FIGMA ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VERSION - Figure Review

While I may have been excited for the previous Link Figma, another figure was announced alongside it, one that would become probably my most anticipated figure for the year.
Joining the Twilight Princess Link Figma is a Figma based on Princess Zelda herself.
Last time I reviewed a Princess Zelda figure, I found it to be a simply OK attempt at capturing her elegant likeness. But that was a figure costing roughly $15. But can Figma's Princess Zelda figure, with it's price tag of a little over $60, do better?

This Figma is BEAUTIFUL!!!

From top to bottom Princess Zelda has some very impressive sculpt and detail. So, let's look at it from top to bottom!

Princess Zelda comes with 2 face plates, one with a serious expression and one where she smiles. (Removing the front crown piece is required to replace the faces)
Her faces have great expressions and the details are nicely applied, the eyes, mouths, ears and even her earrings look pretty good.

Her hair also looks very nice, wonderfully sculpted and painted. Her crown piece looks good too, and the back part is well painted (mine has a minor splotch on her hair), same goes for the other ribbons and ties.

The shoulder armor piece looks great, nicely painted and oozing with detail all over.
And the arms look good too. I saw on one review of this figure where one arm was painted a pearly white while the other one wasn't. But luckily mine seems to have a consistent paint scheme.

But the best looking thing about this figure is the dress. This is an amazingly sculpted dress, the detail of the seems, folds and the patterns is very well realized even down to the littlest things. The paint overall is great, Max Factory even did a great job painting some of the smaller details onto the dress, this stuff couldn't have been easy to make look consistent but they nailed it and should be commended for their efforts.While the tabard also looks amazing, the banner-like piece feels like it was simply glued on to the dress and one wrong move could snap it off. So I would apply museum rules to the tabbard: look, but no touch.
Princess Zelda doesn't have as much articulation as the Twilight Princess Link Figma, but what she does have is still pretty decent.

Zelda's head can tilt left to right. Her hair in the back has a hinge allowing it to move up and down, which in turn also allows Zelda to look up and down. And the head is capable of rotation, the braids in the front are pretty flexible, but still be careful as they could still come off.

The upper part of her chest can rotate and tilt forward, bend side to side a little bit and kinda sorta lean backward, but not a lot.

The arms are capable of rotating around. However, I will say that the shoulder armor can cause some problems when it comes to that. The corners of the armor will overlap with the blue tassels and cause them to bend. There is a possibility that too much of that may cause them to snap off. 
Apart from that her arms can also move up, rotate at the bicep, bend at the elbow. And the hands can rotate and bend.

Unlike the Jakks Pacific figure, this Zelda actually has legs. As you can see, unlike other princesses, Zelda is a pants and boots type of girl. 2 pieces of Zelda's gown can be moved up and can twist slightly. Doing so effects the width, so if you want to display it as wide or narrow, you may do so. The center piece has no form of articulation whatsoever, but like the tabard, don't mess around with it too much. 
Her legs have the kind of articulation you'd expect to have on a Figma figure.
The legs are capable of bending and rotating at the hip, although the dress itself does prohibit that movement. The legs also bend and rotate at the knees, her feet can rotate, move up and down, pivot slightly and there is also an extra bend at the tip of the foot. 
I don't think it really matters a whole lot since the gown itself prevents Zelda from falling over anyway.

While she doesn't have as many accessories as the last figure I reviewed, what she does come with is still pretty impressive.

The first is her sword. While the detail and paint look really nice, the blade feels flimsy. One wrong move and it'll snap like spaghetti! It's still cool to see Zelda holding this elegant weapon. 

Also included are Zelda's Bow of Light and one Light Arrow. Both of these pieces look great, sporting a glossy paint application which I think is a good detail. They are weapons of light after all, so they should look the part.

Getting Zelda to hold the bow and arrow can be a bit tricky, but with a little creativity it can be done. 

Zelda comes with a variety of different hands that can be swapped out for many different posing possibilities. One issue I've had with my Zelda figure is that when I go to pull one hand off the wrist, the entire joint socket will accompany the hand. The way I've found to get around this is to hold the wrist firmly while pulling the hand off, so if you're having this issue as well, feel free to use this method for yourself. 

Zelda stands a little over 5 1/2 inches tall, fitting in scale with the Twilight Princess Link Figma and looks good next to the Link Between Worlds Figma. 

This is probably not a fair comparison, but her she is compared to the Jakks Pacific Zelda and Sheik figures.

 I have been looking forward to this figure since it was announced almost a year ago and it does not disappoint! If you are a die hard Zelda fan, and especially if you love Twilight Princess like I do, then this figure is something you should definitely obtain for yourself. I'm very happy to have both Link and Zelda figures in my collection. 

And I'm going to keep saying this out of hope that it will eventually happen:
TWILIGHT PRINCESS GANONDORF FIGURE!!!!
C'mon Max Factory, please? 

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