ISAAC CLARKE

 Its been a long time since last entry but it wasnt because of Santa taking his time delivering the christmas toys in time, it is because all the toy brands decided to release all the pre-orders of the year in this months soo now, aside of being completelly broke, i am full of new figures to show in here!!

Lets begin with Dead Space! I love Dead Space way too much tough there never was too much merch related to the series, with the release of the remake two years ago (!!!) Good Smile Comapany released a Figma of Issac Clarke as well as a  Pop Up pParde statue and since the price of the Figma´s is honetly way beyond of any logical thinking, i decided to pick the Pop Up Parade statue since it was almost 1/3 cheaper.

This is a statue soo theres no artoculation at all (tough i am sure the molds are the same of the Figma) and while this guy can stand on his own perfectly, he comes with a black circular base that is very simple and elegant looking but it does the job perfectly fine. 

One think i dislike of this figure is the size....this guy is soo tiny, i mean even comapred to the other Pop Up Parde i have, this Issac looks child size compared to them and i think is exactly the same scale as the Figma. Soo is basically a statis Figma (or FigFIX) and i deffinetly wasnt expecting that...the price dosnt looks that atractive anymore.

Aside of scale issue, the sculpt is really good. The pose is very simple with him walking carefully at front while turning around. The detaiñing on his suit is really fantastic with all the wrinkles and sculpted details on the clothe section and all the metalic sections on top matching those of the game. Tough his knee pads as well as the screen on his chest feels like softich plastic, the whle figure is pretty sturdy.

Even his boots soles are sculpted and painted with a rusty color with a black wash. The boots and the chest plates and back plates, the armor on the arms as well as the helmeth are painted in a golden color with a lot of rust and black effects to make it looks like old ancient metal with the 3 lines of the face painted in bright baby blue to make it stand.

The stasis module on his hand as well as the life meter in the back are painte in baby blue, tough the life meter on his back is just a blue plastic rod and dosnt have any of the zig zag pattern it should have. His clothes under the armor also have a very old looks with a lot o dark wash to give deep to the wrinkles and all details, tough his shirt is painted in grey while in the game is much more darker than this.

In the end the shirt and the metalic parts dosnt mix too much color wise soo this makes it looks like he have more armor than expected, but is just a discrepancy on color. The pants tough have the rigth dark tones of blue and brown soo they looks much better.

His only accesory: his weapon, i removable and while it dosnt have any articulations and is missing the mobile parts, the overall sculpt is good as well as the metalic paint and yellow details, tough it looks a little simplifyed from a closer look.

Theres not much to say about this figure tough, despite having a very good sculpt and mostly a good paint, the size dosnt makes it stand out too much. I think this figure would been perfect as part of a Collectors Edition of the game since is in the perfect scale for that kind of figures.

Good thing tough, this is pretty much the Figma but static, soo that means i dont need the Figma anymore but that dosnt mean i dont want any more Issac Clarke figures! I just dont want figures with that price tag.

FRANKENSTEIN´S CREATURE

 First published in 1818, "Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley is a tale of loneliness, despair, and the horrible consequences or a reckless pursuit of knowledge. 

Dr. Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant, but misguided man consumed by the desire to unlock the secrets of life. Building a creature out of body parts from corpses which he collects from gravesites, Victor achieves his dream and brings his monstrosity to life. Rather than being delighted at his success, Dr. Frankenstein is horrified by the creature he has constructed, and he immediately flees from the sight of this monster.

 Alone and unwanted, Frankenstein’s Creature escapes into the wilderness. Forced to learn the ways of the world on his own, the Creature is met with fear as he encounters humans for the first time. Chased away by their terror of him, the Creature moves from place to place until he stumbles upon a remote hut inhabited by a blind man and his two children. Observing this family from afar, the Creature learns to speak and he begins to understand the importance of belonging and family. This realization only serves to increase the sense of isolation that Dr. Frankenstein’s creation feels, and he is eventually chased away from the hut when the man’s children behold the monster who has invaded their home.

The Creature seeks out Dr. Frankenstein at his family home in Geneva. He demands that the Doctor create another creature so that he may have a companion in this life. Reluctant to repeat his past mistakes, the Doctor initially refuses, but the Creature persists in his demands. Eventually Frankenstein succumbs to these demands and begins to build a second creature.

On the brink of successfully creating life for a second time, Dr. Frankenstein realizes that he cannot go through with the deed. He destroys his new creation, enraging the Creature who vows revenge against his cruel creator.

