JAKKS PACIFIC WORLD OF NINTENDO PRINCESS ZELDA - Figure Review.

And now, it's RANT TIME: w/ Gryphon!

How did Jakks Pacific miss this? How can they advertise a figure from one of the most popular games of all time and then use the wrong character to represent it? They used the correct version of Link to represent both the Ocarina of Time Link and Shiek figures from previous waves, so now that we finally get a figure based off of the titular, Princess Zelda....WHAT HAPPENED?!? 
This is especially offensive to me since I myself am not a big fan of Wind Waker and I hate seeing it shoved in my face all the time by any Legend of Zelda-related advertisement. 
Lord help them if they ever do an Ocarina of Time Ganondorf figure!

This has been: RANT TIME: w/ Gryphon
 You may now proceed to the review.

One other area of figures I've been trying to build a collection of is Video Game characters. Particularly from the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and 'The Legend of Zelda' series. That's where Jakks Pacific and their 'World of Nintendo' line comes in, they had made some pretty good Link figures, but I wanted to see a figure of Princess Zelda. One had been teased for a while and I was left to sit and wonder when or if it would ever come out.  

Well, it just randomly came out much to my surprise.
And oh boy is this figure is OK.

Wow.
I think this may be the first time I called a figure just "OK".

Princess Zelda has a decent head sculpt, very nice looking eyes and her ears look great too. The hair also looks nicely detailed.
Her upper body though is OK. The thing that stands out the most is her armor, I think if they went with a more gold-ish yellow it would look better.
The detailing on the armor is fine on the shoulder pads and barely average on the chest piece.

I do like how there are folds on her torso, that was a nice touch.
The belt is just kinda there, with no other details sculpted into it.
But the bottom part of her dress looks very well done. The tabard (that long banner looking thing on the front) is by far the best looking thing on this figure, the small patterns painted on all look very well done.

Princess Zelda can move her head to the left and the right, but thanks to her hair, she cant rotate all the way around.

Her shoulder pieces prevent her arms from making a full rotation, but she can move them forward and backward a bit, and they can be moved up from the side.
Her elbows and hands can bend and rotate to create a variety of different poses.

Princess Zelda has no legs apparently. 

Princess Zelda also comes with one accessory, the Ocarina of Time. It looks pretty accurate to how it looked in the game, except that the triangles aren't painted yellow. And I think it has the correct number of holes. 

Getting Princess Zelda to hold the Ocarina in her hands can be a tricky process and she can't just grip it in one hand.

Left: Shadow Link, Ocarina of Time Link. Right: Sheik.

Princess Zelda does look very good standing next to some of the other Legend of Zelda figures from Jakks Pacific.

Probably not a fair comparison, but here is the Princess next to the Figma Skyward Sword Link.

I recommend this figure only for Zelda fans and figure collectors, but don't pay more than $20 for it.
As far as the first Princess Zelda figure from Jakks Pacific, it's an average start. I do wonder what a Figma of her would look like thou-

https://nintendofigures.com/2016/09/29/figma-twilight-princess-link-and-zelda-details-revealed/

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