Re: Hot Toys: Ellen Ripley - Alien (Updated with new prototype HS)
My question exactly Khev. This has been repeated so much everyone claims they "know" it to be true. It may have been true with that model kit in in the 80s, but how is anyone not directly involved in her camp's negotiating table gonna act like that is a stone cold fact today (and no, "googling" it is not the asnwer. Google tells you her opinion on real guns, but not her camp's marketing policies regarding action figures).
At a Q&A panel in April, I sat there in person and watched her get ask point blank,"Why haven't you allowed your likeness to be granted for action figures until now". At no point in her answer did she say "because I refuse to be paired with a gun". Her answer was about not realizing the demand (how big a market it was for adult collectors) and finally coming around. Maybe it is possible that was the "political answer" to avoid a hot button topic in front of a large crowd, but that was her answer to the exact and direct question.
As a side note, Weaver didn't "refuse" to let her face be on the first round of Hot Toys' figures because it had a gun. Her face was not there because Hot Toys decided right away they didn't want to pay for anyone's likeness and made the figures without ANY involvement from the talent! From printed interviews w/direct quotes and first hand experiences, I can say Jeanette Golston, Bill Paxton, Weaver, and Al Mathews were all totally unaware they were even made! They did not 'deny' permission, but rather Hot Toys decided it would be easier/cheaper to do it without using the real actors. So any pointing to the first release as "proof" in some way is pointless. Her lack of a likeness there is a completely separate issue.
My question exactly Khev. This has been repeated so much everyone claims they "know" it to be true. It may have been true with that model kit in in the 80s, but how is anyone not directly involved in her camp's negotiating table gonna act like that is a stone cold fact today (and no, "googling" it is not the asnwer. Google tells you her opinion on real guns, but not her camp's marketing policies regarding action figures).
At a Q&A panel in April, I sat there in person and watched her get ask point blank,"Why haven't you allowed your likeness to be granted for action figures until now". At no point in her answer did she say "because I refuse to be paired with a gun". Her answer was about not realizing the demand (how big a market it was for adult collectors) and finally coming around. Maybe it is possible that was the "political answer" to avoid a hot button topic in front of a large crowd, but that was her answer to the exact and direct question.
As a side note, Weaver didn't "refuse" to let her face be on the first round of Hot Toys' figures because it had a gun. Her face was not there because Hot Toys decided right away they didn't want to pay for anyone's likeness and made the figures without ANY involvement from the talent! From printed interviews w/direct quotes and first hand experiences, I can say Jeanette Golston, Bill Paxton, Weaver, and Al Mathews were all totally unaware they were even made! They did not 'deny' permission, but rather Hot Toys decided it would be easier/cheaper to do it without using the real actors. So any pointing to the first release as "proof" in some way is pointless. Her lack of a likeness there is a completely separate issue.
but I don't know if HT plans to do anything more than the ripley's. I mean its not like HT doesn't buy 
