Spinmaster The Shapes Collection Horizon Forbidden West Aloy Figure
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00:00her DNA may have come from so back but her likeness has come from spin master
00:04here's a look at brand new spin master PlayStation the shapes collection horizon
00:09forbidden West a Loy
00:30the main protagonist of horizon Aloy is curious determined and intent on
00:40uncovering the mysteries of the world shunned by her own tribe since birth she
00:44has learned to harness her agility cunning and deadly aim to hunt the
00:47machines and survive the unforgiving wilds while Aloy tries to unravel the
00:52mystery of the world we seem to have a simpler mystery on our hands how tall is
00:57the figure the answer to that according to my tape measure is five inches
01:00exactly or Aloy is going to stand at twelve and a half centimeters tall
01:04thanks to the folks over at spin master for providing this sample of the shapes
01:08collection horizon forbidden West Aloy that we can look at in this review
01:12we've already looked at already one horizon forbidden West that happens to
01:15be Varl gonna bring him in right now from a size standpoint like in the game
01:19if I can actually get Varl here to stand his feet sometimes caused the character
01:23to lean a little bit further forward but he certainly is though taller like in
01:26the game to Aloy bringing of the other figures that we've also looked at now
01:30completing all the shapes collection we looked at not only Kratos but also his
01:34son Atreus from of course God of War and then we also looked at Jin Sakai I think
01:39from so far what we've seen and this is only again the first wave of the shapes
01:43collection I think my favorite figures right now have been Jin Sakai but I
01:46think my second or equally favorite to this line might be the Aloy that we're
01:50about to have a look at here now if you get a good look at the lay of the land
01:53you'll see that Aloy does come in clue with quite a lot of things some that you
01:57may see already is the fact she does come in clue with a bow and arrow the
01:59spear the quiver some swappable hands but then you may be asking yourself
02:03what's all these things over here would you believe that the figure does have
02:06six swappable faces well you only count five of course you're gonna count the
02:10one that's currently on the head as well that's pretty neat the fact that spin
02:13master would then include all these swappable heads we're gonna look at
02:16those more in a moment first probably the less interesting things and only just
02:20by virtue of the fact that they happen to be hands the figure does come in clue
02:22with a pair of closed fists you'll see that one hand is with a glove one hand
02:26is without the one with the glove goes on this side the one without goes on
02:29this side here figure also comes in clue with a pointing hand and also as well a
02:36pulling or drawing back arrow hand you can probably see for the fact that the
02:40way the fingers are designed like this that once you get your around to using
02:44the arrow the arrow you just take the feather and you slot it in between her
02:48fingers kind of like this it's not always the easiest thing to do but you
02:53kind of get it like right around there and you can see she hold the arrow
02:57pretty well you can imagine how much better she can also hold it as well when
03:00it's actually attached on to her forearm we'll come back to that hand in a second
03:04the figure also then also comes include a couple of gripping hands now right now
03:08she does have relaxed hands on her forearms that's not gonna be helping
03:12anybody right now to fix that quickly removing the hands are fairly easy to do
03:16just twist the hand remove them fairly long pegs but not too long where I had
03:20to worry that the pegs were gonna break and do it on this side also as well and
03:24then let's grab let's grab the hand for holding the bow and the arrow so we're
03:28gonna plug in that hand one gripping hand and then we'll go back to that hand
03:31we were looking at earlier that's gonna plug in on this side here we go let's
03:37put the figure down here for a second so the fact that we've kind of prepped
03:41things right now for the bow and the arrow why don't we look at those things
03:43next so she comes with a bow and the thing that I like is that the bow does
03:47have a real drawstring to it you can see that it's got a really stretchy line you
03:52could easily then pull this back and have her drawing back the arrow the
03:56thing about it though you'll see that there's a hole right here now this hole
03:59doesn't actually help with the arrow I think what they probably could have done
04:02is added a little peg right here where the bow could have then had the arrow
04:06attached to it and then all you'd really then have to do is just drop back the
04:09line like this but what you do instead is that that little hole right here
04:14serves a better purpose that if you look on the back of Aloy's body right here
04:19underneath her hair there's a peg right here so what you basically do is you
04:23take that hole and then you can attach the bow so let's just say you don't want
04:27to have the character displayed with it just attach the bow on the back of her
04:30body nice little storage space for that she also does come in clue with a quiver
04:34now the quiver not unfortunately having any removable arrows at least what it
04:38does have though is there's a peg there as well so if you look on the figures
04:42body on the side here of her skirting there's also a hole I had a hard time
04:45kind of getting the quiver to stay in place I actually found it helped to put
04:50the quiver kind of on there and twist it around just kind of dowel in a bigger
04:53hole than what it was it holds okay the moment though you I've noticed when you
04:57start to kind of turn the figure around it does bang the quiver quickly and
