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I don't think I can afford April and May either :(. Luckly for me I don't have any pre-orders to pay off until March.
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All of my pre-orders are paid off. Unfortunately I had to pass on what I really wanted (G-Stag and Reddle). Though there is something I'm sure I could pay off that I might just PO.
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But yeah I'm hoping not to spend so much after April. Got stagger my purchases even with all this cool stuff coming out. |
Preordered Mark 43, because I know how hard iron men are to get, and I just want a good 1/12 scale iron Man.
April's going to be rough. :lol |
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Revan is an expanded universe character, Sith Lord & Jedi, from the KOTOR (Knights of the Old Republic) era. Defintiely one of the more powerful and interesting EU characters out there. He was the genesis of the old Jedi Civil War. |
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But, yeah. I'd so be down for an SHF Revan, and a Bastila. |
Yeah, I ended up ordering Vader too because I'm weak.
I'll stay strong on Iron Man though, even if he is going to be hard to get on the aftermarket. |
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And I don't think they'll go into EU-territory with their figures soon, I think we see more of the movie-cast next and I'm fine with that. Because I expect a SHF Boba Fett to be among the next wave of announcements. |
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and yeah, I feel like it'll even be a good long while before we even get Prequel stuff. I'm expecting Bespin Luke, Han and Boba Fett next...because EVERYONE these days needs to do a Bespin Luke... |
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If they can bring Mark Hamill's best role to life, one of his others should be no problem ;D And I agree with Habsro, I don't think I have seen any Luke action-figure where I like the face. The same goes with Vader where many figures just don't get the "face" right, I'm glade Tamashii nailed it. |
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Well, to be fair, realistic faces that really capture a likeness are difficult to do. Sculpting itself is a hard task and requires skill and hard work to do, and just look how much detail a real human face has. With helmets and masks it's a little bit "simpler". Not that it isn’t hard work as well, but they are easier to work with and sometimes you get models from the source.
Hot Toys nails it a lot of times, but that reflects in the price. |
As much as I love the Vader, it's not perfect. There are issues with the belt boxes, the chestbox, and the bucket (based on what I can see in the pics) seems a bit off, though I can't tell for sure exactly why.
Nitpicky, sure, but that's what we do here. :D |
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I do hope Bandai is going to give us the entire main cast of Star Wars. The problem comes down to which versions because these are the ones I would want:
Jedi Luke ANH Han Cloud City Leia and then obviously: R2D2 C3PO Chewbacca That would probably be the extent to which I will buy for Star Wars. Nevertheless, my worry that Bandai may just stop at Vader and STs has me wondering if I should have just gone for Hasbro's Black series instead as they are supposed to be fantastic toys in both sculpt and articulation. We'll see though. I mostly preordered them because of Vader's bonus item. |
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Looks good to me :) The buttons on the side-box of the belt are a little bit off in position, but that's not bugging me. The helmet is definitely a little bit different (hard to judge on pictures alone), but it looks great IMO. Quote:
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I think the figure is very accurate, I even got my Kotobukiya-statue down which I think has a very sculpt and I can't spy any difference. Talking from pictures of course, you would need to have the figure in hand to really compare them. I think the sculpt is great and I can't see any major difference, especially not in comparison with how different the Double SHF looks to the actual suit. Don't forget that there's also no "define" version of the helmet and in some instances the suit, it was constantly worked on during the original trilogy and does look different from time to time. |
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I'm only going with these two examples because there aren't enough clear shots with proper lighting to dissect the helmet right now and the shoulder armor, while also inaccurate, isn't as blatantly obvious. Here are two shots of the SHF: http://shuangxi-in-spring.com/Images...arthvader1.jpg http://shuangxi-in-spring.com/Images...arthvader4.jpg Belt Boxes: http://shuangxi-in-spring.com/Images...t_Boxes_sm.png The closest to the SHF here are the ESB/RotJ boxes. That makes sense since this is supposed to be the RotJ Vader, as evidenced by the bonus display base and the missing hand. However, not one single button is placed properly here. They don't match up at all. It's pretty self explanatory. Chestbox: http://shuangxi-in-spring.com/Images...hestbox_sm.png The chestbox, on the other hand, is some sort of bizarre Frankenstein. The large rocker switches at the bottom are in the configuration of ESB/RotJ, but they are solid colors, like ANH/RotS. They are lacking the proper black outer coloring of the ESB/RotJ pieces and the silver sliders in between. Additionally, the upper and lower colored panels in the upper right are blue and red, per ESB/RotJ, but are also missing the sliders. The Aurabesh text is missing for a proper ESB/RotJ. The rod detailing is also incorrect for any version of the unit. Cape Chain: http://shuangxi-in-spring.com/Images/Vader/chain.jpg The cape chain is probably the most inaccurate piece, not matching up to any version of the character. Quote:
Edit: I also forgot to mention that the Vader figure is being reported as ~155mm in height. Converted, that comes out to about 6'1" or so. David Prowse alone was 6'5", not counting the additional height from the costume pieces. |
Thanks for the read, but that's just nit-picks for me, nothing I would ever notice or care about. If that's all that is inaccurate with the figure I don't care about it :)
And I do remember hearing something about them working on the details of the suit all the time and it changed during filming, I was wrong then. |
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Accurate by my standards, which obviously don't compare to yours. I'm not trying to set up facts here. Sorry I haven’t expressed that clearly.
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Does it look like Vader?
Yeah. Look better than the 6" Black Series? Yeah. Plenty good enough for me. |
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Yeah. :p |
Sorry dude, but it looks exactly like Vader. I don't see how those button thingies you posted are any different than what the Figuart has. In fact, I never even knew he had different button thingies. Probably because it is something that is hardly noticeable and not worth caring about to begin with. It changes nothing in who the character is and what he looks like.
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I believe it's worth caring about for sure. In much the same way it kills me that the W, Agito, etc other rider SHFs are so inaccurate but people give them a pass and say "meh good enough stop nitpicking". I totally respect that someone has legit complaints about this thing being a Vader-stein of design elements and variations of the actual costume.
Would i care about those things? Not so much. For me the costume has some fluidity to it because of the previously stated changes to it over the course of the saga. But I'm not going to argue with someone who clearly recognizes it's inaccuracies as though they're incorrect. Thessair is of course 100% correct that the toy is some weirdly amalgamated inaccuracy. If the inaccuracies don't bother you that's fine, they don't have to. But to argue that they don't exist is just stupid. At the very least we should all be able to agree it's the nicest Vader figure out there and is leaps and bounds better than the eyesore that is the 6" Black Series Vader. That fucking monstrosity towers over other figures in that line, it's not even appropriately tall, just stupidly. |
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And W is clearly inaccurate to the suit from the show as well. It's one of the most outdated and inaccurate figuarts out there, right up top with the original Kuuga release & Agito in terms of being very poor representations of the actual characters. That's been widely discussed multiple times on this forum for the last 3 years. If you can't see that, again, I don't really know what else to tell you. If you could at least tell there was an issue and it didn't bother you that would be one thing, but as is you just choose to believe the problem doesn't exist in the first place. |
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