ARTHUR

 Some videogames are designed with a certain time frame and gamers as theyr objective public and with this they made imposible to translate them into another time frame thanks to theyr design but somehow this kind of games are the ones that turn legendary and the most memorable as well. Splatterhouse comes to my mind but also Ghost ´n Goblins, one of Capcoms´s most succesfull game series that sparked a fantastic trilogy in the 80s arcades rooms as well as the Nintendo, Sega Genesis and SuperNes. Capcom wanted to bring this series back from the dead in the PSP with Ultimate Ghost ´n Goblins and many years later in the Swicth with Ghost ´n Goblins Resurrection but moderns games didnt care for the game punishing difficulty and simplistic design.

For me this is one of the games i remember the most from my childhood and while i never finish any of them, i loved the amazing art direction of the SuperNes game and i was really happy with Resurrection but Capcom didnt care for it too much anyway since it didnt had any kind of marketing or even a physical release but surprisingly, Good Smile Company released a Nendroid of Arthur in his Resurrection design.

Many years ago Sentinel released a couple of action figures based on Arthur and Red Arremer and i really regret not getting them but aside of those, this is pretty much the only Ghost ´n Goblins action figure in existance soo i had no choice but to get him.

Like all Nendroids this guy is really smal and in scale with the rest tough he is a little bit smaller than Von Lycaon and Klaus but he fits perfectly with them. He cant stand on his own soo he realy needs that anoying Nendroid base and given he is one of the "new" Nendos, he is only half articulated...

His neck have the traditional ball joint that let him move his huge head all around tough the beard get sin the way tough it is also articulated!!! The beard is conected to his helmeth sides soo you can move it down and it reveals his open mouth, a really awesome idea to not swap face plates. The shouldes have a basic cut articulation that lets them move only up and down and both the biceps and wrists rotate as well as his waist, and his legs also have the ball joints that let him move them up and down and to the sides.

Theres no articulation on the elbows, knees or feet at all but somehow, thanks to Arthur simple design and tiny size this limited articulation feels perfect for him and also makes him a really sturdy Nendroid. Its odd but this super deformed design fits the character orginal design really good and dosnt feel alien for him at all.

The armor is extremelly clean sculpted with the big round shouder pads and little skirt and while the legs section is a little bit more intrincate, the whole armor feels like that of a generic knigth from a cartoon. The huge front of the helmeth is spectacular and both the mustache and beard looks like made with milk caramel thanks to theyr velveth texture, soft sculp and soft brown color.

Arthut dont have the siny almost invisible anime nose of the other Nendroids, his nose is actually big and very human looking wich is odd but help him looks like a mature man instead of a kid cosplaying a man. His big blue eyes looks actually menacing for such a small warrior and dont look at all like the anime eyes this figures always have.

Rest of the figure is painted in a clean and super shiny silver that looks and feels damn good, while the hands are brown and theres small bits of black under his armor and his belt is brigth red, silver is the prominent color here deffinetly.

He comes loaded with a bunch of items. While theres no face plate at all, he comes with 2 pairs of hands and a half: closed fist, open palms and a left closed fist with a hole to insert his weapons. All hands can swap pretty easy with a peg and a hole in the arm.

He have a pair of bend arms. Yes....bend on the elbow since theres no articulation here soo he can be displayed withhis arms straight or bend (unlike Lycaon). This arms biceps rotate soo they can be adjusted to the side and they sawp very easy as well as each hand fits on them perfectly.

Arthur also have a second bottom half sculpted with his legs runing and the armor skirt moving in front. This bottom half can be swaped pretty easy and also comes with a pair of bend legs- again- in a running motion. They have theyr own ball joints soo they cna be rotated and adjusted but also they can be removed completelly and exchangued for the straight legs and mixed around to adjusts to your display necesitys.

As of weaponry Arthur comes with his trademark lance. This lance is very very generic and its quiet big, as tall as Arthur and is painted in the same silver as his armor and the handle is red. The handle can be removed soo it fits inside the hole in Arthur´s extra hand and this is bascially the main weapon of the characters.

As a secondary weapon it comes with a small and plain looking knife painted in silver, yellow and blue and almost looks 2D and my personal favorite item: a holy water bottle. The bottle is completelly round and it have a spectacular main of flames in top and best of all, its cast in transluscent ble plastic. While the bottle is shiny and brigth in an electric blue, the flames have a soft hue of ligther and paler blue.

