thats is not here at all...her handgun. I mention this because she does have hands to hold a handgun, but she dosnt have any....i dont know if it was due to the fact she is a police and police are soo hated in USA or if it was because of the Disney logo on the box, but i find pretty ridiculous and dissapoitning to see a cop with no handgun, an item she constantly used over and over again in the show.

Elisa is a nice character and an important one, but as a figure she is pretty boring and the weird hair and lack of handgun makes her the weakest of the entire series of figures soo far. Tough despite of that she is a HUGE improvement over the Kenner version from the 90s. Kenner really play dity to her back then with her horrible blue space suit and robotic wings and she was pretty much the worst figure from the series.

This figure finally make justice to the character after 28 years. Is still not perfect but is the real Elisa Maza at last.

JET BLACK

I kind of miss anime, its been such a long time since i stoped watching anime because it got more and more difficult to watch thanks to the monotonus or senlses projects or just bare loli they offer now day. I remember the excitment that was watching not only the magnificent japanese animation, but theyr storys as well: Blue Submarine No.6, Vampire Hunter D, Bubblegum Crisis and one of the most perfect examples of wath is anime: Cowboy Bebop.

Strangelly there wasnt too much merch about Cowboy Bebop. We got a few Spike action figures and some Faye statues but thats it and of course, the character with less stuff on the market is my favorite character from the series: Jet Black. Not long about tugh, God Smile Company released the whole main characters cast as Pop Up Parade statues; those super cheap but really nice looking figures that rest over the giant shadow of the overpirced Nendroids.

While i like all the cast of Cowboy Bebop and i would love to have the entire collection, my main focus was of course Jet Black since this is perhaps the only figure of him to ever be made? I am not sure...maybe theres a statue somewhere but never seen it before soo this is the only way i have for now to have this husbando of mine in 3D shape.

The figure have the base scale of an average action figure soo while is not too big, it have a descent size to have a presence on the shelve and like the rest of the Pop Up Parades, he can only stand with his designated base, an hexagon shaped black base made in transluscent plastic. Is pretty discrete and elegant base that works great and match the rest of the collection.

The pose of Jet is good, with his weapon between his hands in front and a serious expression. Is very manly and sexy pose and unlike Lancer ot the Bubble Head Nurse, he has no protunding giant weapon soo is pretty easy to display.

The sculpt is very very nice, with his beard and the hair on the back of his head being a separate piece , the small details like the metalic part under his eye of the scare are perfectly sculpted and his body shape is perfect. He is very very curvy....very curvy, with a thin waist, a big round ass (and thats a big surprise) and big pecs but not only that, but he have a bukgue as well eveb if its covered under his gun (!!)!!

I know its a weird thing to read but yes, his body looks really really good despite it being totally covered by his suit, btu the suits hug his muscles soo good and the wrinkles in the perfect palce makes wonder!! Theres scartches on his legs and shoulder pads and protection and the eagle on his back is sharply sculpted as well.

Each part is cast in color plastic soo theres not a whole lot of painting in here and each section have a pretty brigth and clean color, matching perfectly the animated look of the characters, from the dark blue of his outfit to the redish shirt under it to the cilver paint on his shoulder pads and leg armour, each section have the figth color to not miss any detail of the sculting.

His pale skin looks good and most of the paint is on the yellow eaglye on his backa s well as on his face: his mouth and little tiny blue eyes as well and scar are finelly painted for such small scale tough my only issue here is that his head skin color is a little bit darker than the rest of his body. I only noticed this on the photos since in hand is pretty difficult to see this difference in color.

This is pretty much the only problem of this figure since the rest of the color, sculpt, material and design are really perfect, and even more perfect than that is the prie since this guy was super super cheap and comes with a transluscent plastic box to dsplay him without dust.

I am not sure if i will get the rest of the cast since my main point of interest is Jet Black but i am sure gonna get more Pop Up Parade since they are deffinetly much better than theyr price point and thats very rare now day.

