NEW PRODUCT: HOT TOYS: ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL ALITA 1/6TH SCALE COLLECTIBLE FIGURE

She is one very good looking figure, indeed I'm also very tempted to acquire her.

I just watched the movie, and i must say that's a pretty impressive movie. Now the figure i must get!





There are at least 3 versions of the figure used from the movie. The first body, the upgraded URM body (Hottoy version), and the Motorball battle armor version. I wished Hottoy makes the other 2 versions so that i can decide.

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I'll certainly see the movie at some point and will see who else brings her out.

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I just got back from seeing this. My impressions as a fan of the Manga — some scenes felt a little rushed, some were eye-roll inducing, and some scenes dragged. Overall, however, I thought they did an impressive job trying to jam two series into one two hour movie. The young lady playing Alita was really good. Too many characters, so not everyone gets developed all that well, but that’s understandable considering the time constraints. The special effects, of course, are impressive. My final thoughts — it was pretty cool, and while I told myself I didn’t really NEED to get this figure, I changed my mind. I will DEFINITELY get this.

Knowing Jim Cameron, he's saving a 3 hour director's cut for the Blu Ray. I'm surprised he could get the theatrical release down to 2hrs.

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Rogerbee wrote:
Knowing Jim Cameron, he's saving a 3 hour director's cut for the Blu Ray. I'm surprised he could get the theatrical release down to 2hrs.

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It wouldn’t surprise me at all if it ended up longer for the blu-Ray, either.

If this had been made 10 years ago, Summer Glau would have played Alita. As it is she reminds me of Chloe Bennet.

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Stryker2011 wrote:I just got back from seeing this. My impressions as a fan of the Manga — some scenes felt a little rushed, some were eye-roll inducing, and some scenes dragged. Overall, however, I thought they did an impressive job trying to jam two series into one two hour movie. The young lady playing Alita was really good. Too many characters, so not everyone gets developed all that well, but that’s understandable considering the time constraints. The special effects, of course, are impressive. My final thoughts — it was pretty cool, and while I told myself I didn’t really NEED to get this figure, I changed my mind. I will DEFINITELY get this.

Hmm... guess I'll have to find time to see this then. LOL

Yep, I caved and PO'd Alita as I really do like it.

just watched the movie, this figure is spot on. Rooted hair would be nice.

When I chatted to Michael Biehn at his hotel before Christmas, we talked about this film...he goes to gym daily with Jim Cameron....he said Cameron had the screenplay for this film in the drawer at the time of Titanic, but he said he was waiting for technology to catch up before he made it!!

lurpdog101 wrote:just watched the movie, this figure is spot on. Rooted hair would be nice.

When I chatted to Michael Biehn at his hotel before Christmas, we talked about this film...he goes to gym daily with Jim Cameron....he said Cameron had the screenplay for this film in the drawer at the time of Titanic, but he said he was waiting for technology to catch up before he made it!!

Makes sense. The ability to make a character like her (with the big doll eyes, and of course the mechanical body) look believable surpasses quite a few of the films made previously using CGI.

lurpdog101 wrote:just watched the movie, this figure is spot on. Rooted hair would be nice.

When I chatted to Michael Biehn at his hotel before Christmas, we talked about this film...he goes to gym daily with Jim Cameron....he said Cameron had the screenplay for this film in the drawer at the time of Titanic, but he said he was waiting for technology to catch up before he made it!!

Get you! Nice one, would love to have swapped places!

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Haha thanks mate. It was for my chatshow Hellblazerbiz. We got gatecrazhed by the Backstreet Boys too haha
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That is so awesome.

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Alita arrived yesterday (along with Elizabeth I). She was far easier to put together than Elizabeth (though, at the moment, I don't have any plans to put her black outfit on her, as I really like the robot body). It has quite a nice amount of articulation, though not so much in the torso. I'm not wild AT ALL about the helmet hair, and for the cost, it really pisses me off that HT has gone back to sculpted hair. The eyes require individual movement, and they give you this tiny piece of plastic that isn't all that easy to work with to adjust them. I barely moved mine, as I found it such a nightmare to get them evenly aligned again. I ordered one of the bootleg rooted hair head sculpts from OSK, and I'm hoping I can transplant that onto this head once it comes in.

