First Mate Jenny

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NOTE: Boss Fight Studio has informed folks that the connecting joints for the replaceable faces and hands are a bit tighter than anticipated.  You will want to apply some heat to ensure safe removal.  Either a quick burst with a hair dryer or some warm water will do the trick.

Okay – I admit it.  Before Boss Fight Studio got the license, I knew next to nothing about Bucky O’Hare.  I mean, I worked retail in a toy store in the 90s and I was a huge fan of Larry Hama, so I was aware of the brand’s existence, but I hadn’t watched any of the animated series or read any of the comics, even though Neal Adams and Michael Golden, two legendary comic creators to go along with Mr. Hama, were involved.

That being said, if I know anything about action figures it’s that Boss Fight Studio are some of the best in the business, so I was pretty sure that regardless of my lack of knowledge about Bucky O’Hare, I’d likely be jumping into that series.

Now, as I have the two introductory figures in hand, I’m really glad I did.

First Mate Jenny has the same dubious distinction that many female characters did over the years – a popular media character that never got her due in action figure form.  She was planned for a second series of Bucky action figures, but even though that series made it fairly far along in production, she was never actually released. For that reason, this figure is an important one in Bucky mythology, being the first time Jenny is available as a toy.

They certainly start off on the right foot.

As with most of the figures that Boss Fight Studio touches, the sculpt work and articulation is fantastic.  They manage to maintain a great animated style, while also having impressive range of motion and articulation throughout.  Ball jointed hips and shoulders, knees, elbows, ankles and swivel wrists give us a wide range of different poses  that Jenny can achieve, and I continue to be amazed at the variety of Boss Fight’s talents.  The fact that they can make a hyper-realistic action figure like the HACKS stuff, then turn around and do something like this, in the same super-articulated style just blows my mind.  Jenny does have some very narrow limbs and joints, which should obviously be treated with care, but she also feels pretty resilient in spite of that fact.

Then we get to the paint applications.  The color choices are near perfection here, with a great brushed metal silver and black, a vibrant color pallet that balances with excellence.  The purple jewels stand out nicely as well and blend perfectly with her various magic effect accessories.

Before Boss Fight’s announcement, I couldn’t have told you much about Bucky O’Hare and certainly had only tangentially heard off Jenny as a character, but I find this figure to be a lot of fun, and even with her exorbitant animation-accurate hair style, she’s able to maintain a bunch of really cool poses.

Boss Fight really went smart with Jenny’s design, purposefully representing her tail and hair so she could look animation accurate, yet still have a counter-balance for offering impressive poseability and stability.

Accessories

NOTE: Boss Fight Studio has informed folks that the connecting joints for the replaceable faces and hands are a bit tighter than anticipated.  You will want to apply some heat to ensure safe removal.  Either a quick burst with a hair dryer or some warm water will do the trick.

I kind of struggled where to fit some of this stuff in, because while they are technically accessories, they become a very key part of the action figure itself.  As a female cat from the planet Aldebaran, Jenny has mysterious magical abilities, so Boss Fight Studio included magic blasts, additional hands firing magic blasts, plus several other replacement hands and face expressions in order to mimic whatever mood Jenny might be in.  The replacement face expressions are especially awesome, allowing the collector to give Jenny any manner of faces to mirror what she may have looked like in the animation or comic panel of your choice.  They fit and stay really firmly and look excellent.  The hands are swappable, yet also stay firm, and the magic effects lock nicely around the wrist.  I especially love the way the magic shooting hands and wrist-mounted magic effects combine to give us a really spectacular version of the first mate of the Righteous Indignation.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the fantastic package art as well.  Brian Hickey assisted in the design of the packaging and did an exceptional job leveraging color, artwork, and a great vintage aesthetic.  The package is also collector friendly with a removable bubble just like the HACKS package.  Gorgeous stuff.

Coming from someone who really had little attachment to Bucky O’Hare, I find myself being really excited and into this new iteration.  The figure design is excellent and the execution is close to perfect.  A really awesome new generation of a classic property with all the hallmarks of your favorite toys from Boss Fight Studio.