WENG THE BLADE MASTER

 I AM NOT A FURRY BUUUUT... the Thundercats is a very important part of my childhood as well as other half man half beast characters, like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Back in the 80s wasnt rare to see such ocurrences as well as toy series totally original and not based on anything else that build a lore and story figure by figure, like like Masters of the Universe did it or even McFarlane Toys many years later. But its been soo long since something like that was on the market.

But not anymore, since Mestro Union, a newborn brand make its debut with The Furay Planet, a project about a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals dealing with violence, drugs, duels and gangsters. This world will be developed one character at a time, with one figure including a comic book with part of theyr lore and adventures.

Crocker the crocodile is already out as well as Veteran William the wolfman. While i still yet to get a Crocker, Veteran William turned out to be one of the best figures i ever seen in my whole life, an impresive feat for such a small and unknown name as Maestro Union, soo of course i was overhyped by the third figure of the line: Weng the Blade Master.

A chinese tiger man, a wandering warrior with dual blades in the shape of a very heavy figure, just like William. This guy is 1/12 scale soo he fits perfectly with most modern action figures tough given his inhuman nature, he is twice as tall as a normal human soo this is quiet a big figure!!

Just like William, Weng feet are longer than it seems in the back side and while he also have very cute beans, his paws are mostly plain soo he can stand perfectly and stronglly like a tower despite his digitigrade legs. He needs a little balance but once his knes are a little bend theres no problem for him to stand, something that speaks very good from Maestro Union enginering.

His first articulation is on the puff of hair on top of his head, is ball jointed and the hair can be also removed quiet easy. The he have a ball joint on his head and just like William, his neck is an elongated structure with another ball joint on the base and this lets him tilt his head a lot up and down and to the sides. Theres ball joints on his shoulders with a butterfly structure, cut articulation on the biceps and a double articulation on the elbows (very different to William since Weng is not modular and cannot be dismanteled), theres articulations on the wrists, the chest, the waist, legs, knees, ankles (or half animal leg...i dont know how to call it) and a really good articulation on his paws that can move to the sides and in circles to adjust his balance.

While in theory, all this articulations are the same as William and have a big range of movement, not all work too well....first of all, the clothing piece on his waist pretty much obstruct his entire legs movement. The peice is made in part with soft plastic but the legs cant be opened to the sides at all and are very limited. Gladlly, the knees move just perfect.

The waist dosnt move too much or the chest articulation, mostly for the big muscle stricture that obstruct it and the wrists are totally obstructed by the long gloves made with soft plastic. The rings on the arms dosnt helo either soo Weng is, in the end, not as easy to pose as Veteran William.

The sculpt is amazing. The feline face is perfectly sculpted and the hair is pretty sharp looking, he looks magestic and cute at the same time. His pecturals are glorious. His whole musculature is glorious but those bulgy pecs are just impossible to ignore. Unlike William that have a pretty lean musculature, Weng have the body of a body builder with his biceps and back being really huge.

Theres no venis in here tough, his muscles have a rugged texture that imitates short and soft hair, like a peach tough his hands have no hair  and looks really rough and rugged, like the hands of an old man with veins all over them and a lot of wrinkles and theres a pretty nice pif puff of hair on his forearms that looks like fire.

The gloves are made of soft plastic and the rings covering them are made with haird plastic and make a pretty strong bling sound each time he moves.The waist piece is really beautifull. I dont know how to call this kind of clothing, but consist in 3 layers of a red fabric tucked in top to a belt with two armor side structures at the sides. Theres a lot of pockets and cords hanging around and in one side he have metalic plates along with big coins that looks like yen and at the other side theres just leather and a brown animal fur.

Theres also green jade rings hanging from a cord, with tiny symbols carved on them and the jade rings are made of transluscent plastic. There is also a plate protection n his stomachwith big fish escales painted in silver and this two sections shines a lot and stand out.

Sadlly, as pretty as this looks, i seen many people removing it since it really obstruct his legs movement despite the material. I dont think is that easy to remove it soo i wont do it but i wish this tiger have an easy way to leave him nude, just like William.