This weapons comes with theyr own stand that consist on a round transluscent base with an articulated thin arm that ends in a clamp. This clamp holds onto the lance or knife handle and also fits perfectly into the neck of the holy water bottle and the arm can be adjusted in angle and heigh since it have a ball joint. This works soo perfectly to display Arthur throwing his weapons.

Another item included is a set of blue flames cast in transluscent blue with a hue of ligther blue on the base. This burt of flame in the floor is the result of the holy water and reminds me a lot Geral´s flames as well and lastly, theres a treasure chest as well. This chest looks veryc artoony and is painted in ligth brown with golden details and it can be opened but its totally empty soo i gues sit can be sued to store the figure smaller bits tough in the game this chest also contains dangerous warlocks soo i wish they added here a warlok acrilic standee or something like that but i guess thats ask too much given how many accesorys this little guy already have.

Oh and also theres the traditional Nendroid base full of holes, square shaped and with an articulated arm tough its a basic item since it helps Arthur stand still but also works wonderfull to pose him jumping in middle of the air.

Overall, despite all items included this fugure feels a little bit limited in the display options, he seems to only achive 3 poses: standing still, jumping and throwing stuff but actually, in the game thats rpetty much everything Arthur does; stand still, jum and throw stuff soo somehow this fits the character perfectly.

And actually, with soo many hands and arms and legs options its actually posible to achive a few functional poses with just a little bit of cretivity mixing the parts. Honestly this is one of my favorite Nendroids in my collection (just like Lycaon) and is not only fun to pay with but also it makes one of my dreams come true to have a Ghosts ´n Goblins action figure in my collection, somethign i doubt it happens never again.

GUTS BERSERK ARMOR

 Not too long ago i formed an small Nendroid collection until Good Smile Company started to up the price at crazy jumps and turning them into one of the most overpriced toys in the market, just like Figmas and the way Square Enix did with Play Arts Kai as well. Medicom Toys too soo this is a trend of the japanese market it seems.....but anyway, years ago when Nendroids were sold in a fair price they were pretty cute and fun collectibles, imposible to take serious but with a strong japanese charm.

Sadly, as much as i could resist i could no longer do it and here i am, with Nendroids on my hands thanks to hard to resist characters, like Arthur and Von Lycaon but one of them being Guts from Berserk too. A couple of years ago i got the Guts Nendroid and while i was able to ignore Griffith, i could no longer ignore Guts on his Berserk armor, the newest addition to the collection.

This guy is on the same scale as the rest of the Nendroids tough somehow he is a liiiiiitle bit smaller to normal Guts without the spiky hair and this is one of those Nendroids that can stand on theyr own thanks to his black cape that works like a tripod.

As part of the new style Nendroids, this guy is not fully articulated but most of the possing comes from swaping different static body parts soo, to start he have the traditional ball joint on his neck that lets him move his huge head up and down and to the sides tough this time around the head movement is limited thanks to the helmeth and cape in the back but, just like Arthut, Guts is articulated on the jaw soo he can open up his mouth a whole lot but this also makes it get in the way of the cape.

The cape have a small ball joint that i hope is resistant enough and have a huge range of movement while the shoulders have a basic cut joints that lets the arms rise but not open them up, while the biceps rotate and the wrists too and lastly, the legs have ball joints that lets them move around up and down and open up.  Theres no more movement on his legs and his elbows dont bend at all.

Sculpt here is terrific, with his body shape being bulky and each section of the armor being carefully sculpted, inlcuding the bolts that hold some segments, and the cape looking all shapeless and ragged in a very sinister way. This cape is not articulated like the normal Guts one but is sure is bigger and the texture on it much more elaborate to make it looks almost like smoke or fur.

Head is good, with the geometrical shapes looking good and the long pointy snouth and long ears tough of course theres no face expression or details here, only the wolf helmeth. The jaw opens up and reveales a big amounth of nothing inside, just a wall of darknes with the same etxture as the cape. This really gives the little guy a very inhuman feel since theres no one inside....tough once fully open the black mass inside is shaped like a head.....

The paint here is black....i mean, plain black. The inside of the helmeth as well as the cape and the sections on his upper legs are all dark black while the rest of the figure is metalic black. The paint shines tough not as much as Arthur armor but its enough ti catch the ligth and shines in different greys. The only color here is the red on the eyes, tough for some reason his left eye is brigth red while the rigth one is very very dark. I have no idea why they do this.

