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For those in the UK, TGTBTR has this up for £249.00
Comics&Cocktails £269.99
Not sure who else has this up yet.
As always I recommend TGTBTR though.
 
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I mean it’s £237 with Kit and I’m impatient. Cocktails by the time you get it, it’s half price with TBA lmao
Yeah I always order with THTBTR. Haven't got anything from C&C in a while.
I have to wait a bit longer but I like to support UK retailers.
 
Look who just got his own puffy jacket 😤

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It's complicated for me. We definitely saw more neck at Tokyo Comic Con:

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Glad to see this go up but did they change the sculpt? Feel like it looked more like her at the event.

This looked just like her:

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This looks like a nine-year old cosplaying as her. The head seems larger, the face rounder and more child-like and it sits lower on the neck…

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Is that just the shirt, or was Spanbauer right about the head sitting lower on the neck this time around?
 
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It's complicated for me. We definitely saw more neck at Tokyo Comic Con:

Is that just the shirt, or was Spanbauer right about the head sitting lower on the neck this time around?

As with most action figures it is possible to pull the head up a bit from the neck peg to adjust the height of the neck that is showing on your figure or if you want the opposite effect, push the head further down to make the neck seem shorter.
I am sure that is what happened here. Nothing mysterious.
 
As with most action figures it is possible to pull the head up a bit from the neck peg to adjust the height of the neck that is showing on your figure or if you want the opposite effect, push the head further down to make the neck seem shorter.
I am sure that is what happened here. Nothing mysterious.

This is getting more difficult now with Hot Toys' rolling eyes, because they use a clear plastic socket on top of the ball joint, that plugs into a matching shape inside the sculpt.

With older sculpts you could put tack on top of the rubber cup covering the ball joint to keep it set higher.

You could do the same with the new style, but it would likely be less secure.

(I find the new system fiddly, as the two parts don't always want to connect, and it can end up moving the eye stalks so you have to start over adjusting the eyes).


One reason why the head may be sitting lower is that the ball joint (the barbell piece) may not be vertical, which wasn't an issue when there was less empty space inside the sculpts.
 
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This is getting more difficult now with Hot Toys' rolling eyes, because they use a clear plastic socket on top of the ball joint, that plugs into a matching shape inside the sculpt.

With older sculpts you could put tack on top of the rubber cup covering the ball joint to keep it set higher.

You could do the same with the new style, but it would likely be less secure.

(I find the new system fiddly, as the two parts don't always want to connect, and it can end up moving the eye stalks so you have to start over adjusting the eyes).

Ah, okay. Didn't know that. Sounds bothersome...
 
Ah, okay. Didn't know that. Sounds bothersome...

This is what they look like now, with a sculpt hollow enough to move the eyes either with their tool, or with your finger which I find more controllable:

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The black barbell can fold over while trying to connect the sculpt, leaving the clear socket remaining upright, which would allow the head to sit lower than it should.
 
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