Siren’s articulation is good, but not really comparable to Skull’s. Since she’s a Figma, most of her joints are swivel hinges in the fashion of Revoltech. Her head and neck are two separate joints, which I like because it always gives a figure more personality. Her shoulders are swivel hinges attached to ball joints, which I also like. Unfortunately their movement is mostly blocked by her shoulder pads. Luckily the pads are removable, and they added a swivel joint just below the shoulder so the arms don’t have to be hindered entirely. Her upper body is on a ball joint, which gives her a lot of flexibility up there. Sadly, because of her costume design, her hips are covered in a soft plastic piece. This doesn’t restrict her leg movement too much, but it does cut out the possibility of a lot of martial arts posing.
Siren comes with a nice batch of accessories, my favorite of which is her saber. It’s been given two blades, one short and one long. The blade’s hilt is nicely detailed with silver, gold, and green paint. Plus, she even has a scabbard hanging from her side which can hold the sword. Her other accessories include a shield, a long double edged staff-like weapon, and one of the cards she uses to access her Rider powers.
Along with accessories, Siren also comes with five sets of hands: open flat, open splayed fingers, fists, holding, and one specifically designed to hold that tiny power card. Looking at her preview pictures I expected her card and hand to be one piece, but they actually came separately. It’s always impressive, and a bit scary, to get tiny accessories. On one hand it’s cool, on the other hand if you drop it then it’s gone forever. Siren also comes with the typical Figma stand that can plug into the plastic part of her cape.
Am I happy with Siren? Yeah, for the most part. I really like her costume design, and you can get some really epic poses out of the cape. I just wish she was painted a tiny bit better and they would’ve designed her cape to be sturdier when it came to using its posing feature. Plus, her articulation doesn’t hold a candle to Skull’s, which was a bit disappointing. I picked her up for about $25, which is pretty typical for a Figma. Unfortunately, if I knew about these problems ahead of time I probably would have waited for a sale/clearance to grab her.
-Vault
Interesting, there was a Kamen Rider series in the USA some years ago, but I hated the designs (they barely had any articulation, not like these) but until now I had not seen these, but those are cooler than I expected.
I remember that toyline. These are definitely way better. I’ve your a big fan, and don’t mind the extra cost, you should check them out.
Check out Amiami, they’re probably the cheapest you’ll find unless you wait for a sale or clearance somewhere. http://tinyurl.com/3plg4eb
Dammit, Vault!
Rabbit hole, remember?!
But that aside, I’m pretty interested in these Dragon Knight Figmas. But then Bandai is making their own version of the main Rider based on the Japanese source show.
That comes with a big dragon. I think I might stick with Bandai :p
I was going to order him, just because the dragon looked awesome, but the preorder sold out before I could. So I guess that’s fate telling me not to bother.
You’ll have to let me know how the figure is.
you know vaulty, just as a suggestion for future “random import toys” reviews, you should consider a scale photo w/ some other figs we’d recognize, like a gi joe, a motuc, a dcu, something… or maybe even a couple somethings. one of my issues on imports is trying to get a scale guage, since some lines can vary wildly.
i don’t want or need all the figs in my collection to be the same size, but i’d like the big characters to actually be big, and not have all my chicks be the figure equivalent of primordial dwarves either.
Great review! Thanks. You and I must have similar tastes, because although I know nothing of the characters, both Skull and the Chick Rider appeal to me (and the weird green guy who carries what looks like a battle yo-yo). So I am still thinking of picking this one up.
While Figmas have been my favorite toyline for a while for lots of reasons, I’m starting to come up against some lack of range of movement in all those joints. It’s good to hear the limitations of the piece to help with the buying decisions. I haven’t gotten any of the SHFiguarts toys but I’m glad to hear the articulation is better engineered, because I like that. (although I did get a D-Arts toy, Rockman X, which I heard is the same basic company and line, just marketed different, and the range of motion in its joints is amazing)
Oh, also I’m gonna echo Dayraven’s request to have a pic of these next to a ML Bullseye or DCUC Flash or something, because knowing size in that kind of comparison is VERY helpful.
Hi i love that figure where can i get kamen rider dragon knight figma figures please answer
I’ll field this one.
Best places online to get Figmas are AmiAmi.com and HLJ.com
Sure there are other places, but me and lots of Figma fans agree those 2 are very good.
Yup, I usually buy my imports from Amiami.
http://www.amiami.jp/shop/?set=english&vgForm=ProductInfo&sku=TOY-TOK-1172&template=default/product/e_display.html