![]() ![]() She is fairly stable on her own, but could have used a stand. ![]() Aside from her sword, that’s it for accessories for Tyris. For additional posing, she has five sets of hands: fists, holding, grasping, open and pointing. ![]() She also has two faces, one solemn and one angry. It’s preferable to take the head off the body before replacing it, since you need to squish it into the back part of the hair. There’s two different sets of hair that plug into her face, one straight and one more wind-blown. Speaking of her hair, I was a bit surprised at how red it is, considering the artwork of Tyris made her a rather generic Frazetta blonde and the in-game sprite was more light brown. I think the neck is rather limited though, as she can’t really look upwards, and the standard straight hair gets caught on her shoulders. I’m a little worried about the long term durability of the rubber parts, but that’s a problem for future me. The knees also have double joints and bend very well, and everything seems solid so far. This improves the articulation a lot without leaving gaps, and she has double-jointed shoulders so that she can bring her arms closer, although obviously her chest restricts her a bit. The material is a rather solid hard plastic with some parts made of softer rubber, including the hips and the chest. With plenty of articulation there are seams all over her, but Storm have at least hidden a few alongside the edges of her clothes. Her face is gorgerous and very sharply painted, even though it’s relatively simple. The sculpt is detailed and she is properly muscular as a warrior princess, although there isn’t really much detail there to begin with. I’m used to the Figma/Figuarts scale but she towers over those figures. The first impression is that she’s remarkably big. So while I’m not absolutely certain whether she was worth the cost and wait, let’s take a look. She did end up being delayed for month after month, not to mention that she came packed with a blue dragon which bumped up the price even more, plus of course shipping and import fees. The company makes a ton of game figures, but I haven’t had the opportunity to get any until now. ![]() So even though I’ve rarely played any of the Golden Axe games in a good thirty years, Tyris Flare is rather special as a game character, and I jumped on the preorder of this brand new figure from Storm Collectibles. That she was running around in a tiny white bikini wasn’t a factor just yet. I probably played as Gilius at first, but soon discovered that Tyris was devastating with her screen-filling dragon magic. Sure, there was Metroid, but there really is no comparison between the NES game and the huge, detailed Frazetta-esque sprites of the arcade game and its 16 bit ports. Golden Axe, in its Amiga version, was probably one of the first games where I got to play as a distinctly female character. ![]()
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