Review: #490
Name: Angewomon
Brand: Digivolving Spirits
Year of Release: 2018
Variations: none
PACKAGING AND CONTENTS:
The fourth in the Digivolving Spirits line is Tailmon (known as Gatomon in the English dub) / Angewomon, and she comes in a pink box.
While the box is fully enclosed, it is filled with pretty artwork and stock photos.
TAILMON (GATOMON):
The Champion form of Angewomon is Tailmon, and from the front, she looks decent.
However, from the back, you can see that Angewomon's arms and hands are exposed.
Unfortunately, the articulation is extremely limited here. The elbows can bend forward 90 degrees and you get a little bit of movement thanks to the ankles, but they do not look natural if you bend them too far. The head is fixed due to transformation.
A quick comparison with a Transformer, Tailmon is roughly the size of a Deluxe but thanks to the diecast, she is very hefty.
Also a quick comparison to the other Rookie Digimon of the line, Tailmon is much slimmer.
Tailmon is good as a display piece but static in nature.
TRANSFORMATION:
This is easily the weakest in the line so far, the transformation from Tailmon to Angewomon (and even worse, from Angewomon to Tailmon) is annoying. The section containing the wings are on a separate piece and this actually detaches very easily, so it'll constantly fall off and you're better off just leaving it off until the very end. Tailmon's arms become Angewomon's arms and raiment, while Angemon's legs unfold from within Tailmon's body. Everything else becomes the backpack / angelic wings.
ANGEWOMON:
Stock photos showed an amazing figure that perfectly captured the design.
In hand, it's a whole different matter. Looking from behind, you can see that Tailmon was basically a shell and this is now a mess of panels forming the wings.
The head is on a balljoint and it looks really nice. However, Angewomon has hair on balljoints and they are susceptible to just falling off at the slightest touch.
As mentioned briefly in the transformation section, the backpack is a separate piece that detaches. It pegs so loosely to Angewomon's waist that it constantly falls off and is a massive pain when trying to pose her.
Here's her with Stinger again for the size comparison, she gains a bit of height but slims down a lot more.
And now the comparison with the other Mega Digimon.
Angewomon relies on her backpack in order to stand since her feet are too unstable (she is on high heels). The way the bottom two wings are sculpted inside the plastic is passable.
Have fun trying to pose her though because apart from pieces falling off, she doesn't have that many useful joints.
Her legs are easily the most poseable (thanks to having to fold upon themselves to fit inside Tailmon) with balljointed hips, double jointed knees and hinged ankles.
He arms fail quite a bit since the pink raiment pieces are permanently attached to her hand and cripples it. Otherwise, she has balljointd shoulders, hinged elbows and wrist swivels.
There's a bit of diecast on the figure, notable her ankle ring, Tailmon's tail ring and the metallic part of her head and breast.
Once you managed to get her into a pose that you're satisfied with Angewomon looks great, otherwise, she is not fun to play with.
OVERALL:
Angewomon is one of the weakest figure in the line so far. This is because she is annoyingly unstable as Angewomon. The fact that the designer did not bother to mold the peg in such a way that the backpack can stay on is a massive flaw. She isn't worth the full priced premium but is worthwhile if you can get her at a (not insignificant) discount.
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