Season 3 Fred Action Figure Review

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(More customer reviews)After spending five years as a "cow" in Pylea, Winifred "Fred" Burkle was rescued by Angel and company, and returned to Los Angeles. Joining the cast of "Angel" for the show's third season, Fred (played by Amy Acker), proved to have a brilliant mathematical mind, a detailed knowledge of physics and science, and a natural ability to designing weapons out of pretty much nothing (or anything). Although Wesley Wyndham-Pryce fell for her, Fred fell for Gunn (whose first action figure we are still waiting for). In the show's fifth season when Angel took over the Los Angeles office of Wolfram & Hart, Fred became the head of the firm's science division. However, when Joss Whedon would have his cast over at his house on weekends to read Shakespeare plays aloud, Acker did such a great job doing the queens that Whedon decided to come up with a way for her to do that on "Angel." As a result, goodbye, Fred and hello, Illyria.
This is the Season 3 figure of Fred, representing the time when she was still getting used to living in a world with Mexican food and finding it hard to come out of her room. The sculpt of Amy Acker's face is well above average for these figures from "Angel" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." My only real complaint is that they are all the same size even though the characters are not the same height, but nothing is ever going to be done about that so I should forget about it and move on. Wearing an oragne Palm Beach Boxing club t-shirt and white cargo pants, this six-inch action figure has 14 ponts of articulation and comes with a base representing the Hyperio Hotel, featuring Fred's post-Pylea drawings and scriblings on the wall, which would make it one of the most detailed walls we have seen in these second generation Diamond Select Toys to date. In terms of accessories we have a carton of Chinese food, microscope, physics book, portral book, and an axe-thrower.
They came up with a interesting series of figures for Amy Acker's character, that show her transformation from Fred Burkle to Illyria. You start off with this Fred figure, and then there is the "Shells Illyria" figure, which has her wearing a blouse and skirt like Fred but her hair is turning blue and there are blue markings on her face and arms (it must be noted the "Shells Illyria" figure comes with Feigenbaum the bunny, which really should be with this Fred figure, although the Chinese food carton is a nice touch). Then we have the full-blown Illyria figure, all decked out in her armor with a sword and axe, ready to rock and roll. Obviously if you display all three of them at once you want to lay them out this way left to right so show the transformation. With figures of Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Lorne and even Darla from "Angel," all we really need to complete our sets would be Gunn, Connor (as a teenager, and not as the baby we have at this point from one of the Angel figures), and Doyle from Angel Investigations. Then again, we would not mind have Lindsey, Lilah and maybe even Jasmine from the other side of the fight between good and evil.

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This figure shows Fred as he appears in Season 3, and comes with Chinese food, 2 books, axe-thrower, and microscope. Figure has 14 points of articulation.

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