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Series: GamePro Presents 2, SSX Tricky
Craftsmanship: 8.8 / 10 - Great stand (and bookend when paired with Eddie) - Very good likeness - Enough poseability - Big and bright
Playability: 4.5 / 10 - Sculpt means he can’t easily play with other figures - Sunglasses can go missing - Not removable from board
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Moby (SSX Tricky)by Joyride Studios
First, go read our review of Eddie since he and Moby share so many similarities, most noticeably the base. I’ll just sing a show tune while you’re doing that. …. Misty, water-colored memories, of the way we were… Memories, lada dee da dah! Memories…
Done? Good, because I can’t remember anymore words.
Moby is a little shorter than Eddie at just 10” (on the base) but is equally good-looking. The sculpt is good, capturing his videogame likeness with ease, but his poseability is a bit limited. He can’t be removed from the board and only his upper half can be altered. He has seam joints at the wrists, elbows, neck and waist. He would have benefited from ball-jointed shoulders and neck but as he is, he still manages to be fairly poseable.
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With the SSX Tricky figures, the paint job is very important and I’m glad to report that Moby’s paint job is very good. The flames up the right leg of his shorts don’t bleed to the rest of his shorts and the kneepads look appropriately worn. The base is identical to Eddie’s and therefore steady and looks great. (I still think Joyride should have put sound chips in the bases of the SSX figures so we could hear some of the catchphrases.)
Playability is lower than any other SSX Tricky figure so far simply because he’s stuck to his board. Eddie, Elise and even Psymon can all be separated from their |
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snowboards and this manages to bump up their playability. Moby is more display piece than play toy. Kids may not have much problem using their imagination to make an action figure more exciting, but even my three-year old son didn’t pay much heed to Moby. The bonus is that he can actually be zoomed around in the snow. But be warned. If you play with Moby, watch out for his sunglasses. The peg holes for the sunglasses are very well hidden, but he suffers from the same problem that made me lose Elise’s glasses: they pop out easily.
If you’re an SSX Tricky fan this purchase is a no-brainer. Just realize he’s better for play than display.
- Omni (January 31, 2003)
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