Hiya Toys Godzilla X Kong The New Empire Exquisite Stylist Series Godzilla Evolved

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00:00Sure, the rubble may pile, but he does it with style. Here's a look at the brand-new

00:03Hayato's Godzilla X-Kong The New Empire Stylus Series Godzilla.

00:19Introducing the latest addition to the MonsterVerse, the Godzilla Evolved

00:23version from Godzilla X-Kong The New Empire makes its debut to the Hayato's

00:27Exquisite Stylus Series. Set against the backdrop of the new film's colossal

00:31clash between Kong and Godzilla, this figure delves into the deeper origins of

00:35the Titans. Revealing a Godzilla's evolution after absorbing energy and

00:38awakening in the Arctic. Standing at approximately 7.1 inches tall, this

00:42figure faithfully recreates Godzilla's appearance based on original CG data

00:46highlighted by meticulously applied multi-layered paint job. Notably, this

00:51rendition showcases Godzilla's pink dorsal fins for the first time in the

00:54film, capturing his iconic roaring pose. I guess in the MonsterVerse, not every

01:00monster needs to move and while unfortunately though the king of the

01:03monsters doesn't move this time around, I'd like to thank the folks over at

01:06Hayato's that were kind enough to provide this sample of the new Godzilla

01:09X-Kong The New Empire Exquisite Stylus Series Godzilla that we could have a

01:13look at this review. This guy slated to drop in June 2025. Some of the asking

01:17sites that actually are pre-ordering this guy right now are asking for $50.99

01:22So this guy's gonna be around a $51 figure. Again, we're gonna go ahead first

01:25take the tape measure right to the very top of Godzilla's head. This gives us

01:29though a statue of him at about 7 inches in height or about 18

01:33centimeters tall. Then for its length from the end of its tail to the front of

01:36its snout, this Godzilla is gonna be about 10 inches of that or roughly about

01:4126 centimeters long. Actually, come to think of it, this might be the first time

01:45that Haya has released a Godzilla that has the pink dorsal fins. Sliding this

01:49actually over and bringing in the only other example I have in my collection, at

01:53least of Godzilla X-Kong The New Empire, this was a fully articulated Godzilla.

01:57One thing that's rather interesting if you look at the two is that the

02:01proportions and the way they sculpted the body are a little bit different. The

02:04new Godzilla though for the Stylus Series is a lot leaner. You can see

02:07especially on the front of his chest. He's still a little bit fuller in frame.

02:10Now with this figure though, they did use a lot of the same molds from an earlier

02:13Exquisite Basic Series Godzilla. So because of that, some of the more

02:18heftier aspects of Godzilla got carried over to this release. So while lacking

02:23articulation and the possibility of having any included accessories, does

02:27this though make a lesser looking Godzilla? I don't think at all. The one

02:30thing that I think that can be pulled off with the Stylus Series that can't

02:33necessarily be pulled off is the limitations that goes along with the

02:36posability. In fact, to bring back in Godzilla as posable as he may have been,

02:41I mean you can only really move his torso so far. I mean you can also move

02:45his arms, but again like limitations obviously are all there as well. And you

02:49can't really do all that much with his head. Now I say that though, there are

02:52people of course that can get this guy in a really cool looking pose, but again

02:56like limitations have to be expressed when it comes to a release like this guy.

02:59If you move though him out of the way and you start to kind of address the one

03:03that we're getting here for the Stylus Series, first of all like look at the

03:06pose that they got this guy in. His arms are extended out, his head is up front

03:11and center, and he's ready to blast his atomic breath. This pose alone I don't

03:15think I could have ever pulled off and I mean again with the size of the body

03:18that we were dealing with with the Basic Series, there'd be really no way

03:21that you'll be able to get Godzilla in a cool of a pose like this. One thing I do

03:24really like about the head sculpt though, while again incorporating some of the

03:27pink, it's a well-painted piece. The coloring though of the gray, if you were

03:31kind of looking at this and then you look at the gray that they've used for

03:34let me just get this guy in frame here, if you look at the colors the grays are

03:37very similar. Although to note though here with the Stylus Series, it looks

03:41almost as if they may have gone in there with a lighter coloring of gray as

03:44well. I also noticed too when it came to his skin that's a little bit shinier

03:48finish too. The pink that they've added to the dorsal fins and some of the

03:53also indications of the scales that he has on the front of his face, it's not a

03:56very bright pink either. I think they subtly approached the coloring and when

04:00it came to painting this figure, I think they've done a really nice job of that.

04:02Of course he does have his open mouth you can see inside there's his tongue

04:05probably not a good idea to get this close to Godzilla. I think yeah the teeth

04:09are painted really well. The eyes though very small but I think they've still

04:13done just as good of a job as they did for everything else that's on the figure.