Also i almost forgot. in between the red fabric in the back, his little tail is coming out. The tail have the same rugged texture as the rest of the body and is not articulated but instead...is bendy!!! Soo you can pose it around him with totall freedom. I love how different is the enginering compared to William.

His puffy pants have a velvet like texture as well as an enbroidment pattern. While the sculpt and wrinkles is fantastic and very realistic, they are mostly hidden by all the stuff thats hanging from his waist. 

The paint is excelent, with his small shiny yellow eyes, cute pink nose and black little dots on his snout taking all the atention. The white hair have a grey wash soo it dosnt looks plain and his orange body have also a lot od darker orange tones to give volume to those already amazing muscles. The change from orange to white in the center of the torso is pretty soft and looks soo good but not as good as the black strips on his back and arms and also his face, strips that dosnt mix at all with any other color tone of shadow at all!!!

The puffs of hair on his arms is brigth yellow givign them an even more fiery look and i already mentioned the green jade and silver fish details on his waist piece, but the red fabric that draps around his body also have a lot od dark tones to give it shadow and deep. Even the coins and metal plates as well as the big rings on his wrists have both a golden color but also some green to make it looks as rusty and old gold.

His pants are a solid dark blue color and thats all but thats OK since they are mustly hidden and his knes pads have a very natural brown wash and grey fur on the bottom. By the way, the knes pads leave his knes totally....exposed and i find that strange, i wish they covered with something else but that would block the knee articulation i guess.

He have a second head with a expression full of fury but also control over his emotions, unlike William, Weng is a martial artist thats why he neve goes runing in a feral and nude state. The sculpted wrinkles on his nose and his superior lips is really good but makes him look soo soo....cute. Its imposible to not see a kitty in here despite the big bare fangs. The paint is great, you cans ee the pink inside on his mouth but also, and even more stuning, the black strips pattern over his face and hair is the same in both heads....this are not random strips, this is an extremelly carefully aplied paint.

He comes with 4 pair of hands: closed fist, hands to hold accesorys, claw hands and an open palm and a two fingers gesture. The two fingers gesture can be used for some cool martial arts pose but also for him to hold on his pipe or even say "hi". The sculpt is as good as always in this hands tough some of the white paint in the ball joints chip away pretty easy.

Adn here is the proble,....i took me many days and a whole lot of hot water to be able to remove the hands. I almost broke my fingers doing it. Its totally IMPOSIBLE to remove his hands since the hole on his wrist is too small for the peg and bot sections are made of hard plastic. Plus those damn gloves and wings on his forearms dosnt help either soo i had to give him a bath in really hot water for like....5 whole minutes and a lot of brute force use to be able to remove those hands!!!

And put the hands back is still imposible.....each time i want to change the hands i need to use the hot water bath and a lot of force and that is unforgibable. Making the forearms of soft plastic soo it can be adjusted to the peg would have been perfect or make the gloves to open up and be removed more easy but i dont remember ever having this difficult of a time with any other figure...

His other accesory is a stray hat made of soft plastic with a big hole in the center. Out the hat on Weng head and his cute little ears will hold it in place perfectly, plus theres a cut on the side soo he can look with one eye. The patthern sculpt is amazing since bot sides of the hat are totally different but the paint is also soo perfect it fits perfectly the patthern. This is one of the coolest items for him to use.

Then he have a cloack made with soft plastic with a cord in front. Weng head must be removed to put or remove the cloack cape but put the head back with the cape on is really tricky. This cloak have a very nice flow and drapes pretty natural around Weng´s body, sculpted in grey plastic it also have some brownish tones in the bottom to make it looks dirty and old and sculpted for on top made with hairder plastic. The brown fur looks way too much like Veteran Williams hair and have the same grey tones as well...suspicious.....

While Weng looks incrediblly cool with the cape and the hay on, this cape really block some of his arm movement despite the soft material. Also theres an extra collar fur piece that goes in beetwen Weng´s head and his shoulders to cover the articulated neck, but this piece is only necesary when theres no cape.

