I finally opened Budo, and found he is another one of these weird let downs. Its like he's from another toy line. He has this great Samurai armor, but it renders him immobile. And his base figure is Renegades Storm Shadow (I think). His armored arms restrict his movement, as does his armored skirt. He looks awesome and I'd love to use him in a ninja battle scene, but he'd just be standing there. And while Samurais aren't ninjas, they aren't statues either.
In effect he's not Budo for me. I thought maybe I could get a few different accessories and improve him so I got a Silver Samurai on clearance, to see if his helmet would be better, but I have to mod it to accommodate Budo's pony-tail. I picked up a cast Hogun head from the Thor line, and that's a definite improvement, even unpainted, but again, both helmets don't fit. So I started looking on the web for a solution and I came across MSWI's Budo
and said "Eureka!" I went to the AngelForge and ordered this:
Plus the armor kit
, and arms kit
. I'm probably going to use Spin Kick Snake Eye's legs, Hogun's head and hope for the best.
