A previous Link, Kid Icarus, Samus, Sherlock Hound, and some others are standouts on my shelf, and since I am primarily a property-driven collector, I hold great figures of great properties in very high esteem. While I have not collected a lot figma figures in my time, I have had a very good run with the ones I have added to my collection. Don’t worry, I have some plans (and help) to get me to even more of a classic aesthetic later, but for now, if you are a Link Between Worlds fan, or a classic Zelda fan, or just a Legend of Zelda fan in general, you are going to want this figure.
Plus, as I have been waiting for an action figure of the classic incarnation of Link for only, like, 30 years, I am taking the cautionary measure that this might be the closest thing I ever get to having one and seizing the opportunity. You might say that I am pushing it a bit in drawing close similarities between a classic NES/SNES Link and this one, but this simpler design and more “impish” (is that the right word?) look for Link are much closer to his older games than modern ones that match his build closer to a traditional hero. I have some cool Link figures from both figma and Jakks (and others!), but all of them are based more around what I would call “modern” games, so while this technically fits that format, too, my new Link is definitely driving up the nostalgia meter. I am always a sucker for new Legend of Zelda figures, but I was particularly interested in this figure because, while it is most definitely lifted from the character design of A Link Between Worlds, this figure would also be the closest thing I have ever gotten to a collector-grade figure that has a pretty close resemblance to the more classic Link. So, being an action figure collector, you can bet I was excited to hear that Max Factory (via their figma imprint) had plans to release a new figure of Link based on his appearance in A Link Between Worlds.