No Katana? Heresy!
Gamerverse Psylocke was easily the most wanted Marvel VS Capcom set... but the
geniuses at Hasbro made it a Target exclusive, making it hard to get for everyone. Including me because Target
refuses to ship to the freighter hangars I must use to get my figures over here in Uruguay. So I had to buy it from Canada, have it shipped to Miami and then to my country.
Getting toys shouldn't be this hard. Exclusivity is garbage for everyone but scalpers.
But oh well, I
managed to get the figure at a
reasonable price, somehow... And she is
gorgeous. Both sculpt and color makes her look as if she came right out of MvC, although with a thankfully less
yellow skin tone! She's built on a
tweaked version of the fantastic new female sculpt, so the proportions and bulkiness is just perfect. They sprayed some purple accents on her hair that makes her hair
pop. She comes with an alternate angry face, two ninja fingers hands, a gripping hand, a fist, and an ope hand. She also comes with a few different pink energy effects,
some which are a bit of a hassle to snap onto her wrists. Shockingly, no Katana.... but then again, she doesn't use Katanas in the game.
As seen here, the straps on her arms and legs are sculpted onto the mold, and even her pelvis have the ends of the leotard sculpted on.
The face effect piece... I haven't figured how to put on her, and don't care since I'll
never use it, but it's sculpted in the form of glasses, which I find funny.
Since she is built on the new female buck, the articulation is
excellent. Double jointed elbows and knees, swivels on her biceps and thighs, a hinged waist, a ball jointed ab crunch and butterfly joints. Everything a figure needs to be fun to pose and play with.
And, even better, she doesn't feel gummy at all!
And here she is compared to the previous iteration of this figure.
This is an upgrade in every single way. Proportions are much better, the sculpt is infinitely better, and the articulation is on another level. I'd call her the definitive 90's Psylocke, but in the comics she'd wear a ponytail! She's almost as tall as Bucky Cap.
This figure is proof of how far Marvel Legends have gotten, and how amazing they ae at their best without their
crappy gummy plastic.
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