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S.H. Figuarts Black Widow

 
My latest purchase was S.H. Figuarts Infinity War Black Widow. I found it at Japantown Collectibles in San Francisco. It was the bigger set which also features 3 explosion effects parts.

 
The figure is nice and one of the better Avengers Figuarts. The sculpt and paint applications are nice, and the face great, it does look like Scarlett Johansson. There’s been some figures that they’ve done where the face looked good, while others didn’t (their Justice League Wonder Woman looks odd to me).


Other than the extra explosion effects parts, this one comes with 4 different pairs of hands, 3 swappable faces, and a few of her baton weapons (one long one that comes in 3 pieces to hold in both hands, 2 smaller ones for each of the hands, and 2 very small ones that can be placed in pegs behind her back).

 
The articulation is quite good on this one. The head can look slightly up, slightly down, around, as well as good articulation on the shoulders, elbows, some on the upper waist (though it’s a bit hindered by the design), a bit more on the waist, thighs, knees, feet and toe joints. You can put her into some good crouching, sitting and action poses.
 
 
The faces are switched by taking off the front part of the hair, then switching out the face and putting the hair piece back on the peg. That’s slightly different than the entire swappable heads that others figures come with. It’s more similar to how Wonder Woman’s face can be changed. It’s fairly easy to swap out the face plates and extra hands, so that’s always nice.

One thing I noticed is that on both sides of the legs, there are pockets on her pants that look like you can fit a gun or other type of weapon, though the figure doesn’t come with any. Perhaps if you have some other figure with a small weapon accessory or extra, those can work.

Black Widow is one of the nicer Infinity War Avengers figures. I definitely prefer this one over the Age of Ultron Black Widow they released some years ago. I wasn’t too excited about the Captain America (the face looked weird and the lack of Wakanda shield was a missed opportunity), their new Bucky also has a not so great face (the actual product is slightly improved over the promo pics, which made him look like a caveman). Their Infinity War Thanos, Spiderman, Black Panther, Star-Lord & Dr. Strange are all very nice. Falcon & Thor also looks quite nice, though I’ll save judgement for when they actually are released. But for Black Widow, she's great!

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