Thus begins a series of horrific events; the deadly consequences of Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s unchecked ambitions. Lashing out against the man who made him and left him alone, the Creature kills the doctor’s best friend as well as Victor’s wife, losses which also contribute to the death of Dr. Frankenstein’s father. Grief-stricken and now as alone as the Creature to which he gave life, Victor devotes his remaining time on Earth to hunting down his creation so that he may destroy the monstrosity he has brought into the world.

Dr. Frankenstein chases the monster to the northernmost parts of the globe, nearly catching him during a harrowing dogsled chase. Eventually discovered by a ship and a team of explorers seeking out the North Pole, a sickly Victor relates his grim tale before he finally succumbs to the illness he has been fighting and dies.

The captain of the ship, a man named Robert Walton, authors a series of letters relating the incredible tale that has been told to him by the doctor, he also includes his own encounter with the Creature. Finding the monster weeping over the dead body of his creator, he listens to the monster’s tale of solitude, suffering, and hatred, as well as the regret he now has for his actions. With his creator now dead, he is truly alone in the world. The Creature escapes into the icy North to die, never to be seen again.

The Figura Obscura series by Four Horsemen is one of those collections thats hard to belive, a real dream come true kind of event for some collectors not only because of theyr quality and theyr amazing package, but because they been releasing characters from pretty...."obscure" topics like real life mithology or literally works, everything with a hliday spin into it: they release Krampus on Christmas day and they release the Headless Horseman in Halloween.

This figures have been the event of the season deffinetly, and finally i was able to get one of them in release season! The Halloween figure of this year, the Frankenstein´s Creature!!! And while theres hunderds of figures based on Boris Karloff Franknestein Mosnter from the Universal movie, this particular figure is entirelly based directly on Mary Shelley´s original vision, for the first time ever.

Aside of the magnificent box fill to the maximum of beautifull and haunting artwork (sadly, no glow in the dark this time), this Frankenstein´s Creature is on th same scale as the other figures of the serires if maybe a little bit taller, but not much. I wish he was bigger tough since in Mary Shelley´s book and movies, this monster is more taller than the average human. He can stand on his own perfectly soo theres no need of a base at all.

This monster is articulated on the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, knees and ankles. Theres no articulation on the chest or biceps, pretty odd for now day standars but i guess this is more for esthetic, tough the legs rotate as well as the elbows to five it a bigger range of movement. Of course the chest area and neck dosnt let his shoulders to go totally up but the rest of the ball jounts works really good, specially on the head since it let shim tilt his head and have a big range of up and down movement.

The hair dosnt block the head movement since it made with soft plastic and the coat dosnt get in the way either for the same reason, but the bandages on his waist really do block the legs movement a little bit, but aside of that theres a lot of poseability here despite this character not being know as a very flexible onw.

Now theres a lot going on here....a lot, from the figure to the accesorys. My only complaing with this figure is that is not asymmetrical enough since on the bock, the proportions of the creature are completelly wrong and one of his arms and legs are longer than the other, but here this guy looks pretty nicelly build, actually he have quiet a super hero musculature, somehting that dosnt match the book´s character but i guess Four Horsemen wanted to keep with the idea of this creature being superhuman strong.

The musculature and anatomy are really really good, and the skin wrinkles on the neck section as well as the elbows and knees to make it looks realistic. The skin have the texture of a dry mummy and every cut is sculpted as well as the stitches uniting each section. The autopsy opening on his torso is really striking as well as the veins and the wrinkles around the muscles. This is an extremelly realistic and natural sculp.

The face have the same old mummy texture on it but the face structure is very squareish, specially on the chin, matching the design of the Universal Monsters version and somehow mixing it with the Mary Shelley vision. The book read that his skin is soo tigth that some scars are opening and in some sections its transparent and the veins and tissues underneath are visible as well as the lips reced and show the creatures pearl white teeth all the time. While the transparent bits arent present, the tigth skin wround his mouth is really visible here and it even shows some of his skull structure underneath.

The eyes are sunken but unlike the original book description, they looks angry and sad at the same time and the hair is a series of random black strands made of soft plastic. 

The paint is just as high quality as the sculpt with a very soft dark wash that makes the wrinkles and mummy texture very visible and yet natural looking. Every single stitch is individually painted and theres not a single drop of paint in the wrong place and thats amazing given how small are this elements. Some of the cuts o the creatures body are still fresh and kinda bloody, soo they are painted in a wet red that stands out a lot, more specifically on his skill, near his shoulder and theres a big red blody cut on his back. Also the cut on the sole of his foot lose the stitches soo its drooping blood. 