05:01you'll find it end up falling off the figure lastly she also comes included I
05:05know we've already looked at the fact she comes included with the the arrow
05:07arrows nicely detailed I mean really like all the accessories one thing that's
05:11been consistent with everything that we looked at from the shapes collection is
05:15the layers and layers and layers of paint applications that trend continues
05:20then as well when we look at the sphere now the sphere does have some really
05:23glorious colors of the gray you've got some golds and yellows added in there as
05:26well as some feathers some really interesting details going on here you
05:31may notice also if I get you guys to see that there's a hole right here too
05:35so would you probably already believe where that's gonna be going yeah also on
05:38the back of the figures body you can't double it up unfortunately though so you
05:42have to choose which one you want to use so let's remove the bow because we're
05:45gonna be putting that in their hand in a second there we go and then you just
05:50take yourself the spear and the spear works the exact same way so there's a
05:53hole right there and then of course that's gonna plug onto the peg I don't
05:57know what longevity that peg is gonna have it's a fairly thin piece of plastic
06:01but so far it does the job of holding both the bow and now the spear if you
06:07wanted though to get the bow into her hands be the finger only the figure only
06:11has a single hinge in her elbow but I don't think it necessarily needed any
06:14more than that go ahead and take yourself the bow the hands themselves
06:18are also fairly soft plastic so it's pretty easy for them to hold the weapons
06:22then of course when you've got this oh see I just dropped the quiver gonna have
06:26to go and get that later a little bit later so we're gonna draw back the cord
06:30line and you can kind of get it underneath her fingers this is always
06:36gonna be a problem for you at least it was a problem for me just because the
06:39cord is so taut the moment you start to tighten it it's gonna snap snap out of
06:44her fingers this has happened out actually to me a couple of times kind of
06:47have to just kind of tuck it in between your fingers and her thumb you might
06:51even find it's even easier just to kind of get yourself the arrow first slot the
06:55arrow in between her grip so basically what you're gonna do is you're gonna
06:58take the little end stem here and I kind of fit it in between your fingers like
07:02that then you can kind of draw back the line this is so much easier obviously to
07:08do if I don't have the camera rolling right now but just draw back the line
07:11and you can kind of usually fit that just below just behind the arrow I might
07:16in fact actually have the bow facing the wrong way let's flip this around it's a
07:22test more of patience and persistence just because a lot of times you're gonna
07:26if only if only they had put a peg right there on the arrow then at least it
07:31could have helped guide that onto the onto the bow at least then you'd have an
07:34easier time of you kind of have to get the bow to hold the arrow and then you
07:39also have to have as well like so she's got to draw back the line here and
07:42basically it's just an easier thing it's so much easier to do obviously if I
07:46don't have this recording right now but yeah you're just gonna pull back the
07:48cord well you know what well we'll kind of get this all prepped and ready to go
07:52when we look at the rest of this review or when we wrap up the remaining of this
07:55review right now for at least we're gonna move everything off to the side
07:58the thing that's the kind of the most interesting thing about a Loy is not the
08:01fact that she's gonna struggle holding the bow and the arrow but the fact that
08:04she does have swappable faces I'm gonna remove right now the spear I'm gonna put
08:08off to the side first I didn't want to show you guys the defaulted head that
08:10she has looks very much like a Loy in the game nice freckles there on the tops
08:15of her cheeks now she's looking kind of side-eyed with this face portrait but I
08:21don't think I have any real complaints when it comes to head sculpt I have
08:24complaints really when it comes to like the bow and the arrow but that just
08:26comes more down to the idea that's just the line is way too way too hard to kind
08:30of draw back again we're gonna fix that leave this with me would it please I
08:34will come back to that for final looks of the figure but yeah the head sculpt
08:37looks quite good she's got the braids there on the front nice colors of the
08:41red and the oranges on the back of her hair as well there's a lot again paint
08:44applications that they applied to this I was also happy to see as well that they
08:47managed to put in some possibility on the back of her hair so you can get a
08:51little bit of movement there as well in fact actually if you look at her hair
08:54let me just kind of part the drapes here so you guys can see what's going on here
08:58so essentially like she's got three sections of rooted hair each one of the
09:03sections so this one right here if I get my finger out of the way this one over
09:06here and this one on to the top all are on ball joints can you believe that how
09:11many figures can you say have had ball jointed hair now for that because of the
09:16way they've designed this you can bring the hair out sometimes though when
09:19you're doing it does pop the head off or pop the hair off and you can kind of
09:23bring the hair off to the side like this so it looks like it's blowing in the
09:25wind you can also do that obviously on the other side as well you can really do
09:30whatever you want considering the fact the fact that she has pose ability in
09:34her hair again I can't even believe I'm saying that that's a really interesting
09:37touch I haven't seen any other toy line incorporate articulated hair like this
09:42but like I said there's a lot of other good good stuff going on here so with
