Thanks, man. Even though Raiden is a weird kharacter for me, like he's never really been a super favorite, but I like him, I think he's one of the best looking in this set, and his design is ingenious.
Yeah, if these at least hit production, that would've been awesome. I love the design on them, they look like they came right out of the official komics.
As for red light + Raiden...
= Dark Raiden! I used a laser pointer. Maybe a more subtle red would show a light purple. The plastic is light blue, so it doesn't filter much.
Here are some more close-up ish pics for you to check out. Oh, and his hat too.
The hat isn't glued on, it pretty much connects via that blue plastic piece as it protrudes from his head a little bit. I'd glue it, but I'm no going to defile these figures, haha.
Okay so here's the rest. Reptile was originally why I was so interested, but it's hard to pick a favorite now. I like Jax a lot and Johnny, but Kitana is very pretty in that color, and well, Reptile is awesome.
Just like in the games, he's pretty much a palette swap, but I love the color they picked for him. Darker than in the games, but it looks great!
The sunglasses are removable, but they're so small and made out of resin as well I think, that I leave them on. Johnny looks good both ways though, his head sculpt is cool. Some might complain about the hair, but I think it fits him. Komic Cage!
I think I took her mask off once.
The fans were kinda in bad shape when they arrived, so I had to work some magic to fix them. Just a little glue. A part of her hair was also torn a little. Glue fixed it and ya can't tell now. All of the accessories for these figures are not fun to take off or put on. In fact, I get nervous just handling these figures out of their box. They feel VERY delicate.
Oh, and Kitana has less eye shadow than Mileena. I noticed. I guess to make her look less evil. Great color choice though for her outfit!
Jax is like a mix of MK2 + MK3, so that's unique. Combines my two favorite designs of Jax. The red white and black pants from MKII, and the metal arms that he's famous for. Gotcha!
Raiden's sculpt is just epic, it pretty much looks all original. I bet they would have sold him as "Rayden" back when these were around.
I've never taken the Goro out of the packaging. It was the only figure that actually arrive in packaging, the rest were wrapped in paper and packed in the box. The packaging is just an Infinite Concepts MK box with a larger sleeve from an anime figure over it, nothing notable.
Enjoy, and hope the pics aren't too big! If you want any other details let me know. The figures are held together with brass pins and can come apart very easily, so I can't do much with them. I would love to make copies out of them, but I'd fear they could easily be ruined that way. Maybe with a 3D printer someday.
Oh yeah, and Goro is a very rough prototype, nothing finished. The old statues look great compared to this. The only thing that is original is the head, I think. It's pretty much just two production figure bodies put together.
I noticed Steve's kollection as well. Action figures are certainly my biggest interest in terms of where to begin my kollection, but I find the komics and some of the old programmable kontrollers to be pretty cool as well. When I saw the commeorative slammers on eBay, the trophy edtion gold-plated ones, I just had to have those, hehe.
