Tuesday, November 20, 2018

SOFVI SPIRITS HAKUJA | Figure Review



We now come to the last of the trio of Kaiju from Pacific Rim Uprising: Hakuja.

Hakuja happens to be my favorite Kaiju from Uprising. I think Hakuja has a great design and this figure captures it pretty well.


The head is nicely sculpted and the paint for the most part looks good. I would have added more paint on the tusks. I would complain about the eyes not being visible enough, but I think that makes Hakuja look cooler. Beneath the Hammerhead looking parts of the head there is some bright green paint as opposed to the blue paint usually seen on the Kaiju. It looks pretty neat.
Also, the tongue looks nice.


The back has nicely sculpted plates that extend to the tip of the tail. And the back is covered in blue paint the emulate the luminescent light seen on the Kaiju bodies.


Hakuja is the only Uprising Kaiju to have more than 4 limbs, much like most of the previous movies Kaiju. He has 6 legs with various armored plates, which are nicely painted blue with the yellow lines really stand out well.

The underbelly is just the basic light brown body with some tan airbrushed spots for good measure. Going back to the neck, it has some luminescent lines on it and those look great.

Hakuja's only articulation points are it’s legs which can move forward and back. Upon inspection of this figure you might think the head is capable of rotation, it’s not.
As you can see Hakuja is pretty small compared to the other Kaiju, but that doesn’t make him any less threatening.



I’m pretty pleased with this Hakuja figure and I’m equally satisfied to have the complete trio of Kaiju from Uprising.

Now that only leaves the question: Is there a Mega-Kaiju figure in the works? I honestly hope so. Actually, I almost wouldn’t mind seeing Sovfi Spirits figures of past Pacific Rim Kaiju, seeing the work they did just fills my mind with a lot of wishful thinking. But for now, I am fine having the 3 great Kaiju figures we have now.


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