The accesorys are very very low tough, just the same as the first Guts: only a pair of open hands and a closed rigth hand to hold his sword and a left hand open to use the arm canon. The open hand is cute and odd, i mean the armor hand is open up while the face hand is open down soo it looks like two hands opening as a flower. All hands can be swaped very easy.

Then theres two bend arms that can be swaped on the biceps area soo Guts can hold his sword on his shoulder (or make it looks like he is doing it because his head wont allow) while having his other arm straigth to shot the canon. I dunno, this is a matter of mix and match but honestly, its very difficult sometimes to discenr wich arm is wich given how similar they are.

They also include two whole extra arms sculpted in a way to join in the chest area, soo he can hold the sword with both hands. This is a great idea because theres no other way h can hold his sword like he should (like Figma....) tough the hands cant rotate, the arms a a whole piece of plastic and that helps to keep the sword steady.

Guts also have a pair of extra legs with the knees bend as well as his rigth feet, soo he can be close to the fround or posed walking, or jumping as well. The little legs are super cute and looks good tough changue them is kind of tricky, each comes with theyr own ball joint and they move nicelly.

And aside of this extra body parts, the only real item for him to hold is his giant sword. The sword is pretty much the same as the other Guts but this one is spalttered in blood. Tough the blood dont stand out too much against the metalic paint of the blade, it looks really good and the handle can be removed to put the sword on the extra hands holes.

Finally, theres the basic Nendroid base tough this time is missing a hole in the center, soo the arm can be put only on the sides soo Guts its always at the center of the square and i have no idea why they made this changue tough i can see why they changued the arm. This time the arm have its circular shape backwards, twisted to the inside instead the outside, soo the camr can be inserted on the back of Guts without moving the cape up. Very clever and very confortable.

Honestly tough i dont find this Nendroid particulary fun to play with or to look at...while Lycaon is very pasive he have a lot of items to pose with and Arthur also have a lot of weapons to interact and both have a whole lot of details too look at, but this guy have his sword to hold and pretty much nothing more and while the sculpt is detailed its pretty dificult to see them because this is just a black mass of balckness, theres only black hiere with the red eyes and thats cool but dont works too good in such small scale.

Tough all this is not Good Smile Comapany´s fault but Kentao Miura´s faolt for his design. Yes, the Berserk armor looks super cool but its really not specially interesting to look at, honestly i always find the basic Guts much more interesting as a design just because of all the knifes, belts and exposed skin, not to mention the face expression and details.

Now that i skiped Griffith i am sure i will do the same with Femto but i am just collecting the characters i like, after all this things are not cheap at all.

VON LYCAON

 Last time i say the Apex Toys Von Lycan figure was my second Zenless Zone Zero official item, well this is my first one: the Von Lycaon Nendroid. Many years ago, before the pandemic, i used to buy a lot of Nendroids and i formed quiet a collection with my favorite characters but my clumsy sausage fingers had problems adapting to such tiny mini figurines and Good Smile company prices were the last nail on the coffin, making them the most overpriced toys on the market and i stoped buying them completelly.

But for some reason, Good Smile has been doing a ridiculous amount of Zenless Zone Zero characters on Nendroid form (and only the main characters as Pop Up Parade) and eventually they arrive to Lycan and of coure, i had to go back to collect Nendroids thanks to him.

This little guy feel kinda bigger than the rest tough its thanks to a convination of his body looking too bulky and his long ears but he is pretty much the same scale as the rest of the Nendroids and the good news is he can actually stand on his own using his tail as a tripod, something very unusual for this line but that makes him very confortable to play with.

This is a brand new Nendroid released a couple of months ago soo his articulations are...odd. He have the usually big ball joint on his neck that let him moves it around nicelly tough  limited by the hair sculpt and theres also a ball joint on his tail that lates him move it with much more freedom. He have basic cut shoulders that let him move his arms up and down but not open them, a basic cut joint on his biceps that let him rotate his arms and cut articulation on his wrists.

He have ball joints on his legs but they are pretty useless since they barelly move but thats all, theres no knee articulation or elbow or waist articulation soo he cant move his legs or have his arms straigth at all, his arms are perpectually bend and thats very strange given this is a combat character that use a lot his legs just like ChunLi.

Soo this is an action figure with very limited articulations that lets you pose in a few ways but you needs to be creative because all the posing is done by swaping parts and accesorys, not actually moving the character around soo he feels kinda like a 3D puzzle.

