As one of the most identifiable races in The Fifth Element, a non-specific Mangalore
ReAction figure just makes sense. It's not explicitly Aknot, but it's
cool and it looks like it fell out of the 1980s. The paint is a little
weak, as it should be - they nailed it here.
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I saw custom figures of this one back in the 1990s, and they look a lot like this final Korben Dallas
ReAction figure in the sense that it's sort of a Dagobah Training Luke
Skywalker meets Aquaman kind of thing. Korben comes from a sci-fi
future in which the hairstyles of the band The Police are in vogue along
with blisteringly bright orange shirts with military pants and boots.
It's a decent replica of his movie costume, plus it has a surprise in
the back - there's a gun holster in what is more or less the back of his
pants' waistband.
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I dug The Fifth Element
when I saw it at a crappy theater near my house in 1997. It didn't
dawn on me at the time, but it turned out that it was packed with a
bunch of great action figure designs which had a lot of false starts
before the likes of Diva Plavalaguna came out as a ReAction
Figure in 1997. I saw custom figures at the former Empire of Toys, I
saw prototypes in ToyFare, but no actual product hit until now! We got 7
figures, which is pretty amazing - and it also highlighted how many other
figures like Cornelius, or any of dozens of awesome, gorgeous, or
arguably sexist extras and background characters. (See: McDonald's,
Fhloston Paradise plane.)
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