Oh geez... I'm really disappointed with this figure. Don't get me wrong, I still love it and it looks amazing, but they could have done a way better job at this. Sorry no pics yet as my head is still wrapped around what a mess this came out to be.
Where to start? The body and HS tones don't match! WTF?! For the cost of the figure, I would expect this not to be an issue. Dang it. They actually slapped a suntan HS on a pale body. What were they thinking? I dug out a spare TBL suntan body I had and voila, nice perfect match. Also they gave this gal a disproportionate body. She's got stubby arms and elongated legs (it's using ankle extensions). And the high heeled feet stand pretty high on its own. I thought I was just imagining this until I put the TBL next to it. The body does seem to look like it has an internal metal skeleton only in the arms and legs. The torso, neck, hips are all plastic though from what I can tell. If you crunch the upper torso forward/back you expose a very nice visible gap that shows its inner torso ball jointed skeleton.
Now here's where I started to curse like there was no tomorrow. I managed to break BOTH wrist pegs. My fault for yanking too hard I guess and not using the blow dryer to heat it long enough. Also managed to pinch my pinky with needle nose pliers/rubber while slowly trying to pull it out. I actually had to use a pin vise to break up the stuck pegs in the wrist and hand. Oh well, I guess that's why they included 2 spares. Articulation is limited (thanks TBL for spoiling me in this department). Best the arms will do is 90 degree bend at the elbow. Same with the knees IIRC. Though the knees are ratcheted from what I can tell. Didn't dwell much more on the articulation as I've pretty much made my mind at that point to just swap out the body and start bashing what I can on the TBL spare body I put the HS on.
The feet are another issue. The ankle ball joint doesn't solidly peg into the leg. I mean I stand her up and I can see she's starting to tilt. Even with the solid mass and heft of the feet, the weak ankles can't seem to balance the weight on mine. The feet easily come off without much effort. The figure is indeed a little top heavy with the its chest, neck, shoulder and arm guards being metal. The upper arm/elbow pad is plastic as well as the leg armor. As I had thought, it stains as well. The clear plastic wrap is discoloured when I took apart the armor.
Overall, I feel that it's really sloppy on the company's part. I honestly don't know what they were thinking when they put this body together.
Now, after all that, I noticed the armor had felt like material glued underneath it. This is definitely going to be an issue over time. I remember adhesive leeching out over time on a similar metal case that used similar material to pad and protect my devices. The adhesive oozed out over time and, well, it just wasn't pleasant to deal with. I'm expecting the same thing will happen to this.
On a much brighter note, I got everything fitted on my TBL body. The only issue is it can't handle the sword or staff as both wrists on this body are loose. Yeah, it was one of the older bodies where the wrist pegs easily detached from the arm. The other challenge is finding something for the feet as I can't use the feet from the figure. I'm thinking about gladiator sandals or something to that effect. I just put some high heel shoes on her in the meantime. LOL
Now that all that's done, I'll have put out some time to setup a photo shoot for this lovely figure. Despite the challenges and cursing I faced, once I had it all on the TBL body, it's a huge improvement (well, with the exception of the feet). LOL
Oh and the stand is rally nice. I stand corrected. :p