Sculpt is very nice, again, the snout have the perfect size and while the bangs on the front are not as stylish as in the Apex version they follow the design perfectly. The ears are huge but round at the tip, just like the spiky hair on his back, everything here is round and cute, theres no edges at all and unlike the Apex version, all the belts are part of the central sculpt.

The body is muscly and bulky in the same way as the Klaus Von Reinherz Nendroid, the buttons on the front of the vest, the scarf, the pocket clock on his chest, all details are there as well as the metalic parts on his hips, ass and back side. The hairy arms looks good as well as the big tail that, while not as impresive as the Apex one, is deffinetly more usefull but the most intrincate sculpt is on the prostetic legs. They are a miniatirized and simplified version but they still looks damn good.

Legs are all metalic black and only have the orange lines in front while his suit is plain grey and the shirt, tail and entire hairy bits are plain white, theres no airbrush or shadows here, every thing is a single color clean but i guess thats good in this tiny scale tough all details are clean painted, like the golden chain of the clock on his chest, his carimson scarf, the little sitches on hhis vest as well as the golden knockles on his gloves.

The black tips on the hair and the ears are still here and the mouth is both sculpted and painted with a black line and the red anime eye stands out a lot thanks to its big size.

He comes with 3 pairs of hands as well as a single extra left hand: a "relaxed" pair of hands, another pair with fingers possed to hold a cup and a plate, another pair with a left hand with a hole on the palm to hold a portait and a rigth hand pointing and a single open left hand with a square shaped peg in the center. Of course all htis little hands are easy to swap and are designed to hold extremelly specific items.

He also have 3 face plates; one with his basic stoic face expression, another one with a very subtle smile and another one with a perplexed face expression (his eyes wide open and his mouth smaller). All this face plates are very easy to swap once the front hair is removed and is quiet tricky find the differences with each other but it cant be helped, Von Lycaon is not a very expressive character.

Aside of the extra parts he comes with a dinner plate with a silver cover. I am not sure how to call this item but somehow it resembles a hotel bell, but its a plate with the dinner inside. Its painted on silver and shines a lot and includes a square shapped hole under it to use it with the specific hand and once on it, not power can mae this item to fall from his hand.

Theres also a cup of tea and a plate. They are very elegant, very cimple and the cup have actually brown tea inside and while theres specific hands to hold bot items, they are much more delicate and easy to lose than the dinner plate.

The second best accesory here is Corin´s borthday gift, a Von Lycaon postrait painted by her. The artwork is really adorable with a cartoony and super cute Lycaon with his tongue out. The print is super clean and and it have a long peg that fits on the left hand with a hole on the palm. This item is designed to be used with the pointing finger hand as well as the perplexed face plate to recreate a scene we only hear in the game.

And lastly, the best accesory is by far, Eus, the little Bangboo that works as main control drone of the proxys. This character is essential in the game and here is soo soo incrediblly tiny and yet, the sculot is spot on and the perfect too, with his orange scarf with the 01 printed on it, its green eyes and tail and the big pointy rabbit ears, as small as he is this count as a character of its own in this package.

Little Eus have a hole on his back as well as an articulated circular arm with a ball on its end side to fit him. Once there he can be adjusted to the sides and eigth soo he can be jumping around Lycaon or even sit on his shoulders, or even sit on the floor without the base.

Also the figure includes the same base as all Nendroids, the transluscent square shaped plataform full of holes and an articulated arm with a peg to fit on Lycaon back. Its kinda anoying but i guess it does its job nicelly.

Given the character nature it puzzles me they didnt included anything combat related, like effect or fierce face expressions of ice effects but instead only gives Lycaon pasive pose options but aside of that this is deffinetly one of my favorite Nendroids given how different he looks to the rest and how sturdy he is, that along side the inclusion of Eus make this guy the oonly ZZZ Nendroid i am interested to get until they release Ben Biggers of course.

KING

 Last entry was about the most expensive item in my collection, one that i waited for years to own, now lets see one of the cheapest and - the irony - about the same character: King from Tekken. For years i wanted more Tekken figures after the Epoch Tekken 3 line. It took 15 years for Play Arts Kai to continue the line followed by Storm Collectibles, Funky and later on Bandai with the S.H. Figuarts line but to my surprise, Bandai also produced much more cheaper version of the Tekken figures in theyr Game Dimensions line.

I dont now if theres more characters in this line aside of Tekken, it came out of nowhere and, i must say, the figures are posed very cool in the box in theyr battle stance but still, i felt i didnt need them since i have the far superior and more expensive Storm Collectibles versions. I can ski the Mishimas and Jin pretty easy, but then again, they release King and they got me.

