Just unpacked him and set him up and everything's come through fine luckily.
It's a very nice piece and a hell of a lot of statue for the money especially if you got him for $800.
My only complaints are....
The stomach is too defined, he needed to be a bit softer on the body sculpt, it's not a massive issue but i would have liked something softer but it is pretty much what we saw on the proto....in hand he's actually not that skinny, the definition makes him look skinny imo.
The face. It's definitely missing something the proto had and i think it's down to the eyes....the eyes on the proto made the face look sly, demonic, self assured, kinda seductive....he just looks cool in a campy way lol
The face on the production has a wide eyed look, jokey, big smile it's lost that coolness to it for sure for me, it's still nicely done and the eyes are well painted, it just seems to have lost something for me.....still its a campy character imo so this still works.
Now despite those 2 nitpicks the rest of it is extremely well done, the mixed media, the fur, the cape, the base is all very nice quality and very well done. Paint are excellent, it's a good depp red with shading as others have mentioned. The fur in particular i'm surprised at, it's really well done, i would have loved to have seen this employed on the AWIL statue.
The cape definitely needs attention out of the box, same as the Ninjas, i cringe when i see pics of the Ninjas that people haven't adjusted lol, get a hand held steamer on it and get those wrinkles out! Will do mine before i review it.
It weighs a ton, which for me is a negative because it makes it harder to display, i know a lot of people equate weight to value so you knuckle heads will love this lol.
Worth the 3 and half year wait.....it's a hard one....it's a very nice, very well made and executed statue and it's probably as close to the proto as Akuma was...i think a lot of people will be happy with him.
Overall i'm happy with him, i'd say he's 90% of what we saw in the proto for sure....
Will get some lit pics and do a video review this weekend most likely, so here's a phone pic....
