The Bridge Direct Hobbit 6" Collector Figure: Tauriel - Wave 1

This character did not appear in the book or the first movie, but makes a great sterotypical wood-elf with a hint of flower-fairy.A beautiful figure overall, nice detail on the boots and quiver, bow, etc.

There are a couple of flaws, however. There is no sheath for the matching pair of knives--bronze, incidentally: a nice touch. (Tolkein made no reference to elves' aversion to iron; but maybe all the elves he didn't mention suffer from it?)The arrows are very nice, also bronze pointed, and remove from the quiver; but the quiver itself is attached to her back by a peg-and-hole arrangement that simply does not work with the soft vinyl material it is made from.Jamming a pencil into the quiver gives something to push against, but the peg is still a bad fit.

Also, the skirt is not slit enough to allow the legs to move into action poses, although that could be done unobtrusively afterwards. As it is the hip articulations might as well not exist. It may be the figure was designed more as a collector's figure than an action figure, but in that case why make a point of all the articulations? Just give us a better action pose.

The hair came as a nice surprise, not visible from the front of the package; it flows gracefuly all the way to her knees.As is too often the case with nice hair on action figures, however, it severely restricts movement of the head.

I certainly do not regret the very reasonable price I spent on this figure, but I wish it had been better designed.

I bought this Hobbit An Unexpected Journey figure, went to see the movie, and to my surprise, the character never even appeared. Maybe I can customize her to look like Azog the Defiler instead. The articulation seems adequate, and her height would work with 3 3/4" scale dwarves. Guess I'll have to wait a year or two to see if the likeness to Tauriel was accurate.

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