RED PYRAMID THING

 I still remember the shock of the Gecco Silent Hill statues and later on, the Figam action figures....it was almost surreal that we finally had Silent Hill figures and merchadise tough we didnt got nothing while the videogame series was alive and well, somehow the gears of publicity started to move long looong after the game was dormant soo in the last teen years we been having a parade of figures based on the characters.....or should i say, in only two characters of the series: Red Pyramid Thing and the Bubble Head Nurse.

And last christmas and with no warning or pre-order Konami launched two figures based on these creatures as prize figures from those machines with a claw...you catch the boxes with the claw in exchangue of a token soo this figures are really really cheap and i cant find even a brand in theyr boxes aside of Konami soo i am guessing Konami makes them directly.

The atractive price made me get them for sure soo i cant let Silent Hill merchadise slip away. This figures are in the standar scale of most figures like Storm, McFarlane or NECA soo they fit with most horror collection and they are actually taller than the Figma....let says they are in the same scale as the Pop Up Parde.

This is a statue soo no articulation or asembling needed at all tough i am not sure if this Pyramid Thing can stand on his own, he comes with a base that works perfectly fine with him with the use of pegs under his boots.

At first the fact this is no screen accurate really bugged me but eventually i found out this is not based on the original Silent Hill 2 but in the remake, soo this Pyramid Thing is the redesign Masahiro Ito did for Bloober Team and have a number of differences with the original. 

The head is perfect, perect sixe and shape and the metalic texture is nice. It have a rugged side like if the content of the head is going to brake the metal and it have a metalic nail in this part soo everything from the game is present, including the fleshy parts under the pyramid and the flesh coming out in the back with another nail coming out from it. 

The musculature on the arms is really nice and the fact his arms have no carving makes the arms much more sexy and the gloves frames the muscled arms even more. The outfit is different from the original, while the original hace a......dont know wath to call it....its a costume that covers his entires body and is tucked on his boots, this version only have a butchers apron that only cover the frront side and have the back side totally open, revealing his entire back and legs.

There is a number of straps holding the apron in place and while the pants are extremelly simple, the wrinkles following the legs anatomy are really doog looking and natural and while the boots and pants have no tecture, the apron have a pretty heavy cotton texture. The pose is really good with Pyramid Thing walking up front with a very natural motion thanks to his apron since the back side flows very good around his body and the weigth of the big blade can be felt thanks to the stretched musculature on his arm.

The paint on the head is relaly good, with a shiny metalic dark brown mixed with black and the nail on his side in shiny silver. While th meat under the head is crimson read the one coming out from the back looks purple and kinda plastic soo instead of a brain it looks like a tumor. The apron also have a very natural firty grey with a lot of random stains that looks very natural and a black gradient fromthe bottom to the top.

This black gradient can be seen on the arms too tough while his arms have a nice pink texture on the, they kinda looks way too "healty" and actually sext for such a creature. Also the sqeaky clean white cloves really looks awkard in contrast with the black ink on his arms but i cheecked in game and yes, his gloves are actually very white. Maybe in game light kind of hide them but in a figure the contrast is pretty odd...

The pants and boots are just plain dark blue and brown and lack any kind of detailing. His only accesory is his big blade that have a realistic rugged texture on it as well as a copper and dark paint with a lot of stains and rust on it. Put the weapon on his hand was pretty tricky tough since his fingers cannot be open and the handle hace a peg that fits on his palm, soo remove the blade seems imposible now.

And finally theres the base...it have an incrediblly anoying shape that makes no sence and takes  ahuge amount of space on the dhelve and it have a rocky texture on it tough is made with hollow cheap plastic cast in dark red, soo it looks incrediblly cheap and generic but i guess this is the less important part of the figure and it does its job perfectly keeping Red Pyramid Thing in perfect balance.

Its odd how some elements of this figure are soo cheap and low quality and how other elements are soo damn good, yet i guess nothing can beat the super low and atractive price of it. I wish Konami release more figures as nice as this one with such price because collecting figures like this is getting pretty impossible with prices like the ones of Good Smile Company. 

Also i am very happy to have figures based on the remake of Silent Hill 2, this finally add some variation to the display tough i still wish they make more characters or creatures from the game aside of this guy and the nurse.