The body is extremelly detailed and you can almost build an individual story on some of the details of it, is really amazing the level of quality Four Horsemen reach to the point is extremelly difficult to find something to complaing about.

The old jacket the creature is using is made with soft plastic and have fut on the neck and inside while the outside is made with different patches of very different material. Each patch is made with a totally different both texture and paint pretty similar to Sally´s dress from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Again, the golden stitches on the jacket are perfectly painted and they contrast a lot with the different colors and textures but my favorite part are the broken rags in the end and the sleeves, they looks specially dramatic.

The pants are made of a very thin black fabric and while they have no particular detail, the material is pretty fresh and flexible and that give his legs a lot of freedom. It have some holese here and there and a rough looking rope used as belt, tough this rope is glued soo it cant be removed, the pants open and close with a tiny velcro at front.

The shoes tough are exactly the same as Boris Karloff Frankenstein Monster, black with dark gresy on it and a very round shape with a thick sole. Its pretty neat how, while this design is specifically based on the book, theres a lot of tiny bits like this that are from the Universal movie, a kind of a mix with some of the most recognizable details of the silver screen design.

Now the accesorys....theres way too much here. For starter theres an extra pair of hands aside of this hands for hold items, theres a second set with open palms in a very dramatic gesture. The quality on sculpt and paints are exceptional and they are rpettye asy to swap, tough is strange theres not more hands aside of this but i guess this is thanks to all the other stuff he have.

There is an extra pair of feet!! Bare feet without the big Boris Karloof boots. This feet can swap pretty easy tough make him lose balance a little easyer than the big foots, the sculpt and paint is magnificent and full of details, like i already mentioned early, even the sole of one of his feet have an open and bloody wound. 

They also included two pairs of handcuffs, a small pair and a big pair. While they dont open the paint have a pretty natural rusty look and the chains are actually metalic. The small ones are for the creatures hands while the big ones are for his legs, tough they are very easy to put in place, the boots and pants get in the way a little bit soo is better to use the feet ones only when he is nude.

Yes....he can be nude. The jacket can be removed pretty easy as well as the pants and by exchanging the bare feet, he can be totally nude on all his gruesome glory. When he gets the spark of life in the book, he is totally nude of course, soo this version is to recreate that specific part and the nude version is actually....yhea, much more gross and scary than the clothed version.

Also all the details on that body are trully worth to be seen and to cover him private parts he have a kind of skirt made with wrapped bandages around his waist. The texture is really nice and the paint, while simple, have different tones of grey that makes every bandage to stands out independently from each other. Sadly, add this bandages is really difficult.....the torso must be separated in order to put the bandages and put the torso back but the proces needs a lot of strenght and delicacy to not broke the ball joint!!! Really, i am afraid to find out how much force it takes or even broke one of the leg pegs or ball joints while adding back the torso, its a pretty diffcult process but the end result is really worth it.

To recreate the birth of the creature they also add two extra heads with no hair at all. One have a serious black stare while the other have a fierce growling expresion showing his teeth. Both heads have exactly the same black lips, bloody scarsm sunen eyes and dry mummy skin tough here is evident all the sarcs and veins on his skill and back of the head. 

The heads can be exchanged pretty easy tough i wish the hair could be exchanged between heads beacuse giving the hair head a single expression while keeping the other epxression to the bald heads is pretty limiting for the display.

For the birth of the creature recreation he also includes a big medical table used in morgue. This is the biggets item of the pack deffinetly and is build with two sections: the base and the pillar with the table. The base have four feet and also includes a level that cna be pushed with the feet as well as a pretty compicated structure on the base that includes a black vale on each side in order to adjust the table heigh and inclination. In fact nothinf of this is of any use since the only working part is  jint on the base that lets you changue the inclination.

The articulation use a ratchet soo tis kinda difficult to  move it since it needs to be stroun enough to hold on the creatures body weight and it works really good doing it and keep the balance perfectly. The sculpt is good and the base inscludes some rust and sirty painted on it and the hole on the table have some fluids marks as well. Theres two rings on the side to hold into the chains of the creature but i can find any way to open up the metal chains to adjust them.

The table have two leatherish straps, for the legs and chest area, to hold the creature. The texture is nice and the paint basic and they are made of soft plastic but they reminds me a lot of 90s toys with this same straps and this material usually dont survive the march of time, soo i hope the material used here is more durable.

Sadly, not blanket to cover him, soo i had to use the Bride´s dress for this pictures.

