Let me break away from bombarding the blog with my POP collection. This time around, let me do a review on a figure that I've had for a long time now but just haven't taken it out of the package. In celebration to the upcoming release of Mass Effect Andromeda, I finally decided to do something with those figures that was in my Mass Effect shrine wall. So the first to come out of her shell is none other than Tali'Zorah! Let's see how this older figure held out after such a long time in stasis.
This case is always hard to open up compared to the standard Marvel Legends packaging; they remind me of Toybiz days, which provides protection and some aesthetics to it, which was part of the reason that made me ambivalent about opening her. Regardless, I went through with it.
Right away, it's easy to point out that the mold is pretty accurate to the character. Though this version of Tali does seem to fit more in line with her ME1 rather than her ME2 version(the line is based off the second game). Now it's not exactly a expensive figure at the time so I didn't expect it to have the details that would capture every essence of Tali, but it does fall flat and dark in the pallette department.
As for the mold and the sculpt in general, it's pretty accurate. She has the quarian feet and hands going on so it's just as accurate as you can get since most of Tali's anatomy is still pretty humanoid.
Althought we didn't really get an "official" glimpse of what Tali actually looked like until ME3, we always get those mysterious eyes and a silohoutte of that face within her 'bowl head'. This figure did not deliver on that fact though; not like the other figures I have.
Tali comes with her shotgun and her Omni-Tool; the Omni-tool is supposed to come off but I'm afraid of breaking it so it stays permanently on her hand. Not much in the accessory departmens, that's for sure.
As far as articlulation, this figure is very outdated. Then again, when she came out, she was basically a statue with some minor articulation. She comes with a stand which helps get her in some dynamic poses; or at the very least, it helps her from falling over.
I take it back; her Playarts Kai version did not have those enigmatic eyes; her Bishoujo did though. And once can see just how 'dark' she is next two these other ones. It's hard to compare her with these gals since she is after all the lower quality one.
I did not expect to have an amazing Tali figure when I opened her. I don't expect that for the rest of the series either but I do appreciate this one and with Mass Effect being one of my favorite games of all time, if the figures just pay homage to MOST of the characters that they are supposed to be, then I have very little gripe with a figure that is nearly a decade old.
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