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12-03-2020, 06:20 PM | #11 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 246
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Not the biggest fan of the comics but the slayer design is pretty good overall
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12-07-2020, 08:36 PM | #12 |
Showa Girl
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 9,064
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Messing around with this figure again and... I'm kinda feeling buyer's remorse, I'm not gonna lie.
I gotta preface this by saying that I'm not attached to the comics or the character anymore and that's like half the reason; so this isn't me having a massive critical re-evaluation of the figure itself. It's still an awesome design, and one that LC replicates pretty well! But... man. The limited hand options are getting to me. I genuinely believe this is the worst part of the line -- some paint apps missing? Bad, sure; but they're always minor enough to ignore and accept on a 20$ line. Missing accessories? Again, I can accept some in a 20$ line; and only truly get annoyed when it's as bad as Zeo Blue. But what's important to me over anything else is the expression you can get out of these figures... and that's kinda hard to do on some of them with a limited selection of hands! Sometimes you get lucky like with DT White where his splayed hand is enough to convey a lot even if it's only a few poses; but here on Ranger Slayer? You get the stuff necessary to wield her bow; one closed fist; and that stupid karate chop they insist on giving to so many figures. That's it. There's nothing there I can use for evoking emotion, hell; there only being one closed fist means I can only get a neutral pose when she's holding the bow (and only on one specific side!). This heavily limits her to action poses with the bow, and those are great, but again: if I want her gesturing, or posing, or doing anything else that's kinda cool that's not fighting, I'm out of luck. It's a shame because again, beautiful figure, but I can only have her either fighting or standing there. A single extra pair of hands would massively improve every LC figure imo, and I'm starting to wonder if there's some kind of third party or 3D printer out there that can help with that. It seems silly to have so much complaint come from such small accessories... but genuinely, at this rate I'd get much more use and variety with Souchaku Henshin hands. I want to do more with this figure but I can't.
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12-08-2020, 06:53 PM | #13 |
Some guy. I'm alright.
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Michigan
Posts: 4,388
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While I love the figure personally, I do get where you're coming from. One issue I've had with the LC is that the hands for each figure after the first two waves just seems totally random. The karate chop hand made sense for MMPR White because he was known to do poses like that, but for Dragon Shield Black? For Ranger Slayer? Huh??
Personally would've preferred they nix the tri-arrow accessory for more hands.
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12-08-2020, 07:44 PM | #14 |
Rider of the End
Join Date: Nov 2020
Location: NYC
Posts: 633
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Messing around with this figure again and... I'm kinda feeling buyer's remorse, I'm not gonna lie.
I gotta preface this by saying that I'm not attached to the comics or the character anymore and that's like half the reason; so this isn't me having a massive critical re-evaluation of the figure itself. It's still an awesome design, and one that LC replicates pretty well! But... man. The limited hand options are getting to me. I genuinely believe this is the worst part of the line -- some paint apps missing? Bad, sure; but they're always minor enough to ignore and accept on a 20$ line. Missing accessories? Again, I can accept some in a 20$ line; and only truly get annoyed when it's as bad as Zeo Blue. But what's important to me over anything else is the expression you can get out of these figures... and that's kinda hard to do on some of them with a limited selection of hands! Sometimes you get lucky like with DT White where his splayed hand is enough to convey a lot even if it's only a few poses; but here on Ranger Slayer? You get the stuff necessary to wield her bow; one closed fist; and that stupid karate chop they insist on giving to so many figures. That's it. There's nothing there I can use for evoking emotion, hell; there only being one closed fist means I can only get a neutral pose when she's holding the bow (and only on one specific side!). This heavily limits her to action poses with the bow, and those are great, but again: if I want her gesturing, or posing, or doing anything else that's kinda cool that's not fighting, I'm out of luck. It's a shame because again, beautiful figure, but I can only have her either fighting or standing there. A single extra pair of hands would massively improve every LC figure imo, and I'm starting to wonder if there's some kind of third party or 3D printer out there that can help with that. It seems silly to have so much complaint come from such small accessories... but genuinely, at this rate I'd get much more use and variety with Souchaku Henshin hands. I want to do more with this figure but I can't. In the mean time, I've loaded the hands into my Makerbot Replicator and am working on alternate hands for. LC with the correct glove detail. If it gets anywhere, i will definitely follow up and try to distribute. It is a shame that the hands are overlooked, considering this series exlressiveness is tied to their hands rather than faces, unlike marvel characters. Last edited by KaiserBlue; 12-08-2020 at 07:48 PM.. |
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