So you all have this figure in hand, yes?
That's the thing. Majority of the people nitpicking do not have it in hand, aka don't really know what they're talking about. Nothing wrong with nitpicking, its a not so hidden purpose of the forum and there are things to nitpick as people with the figure has pointed out - what gets old are people not owning the figure beating the dead horse over and over because they want to justify to themselves and others reasons not to get it or why Vader figure X, Y or Z is better in their eyes.
It just gets old and makes for very boring reading to scroll past between interesting posts, for me at least its nothing to do with getting mad over people criticizing a figure I happen to have bought, if I like something I'm perfectly fine with people thinking it is a pile of garbage, just say it once or twice then move on to threads about stuff thats enjoyable.. lingering here to repeatedly complain when not even owning or seen the figure in hand just to keep justifying why not getting it or why ye olde kaiyodo mask is Gods gift to humanity makes for a lower quality forum experience.
For an experiment, look through the thread and see how many people owning this Vader thinks its good in hand vs how many going "I'll be returning this pile of garbage" ..the writings on the wall.
Agree on the picture quotes
It always goes like this with second or third variations on the same character (Look at all the Nolan-Batman discussions for example...)
Repeatedly complaining about repeated complaints is rather... ironic.
Besides, you argue that compainers just want to convince themselves not to buy...while I do think that it is true in many cases, it also indicates that you have to continously "fight" them to justify your purchase for yourself.
If you do indeed like it, just enjoy it. While constant nitpicking may seem boring or annoying, it does help improve the quality of some figures. It often highlights some glaring issues, in this case HT did make the widows peak smaller and made the light-up function more accesible. I'd take some annoying posts any time over less-criticism and lower quality figures. The repeated criticism and nitpicking here may "inspire" HT to fix some things on the ROTJ version even though it is extremely probable right now, that they will reuse this mask.