There is a second table, a much more smaller version with no articulation and designed to hold on to the lab´s items. This base have the same fout leg base as well as the rusty paint and do its joob pretty good.

Then its the lab equipment. First of all two devices whos name evade me completelly, one looks like n engine with a rotating level and wired cables and the other looks like a tower difived in plaques that looks like a rudimentary batter and evidently, the other device is also used to generat electcirity. The wires can be conected to various holes in the battery and while the sculpt is really good, the color palette with silver, golden and browns for the wood parts make this items perfect looking to 1818.

There is also 3 weight for a scale with the same retro XVIII cenruty design but in darker metalic grey. While the creature cant interact with all this items, they helps a lot to build the perfect laboratory diorama.

Speaking of unusable items, theres 3 jars of different size and shape with investigation specimens. The jars are made of transparent plastic while the base is brown to make it looks like wood. The small jar contains a skeletal hand, the medium size jar contains a skull while the big size jar contains a rotting head. All jars can be open soo the items can be interacted with.

The hands can fits on the creature arms arctually and the skull and head can be placed instead of his own head as well but that would not make too much sence since i feel this are items to study the advancement of the decay of the flesh. The skull is really good looking, with a great sculpt and a very natural and detailed bony paint but the rotting head is really disturbing!!! With the same yellow color of the ceatures flesh, the same dark lips but with big swollen empty eyes, this actually resemble more to the monster description in Mery Shelley´s book.

Also included are 3 books: Dr. Frankenstein traveling log in the shape of a thin green book with a golden plaque in front, Dr. Frankenstein personal diary as a thick elegant red book with a strap and a buckle to keep it safe, and lastly Dr. Frankenstein experiment diary with the secret of life, a big and thick book in purple full of mistique symbols and a sun in front as well as a belt. 

Every single of this books is different, they ahve a different texture on the cover and each page is sculpted individually to the point the purple book even have lots of note and individual pieces of papers inserted in the pages. This book in particular plays a vital role on Mary Shelley´s storyline since its the one that reveals to the creature its own nature.

Aside of this exahusting amount of accesorys, they also uncluded a pretty rad boocklet full of artwork as well as a biography of Mary Shelleya s well as the people involved in the creation of this figure and some fragments and chaperts of the book. This is a pretty cool detail considering this is a figure based on a literary character and i wish the Headless Horseman also comes with something similar.

And guess wath? Theres more!!! The box flap can be removed to reveal a background for the figure: Dr. Frankenstein laboratory the night of the birth of the creature, with a thunder outside of the window, the table of the doctor with all his equipment, candles, books, skulls, fog and everything a gothic nightmare needs, painted in purple hues.

The puple is odd but i guess it makes a good contrast with the creature and the art quality is fantastic as well as the impresion and hard and resistant material. Tough i think the image is a little too close since items looks a little too big for the figure but despite to this, this really build an amazing display along side the monster and all the lab equipment included.

At first i found the creatures yellow skin to be a little odd, but the book actually describe it like this and it contrast a lot of the usual green monster image we have each time we think on Frankenstein. This figure is....amazing looking, from all its details and its accesorys, this is perfection for any horror fan who seeks something different and i am 100% sure next year Halloween Figura Obscura will add Dracula or The Phantom of the Opera to the collection.

Also, the gruesome sculpt, the lab accesorys, the dirtynes....everything here reminds me McFarlane Toys from the 95 to the 2005 and for a reason: the man who sculpted this worked at McFarlane and sculpted the McFarlane Monsters figures, some of my favorite toys from my childhood soo its pretty exciting to find that spirit, that same style reproduced and perf'ected in this figures, it almost feel like an alternatie time line of "wath if McFarlane wasnt bough by DC?"

Now i just need to put my hands on the last year Halloween and Christmas release before they reveal this year christmas Figura Obscura.

SANTA JACK

By now NECA have quiet a long story of releasing action figures but also a lot of other kind of collectibles, like mugs and props from movies, specially back in the begining of the century (actually back then i dont think it was specially focused on action figures, it even release trading cards as well) and it was back then when they released not only action figures of The Nightmare Before Christmas, but also big 1/6 scale statues based on four of the characters. 

It seems they only released 200 of this statues and i am not sure was was theyr propuse since the box have no logo or artwork at all soo it seems they wasnt made for public purchase. Maybe they were online exclusives, or used for promotion? I have no idea, but it took me 18 years to find out about this collectibles and actually buy two of them: Harlequin Demon and the Wolfman but got lucky twice and snatched a third one recently tough it is the less exciting option of the collection: Santa Jack Sklellington.

