Yixie didn't sculpt the BD termintator heads from what I understand. If they did, it was heavily reworked as JC Hong credits Hwantakim for the sculpt, and not Yixie unless I'm misinterpreting the post. The detailing of the hair alone is pretty different aside from the difference in likeness between the render and final product. If I'm not mistaken, Hwantakim sculpted quite a lot of the recent good HT sculpts like the new Wolverine, Darth Maul 2.0, Batfleck 2.0, Sabin Wren, MK2 Tony 2.0, old man Indy.
Doesn't look like the sculpt for this figure when you look at all of the finer details.
I think the battle damage is just a little much. The heads are fine but I don't really like the exposed chest etc.
I prefer the clean look with the sunglasses. It's the main look of the character, imo. It's how he looks in the posters. I'll probably get both...again. I already have four T 800..what's two more..
Some of those discount codes used to work for PO but i noticed in the last couple years, they mostly only apply to select or in stock items.
The more lifelike human eye (at least at prototype stage) goes a long way for Hot Toys there but otherwise my vote would be for the PT studio who have a better grasp of the shape of Arnie's face and head.
I still believe the PT head is likely the best on the market. There is barely any drop in quality from prototype to production. However, the Hot Toys head offers some nice features like the rolling eyeball and illuminated eyes, and the hair detail appears more defined in the Hot Toys prototype compared to the PT version.
