“Oh My!” Mezco’s One:12 Collective Mr. Sulu is out! The amazing 6-inch action figure is the second release in the Star Trek series and is just as good as, if not better than, Spock, the first release. Now bring on Captain Kirk!
Bring on the rest of the crew! Sulu has me hungry for more of the original Enterprise crew: Scotty, Chekov, Uhura, Scotty, and McCoy. The day this crew is completed is the day I will be a happy collector. Growing up, I watched Star Trek reruns and played with Mego‘s action figures. The original series ran for a brief time a few years before I was born, but the reruns had hit syndication with a passion, and my family tuned in for each and every episode. I was a toddler during the Mego run, but I have fond memories of the toys, and when Mezco announced their line of 6-inch clothed action figures, it took me back to that strange, magical time.
Hikaru Sulu is the second official Star Trek release from Mezco. He was preceded by Spock and may be just as good as Spock. Sulu shares the same base as Spock (review here) and has almost all the same accessories, with the exception of the fencing sword and accompanying hand, and he has no “live long and prosper” hand. Sulu also comes with an extra head, a “smiling” head, it’s a great addition.
The articulation is solid on these figures. The joints are nice and stiff — they remind me of 12-inch action figures like Hot Toys or Dragon. The elbows are single joints that swivel at the lower bicep. The chest and waist ball and sockets have a great range of motion, and I was impressed by how much “personality” I could get with these joints. The only joints that I felt could use improvement are the ankles. Like with Spock, I feel that there could be more range of movement in the ankles, or maybe there should be more range of motion, but that also might be my expectation of 6-inch action figures over the years.
The clothes are really well done. On 6-inch figures it’s easy for the figures to lose that sense of scaled cloth as the thread/weave is the same as 1:1 clothes. Mezco seems to be going out of their way to avoid this, and it pays off. The clothes almost look like they were made for this scale. The stitching is incredible, making it clear why the cost of these figures is so high: it can’t be cheap to achieve this level of quality.
I’m high on this figure right now. It’s a great figure, a great character, and, having just seen the latest movie, it makes me want the current crew in One:12 Collective as well. For any Star Trek collector, this is a must-have figure.
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