Review: #467
Name: Bracer Phoenix
Brand: Robot Damashii (Pacific Rim Uprising - Side Jaeger)
Year of Release: 2018
Variations: none
FIGURE:
Bracer Phoenix is a Jaeger (aka giant robot) from the film, Pacific Rim Uprising.
Bracer Phoenix is supposed to be the tank, so to speak. It is built to withstand attacks and has heavy plated armor.
The head is on a balljoint but as it sits within the body, the range of motion is quite limited. You can tilt it slightly from side to side but that's about it.
With Bandai taking on the role of designing and producing the figures, the quality is pretty good but lacks the sense of immense size that it should have.
With the default hands, Bracer Phoenix has the knuckle duster in its left hand.
In comparison with the NECA figures of the first movie, Bracer Phoenix is much smaller but looks a lot more agile.
However, Bracer Phoenix is also the shortest Jaeger out of the ones introduced in Uprising.
In terms of accessories, there is a pair of open-palmed hands and two ones, one that attaches to the front and the other to the back.
In order to attach the gun to his torso, you need to remove a piece and then peg it on.
Similarly, there is a piece to remove on its back to attach the rear gun. If you wish, you can have both guns on at the same time even though the film depicted it as only one set that moved around the body.
To swap hands, you pop them out of the balljoint. The balljoints are smaller than the ones used for the limbs, and thus are much easier to pop out. Too easy in fact, that it feels like the wrists are too loose.
Articulation is a tad bit disappointing, While the arm movement is great with double joints elbows and balljointed shoulders, the same can't be said for the legs.
The legs feel really restricted. With its digitigrade-like leg design, the knees do not actually bend to 90 degrees.
The shoulder pads are on separate balljoints so they can be moved out of the way (but do leave an unsightly gap if you move them too much).
It's a figure that does look great but too bad about the extremely limited leg articulation.
OVERALL:
Bracer Phoenix looks good, albeit a bit too matte and lacking some paint applications (most of the figure is unpainted). The limited motion in the legs hurt the figure a lot, making it the weakest among the Pacific Rim Uprising series of figures.
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