Glad you like her -- agree about the stupidity of the hair and about the coolness of the robot body.

Mine arrived on the 17th and still sitting inside the shipper box. Haven't had a chance to break her out yet. Hopefully have some spare time to look at it later. Lol

She turned out well (aside from the hair, obviously). I do love that metallic purple!

I too, received this sometime ago, and was still in the box. Usually i don't do HT review, but I just realize that there wasn't a detailed review here. So here is it.







First look. Quite well packaged, other than the heart. I almost missed it. 








I accidentally pulled off the hair from the HS, and realized the eyes could be moved. The mechanism is quite good, i would say, as compared with the Elsa cartoonish HS with adjustable eyes, but is so hard to adjust, as the eyeballs are very loose. This HT's eyeballs are very adjustable.

Looking at the neck and HS connector, i am afraid that i can't fit this HS on a phicen body. So, I wonder if there is going to be a problem when the HS from MR TOYS is released:

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t3398-new-product-mr-toys-mt2020-1-6-scale-female-head-sculpt-w-movable-eye-ball-2-versions?highlight=MT2020+-07

I might be only able to use this rooted hair HS on the other product made by DAFTOYS:

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t3401-new-product-daftoys-f05-1-6-scale-battle-angel-costume-set?highlight=angel





















I decided to test the flexibility of the figure. The arm can go round the shoulder. On opening wide, the arms can only reached so far. I am however, able to pose it in a Y shape, by raising the arm up first, then bend down.

The feet, you can adjust the toes area, up or down. The thighs can also be turn (rotate). I can't achieve the split, like the TBleague Fang Hua Youth Chinese girl figure.






The clothes, i hoped, would be stain free, as i wish one day i would dress it on a phicen body. The zipper can be detached totally. It feels like leather, with a bit of shining texture.














I made a mistake of slipping arms into the leather jacket from the back. It should be from the front. Not much difficulty wearing it. The problem, however, is the pants. As you can see from the last picture of this section, if you don't try to pull the pants up as high as possible on the figure, it would be very unsightly, especially if you stretch the legs. I pulled the pants up over the waist as much as i could, and it looked much better. I do notice the bottom part of the legs are shown, but it would be covered up by the boots.

Due to the design of the body, i don't see the nice curve that i preferred from the leather pants on this body. I might have to take it off later, as i fear there might be permanent stretch marks on the leather jacket and pants.




so there is no boots to be put on to the URM feet, but to replace it with. Looking at the connectors, i am afraid that this boots may not fit the phicen body, again.







The figure can stand on its own, which i like. I compared it with a S09, and they are about the same height. Imagine my disappointment when i realized i couldn't fit the HS onto a phicen body...






There is a little chest plate that can be taken off, attached via magnets. I wished i could wear the jacket in front, so the figure could just unzip from the front to take out her heart...






Other accessories. Since i almost didn't notice the heart, i tried to search the box for the Motorball, if there is. I couldn't find. DAFTOYS's version doesn't offer too. Is there going to be a Motorball Armor version? There are 2 pieces of connectors, i think, and a white piece of i dunno what. Maybe keep them in case i need them...The sword would be the best accessories, IMO. 










The base. The base is not heavy. It is much lighter than what TBleague offers. The wall can be attached and detached on will. There isn't any switches for lights. When i was trying to pose the figure on it, i realized that her feet can only be placed on 2 areas on the base. Or i can try to lift one of her legs onto the wall...

That’s a great and thorough review, brassco. Nicely done. I think Ht did a pretty amazing job with this one, given the limitations of the body, and still managed to give it more flexibility than most of their figures. My one gripe is the hair, of course, and once I pulled it off I don’t seem to be able to get it back to where a bald part on her forehead (right at the part line) shows unpainted skin — ie, no hair line paint.

