>>11098156First: I must admit that I've never played the game he's from, so all I know about him is that he's a generic mook and apparently intended to be an armybuilder. Even though I'm not familiar with him, I can tell they skimped a bit on the paint; not only does the artwork on the box suggest that he's supposed to have a lot more purple, but you can see all the molded details on him that were clearly intended to have color. I'm a bit disappointed, considering this is a Studio Series release - aren't they supposed to have a higher budget than the mainline? Wasn't the point of Studio Series to try to be more accurate to the source material?
Lack of paint and visibly hollow legs aside, this guy isn't actually terrible. His robot mode has some good range of motion - rotating hips, swiveling biceps, wrists on balljoints that can turn and even be angled slightly, and so on. He's missing ankle rockers, though, which is another ding against him. Still, I find him easy enough to pose, and I like his gun gimmick - his right arm pops off at the elbow and can be replaced with his gun in a Rockman/Samus-esque kind of deal; the arm can be attached to a slot on his back when the gun is mounted, or the gun can be stored in the same slot when his hand is in its normal configuration.
