Metal Gear Solid 4 Medicom Real Action Heroes 12 inch Action Figure Solid Snake

I recently purchased the Metal Gear Solid 3 Big Boss RAH Medicom Zombie Face paint figure and I was very impressed to say the least. When I saw that they also had made an Old Snake figure I pretty much had to have it being MGS4 is my second favorite game in the series. There is actually two versions of this figure. One is an Olive drab suit with a tan vest and the other one (which I have) is the regular Dark blue suit with the black vest.

When I opened him up, my jaw pretty much almost dropped. Just like the Big Boss figures, the Old Snake figure is absolutely amazing looking. The detail is spot on. His tactical vest is made out of actual vest like material and has little plastic and metal clips on it as well. The face and Solid Eye look exactly like they do in the game. The thing that most impressed me was the suit itself. It's just insane! It's made out of a vinyl like material and covers his entire body just like in the game.

You would think that with him having this suit that he isn't posable, well thats actually not true at all. Now the suit does limit posability but you can still bend his arms and his legs. If your patient you can actually get him into some cool looking poses, you just don't have as many options when compared to the Big Boss figures. But it's a small sacrifice to make to give him a very accurate and detailed Octocamo suit.

Unlike the Big Boss figures he does not have interchangable and detachable hands. The hands are rubber and attatched the suit but they are bendable incase you need to move his hands a little bit when doing poses. He comes with a CQC stun knife, his signature gun which is the custom M14 (it has the under barrel gernade launcher attatchment, flashlight, foregrip and holo sight on it), and what appears to be a Desert Eagle pistol with a flashlight attatchment. He also has a holster that is attatched to his vest were you can put the pistol as well if you don't want him holding it. And on his back he has a sheath you can put the CQC knife in as well.

The detail on his M14 is amazing as well, it looks exactly like it does in the game. The holosight has clear plastic on it and the magazine can actually be removed from the gun as well. The one downside with his weapons is the stun knife. It's very thin. He pretty much cannot hold it in his hand unless you wrap some wire tape around the handle, that works pretty good. What I actually do is have him hold the M14 and and I slip the stun knife in the same hand he holds the foregrip and it looks pretty good that way. But the knife is also very detailed and the point of the knife is actually kind of sharp. One other downside, I might add, is that this figure is definitaly expensive. I won mine off of a bid an Ebay for $150 but generally this figure goes for $300-$400 now.

Over all though besides the price and limited posability, if you have some extra money and are an MGS fan or someone who collects 1/6 scale figures I highly reccomend getting one of these Old Snake figures. Medicom definitaly makes the best and most detailed MGS Figures I have ever seen and if they ever release more for future MGS games I will bet getting those as well.