Thanks for the review. Still don't have time to open it up. Interesting, I was actually expecting this to be shorter and not TBL standard height. Kind of a let down for me as she is more a teenage girl in my view. But still looks well done overall.

Thank you for the review, brassco. While I'm not into the character, I think they generally achieved a very nice result. I don't particularly like the molded hair, but other than that I was thinking, so Hot Toys can do decent articulation after all! (Of course they always could, it's just that their design choices, especially as to clothing, have been getting more and more in the way.)

Thanks for the great review brassco! Is it weird that the sculpted hair was one of the reasons I never P/O'd this? I have seen some awesome rooted hair replacement by collectors though.

Very cool review, thanks a lot! I am too a bit diappointed to see she stands so tall, I don't remember the movie very well but in my memory she was a slender teenager. Overall it's a superb figure anyway (I like the way you pulled up a bit her pants, it looks much better than on promo shots)

Just curious about your opinion on the shoulder articulation, it makes me think of the bandai SHFiguarts double shoulder joints which I hate on figuarts since they are always loose and tricky to place correctly to have a nice result... How are these? Just freely rotating rings?

blackpool wrote:
Just curious about your opinion on the shoulder articulation, it makes me think of the bandai SHFiguarts double shoulder joints which I hate on figuarts since they are always loose and tricky to place correctly to have a nice result... How are these? Just freely rotating rings?

I am not sure what exactly you are asking about, but the shoulder are not loose at the moment, can circle 360 degrees, forward and backward about 60 degree each.

quite hard to explain, usually the shoulder articulation is a simple ball joint and swivel on most female figures, but this one seems to have a kinda "butterfly" shoulder joint as they call it for SHFiguarts figures.
It allows more movement and more realistic poses, but on figuarts the little "ring" part that is masking the articulation itself is often loose, turning around free, and not sitting correctly on the articulation, which makes the posing quite tricky... Just wanted to know how is this one, but as you mention it's not loose, the engineering is surely better!

blackpool wrote:quite hard to explain, usually the shoulder articulation is a simple ball joint and swivel on most female figures, but this one seems to have a kinda "butterfly" shoulder joint as they call it for SHFiguarts figures.
It allows more movement and more realistic poses, but on figuarts the little "ring" part that is masking the articulation itself is often loose, turning around free, and not sitting correctly on the articulation, which makes the posing quite tricky... Just wanted to know how is this one, but as you mention it's not loose, the engineering is surely better!

The small shoulder pieces feel like they are pegged in and solid. They are not free rotating pieces of circular sleeves covering joints. However the hip area where they try to cover the ball jointed legs are free floating sleeves from my examination of the figure.

I hate the bare feet ratchets though. I can't have her stand straight as her feet are angled too forward or back. I can't get a proper A stance due to how the feet are designed. Ratcheted knees too so can only do so much. And tilting the ankles are scary feeling as I feel I might break the connector due to its tightness.

All of my joints felt quite tight when I first started working with her, but once you get them movable, they aren’t too bad to work with, and they hold poses well.

doodlehobby wrote:

blackpool wrote:quite hard to explain, usually the shoulder articulation is a simple ball joint and swivel on most female figures, but this one seems to have a kinda "butterfly" shoulder joint as they call it for SHFiguarts figures.
It allows more movement and more realistic poses, but on figuarts the little "ring" part that is masking the articulation itself is often loose, turning around free, and not sitting correctly on the articulation, which makes the posing quite tricky... Just wanted to know how is this one, but as you mention it's not loose, the engineering is surely better!

The small shoulder pieces feel like they are pegged in and solid. They are not free rotating pieces of circular sleeves covering joints. However the hip area where they try to cover the ball jointed legs are free floating sleeves from my examination of the figure.

I hate the bare feet ratchets though. I can't have her stand straight as her feet are angled too forward or back. I can't get a proper A stance due to how the feet are designed. Ratcheted knees too so can only do so much. And tilting the ankles are scary feeling as I feel I might break the connector due to its tightness.

Thanks a lot for the input!