09:46the bead with the beelining back to the defaulted head sculpt I would probably
09:50just have the figure displayed like this and I would have been happy with it now
09:53the fact that then she also includes five other face plates we're gonna go
09:57through each of them individually some there must simply just expression faces
10:00so they haven't changed all that much other than just the expression that she's
10:03conveying so this is kind of more of a worrisome screaming face for a Loy and
10:07changing out the faces by the way is just a case of pulling the face from the
10:10sides and you wiggle it basically off you'll kind of see that's a little
10:15creepy there's holes right here and there's of course a little peg point at
10:18the top each one of the individual faces not to drop this one does have pegs and
10:23then does have a little smiling face look at that happy days but that
10:28basically is the thing that's gonna fit into her face so if you want to get like
10:30the angrier expression just kind of line everything up as best you can get it and
10:35that plugs in place now I will admit while at the idea of that of being able
10:40to change the faces is cool of a concept it does unfortunately leave a little bit
10:44of slightly lines here on the sides where it does look like the face is
10:47separate from the rest of the head you have to really kind of push it in to
10:51make sure it's tight as tight as you can get it to the side of the face but even
10:55then you can kind of see like there's a little line right there the drill no way
10:58around it in order to get the benefit of having things like like this you have to
11:02kind of sacrifice the fact that it won't be as seamless of a look when you have
11:06it sculpted to the hair so she has that expression gonna bring these other heads
11:11over here she also has ones that have face paint so she's got this one here
11:15that has a little white markings there on her cheeks and the top of her
11:17forehead she does also have this one here as well this one this one is also a
11:25good one to a little bit more of a worrisome alloy and then lastly a alloy
11:30also has this one which is probably the most elaborate of all the face paints
11:34and again all of them work the exact same way popping that off here we go
11:41and let's go back maybe we'll go with this one for right now again you want
11:47to when you're putting it in there you want to just kind of make sure you're
11:49putting pressure enough to it so it's it seems it finishes the edges on the sides
11:54that's just that's cool looking ahead sculpt now again while we're keeping the
11:58colors going here for the rest of her face let's then move on to the rest of
12:01her body here the colors that they've used here again you've got a lot of
12:04layers of like the beiges you've got some nice reds and added in blues she's
12:08got a little pockets there also on the side it's a nice detailing there also on
12:12her arms there really isn't a spot here on a Loy where I feel like something's
12:15lacking or missing you can really see though that they went a lot of they put
12:20a lot of effort they put a lot of time into putting in to the work of really
12:23painting a piece like this the figure still doesn't manage to have pebbles and
12:26bombs or a feet which is about the only thing I would have said I really wish
12:29that the shapes collection could have had just because peg holes would have
12:32at least ensured the figure would have had more stability I did notice though
12:35with a Loy more so with Varl that they had a harder time to stand now she does
12:40at least benefit from toe articulation but doesn't really help to aid her with
12:44standing a lot of times you might actually just want to make sure that
12:46when you're putting her down you just lean her back just a little bit you have
12:49to find sort of that sweet spot for for a Loy or really any of any figures for
12:53the shapes collection for that matter to stand properly as for the figures
12:58articulation going back to a Loy now if you really were to obviously count the
13:03hair now you she's got some additional three points of articulation that the
13:06other characters couldn't say that they've had so right away for a Loy the
13:10head does is on a ball joint so it's gonna rotate back and forth it looks up
13:13it looks down and you can also move it back and forth in addition to that
13:16though she does also have oh actually you know what she does have ball joints
13:20here on the sides of her hair too so for the head we got the neck right you got
13:25the ball joint there then you've got a ball joint here that's two that's three
13:28that's four five and six we have even moved down to the rest of the figures
13:33body yet and already we've got six points of articulation just crazy the
13:37amount of possibility that they were able to put in to just the figures hair
13:41alone of course the upper body for a Loy is gonna be on a ball joint there as
13:45well it is a little looser I didn't know suck in and out of the packaging she
13:48does have also a ball joint down below here at her abdomen area to shoulders
13:53come out despite the fact that she has these shoulder pads let's just get the
13:56hair out of the way here these shoulder pads are actually attached up the top
13:59here so they don't seem to get in the way when it comes to moving the arms
14:02about the arms move forward yeah the arms move back fine and good just a
14:06swivel here at the bicep figure does have only just a single hinge in the
14:09elbow and the arms rotate back and forth hands rotate also all the way around
14:13whether you obviously want to use these hands or a different pair of hands
14:17instead then the legs split now with all the layers that she has here the skirting
14:21on the front the skirting on the side as well nothing impedes at all a Loy's
14:26movement you can easily give her the splits in the legs the legs move forward
