Ghostbusters Bishoujo Lucy

If you've been following my collection galleries over at Picasa you'll know I'm  big fan of the Kotobukiya Marvel Bishoujo statues. So, of course, I couldn't resist when a Ghostbusters bishoujo statue was announced. And, it arrived today.

As with all of Kotobukiya's Bishoujo statues this Ghostbusters one is of a very high build quality. Beautifuly moulded and painted, the statue looks an absolute treat on my shelf. The detail in the base and trap upon it, as well as the proton pack - while it is smaller than a proton pack would actually be - is superb.

As nice as it does look though, I wouldn't be a true Ghostbusters fan boy if I didn't nit pick a few things. Firstly, and most strangely, the girl is for some reason named 'Lucy.' No idea why Kotobukiya didn't just do a mangaesque characterisation of Janine Melnitz. She did pull on the proton pack several times in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon series, after all.

I must say that I don't find Lucy's face to be as attractively sculpted as the girls from the Marvel line, but it is still pretty in its own right. My biggest problem, however, is that they've changed Lucy's pants into short-shorts by having the legs conveniently ripped. While I realise that all of the Bishoujo statues are supposed to be sexy - indeed their pin-up like quality is part of the appeal - this just seems a little cheap. Why not give her short-shorts straight up, or have her wearing tight pants similar to the Black Widow Marvel statue? At least then it'd be a somewhat legitamate reason to show off her sexy bum, rather than have her pants look like they lost a fight with a Terror Dog.

Still, even with the strange name change and the somewhat questionable 'wardrobe malfunction' this is a trully beautiful statue that I'm very happy to have as part of my Ghostbusters collection.