I am not sure what scale is this since its actually taller than the S.H.Figuarts (ironic given the price...) but is also smaller than the Strom Collectibles one soo its traped in bewteen two scales and i dont have a figure that matches his size soo no wrestle photos! But the size is not that bad, i mean, like i said, is bigger than the S.H.Figuarts soo his presence is quiet good.

He can stand on his own pretty good and is artitculated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, legs, knees, ankles and tail. The head can rotate to the sides while the neck base can move up and down, a pretty original way to avoid ball joints on the head. The shoulders and legs have ball joints and the work really really good with a huge range of movement and nothing to block them and the waist also have a big range of motion and the chest articulation bends pretty deeply. Tough given the chest area and hips are made of hard plastic, this keeps kinda low the deep of the shoulders and legs bending.

The elbows and knees have a double joint soo they bent really good and of course, the ankles and wrists ball joints works fantastic, my only dissapointing here is the tail since it only rotates soo theres not option to display it but the rest of the body works really really good and given the material, it seems they are not only well designed but they seems very sturdy.

The aesthetic tough is extremelly basic. The mask is actually very well good sculpted and it even have a fur texture on it. The ear shape and fangs looks really good tough i am not sure if the head is way too high or the elbows are way too low (probablly both) but the silhouette is not really good and i feel his legs should be a little longer, soo his body shape is kinda "generic". 

The muscles are OK looking but they have no texture at all, they are sqeacky clean plastic while his left arm glove is actually textured the same way the pants are. The boots are very nicelly detailed with the long lace in front. The chest articulation is extremelly evident and ugly looking while the waist one leaves a huge gap in between his torso and his pants that is terrible looking.

Most of the pieces are cast in the main color of each section soo his arm are cast in dark blue plastic while his torso and another arm are cast in flesh color while one of the boots is yellow and another dark blue. This gives him an extremelly clean almost cartoon look that leaves most of the paint work to the pants and head. Even one of his rigth hands wrists bands are flesh colored....

The pants paint is the most complex with his name painted in yellow on top of a black section while the other legs have a mix of grey, yellow and black but always leaving details to the minimum tough the jaguar mask looks really really good...the black dots, the soft mix between white and yellow on top, the black lips, red tongue, white fangs and green eyes are really really good painted and the quality on it dont match the rest of the figure.

Theres not much accesorys tough, only a pair of extra hands with a finger pointing that can kinda work for a wrestle move since most of the fingers are open. Swap the hands is kinda tricky since the ball joint is very small and the hands are made with hard plastic, but having only this pair of hands and the closed fist dont give too much options for display and he cant be posed in his basic ready stance or grabing an oponent thanks to the lack of hands gesture.

His other accesory is an effect that looks very similar to the one included in the Storm Collectibles version, a kind of energy blast that fits on his closed fists. The little thingy is made with very soft plastic and fits perfectly on both his hands and is made in transluscent plastic and almost looks like a spirit or will o wisp tough for some reason it have a hole on the center.

And lastly theres the FIGHT text cast on pinkish translucent plastic. This text includes a base with an arm cast in trasnsluscent plastic as well and is pretty much the best accesory since no other figure had this kind of items based on the text on screen before and after battle. It seems the rest of the line have the READY, ROUND 1 and ROUND 2 text and it would be very cool to have them for a complete dispay that mimics the on screen battles.

And thats it, theres no cape at all here or other items making this the most basic and simple King figure i seen. Given the material and the design this figure is pretty much a kids toy and the worst King figure in therms of quaity but i am not sure i can complaing given how incrediblly cheap it was and his musculature is sexy enough. This is a toy to be played with, to be thrown around and to play with on the mud and it seems is going to rest all that and more and the articulations are actually more fun than that of the S.H. Figuarts.

They released Heihachi as well, Kazuya and Jin but those looks even more cheap than this guy because they dont have the good looking mask to hide the poor paint job and basic sculpting but then again, i think is very good they are selling Tekken toys at such a low price tough i wish they are as good looking as Jada´s Street Fighter line.

HIEROPHANT & MOFISH

 

We are still n the 2000s and having fun with The House of the Dead 2 on the Dreamcast while Plisades is releasing theyr first action figure series absed on the Sega monstruositys. Sadly, they didnt sell well and series 2 were cancelled despite being totally finished and this Thoe House of the Dead action figures remain as the only merch existant of the game for 26 years. In 2022 i was able to get half of the series and now, four years later, i was able to get the remainig half of the collection.

