Toy Story Revoltech by Kaiyodo

Toy Story is probably one of the successful Disney/Pixar movie of all time and despite ending the series with its 3^rd installation, its merchandise keeps popping up in toy stores all over the world.

The Revoltech phenomenon continues with their release of Toy Story’s two main characters in Woody and Buzz Lightyear. Revoltech is known for producing good quality and pose able figures and the poses are only limited by your imagination. While some poses are hard to do, I find others are almost next to impossible to accomplished. Almost all parts of their figures are bendable so collectors will have a grand time putting them on display.

If you check the diagrams in their boxes (Japanese words), it explains the joint system technology that they incorporated in their figures, hence the ability to do complex poses.

The Woody and Buzz Revoltech sells for $38.99 a piece at Bigbadtoystore (http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=KAI10311&mode=retail and http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=KAI10310&mode=retail).

Toy Story collectors will definitely appreciate the good attention to details, articulation, accessories and paint quality of each toy. Woody comes with several interchangeable hands, his hat, a microphone, an extra face and that cute binocular in the movie. Also as an added bonus a piece of Buzz’s hand is included.

On the other hand Buzz comes with detachable wings, an extra face and three little army green men. Aside from these accessories each figure comes with a plastic coin, storage box and name plate.

PhoTOYgrapher’s Perspective:

I used to own several Revoltech figures and more or less have a hard time giving them proper poses. Woody and Buzz are the same. It is a challenge to make both Woody and Buzz pose (Woody is harder) and I spent several minutes just making them stand.

These figures are very good subjects for phoTOYgraphy. Tabletop shooters will appreciate their small size and pose ability so you can probably pull off cool diorama photos with these two guys.

My colleague Ryan did a flying pose of Buzz with a Star Command background and he indicated that posing Buzz is a bit of a challenge as well.

Issue:

Despite the articulations, Revoltech products are harder to pose than most action figures and this is probably the drawback for me.  


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