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4.0 out of 5 stars
This Buffy not only sings she plays a mean game of pool, August 6, 2005
= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Deluxe Once More With Feeling Buffy Action Figure (Toy)
"Into every generation a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, a chosen One. One born with the strength and skill to right the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers."
With over 60 six-inch action figures from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" it struck me as rather strange that I only had two figures of the Slayer herself while having eight Willows and seven Spikes, not to mention more figures of Tara, Darla, and Cordelia than I had of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) herself. That has been rectified this summer with the release of three sets of figures of Buffy and Faith (ironically the packaging has the above quote about there only being one Slayer despite the fact obvious there is not--and when do we get our Kendra figure?). Although they are sold separately, you have a set of figures from Season 3's "Graduation Day" with Buffy and Faith fighting each other wearing their leather jackets, or fighting side-by-side in the series finale "End of Days." Then we have a mismatched set, which consists of this "Once More With Feeling" Buffy from Season 6 of "BtVS" and another Season 3 Faith figure from "Bad Girls."
"Once More With Feeling," of course, is the episode where Buffy gets to sing. She is dressed in a red long sleeve shirt and black pants. Since she has a pool cue that means this figure represents the first two verses of the song "Life" that comes at the climax of the episode when Buffy confronts Sweet. As she sings the first verse ("Life a show/And we all play our parts") Buffy unbuttons her jacket, opens it and drops it to the floor. As she signs, Buffy sees one of Sweet's minions is holding a pool cue. When the beat changes to the hard-rock tune of the second verse ("Where there's life/There's hope") and the minions attack, Buffy grabs the pool cue from the minion, hits him, elbows the second minion, kicks, punches, strikes a couple of blows with a pool cue, and then throws it to impale the third minion. This figure comes with the pool cue already bound to Buffy's hands by the use of really thin bands of plastic. The only other accessory is a stake, and I already have plenty of those sitting in my little box of collected accessories.
It claims above that there are 29 points of articulation for this figure, but I do not see how you get to that number, even if you saw a ball joint goes in two directions in two ways. What I find for points of articulation is that you have the neck, upper torso, shoulders, mid-bicep, elbows, wrist, hips, knees, and ankles. The upper torso one stands out because it allows for better looking postures than when the stomach on the figure does the same thing. The problem is that because these figures do not have a base to which they can be attached there are a limited number of postures that will work to keep these figures upright, so be prepared for them to fall down a lot (although the pool cue does help a bit with trying to maintain a center of balance).
Of the three new Buffy figures my favorite is the "Graduation Day" Buffy, although it is still the Series 2 Buffy that is the one chosen for the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" display area of my office where I have my favorite figures for each character, but that is more because it has a big base and can stand up rather than any aesthetic consideration. Final Note: There is also a "Once More With Feeling" Anya Action Figure and they have just anounced a "OMWF" figure of Dawn, so it will be interesting to see if any more are forthcoming (I have seen where somebody used a Series 5 Willow head and a Series 4 Drusilla body to make a custom "Once More With Feeling" Willow figure, so I guess some people do not want to wait).
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