Alright, I took a ton of photos for reviews this month, so no more slacking from me! I’m going to create a new lightbox at some point this month for larger statues and props and what not, and I’m going to take a larger variety of shots. I find when I do a review after I’ve had a figure for a while, I really don’t want to pose it because I’ve already got it in a pose I like! Some of these figures are damn tricky to get into decent positions. On to the First4Figures Samus Varia Suit review!
When I first saw shots of this, despite being a HUGE fan of Metroid, I thought it looked kinda crappy. The pose really didn’t do it for me, and considering the pose is so important to the piece, that was a major turnoff to the statue as a whole. For some reason, I kept looking at it, and over a few months, I broke under the impulse buy pressure and got a sweet deal on it.
Imagine my surprise when it arrived, and it turned into one of my favourite statues. The pose, which seemed so awkward in press photos, is really solid and comes off fairly powerful and iconic. Iconic enough to make 2 additional variant statues based on the same pose? I dunno about that, but since I’ll probably be buying the gravity suit version, apparently good enough to sucker me into wanting to waste more dough.
The paint job is fantastic. It represents the varia suit very well, it’s as bright and colourful as it should be, and while the base isn’t the best, it works well considering you’re in hallways the majority of most Metroid games. Just from eyeballing it, I’d say it’s about 7-8 inches tall, maybe 11-12 inches long. The footprint is a little larger than most statues simply due to the pose. It’s hard for me to find flaws with this piece. Maybe a slightly different base, but that’s it. One of the upcoming variants of this does have a different base, but it’s a somewhat lame mirrored finish instead of being themed to the franchise.
If you like Metroid, this is the best collectible I’ve seen for the franchise. In addition to the varia suit and gravity suit, they’ve got a phazon suit coming out, which has a bunch of LEDs, two versions of the zero suit, and a scaled replica of the dropship. But those were both slated to come out like 6 months ago so we’ll see if that ever happens.
Overall, I’ll give it a 4.5/5.
Buying Options : Long sold out at retail, it still pops up on Ebay from time to time. Also available at Amazon.