04:15It's just really hard to kind of see his eyes though. I do really like the way

04:20they've added these rows of pink along the side for his scales. He's got on this

04:23side and certainly has it on the other as well but the pink is not bright. It's

04:27not in your face and that's probably a good thing too. The dorsal fins start

04:31relatively small and they work to these giant platelets that he has on his body.

04:34These though by the way are very soft and plastic. I was kind of even

04:37expecting them to be a more harder more less forgiving plastic but you can see

04:41there's definitely a lot of give there. I do like the way they've transitioned

04:45the color so it starts really like a like a dark almost even like a salmon

04:48pink. Down below here's the darkest of the colors but it gets progressively

04:51lighter as we get to the tips and kind of gets more to like a I don't know like

04:55an ivory or cream color. Some of the fins though I noticed when getting them out

04:59of the packaging and it wasn't just me I wasn't because I was doing this back and

05:03forth. I just noticed that some of these were a little bit curved. I wonder if I

05:06can maybe heat these up a little bit and see if I can straighten them out a bit.

05:09Of course the scales run from the top of his head. They start relatively small.

05:12They get progressively bigger and more dangerous and they get small again as we

05:16get to the end of the tail. But again like when you look at the tail here the

05:19way that even the links would work on the other articulation on the basic

05:23series there's no real way that you'd be able to get the tail flowing the way

05:26that it is right now. He does lack any bit of the posability but I think

05:30what he gains instead is he gets a natural looking pose that you would

05:34never ever be able to pull off with the basic series. Again when it comes to the

05:38articulation there's nothing really that we can run through here. What you're

05:40getting here is what you're seeing right now. There's more of a stature and more

05:44of a pose than anything else but again I think that they've done a really nice

05:47job on him. I still can't help but overlook the fact that

05:51yeah he's much leaner though. I mean like even if you look at his body he

05:55doesn't have as much of the stomach for example as the other Godzilla's. Now

05:58again a lot of that may have really to do with the fact that when we were

06:01looking at guys like this they were really using just other basic series

06:05Godzilla's and then they just re-released them again when it came to

06:08the Godzilla X Kong New Empire. I feel like maybe the better way to

06:13compare these figures is in fact when we do get ourselves the pink dorsal fin

06:17charged up version of Godzilla where you could do like to like and you'd be able

06:20to see the differences there. I think though when we eventually get this guy

06:23done in pink they're probably gonna be using the same style of body so with the

06:27overly sized proportions for his stomach for example this is a much leaner

06:32looking Godzilla a much meaner looking Godzilla and a much cooler looking

06:36Godzilla I feel to be putting on the shelf. I think when you start to throw

06:39around the word statue it turns off certain collectors. Ones that no fault of

06:44theirs like to go in there from time to time and readjust their figures move

06:47them around and give them in different dynamic poses and that's okay but I

06:50think there's definitely though a place to have a stylist series in your

06:53collection as well because I mean let's face facts as poseable as the exquisite

06:56basic series of Godzilla's have been where you can move the arms you can move

06:59the torso there's certain limitations that go with that Godzilla was a pretty

07:04large sized figure and even though you could turn the torso you'd never be able

07:07to get it in a natural pose and that's the most important thing a natural pose

07:11you could get him the legs to move you could get the head to go arched up a

07:14little bit but the thing I really like though that the stylist series brings

07:18to the table is that Godzilla looks like he's naturally doing the pose that he's

07:21in right now it means though is a trade-off that you can't do anything

07:24when it comes to moving the figure around but not all the figures have to

07:28do that in the end it's a figure that you get to appreciate and put on the

07:31shelf and even though I really wouldn't want to call this a figure it's one of

07:34the better-looking Godzilla's that we've gotten now I am certainly though

07:37interested to see what they're gonna be doing with a pink dorsal fin version of

07:40Godzilla which I think up to this again point we have yet to get but looking

07:44forward to getting that one but I'm sure though it's not gonna have the body

07:46proportions that we're getting here with the stylist series I'm thinking though

07:49it's probably gonna be the same body as the basic series just with pink dorsal

07:53fins instead what do you guys think of this let me know down below in the

07:56comments section how do you feel also when it comes to statues do you really

07:59are one are you a collector that really likes just to get a figure where you get

08:02the chance to pose it around or you kind of like the idea of having a figure or a

08:05statue like this that looks good as the moment you get it out of the packaging

08:09and continues to look good every time you look at it on the shelf a big thank

08:13you again to the folks over at hi toys that did provide this sample of the

08:15Godzilla X Kong the new Empire exquisite stylus series Godzilla yes that we had

08:20the chance to have a look in this review this guy already mentioned is slated to

08:23drop in June 2025 for the asking price online of $50 and 99 cents if you guys

08:29certainly did enjoy this video you can do it a solid throw it a like you guys

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