He also comes with a pape made with bambo. This little piece is marvellous and extremelly delicate, with an exquisit nrown paint with some cooper on each end and a tiny little hook with a tiny little sack full of tobaco. I find the hook pretty delicate but is pretty cool to see the tobaco hanging and moving with the pipe and it fits perfecly on the hand with two fingers but also it can be placed in a small rope on Weng´s belt. This piece demands extra caution soo it dosnt get lost or it broke while moving around Weng (or changing those damn hands).

There is also 3 small silver knifes with an sculpted pattern and 3 little holes. The holes are for Weng claws soo he can hold them but they also fit in 3 small holes at the side of his pipe. Again, lose this little items is pretty easy and most be handled with care.

Then there is a jug with sake or maybe only water? The jug is green with a red cap and a pretty old and aged paint, and also a rop net on the bottom. Really it amaze me how perfect is the painting aplication on the rope!!! Weng can hold it on his claw but the jug also can hang from a black hook on Weng´s belt, close to the little knifes. While the jug is pretty resistant and hard to miss, i think the black hook on the tiger could be broke easy if not handled with care.

Then theres a cute pair os shoes. The shoes have an sculpted pattern that is hard to see thanks to the black paint and a weird pointy shape but.....in ordet to sue them, Weng´s cat feet must be removed from the articulation, but the plastic is soo hard i could not do it!!! Plus the shoes are amde with hard plastic as well soo take them back looks like hell as well and i wasnt up to the challengue. Also i cant see anyone chosing the shoes over the animal feet with claws. I am sure is easyer to Weng to stand with the big shoes but i prefer the animal paws anytime.

And lastly theres a big big and thin chest made of wood only a head smaller than Weng himself. While the wood texture is good theres no paint on it except on the golden motifs and ornaments at each corner and the center of the chest, with wath appeares as a plant in the very center. In the back of the chest theres this weird bullet like item that can be taken out. Theres no instructions on how to use this little thingy soo is really tricky make it works.

There is an almost invisible cap on the center of the cap that needs a lot of hot water (again) to be removed and leave a hole. The bullet like thingy can be used in this hole soo it conect with the chest and Weng can hold it on his back like a back pack. It looks kinda cool but silly and it not always work wince the bullet section is too short, it needs a lot of balance and also gives troubles to Weng to stand still.

Open the chest to reveal a velvet covering with two chinese swords on it. The velvet is a nice detail and the swords have two rings on the blade and a lion head and 3 flowers carved on the handle. The paint is very basic but perfectly aplied, specially on the two tigers in the bottom of the blades and looks fantastic on Weng´s hands.

Almost over but theres one single item left: the comic book with Weng story and a section with fanart. Sadlly, the print is still not that good and this comic book is only 1/3 of wath Veteran William had, also the art looks amazing in some panels but not that good on others. Aside of qualty or art taste, the story shows Weng facing a group of legendary warrios (Kung Fu Panda???) and finally beating the Namelss One - a samurai rabbit to later be turn into a vagabond that only lives to protects the Nameless One grandaugther, Luna. 

Given how short is the comic theres not a whole lot of lore to explore here tough the idea to give some context to the figure is really cool and ties with the very next figure of the line: the Namless One and Luna.

Overall, this figure is soo incrediblle looking, imposing, very manly and very sexy as well and every bit of the sculpt and paint jov is far superior to popular and much more expensive brands. I hyoed this tiger for more than a year since he looked soo amazing on photos but in the end, he dosnt reach Veteran William perfection.

All the stuff on top of his body and his outfit limit a lot his movement, and also the complete inability to change hands is really not acceptable. I STRUGGLED soo much taking the images seen in this post, is was a real figth  and given all the small and delicate pieces over this figure, i feel lucky i didnt broke anything.

Still i am very happy with him and how fantastic he looks. My interest on the rabit is null and the crocodile looks good but kinda silly compared to both Veteran William and Weng the Blade Master but it seems they are also making an african hyena and it excites me to see wath other kind of figure Maestro Union have in store. With enginering issues or not, this figures are real pieces of art.