Fire and Ice Teegra |

The Hearth and Ice line from Icon Collectibles continues with one other one of many important characters from the movie, Teegra. The primary determine, Darkwolf, arrived early within the yr and has remained considered one of my favorites of the yr thus far, so I used to be eagerly anticipating this one. How does Teegra stack up? Let’s have a look!

The field options the long-lasting Frazetta poster for the movie on the entrance and a few beautiful pictures on the within flap and aspect panel. It’s a pleasant high quality piece that I really feel a little bit dangerous recycling.

The determine comes with a spear, a knife, three heads (smile, impartial, and gritted enamel), three units of arms (grip, free, and splayed), a panther (Shaitan), two heads for Shaitan, a scarf, a loincloth, and two hairpieces.

Shaitan is generally a slug determine with minimal articulation within the ball jointed head and tail. The pinnacle doesn’t transfer very a lot, however the tail swivels. There’s one head that has a extra calm face with relaxed ears and pupils and the opposite has pinned ears, no pupils and a hinged jaw. The sculpting is fantastic and you may clearly see the muscle tissue and sinews at play beneath his fur. The pinnacle swap was a bit scary with the ball joint being extraordinarily tight. I undoubtedly would have most well-liked a extra articulated panther, however I do have already got that with the Guenhwyvar from Hasbro’s Drizzt determine.

The arms swap simply and match securely, appear applicable for the character, and work nicely with the included weapons.

The knife has a little bit of ornate element design within the grip and a few battle injury on the blade highlighted with metallic paint and a darkish wash.

The stick appears to be like appropriately stick-like with a little bit little bit of bark texture. I actually don’t keep in mind this from the movie, but it surely’s been fairly some time since I’ve seen it.

The spear has a reasonably skinny shaft with a little bit of wooden grain texture and a few skinny twine wrapped round for grip and to safe the spear tip. It feels a little bit delicate and reasonable with sharp sculpting.

The scarf and loincloth are forged in a really skinny translucent plastic. I feel to match the movie it ought to most likely be a smidge extra translucent, but it surely appears to be like nice on and sits fairly naturally. The loincloth is held on by an elastic thread. My reminiscence of the film was that the skirt piece didn’t have a seperate string than her bikini backside so once I put the loincloth on, I line up the elastic with the sculpted line of her briefs.

The heads enable for some good selection and I like that they included extra windswept hair together with the impartial.

The sculpting is fairly phenomenal. Teegra’s design is deceptively easy, however they’ve finished superb work executing it and bringing the 2D paintings to a few dimensions. The portraits are all very lovely they usually’ve made one of many shapelier figures I’ve seen on this scale. Frazetta ladies are likely to have a selected physique and the sculpting captures that nicely. At about 6 and 1/4 inches tall, she matches in nicely with Darkwolf and Mythic Legions sized figures. I really feel like she’s a bit too massive to slot in with the Mezco Conan figures or Legends, not that she was supposed to take action.

The articulation meets the minimal primary factors to nonetheless be thought of super-articulated. I get the sense that poseability is much less of a precedence for this line than sculpt continuity, however she nonetheless strikes pretty nicely. The elbows knees and hips get a couple of 90 diploma bend and I did discover that one thing contained in the hip meeting would depart an indentation on the thigh if I pressed the motion too far. Fortuitously a little bit warmth popped that indent proper out. Teegra has:

• Ball and socket head and mid-torso
• Swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, and ankles
• Swivel biceps and thighs (hidden)

The hair does restrict the neck motion a bit so there isn’t numerous trying up vary, however the tilt is spectacular. The crunch within the mid-torso has considerably restricted ahead crunch motion, however the tilt and backward arch are each very nice there. The swivels on the bicep and thigh are hidden throughout the arm and leg and get a little bit motion, the thighs greater than the bicep.

Paint is nice with a stable base colour for Teegra’s pores and skin and a few rosy overspray that brings life to that pores and skin. The face particulars and contours on her bikini are all actually sharp and clear.

Total I’d say that is one other very nice launch from the Hearth and Ice line. I feel I’d have most well-liked a little bit bit extra clearance carved out on the biceps and the again of the thighs so the elbows and knees had higher vary of movement, however there’s a good stability of fresh sculpting traces and articulation. Drop-down hips might need helped with the ahead leg motion and I want there was a waist swivel, however can see how there isn’t actually the actual property for that on this costume design. My important concern is that the worth is fairly tough. After transport and taxes this is available in round $100 and whereas good, my expectation is for a little bit bit extra progressive and efficient articulation for that value. I’m nonetheless in for a Larn or Nekron in the event that they get there. Whereas I’d love the cave man baddies too, at these costs I’d should suppose lengthy and laborious about it.