Fullmetal Alchemist Action figure Play Arts Kai Roy Mustang

This is a review about an action figure of the anime 'Fullmetal Alchemist' of the character 'Roy Mustang'. In the series, Mustang is a State Alchemist of Amestris' State Military as well as the superior of the series' protagonist, Edward Elric. Roy holds the title of the "Flame Alchemist" for his ability to create fire with alchemy, and he ambitiously strives to become the next leader of Amestris.

P R O D U C T   I N F O R M A T I O N

Product type: ABS/PVC Action figure

Manufacturer: Square Enix

Year of release: 2009

Version: Play Arts -Kai-

Classification: Play Arts Kai

Price: I got this figure for € 25 (32,65 USD) at Archonia.

Height: It's about 19,7 cm (7,68 inch) in height.

R E S E M B L A N C E

As we look at Roy's uniform everything is in order, he has his emblems on his uniform and they all have the right colour and shape. But when we get to his head the trouble starts. If we look at the head where he screams the expressions seems right but the shape of his face at front isn't right. Also his hair is sculpted very poorly. The other head is just an abomination in my eyes, with the weird hair, expression and shape of the head. The hat still puzzles me since I've NEVER seen Roy with a hat in the anime, or am I wrong? To solve this head issue I always place the figure with his head in profile, even so the manufacturer should have done a better job. If it were a trading figure I wouldn’t mind too much but.. it's a action figure. I expected something more decent of an action figure.

Q U A L I T Y

This is a rather weird action figure, all the clothes are made off ABS and the joints, head and feet are made from PVC. Even so The ABS doesn't look to bad when you make Roy do some poses. On the other hand the joints are quite visible if you do (in my opinion). The joints also only have two stands I think and they don't really bend really smoothly. So unfortunately it's not that great of an action figure either.

C O N S T R U C T I O N

The figure was in one piece but you can replace it's hands and head. All these things didn't went very well especially replacing the head has proven impossible, so I just had to let the head balance on top of his neck. The figure did could be very easily placed in the supporting beams.

1 P I E C E   O R   B U I L D I N G

The figure was in one piece. But it has a lot of extras with it: four extra hands and one extra head together with hat. So you can construct your figure as you wish.

R E S U L T

Price

Resemblance

Quality

Construction

to show what his joints look like when bend 

and because it's a funny pose :)