[eriku]

Wow, this is my favorite kind of release – the kind that I had no idea was coming and one day after I learn about it I find one in the store. No preorders, no sifting over prototype images, no hundred pages of internet bickering leading up to the release. And to top it all off the figure (only talking about Link here) is very, very good.

It was mentioned earlier that Link is like a mini Figma and I’ll echo that. This one has almost the same amount of articulation. Ball head, ball shoulders, ball elbows, ball wrists, ball chest, ball hips, cut knees, rotational cut above boots, ball ankles. Even the joints are Figma/Revoltech style. About the only joint he’s missing from the Figma is the hat joint (and oddly enough there is a seam there where the Figma’s joint is…). Joints are all tight on mine, too. I have difficulty posing the Figma due to some very loose and ‘mushy’ joints, but not so with this one. The hips are restricted quite a bit by the tunic, but there are seam lines on the tunic sides where you could do a couple quick cuts to allow it to move out of the way more.

The paint is clean and vibrant and his eyes are actually tampo painted on so they are very crisp. The sword is hard plastic so it’s not likely to be warped out of the package. The shield looks great and I was surprised to see it actually has the forearm strap as well as the handle. The scabbard for his sword is a little dodgy, it looks kind of ‘thick’ and the detail isn’t very crisp. Also the peg is a bit fat so it pushes itself out of the peg hole on Link’s back. But really that’s the only negative I can think of, and even that isn't so bad.

Oh, and $9 for this? Wow. I hope these do well and we see more versions of Link, more characters from various Zelda games.