14:29the legs move back there is a swivel there at the top of the thigh the figure
14:34does also possess a double hinge on the knee I didn't notice though on one of
14:38the knees I think it's this one here the lower kneecap not the one at the top the
14:41top is still tight the one at the bottom is just starting to develop a little bit
14:45of looseness it's not bad so far though ankle pivot up and down ankle rocker
14:50back and forth and the figure does also have as already mentioned toe articulation
14:53as well like what do you say really about a Loy I mean even if you're not
14:57really too familiar with the character or the game horizon forbidden West you
15:01gotta admit there's a lot of good stuff that went into a Loy probably also one
15:04of the reasons why this this particular figure had completely unique packaging
15:09to her as you saw in the opener of this review she opened sort of like a book
15:12one side sort of had then the accessories and the other side had a Loy
15:16same couldn't go be said when we looked at her colleague horizon forbidden West
15:20varl varl and really all the other shapes collection figures have kind of
15:23more been relegated to simple more simpler looking packaging but they
15:27definitely went all out when it came to a Loy the fact that the figure just
15:30again six points of articulation before we even started to move down to her
15:34torso five even on their own in the hair pieces I mean that's crazy I've never
15:39seen that before with the figure and of course the fact that now she also has
15:42six swappable face plates you can then choose for yourself exactly how you want
15:46to have a Loy displayed on the shelf obviously there are still complications
15:51and the complications more rely on the person behind the camera I still always
15:54have a hard time when it comes to getting characters not even just a Loy
15:57but any character that has realistic bows and arrows like this fitting in one
16:01in a hand like the bow and then fitting the arrow and then in the other hand is
16:04never really an issue but then when you have to draw back the line you can
16:08already see how tight that gets you have to kind of again you have to spend a
16:12lot more time than obviously I was able to spend over the course of this review
16:15I didn't want to spend the next 10-15 minutes trying to get a Loy to hold the
16:18proper air bow and the arrow of course I will fix that when we get to the final
16:22looks of the figure and getting her on the rotisserie other than that though I
16:25mean there's nothing at all I would have changed a Loy she is now that I've had
16:29the chance to kind of spend well I mean when I took her out of the packaging in
16:32between takes there was probably about an hour and a half that I just had a
16:34chance just kind of get the appreciation for the figure now that I can wrap up
16:39the review for the shapes collection now wrapping up obviously with a more
16:42deluxe version of a Loy I would say probably now she's my favorite I mean
16:45Jin Sakai for a while when I was looking at him I even said in his review that he
16:49was my favorite that might now be beats with just the amount of extra stuff that
16:53spin master threw into the shapes collection of forbidden West a Loy yeah
16:57now she's definitely my favorite from the first wave here see it is possible a
17:03Loy can properly pull back the draw line for the bow so it looks like she's
17:07properly firing off the arrow I did struggle a little bit obviously doing
17:11that in the review it's always the case when you got the crunch time of the
17:13camera filming at the moment you can never quite figure out you always feel
17:17like you're all thumbs with the camera also obviously turned off I spent a
17:21little bit more time doing it and it's not that hard at all all you do is
17:24really pull back the line and with those two kind of fingers that she has to pull
17:27back the arrow to sort of fit the line underneath those fingers and while it's
17:31there then wedge the tip of the arrow in there and kind of does a good job of
17:35holding all the line in place it is so tight but it will hold in place and it
17:40will probably hold like that until I end up changing out the way I've got her
17:43displayed speaking of the way that she is displayed there's a lot you can
17:45really do with a Loy the fact that right now I've got the figure displayed with
17:49one of the faces but then she has another five to choose from not only
17:53that but the figure does also have five points of articulation in her hair you
17:57were thinking I was gonna say her body no just in her hair alone some rather
18:02interesting new techniques that this toy line is added to this figure that I
18:06haven't seen been seen used with any other figure line just think if any other
18:10figure company decided to have swappable face plates and articulated hair that's
18:15pretty crazy feats for a figure like a Loy what do you guys think of the figure
18:19let me know down below in the comment section now if you haven't also played
18:22horizon forbidden West is there enough interesting things about a Loy that you
18:26might still be tempted to pick her up even if you're not familiar on the
18:29source material a big thank you though once again to the folks over at spin
18:33master that did provide the sample of the PlayStation shapes collection
18:36horizon forbidden West a Loy that we had the chance to have a look in this review
18:40though I did struggle getting that blasted bow and arrow in there see you
18:44can do it though with a little bit of time and and patience in your hands
18:48obviously if you guys did enjoy this video do it a solid throw it a like you
18:52guys want to stick around for more so I hope so we may sad to say be wrapping up
18:56right now the PlayStation shapes collection but there will be more videos
18:58coming away there were for the rest of this week so as always thanks for
19:02watching see you guys next time