Jul 10, 2018

It came from the Toy Chest You're playing a Game of Death

Bruce Lee in the yellow tracksuit from Game of Death that inspired Uma Thurman's outfit in Kill Bill.
Bruce: Wooooo!
Mikey: A fellow chucker, eh?

I got him because he's Bruce Lee... Also I wanted to make a Fei Long Joke, but I couldn't find a Figma Bruce Lee. (Because it looks more like Fei Long than Bruce Lee.)
*kung fu noises*

Articulation:
Its a Figuarts item. Of course the Articulation will be good. You can recreate many Bruce Lee and Fei Long poses easily. His wrist do not use ball joints to be more "realistic looking" and hinder the articulation a little.
5.0

Paint and sculpt
Bruce: whaaaaaaa?

His face is a 3D render based on a computer scanning and analysing Lee's expressions thhroughout his career and creating the ultimate Bruce Lee. It's scary.
Paintwise he's pretty great. No visible slop and when combined with the sculpt, it creates a great Bruce Lee.
5.0
Bruce: I am not this Fei Long you speak of!
Ryu: Hadouken!

Accessories
3 faceplates
8 extra hands
2 nunchucks (more on that later)
1 bamboo stalk.
The low point are the nunchucks. They are molded plastic. One is straight and the other is curved. The Enter the Dragon figuarts figure and the figma Bruce Lee have real chains in their chuck. The TMNT Michelangelo had actual string for his grappling hook. Why not use string on the chucks?
Bruce: Whataaaaaaa!

5.0
Overall
I know ehat you're thinking. Why a perfect score if he has issues?
The blame would be on the scoring system. I went for a simple 1 to 5 scale to make it easier for me to grade the figures. If I wanted to be truly unbiased and super accurate, the scale would have to be from 1.000 to 100.000 (1,000 to 100,000 for certain Euro readers)  Like say; Articulation: 99.875
Paint and sculpt 98.417 Accessories 96.369 with an overall score of 98.220 and for simplicity's sake that rounds up to a 100%, which in my 1-5 grading system it means a 5.0
Movie Bamboo is flexible... Toy bamboo? Not so much.

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