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During my September 2017 trip to Vancouver, I was able to buy one off Kijiji for an acceptable price.. well, OK, a price that I wanted to actually pay.
So Black Widow here comes from the Marvel Variants line where Japanese artists reimagine popular heroes in a new look.
The figure is not quite 1/6 in scale, and features some additional hands along with a pair of pistols, a knife, a Widows Bite (pre/post explosion), and gauntlet gun firing effects.
Oh, like all other PAK figures, this one also comes with a stand that nobody has ever said nice things about.
Like all other toys of this nature, this Black Widow is an action figure at heart, though unlike the higher end stuff like Hot Toys, doesn't have custom tailored outfits and such.
The PAK kind of exists in its own world of quality and price. Most of the figures, particularly the very recent figures, are of a very good quality, but the prices, depending on which market you buy from, approach that of the 1/6 scale crowd.
Anyway, moving on.
With the exception of an ab crunch and actual pivoting neck, Black Widow here has all articulation points.
Paint applications range from excellent (outfit, head) to pretty good (hands).
Joints, particularly those around the wrist, are a bit of an eyesore though at least being black they blend in with the rest of her.
The actual look of the figure is very nice, and matches the cover art fairly closely. The portrait itself is very sharp looking, with no real bearing towards Scarlet Johansson or any particular comic visage.
Overall, the figure is very nicely done, with good quality, but at MSRP it's a real hard sell.. and not just this one in particular.
I think overall, if you can get the same figures from other companies for the same properties, you'd be better off going elsewhere because the price honestly never matches what you should be getting if you comparison shop.
Or.. do what I do and just wait for the price to drop to a point where i make sense.
DSC_6633
During my September 2017 trip to Vancouver, I was able to buy one off Kijiji for an acceptable price.. well, OK, a price that I wanted to actually pay.
So Black Widow here comes from the Marvel Variants line where Japanese artists reimagine popular heroes in a new look.
The figure is not quite 1/6 in scale, and features some additional hands along with a pair of pistols, a knife, a Widows Bite (pre/post explosion), and gauntlet gun firing effects.
Oh, like all other PAK figures, this one also comes with a stand that nobody has ever said nice things about.
Like all other toys of this nature, this Black Widow is an action figure at heart, though unlike the higher end stuff like Hot Toys, doesn't have custom tailored outfits and such.
The PAK kind of exists in its own world of quality and price. Most of the figures, particularly the very recent figures, are of a very good quality, but the prices, depending on which market you buy from, approach that of the 1/6 scale crowd.
Anyway, moving on.
With the exception of an ab crunch and actual pivoting neck, Black Widow here has all articulation points.
Paint applications range from excellent (outfit, head) to pretty good (hands).
Joints, particularly those around the wrist, are a bit of an eyesore though at least being black they blend in with the rest of her.
The actual look of the figure is very nice, and matches the cover art fairly closely. The portrait itself is very sharp looking, with no real bearing towards Scarlet Johansson or any particular comic visage.
Overall, the figure is very nicely done, with good quality, but at MSRP it's a real hard sell.. and not just this one in particular.
I think overall, if you can get the same figures from other companies for the same properties, you'd be better off going elsewhere because the price honestly never matches what you should be getting if you comparison shop.
Or.. do what I do and just wait for the price to drop to a point where i make sense.