Good Smile's accidentally-leaked reveal confirmed that Talia Yang from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is coming in both Nendoroid and figma form, which puts collectors in a genuinely useful position: deciding which format actually suits this specific character before either one gets a formal pre-order window.
Talia isn't a simple character to translate into either format. Her design is built around extensive internal cyberware, including mantis blade arms and extra-jointed, insect-like legs, which makes the usual Nendoroid-versus-figma tradeoffs land a little differently than they would for a more conventional character.
This isn't a rehash of the general Nendoroid-versus-figma decision — for the full breakdown of how the two formats differ across articulation, pricing, and display style in general, EVORETRO's full Nendoroid vs. figma guide covers that ground. This one focuses specifically on what Talia's design means for each format.
Both figures remain unofficial with no confirmed pricing or release date as of this writing, so treat the analysis below as planning ahead rather than shopping a locked product.
Talia's defining visual trait isn't a weapon or outfit, it's her body itself. Continuous cyberware replacement has left her with mantis blade arms and extra-jointed, insect-like legs, structural changes that go well beyond a typical character's swappable hand or weapon accessory. That's a meaningfully harder design challenge for either format to translate well.
A character built around dramatic internal body modification gives sculptors real material to show off, but it also raises the stakes for getting the proportions and joint placement right, since a design like this one is instantly recognizable and easy to get visibly wrong in miniature.
Nendoroid's chibi proportions would likely simplify Talia's extra-jointed legs into a stylized, exaggerated version rather than an anatomically faithful one, which plays to the format's strength of charm over accuracy. For collectors who want Talia as a fun, expressive display piece alongside other Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Nendoroids rather than a dramatic action pose, that stylization is a feature, not a limitation.
The tradeoff is that a lot of what makes Talia's design distinctive, the structural detail of her cyberware, is exactly what gets softened the most under chibi proportions.
figma's accurate proportions and genuine articulation range are a much more natural fit for actually showing off mantis blade arms and insect-like leg joints as intended, since the format is built to hold dynamic, screen-accurate poses rather than simplified display stances. If the appeal of this character is her unsettling, heavily-modified physicality, figma is the format built to let that read clearly in a finished figure.
The tradeoff here is engineering difficulty: extra-jointed legs and blade-arm attachments are a harder articulation problem than a standard humanoid figma build, which is worth watching for once real prototype photos arrive, since ambitious joint engineering doesn't always land cleanly on a first attempt.
Once Good Smile shares official prototype photos for either figure, the detail worth checking first is how much of Talia's cyberware actually made it into the final sculpt, rather than a simplified bodysuit-style interpretation. Early reporting on the leak specifically flagged this as an open question, and it's the single biggest factor that should drive a real buying decision once photos are available.
For the figma specifically, checking how the leg joints are engineered, whether they allow genuine posing or are mostly a static sculpted detail, is worth doing before pre-ordering based on preview images alone.
Since both figures are still unofficial, this is really a planning exercise rather than a purchase decision today. If you're leaning toward the Nendoroid for a display-first pickup, a dedicated box protector is worth having ready. If figma's articulation is the draw, an acrylic modular case gives a posed figure the room a dynamic cyberware-heavy stance actually needs.
Releasing a character in both Nendoroid and figma simultaneously, rather than staggering the two formats months apart, suggests Good Smile sees strong enough demand for Talia Yang to justify serving both collector segments at the same time rather than testing interest with one format first. That's a reasonably strong vote of confidence in the character's popularity this early in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2's run.
It also means collectors torn between the two formats won't need to wait for one release to gauge demand before the other follows, since both are apparently moving through development on a similar timeline.
No, both were revealed through an accidental, since-deleted leak with no official pricing or date yet.
figma, given its accurate proportions and articulation built for dynamic posing.
Not necessarily, it's built for expressive charm rather than structural accuracy, which suits a different collecting goal.
EVORETRO's full Nendoroid vs. figma guide covers the general tradeoffs across articulation, pricing, and display style.
Talia Yang's cyberware-heavy design makes this a genuinely harder format call than most character pairings. Whichever way you lean, a Nendoroid box protector is worth having ready before either figure gets an official pre-order window.
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