SYCORAX LEADER ACTION FIGURE - 11

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Full review

Let me be honest with you - this figure only gets a lower score because it’s an early one. All of the downsides are points that have been rectified in later figures and I believe if this figure were to be made again it would be a lot better. In this particular case we will be lucky enough to see this through as the Sycorax Warrior comes out. But that’s another review for another time.

The cape on this figure, to start off with, is very nice. It’s been well moulded and looks very realistic. Perhaps it could have been made to bend round the arms of the figure a bit more, but it’s fine. The legs are very good, and have excellent balance, but are fairly difficult to reach because they are blocked by the ‘dress’. This is a restriction to the figure, and does account for much of the ‘bad’ posability of it, but as with some other figures it’s unavoidable.

The torso is very nice, with some especially good sculpting making it look extremely realistic. The face is incredible - some of the best sculpting and painting we’ve seen making it look just as it did in the episode.

It’s the arms that slightly let it down. Nowadays we would have bicep swivels, articulation at the wrists, and the hands would have been better moulded. Here the arms have very limited movement, hitting the posability points down. The hand is also an odd sculpt - looking fake really because all the fingers are actually joined. However the paintwork does make up for this. There’s not much sculpting in this area, but the paintwork is done so well you’d think there was a huge amount of sculpting. It’s certainly some of the most detailed painting we’ve seen.

So this figure has some parts that really don’t live up to today’s figures upon close inspection, but otherwise it can easily match up with the rest and shows just how strong the range has been since the start.