Olive Oyl (with Sweet Pea) (Popeye (Boss Fight Studio)) Review

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Olive Oyl (with Sweet Pea) (Popeye (Boss Fight Studio)) Review

Olive Oyl (with Sweet Pea)
Popeye (Boss Fight Studio) (Boss Fight Studio)Come on, I couldn't grab Popeye without getting his main squeeze. The comic I picked them up from had Bluto as well, but I had spent enough money that day, so I left him there.

Olive, like Popeye, is sculpted by Paul Harding, in case you forgot who was doing the sculpts for this line. Granted, he's not credited on the box, and it's only through his socials would you know he did them. Anyways, Olive looks great, with a nice expression and painted line to fit the comic look. The paint for the hair zig-zags beyond the sculpted lines, but I think that was intentional. Olive gets two heads to use: one is a natural happy face, and the other is more ticked off, perfect for when someone's pushed her buttons. Her skin tone is a little more tan than I feel it should be, and like Popeye, it's unpainted, colored plastic, but it's not as glossy, thankfully.

At around 5 1/4" tall, Olive is wearing her standard red shirt and black dress skirt. The skirt is cloth rather than plastic, a smart move that keeps it from restricting movement in the legs. I wish it was a stretchier material, so it would look nicer in certain poses. Aside from that weird skin tone, the colors are good, and the paint is mostly clean. There is some fuzziness around the boot cuffs, and the collar of the shirt has a mold line in the back, but these issues aren't too noticeable.

When Mezco did an Olive figure back in the early 2000s, they gave her bendable arms and legs to match her rubbery limbs in the cartoons. Boss Fight didn't do that here, and it think that's far better. She moves similar to Popeye with ball-jointed head, waist, and hips, swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, and knees, and swivel wrists. The ankles are different, being swivel/hinge joints rather than ball joints, and Olive also gets a mid-foot hinge. Most of the joints move well, though the left shoulder swivel was a bit stuck at first. I found it popped out easily and was able to move it after that, but it keeps popping out at times.

Like Popeye, Olive is small on accessories, but she makes up for by actually packing in another character. There is the aforementioned angry head, and I would recommend heating it up before popping it on the ball, as well as three sets of hands: open, gripping, and closed. As for the bonus character, it's little Swee' Pea. He was Olive's kid in the theatrical shorts, but in the comics, he was adopted by Popeye. He's a small piece at about 1 1/2" tall, but he looks very nice, with clean paint and movement at the head and shoulders. Heck, he even gets his own angry head to complement Olive's own! The hat fits on the heads with a magnet, but it keeps wanting to slide down over the eyes. You'll have to fiddle with it a bit to get it resting properly.

Like Popeye, Olive is a great figure and a proper upgrade over the Mezco version. The inclusion of Swee' Pea helps, especially with that little angry baby head. I'm not in a big rush to collect the rest of the line, but I'll be more than happy to have a complete line-up as soon as possible.

- 6/20/23