[TAO's Note: There is a hole in everyone's collection. For you it might be the Dirty Dancing Patrick Swayze figure that was never made (forgive if there was actually one of those made), and for me it might be a set of fully articulated Land Before Time figures in the six inch scale (that's right, I want them huge!). For googum, it's this:]
I don't know if you're a fan of Hong Kong action movies, but it's a crime there isn't a Chow Yun-Fat action figure with guns.
The other day, I got NECA's Sao Feng action figure, from their first series of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End figures. I'm not going to do a proper review on it since I got it for two bucks, Sao's head fell off when I opened him, and I'm hard-pressed to tell you what if anything that character did in the movie.
Still, I'm a big Chow Yun-Fat fan, and for two bucks... I probably should've saved myself the trouble, since between this and the Li Mu-bai figure from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, they just remind me that I want a John Woo movie Chow Yun-Fat. From the Killer, or Hard-Boiled, or A Better Tomorrow. Hell, at this point, I'd take a figure from the Corruptor, or the Replacement Killers, or even Bulletproof Monk.
I just want a Chow figure, with hair, that can hold guns. Is that too much to ask? (I think there's a twelve-inch Chow Yun-Fat figure, or reasonable facsimile knock-off; but I don't collect that scale. Just go with me on this.)
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