S.H. Figuarts Freddie Mercury

Today I received Tamashii Nations S.H. Figuarts Freddie Mercury figure. It's another cool offering from that company. He's decked out in his outfit from the concert at Wembly Statium = Yellow jacket, white pants with red stripe, white Adidas with black stripes.

It comes with 3 interchangeable heads (1 serious and 2 singing faces), a mike, a mike and a mike stand, and 4 pairs of hands (closed fist, open, to hold individual mike and to hold mike stand).

The articulation points are the head, neck, waist, shoulders, elbows, hands, legs/thighs, knees and a bit at the ankles, and toe joint. The articulation is great, you can get a very good range of motion, making it easy to fit him into many different poses.

He scales well with other standard S.H. Figuarts, so if you own many (like I do), he will fit well with them. The S.H. Figuarts line has released some random but cool figures, including Bruce Lee (2 different types), Michael Jackson from the Smooth Criminal video, in addition to the sci-fi, kaiju and superhero figures that they normally release. I'd love for them to release a figure of Prince (circa Purple Rain), David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust era), Madonna (her early boy toy look, or the outfit she wore in Desperately Seeking Susan), Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison. There's lots of musical legends they could release.

The paint and sculpt are very nice, they accurately capture Freddie Mercury from that era. Figuarts has been somewhat hit and miss with their human characters in regards to capturing their features well enough to look like the actual actor/person. Their Star-Lord is great, it looks just like Chris Pine. Many of their other Avengers are really good as well, with the exception of Infinity War Captain America (it just looks off), and Bucky, which looks like a Neanderthal. Speaking of cavemen, as much as I love the new Wonder Woman, their figure's face simply does NOT look like Gal Gadot to me. To me she looks too masculine. But anyway, Freddie Mercury came out very nice.

Because of the sculpt of some of the hands, you can fit other weapons from other figures in them well, so if you have a lot of figures with small accessories, they can inter-change well with Freddie.

This is definitely one of their nicest figures, the sculpt, paint and articualation make it a definite winner. I would say he's up there with Star-Lord, Jugglus Juggler, Ultraman Jack, Baltan, Zetton, and Alien Zarab in being almost flawless.

I was able to pick him up from Amazon, but I've also seen him available on ebay and Big Bag Toy Store. If you're a Freddie Mercury fan, he's a must have.

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