The All Retro Figures General Discussion [Closing Soon!]

The amount of detail that went into this figure is very impressive (especially for its size.) The accessories (mainly the jacket) are the highest quality that I have seen in a wrestling figure. I still worry about its fragility and durability but it held up to being taken on and off twice. Pro tip: pop off the hands before removing the jacket.

As a whole, this figure looks really, really cool. But once you get past the initial pose and remove the accessories, things kind of take a detour.



In order to make the figure appear normal, it looks as though Zombie and his design team made Raven smaller so that when you put on his jacket, it looks natural. Once that jacket comes off, you begin to notice how tiny the torso really is.

The articulation is a good concept but not something I am a fan of. The peg hole in the right thigh is ugly. The arms on my figure have an adequate amount of resistance but don’t seem to want to bend in the positions I would have preferred. The shots of Raven sitting felt wrong. I pulled up many reference photos and realized why: there is no knee articulation. He wasn’t known for sitting in the corner with both legs spread; one knee was always bent upward with one foot on the mat and the other sticking out.

As mentioned earlier in this thread, Raven’s wingspan is identical to Texas Tornado’s but it looks off when he has no jacket. The appearance of longer arms is due to the skinny torso. Tornado and others have a broader chest/shoulder/armpit area that the arm flows out of.

It wasn’t until I was going over all the photos that I realized there are only pictures of Raven without his jacket. As a result, he looks tiny in most of these. The accessories really help add to his bulk.

I found an additional use for Raven’s jacket!