Happy birthday to me :)
I finally managed to snag a Gordon Freeman off of eBay and can finally complete the orange box trio :D
I love all the sculpted details on the Freeman figure, scratches and little minute deets...the carbon fiber looking undersuit, his handz, the folds... teehee. The figure came with some alternate hands, the gravity gun, a spore pod, and a headcrab! ..that doesn't fit on his head lol. I was just really charmed by the crowbar though so no pics with the other stuff :p
...I have them all
While Heavy would've been more true to the box, Engineer will have to do (if you'll have him). Look at them. They're having fun. Ladidadidaaa
All the guys on my shelf:
Also some bonus Chell pics because I finally bought batteries for her portal gun:
Overall, I do think Gordon Freeman is likely the best manufactured of the three. He's got nice details, he's well painted, and he's pretty damn well articulated. Also I just like how... thick he is. He's pleasantly shaped. I like holding him. He's also the most expensive (who'd guess). A HL1 Gordon I would give my kidney for but its fiineeeee.
I think Chell comes in second, honestly. I love her sculpted details, especially on her jumpsuit, and the portal gun is a fantastic prop with its little LED. Some of her joints are awkward, but her mobility isn't bad. Honestly her worst feature is her unfocused eyes, which can be fixed by only looking at her at certain angles. She's also the only one with a base (because she has a lot of trouble standing on her own).
Unfortunately that puts Engineer in last. I'd argue that getting the class card and special item with the figure is pretty sweet. The sculpting on its own is also really unique, and extremely faithful to the game's art style. Also I'm really biased because I love Engineer. Unfortunatelyyy, the mobility is pretty poor - the joints are really stiff - and sometimes the ball joints just fail (my engineer has a loose foot). Some figures get more stuff than others, and I think just generally the figures are all kind of silly looking with variable paint jobs. But it's worth it to have funny tf2 man on the shelf.
They all look great on my shelf and really that's what matters.