Yes, the less exciting character because to be honest, Jack´s design is the most simple of the bunch and theres thousands of figures based on him also he have some design issues...mostly size tough, since this is 1/6, this mean this figure is HUGE....like taller than the Hot Toys, or Sideshow or any other 1/6 scale figure (except Hulk i guess).

He is tall, lanky and EXTREMELLY delciate!!! Given his slim proportions i am very afraid to broke him in any minute since the material its pretty hard, like resign. He have no articulations at all of course tough he already lose two of his fingers!!! I wasnt able to find them on the box and since how rare he is, i think i will bite the bullet and stay with this Jack with only two fingers on his left hand.

Of course he cant stand at all, soo he comes with a pretty basic but very thick and heavy black base. While in theory the base should be enough to keep him standing, the pegs are not only kinda short, but somehow they are not in the rigth possition and actually, the base is not big enough since his legs are too open!! Only one peg can fit on the foot while the other foot keeps out of the base. 

I am surprised about this given how perfect is everything else here and with the other figures. I tied a twisty between his feet and the peg just to be safe and rest stress to the ther peg but i think i will just use a base that hold him from the waist, just be be extra extra safe because one little fall and he is going to broke like a crsystal.

The sculpt is the same as the action figure soo is perfect. The limbs have the rigth size as well as the round head and smile and eyes. One could expect this characetr is extremelly easy to render in 3D but is very surprising how many companys did Jack wrong (Diamond Select) but NECA´S interpretation is always spot on, specially on the face with the small teeth scupted.

The paint is really good too, tough theres no wrinkles at all, the red Santa costume have some black airbrush to give it a little volume and shadows. The hat is much more darker than the rest of the suit, at first i toigh it was a mistake but in fact this is because this is the original Santa´s hat soo its made of a different older material than the rest of the suit made by Sally.

The mouth and the little yellow teeth are perfectly painted and theres absolutelly no slop at all and the black eyes have a shiny black paint that somehow make the empty sockets looks more alive. The beard dosnt have too much painting detail tough, just plain white, but dosnt loks bad at all.

His accesorys are the same as with the action figure. A sack full of toys tough this one dosnt have any way to look inside and have a pretty plain and simple grey painting, juts like the smaller version, tough much more heavyer.

Then theres a small little square open present with a white with black like attern on it and a black ribbon. While the ribbon was made with soft plastic on the action figure version, here everything is made of hard resign tough the paint is perfect even with the tricky pattern.

 And lastly theres a little kid with a shurnken head. I love how NECA give us this small characters as accesorys, back in the 2000´s this made the pack much more spectacular. Unlike the small version, this one comes with a thick and heavy black corcular base that makes it looks pretty elegant on the shelve. The scupt is fantastic and reflects Tim Burton´s style perfectly and the paint is also incrediblle precise, specially on the pijama pattern. His hair have a pretty natural wash of dark and light orange and the rabbit slippers are really cute.

Overall, this figure is trully perfect aside of the base not matchign the legs position, everything is pretty good looking, At first i wasnt interested on him because he is really REALLY delicate in plastic form, but in this material, is a miracle this Jack dosnt crumble under hiw own weight. I will use a base to keep him safe but given how rare this is, i think this is a very good addition to The Nightmare Before Christmas collection.

DEVILMAN

 Its been a long time since the last adition to the Devilman collection because, despite how well known he is now thanks to Netflix, toy companys leave the license completelly a long time ago. But there was a time when Toy R´Us and other places where full of Devilman figures and products and i remember seen them in awe throght the PC screen, when i was a teen.

One of the figures i saw back then was Medicom Real Action Heroes Devilman, a 1/6 scale figure that was considered one of the most expensive merchadise of the characters and after 25 years of seen images of such figure, against all my expectations, i finally was able to get him!!

Its odd to see how simple looking is th box of this figure despite being a limited edition (number 989 from ???) and how this was (or still is??) Medicom more expensive and premium line but i guess this was in line of how this figures looked in last century - 1997 to be more precise.

Like i said, this is a 1/6 scale figure soo he is really big and the same size as modern figures of Hot Toys, Sideshow, Asmus, ThreeZero and he have no base and can stand on his own....sometimes, since his articulations are kinda loose soo its just a matter of find the rigth balance spot and he can stand with no problem tough i dont know for how long, soo its best to use a base with this figure.