I already reviewed Ken and the Murren Worms in the last post and now is time to take a look at Hierophant and the Mofish. For some reason this figure is extremelly exoensive and difficult to get now day but somehow i found a boxed and brand new one in a very reasonable price soo i didnt doubt i got him, plus this is the special edition exclusive for Tower Records with battle damage.

This is also the second of the bosses figures, the first one being Strenght but this creature is bigger (tough much more lighter) than the big chainsaw wielding zombie but also this is my favorite figure of the collection. I dont know why but Hierophant became one of the creatures that remins on my mind pretty strongly and i really like his design.

This monster fits with anything NECA or McFarlane soo he pretty much first with most action figures in standar size tough despite his hunched pose, he still will towers over most characters. He can stand on his own perfectly with those big claw feet and is articulated on the head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, knees and the ribcage opens.

The head, wrists, and waist rotate perfectly while the legs have a very basic up artiuclation and the elbows and knees can bend reasonable well but not too much since they have only a single simple articulation while the elbows are ball jointed soo they move up and down but they cna be open as well and this are the more mobile parts of the figure. The chest can be open but most of the time the arms get in the way but the chest cavity opens enough to reveal his heart.

Made by SOTA Sculpture and Design, this is pretty much the most detailed figures of the series with the lanky musculature on his leimbs perfectly visible but also many many different types of scales!! His biceps have this long scales while his shoulders have small circular ones with big plaques like turtle on his neck and shulders and really, every single muscle part have a totally different scale design and pathern.

I specially like his bony hips since in the back he have a pretty hiddeous werid tail that dosnt looks like a fish tail but i also love those huge feet with black claws!!! Theres fins around his legs, in the back of his arms and four big lines of fins runing from his neck to galf of his back. All this fins are cast in soft plastic and they really looks spectacular, specially the back ones since they end shape i totlaly different between each other.

The face looks realy menacing with his eyes closed and the big mouth fully open and the fish fins on the top almost like wings and since this is the exclusive version of Tower records, this Hierophant is missing one  and have a bullet hole on his forehead and head fins.This wounds are covered in green radioactive blood and they stand out well against the green of his skin.

While his entire body is military green, theres a red soft airbrush on the shoulders and biceps and some other sections while the fins of the head have a blue airbrush while the feet have a much darker tone to make it looks realistic. His stomach is painted in plain white with a soft blue area surrounding it while his neck, biceps and legs are covered  on a phatern that loks like whote dots with black dots in the center, almost like eyes. All the paint aplication is perfect.

While the chest area, once open, it reveale his heart and al kind of organs around painted into a brigth red to contrast with the rest of the body, the fins have a mix of dark red, white and blue details and this includes the net around hthe fingers of his hands, painted in soft and electric blue. This make this figure the best painted of the collection deffinetly and also the most detailed (tough i like more Strenght color palette).

And since he is a boss he does comes with a weapon; a trident. This item have identations all around and bandages stained in green blood near the top. While its very simplistic and dosnt stand out, is pretty eviedent this is no generic trident but something specifically designed for Hierophant and the item have a peg that fits on a hole on his hand, this way the trident stay on his hand perfectly despite his hand not being fully closed into it.

The inclusion of a small enemy in the pack was something very common back then soo this time they included a Mofish that fighst along side Hierophant in the game. Again, there sno jaw articulation but the sculpt is really amazing with all the different mix of scales and the textures on his face, but more importantly, the paint aplication is really oustanding: green/yellow mixed with some dark airbrush, electric blue for the fins and tail, red inside the mouth and white fangs and orange eyes with a black pupil, this little guy looks soo vibrant and colorfull and amazing detailed.

And finally theres a base that consist on a oval shape stone piece with skuls and some ivy covering the The Hosue of the Dead logo. The sculpt is good and while the paint is a little too simple is not the focal point of the figure and i really like the design a lot. Also the base is purelly ornamental and dosnt help the figuere stand at all. Actually the huge feet of Hierophant covers most of the base.

From the sntire series this is deffinetly the figure i was looking for the most, not only is one of my favorites but is also the tallest and more detailed and even the Mofish looks soo damn good. Just like with the Vampire Hunter D figures, this set may looks dated deffinetly, but its shows perfectly how things used to be done back when collecting was much more simple and fun than now, when creativity was much stronger too. 

Palisades exist no more, but they really did a good job.