This has been one of those months where several really, really, REALLY old preorders have finally started to roll in. Last time we checked out some of Cosmic Legions, which had a two year wait time, and today I’m starting in on a trio of 1:12 scale comic figures by Executive Replicas/LooseCollector that I preordered back in October of 2021. So yeah, a little less than two years on these as well. Executive Replicas seems to handle licensing in partnership with a few action figure producers. In the past they have been hooked up with Phicen/TB League to produce a number of Sixth-Scale seamless figures from smaller comic properties. while LooseCollector seems to focus on these One-Twelve Scale figures, and I’ve looked at a few of those here as well. This latest assortment of femme fatales included Vampirella, Purgatori, and Red Sonja, and I’m checking out Red Sonja today.

The packaging for these figures is pretty simple but very nice and totally collector friendly. The figure comes in a window box set in a clear plastic tray with her extras laid out around her. You get character art on the front and the Red Sonja logo up at the top. There’s more character art on the side panels, and still more on the back panel along with a blurb about the character and figure. LooseCollector hasn’t really branded this series with a name, but the figures and packaging match up perfectly with the Legacy Series figures they did for Coffin Comics.

Here’s Red Sonja out of the box and looking fabulous! The body has the same feel of the Coffin Comics figures, but there are a few changes, which I’ll run down with the articulation. The sculpting here is excellent, giving our girl a toned and muscular body. She’s wearing her iconic silver scale chainmail bikini armor, which is sculpted as part of the body. There’s some excellent detail to the boots, and I love how they are designed to have openings in the fronts, as if she weren’t showing enough skin already. You also get some sculpted thigh plates, gauntlets that run up to her elbows, bicep rings, and a framework gorget on her shoulders.

The paintwork here is very well done. There’s a deep chocolate brown used for the boots, gauntlets and various straps and belts. The silver used for the armor pops nicely, as does the gold, which is used sparingly. Finally, the skin tone is warm and even throughout.

I really do love this portrait, although I would have really liked to see a second head with a more fierce expression. The one we got gives her a, “Oh yeah, this is going to be fun” expression as she’s about to go into battle. I think it really captures the determination and beauty of the character. Her brow is downturned, there’s a little wrinkle to the bridge of her nose, and her lips are slightly parted to show a flash of teeth. Her eyes are perfectly printed and I love the high gloss red they used on her lips. The flowing red hair is also great, with wild strands flowing everywhere, and there’s a bit of a gap from the shoulders so that it doesn’t impede the head movement too badly. And I have to throw some admiration at that gorget again. It’s a pretty intricate piece for this scale, and I love how it turned out.

The articulation is nearly identical to what we got in the Coffin Comics figures, which is overall very good. The legs are ball jointed at the hips, have swivels in the thighs, double hinges in the knees, and hinges and lateral rockers in the ankles. There’s a ball joint under the chest and at the top of the neck. The arms have rotating hinges in the shoulders, swivels in the biceps, hinged pegs in the wrists, and single hinges in the elbows. Now, the Coffin Comics figures changed up the single hinge elbows to rotating hinges when going from Lady Death to Hellwitch, and I would have preferred they kept that change here, but it still works fine. All the joints work fine right out of the box, which is more than I can say for some of the figures being produced by the big boys these days. I should also note that this figure has some incredible balance, especially considering her high-heeled boots. I had very little difficulty getting her to stand in some fairly dynamic action poses.

Red Sonja comes with a number of weapons, as well as three sets of hands. The hand options are fists, relaxed, and weapon gripping. Honestly, that’s the right number of hands. I get hand fatigue from some of these companies that include a thousand hands. It’s enough with the hands!!! As for the weapons, first off we have her beautiful double-handed sword, and this is gorgeous. The stout, blade is painted silver and the hilt has a gold pommel and crossguard with a black extended grip. There’s some beautiful scrollwork sculpted into the crossguard.

The articulation works well to get the figure to wield the sword with both hands.

Next up is a pair of crude fighting knives. These have dark, curved blades with a primitive hammered finish and the grips are sculpted to look like leather wrappings. I had completely forgotten that these were going to be includes, so they were a pretty cool surprise.

And finally, you get a pole-axe, which is a wonderful looking weapon. You get a single blade with a spiked back, a spiked pommel, and sculpted leather wrappings along the length of the shaft. It’s definitely an attention getter!

Red Sonja was definitely worth the wait! Granted, I had a good idea what to expect from my experience with Lady Death and Hellwitch, and I’m glad to see LooseCollector delivering on quality and consistency. And above all a figure that is an absolute joy to play around with. She looks great, the joints all behave the way they should, and there were zero QC issues, which sadly seems like an extra bonus these days. Sure, at $70 this figure clocks in at the far side of expensive, but that’s literally the price you have to pay for these smaller batched figures from smaller companies. LooseCollector has already put up some more figures for pre-order and I’m in on all of them. In the meantime, I’ll be showcasing more of this assortment in the very near future.