This Figure Friday is going to be a fast one if you catch my drift. Try and keep up!
DC Comics Amazing Yamaguchi Revoltech NR010 The Flash
There’s an overused turn of phase when automotive journalists write about sports cars that the vehicle, “looks like it’s going a hundred miles an hour even when it’s standing still” and what we have here is the action figure equivalent of that. It’s only fitting that the scarlet speedster should finally get a toy that looks as fast as the character himself.
This is my first foray into the Amazing Yamaguchi Revoltech line and I have to say I’m suitably impressed. I feel that it’s all the more impressive because the prior entries in the line consisting of the obligatory Batman and Superman figures didn’t do much for me, but with The Flash the line may have hit its stride.
For lack of a better descriptor, the figures from this Revoltech line have a decidedly Anime/Manga style which ends up working pretty well for The Flash. Imagine, if you will, a world where it wasn’t Marvel vs Capcom at the arcades but rather DC vs Capcom and you’ll start to understand the space this figure inhabits.
When this figure came up for preorder some months back I was instantly taken with the slew of accessories and the incredibly dynamic poses they were pulling off for the marketing photos. I’m eternally on the lookout of good figures of The Flash because they’re so few and far between. The sting of the Super Powers figure and its lame action feature are still fresh in my mind decades later.
There have been some pretty good sculpts of The Flash the last few years but none of them ever looked like an accurate representation of a character with super speed. Until now! Just take a look at this.
Here’s all the stuff the figure comes with:
Box Contents
- The Flash figure
- 4 Pairs of hands
- 5 Face plates
- 18 Speed Force effects
- Stand
The combination of the 18 Speed Force effects along with the hyper articulation make it so any collector can now replicate comic book style poses for their shelf. I’d also have to imagine that this figure would be a toy photographers dream.
The figure itself is incredibly solid; all the joints were tight but didn’t require any excessive pressure to move. It’s certainly more sturdy than other import figures I’ve purchased in the past, but I did mildly freak out when one of the wings on the mask fell off right when I got it out of the box. My freak out was short lived when I saw that the wing was supposed to come off due to it being a swapable piece.
For the last week the figure has lived on my desk while I try to decide what to do with it. It’s a blast to pose and the highly stylized look of it just plain works. I’m sure this figure may not be for The Flash purists out there, but I’m personally overjoyed at getting what may be The Flash’s first truly great figure.