He is articulated in the neck, waist, shoulders, elbows, legs, knees and ankles and all of them use ball joints soo they have a big range of motion or at leats the head, waist and knees and ankles does, they turn around nicelly and tilt in different directions tough the legs articulations are restricted by the pants and the elbows...for some reason they dont move to the sides too much.

Also, i got other Medicom figures, Real Action Heroes actually, and the materials used on theyr bodys are really cheap and break pretty easy and given how old is this Devilman, i am really afraid the plastic used on the articulations just turn into dust if i aply too much force to it.

Actually this figure is soo strange i am not sure i can explain how it is build....is basically a base body with big transluscent plastic ball joints on each section and is completelly modular because each section can be removed and dismembered. Is pretty strange but then again, i am afraid soo much removal of sections can damage the plastic pegs.

Then, covering the each section, there is a plastic "skin" with the sculpture of Devilman, soo in reality this feels like....a dummy generic figure with a Devilman costume? I dont know and i really dont know if other Medicom figure worked like this but i got the feeling this was the first try to make a figure like the modern TB League figures: a metalic articulated eskeleton with a soft plastic skin to cover all articulations.

This seems to replicate the basic idea but its not made correctly since the articulations are very much visible and the only nebefit here is the skin texture with the soft plastic. The sculpt is nice tough, despite the material theres a lot of wrinkles and life like details here, like veins on the arms and chest and hair on his abs. The hands are totally made of soft plastic soo they are pretty soft and realistic to the touch tough they are useless to hold any kind of accesory.

The head is the best part deffinetly, the sculpt is on point with Go Nagai art style and character design with his wing structure looking completelly irregular and very organic looking, with the pointy horns, wide eyes and giant mouth full of fangs. The upper fangs are protunding and the way the fangs follow the mouth shape make it looks like a piranha and the tongue is sculpted behind them.

The paint is really good too, with the skin tone looking very solid and the fangs in yellow stand out agains the red of the inside of the mouth. The eyes are yellow too with red veins aroudn them and while the rest of the head is black it does have red airbrush around that makes the wings reflect the ligth very nicelly despite the "all black" image it have.

Sadly,, the skin tone of the rest of the body is ligther than the face color but i am not sure if thats how it was made or if the march of time affected the color of the body thanks to the soft material. The torso is pretty muscly tough it also have in-human features like the protunding ribcage and the opening section on the chest. The hairs sculpted on the back and on his abs is very nice as well as the open scars on his shoulders.

The body have different tones of skin colors, airbrush of softher and lighter tones with darker ones to give volume to the musculature and some artofocial shadow. It looks good in close inspection actually and the part that stands put more are the hairy bits.

The hairy legs tough.....instead of sculpting them, Medicom decided to give him pants, literally, black velvet pants. This limits the legs articulations but while i understand the effect they try to give it, they looks too much, well....like pants. Also they have a tail made with soft plastic in the back but its not articulated and just hand in the back, while the material helpt it flow a little bit to make it looks natural, i wish it was wired.

The only accesory this figure have are his wings but Medicom wanted to be really inventive as well in here and instead give us a set of plastic wings, they made a steel plate covered in back velvet. Put the wings on is really difficult since theres two cuts on Devilman back and the metal plate must be slide on them but the plates are really sharp like a blade!! Not only they cat cut fingers pretty easy, but i am afraid they also cut the soft plastic skin of the figure as well!!

Once instaled the wings plate cna be shaped in different ways and while the idea is pretty good, the wings are actually extremelly small. They looks very "toy-ish" and the black velvet material looks kinda cheap.

Its odd because this figure is full of pretty inovative ideas like plastic skin covering the figure articulations and vendable metalic wings but it seems they didnt had the technology back then to full fill all this ideas. And despite the funny looking pants and small furry wings, the body sculpt is really good and the head looks fantastic as well and in the end, this is pretty much the only Devilman in 1/6 scale to ever exist.

Compared to wath IconiQ Studio is doing rigth now with Street fighter or Tunshi with Samurai Shodown, or Hot Toys and other 1/6 scale brands are doing, this figure looks pretty cheap, rough and rugged, but somehow.....that fits Go Nagai art style and his characters and i got the feeling back in 1997 this figure was incrediblly impresive and advanced for its time.

In the end this figure looks like a pretty old and vintage japanese toy but it really thats wath it is, a product of its time and i am happy that, after seeing images of it for 25 years i finally can touch it and play with it (tough i am afraid to broke it and i am sure those pants and wings will get extremelly dusty pretty fast) and despite its faults, this is one of the cloest representations i ever seen of the core design of Devilman.