A few months ago, JC member Falcone did one of those Kickstarter things trying to get some figures made. He started out with Shooter, a female figure that was available in a couple of ethnicities and uniform styles. I thought the figure was kinda cool looking so I invested enough to get two of the figures.
The over all design of the figure is just like a classic ARAH O-ring figure with one exception. She has a head, front and back of the torso, upper and lower arms with swivel arms, waist, inner and outer thighs and lower legs along with an O-ring and metal t-bar. The exception from the ARAH figures is that she also has separate hands so her hands will swivel at the wrist. She also comes with two heads, one with a helmet, one without. While the heads aren't as easy to swap out as an ME figure, it just takes a little bit of loosening of the back screw without taking the two torso halves apart and the heads pop in and out. The other included accessory is a sniper rifle.
With the two figures I chose, one looks like she'd fit right in with the Original 13, being dressed in all olive drab green with nicely detailed and painted web gear. The other figure I received is similar, but has a black shirt on and the web gear isn't painted. I like the sculpt as it it very reminiscent of the first 1982/83 figures; simple in design, a real world took to her, and effective articulation.
The added wrist articulation gives her an advantage over the ARAH figures as she can hold her rifle a little more realistically. The included sniper rifle is a bit on the small side and would look really cool if it was a bit bigger, like maybe three times bigger. It has a thumb hole style stock that makes it difficult for her to hold the rifle, so I cut off the bottom of the thumb hole part and made it a regular pistol grip style, this helped out a lot. She is able to hold other rifles nicely, so I think she may be getting something from Marauder's. Her hands seem to be made of a slightly softer plastic so as to avoid breaking the thumb and hands.
Her quality is obviously lower than what you'd expect from Hasbro, but I won't hold that against the figure, simply because this a small start up and I know they had to keep prices low as well as you never get 100% on the first try. That being said, she is better made than some mass produced figures I've come across and I wouldn't hesitate to but more figures if Falcone has more planned.
A couple of issues though, her waist is more like the dreaded diaper crotch, when sitting her legs do go forward, but don't take on a full 90 to her body, but she will sit in a vehicle just fine. The hands will come out as you're manipulating them, I think that is simply a case of the knob on the end of the post being a tad too small. My figure with the black shirt also tends to lose her right arm at the bicep swivel for the same reason.
She is taller than ARAH figures and the average height ME figure, but would still fit in with either figure style.
After all is said and done, I'd give her an eight out of ten. O-ring enthusiasts will like her as she has the classic look and feel to her. I think she fits in well with the Joe figures as she has that kind of look, not a real as the bbi figures, not as generic as PTE figures, she looks like she belongs. Maybe the next run will have a an improvement on the hands and arm swivels. Her rifle is kinda meh, but can be easily swapped out with something from the Joe line or Marauder's. If you're the type of collector who likes something unique and different, Shooter would be a good figure to add to your collection.
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