Yuan and Heise are the best to ever do it. I just received my sculpt from Yuan 2 days ago (on Christmas day).
But John's work beats this as well.
That's what I meant. That you could build a custom for the same cost as this, if not less, that's still a lot better in my opinion.
Show the Yuan!
Hmmm, don't believe you, how much did the Yuan sculpt cost? Then how much did a body and clothing set cost? I don't believe it cost less that £1300.
You should review John Wu’s on instagram and maybe go outside ur comfort zone on having to Yuan do it. Just my 2 cents.
I have, they're great, I prefer Yuan.
Not trying to kill your hype, but that narrative has to stop so people can know that top quality is "affordable" now.
Top tier custom headsculpt don't cost 3K anymore, you can get one for 450/500 nowadays.
What narrative? I don't care to purchase mediocre custom related items which even on the cheaper end are far more expensive for what they should be. The top-tier quality, which you may as well go for if you're going down this route, is only a stonesthrow away from what you'd already be paying. So yeah, you can get okay custom items, in my opinion they mostly suck and not what I'm after, the good stuff IS expensive.
It's not a narrative, I'm just not going to be dropping a lot of money on something which isn't that much better than what you can get from a licensed product, if you feel that some custom items priced at the lower end are better that's great, but I don't think they are. Also, it depends what you're talking about - a headsculpt with paint and hair for 450? I've yet to see a good one that warrants spending that much on something which isn't great.
I get it though, I understand Gary here.
Once you start thinking about a custom upgrade,
you begin to fixate on details and more of them and can’t stop because it becomes more than a 1:6 toy.
It has now become an art project that you develop an expensive passion for, seeing progress that trumps anything anyone will give you from a PO over the years it takes you to develop such a piece.
Gary doesn’t have any custom suits, shoes, accessories, sculpts, etc. So it’s understandable that he’d get a decent offering and call it quits at that.
I consider him lucky.
I agree with you. Once you're even remotely starting to think about paying half a grand for a sculpt you may as well be in for a penny in for a pound to get the better product, and that better product is usually on the pricier side.
Have to correct you, though. INART fanboi's gonna be hating this cos I got one from their toy-market murdering CEO. I have 1/4 Joker head by Jaxon that was actually (unlike 1/3 Queen Studios Joker), painted and haired by the one, the only... VIPER!
That sculpt cost around 1k. It's a good sculpt and good paint and hair job, but I'd rather have a Yuan paint and hair job, to be honest. But yeah, my Joker itch hasn't been scratched. Mostly because that head sits on a relatively alright 1/4 Hot Toys job.
So I'm not really calling it quits. Actually I had the Inart Joker set on pre-order with the aim of getting a Yuan sculpt on one of the extra bodies. Inart released final pictures and it all looked dog **** so I cancelled my order and then had nothing to put a Yuan sculpt on.
This comes along, and I actually see the value for money. I would love a 9-10/10 sculpt, which I think Yuan makes - but I haven't got anything to put it on and frankly I don't care enough to go down the tailoring custom route, that's far too much money I'm willing to sink into one character. All mass produced so far hasn't really caught my attention in terms of being good.
I own a lot of JND so I know how great the silicone and glass eyes and hair rooting is. With this release, you actually get two vastly different sculpts (A laugh!), both with moving magnetic glass eyes, hair rooting, silicone invisible joints, flush pretty accurate clothing, moveable seamless fingers and hands, two bases and a bunch of extras for, well after my discounts I think I'm getting this for like 1300 pounds. Show me anything remotely similar to this for that price range where you have two whole figures with all of those features - impossible. I'd argue very strongly how this is not value for money (people will say gimmick this, gimmick that, that's lost on me, 1/6 has always failed at visible joints, plastic hair, set-in eyes etc., this is my next-level in 1/6)
It's going to have to be pretty dire for me to not like this. Already I think this is a much, much, much better purchase for me than the Inart Joker set would have been. I can never give up on saying how glad I am that I cancelled that.
In the end, value to someone is going to differ - I think it's a bit of a reach to say that this isn't worth what it costs. It all comes down to how well made it is - skeleton and intricate metal 'bones' with silicone skin around it. Fine, I admit, the likeness isn't as good as something like Heise or Yuan, but it's still great, and with all those extras, this is going to be pretty special for me in terms of 1/6 collecting.
(now watch me buy a 600 pound tie for this lolol)
