1/6 Hot Toys -TMS124- Ahsoka series: Shin Hati

[powered convoy]

 

[Senfi83]

The more I look at the sculpt, the less I like it. Hot Toys needs to go back to the drawing board with this one and start from scratch. Arguably the worst likeness of the entire line.

It's not just the facial features that are off. Sculpt is also super soft and symmetricalized.

Not sure if it's the sculptors trademark to idealize and symmetricalize every sculpt, but I've seen a number of Hot Toys sculpts that look quite similar to this one. They all have that weird idealized look to them. What a bummer.

 

[Pose Mastery]

Arguably the worst likeness of the entire line.

Nah, Mandalorian Super Commando takes the win for least likeness.

HT Shin is good, it’s the one character I don’t mind the idealized style, she is stoic most of the time. This portrays her really well and feels like the character upon first impression.

 

[Deinonychus]

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The more I look at the sculpt, the less I like it. Hot Toys needs to go back to the drawing board with this one and start from scratch. Arguably the worst likeness of the entire line.

It's not just the facial features that are off. Sculpt is also super soft and symmetricalized.

Not sure if it's the sculptors trademark to idealize and symmetricalize every sculpt, but I've seen a number of Hot Toys sculpts that look quite similar to this one. They all have that weird idealized look to them. What a bummer.

Looked really good to me the proto in person, a couple of photos don’t put me off the face and I wasn’t going to order it originally, but both her and Baylan look great. Rest of the Ahsoka line I happily skip.

 

[pixletwin]

MRC’s photo’s capture the likeness in really awful lighting. It does the sculpt no favors.

 

[Senfi83]

Hot Toys sculpt sure has a pretty face. But the issue I have with it is that it's not really Ivanna Sakhno's face. Not even close imo. I don't expect a perfect sculpt but some of the key features should be present (eyes, nose, mouth).

Their first Ahsoka looked nothing like Dawson, V2 does look a lot better. So they can do it if they want.

Why not get it right (more accurate to the source material) in the first place? It's not like a sculpt can't be adjusted while working on it. The fact that this turned out the way it did tells me that they just didn't care or there wasn't enough time.

It's no magic to achieve a good likeness. Hot Toys, other companies and freelance sculptors all over the world do it all the time.

 

[Chopper Face]

She couldn't even kill a 100lb woman by ramming her lightsabre clean through her guts. Twas barely a flesh wound.
I don't need to be reminded of that travesty.

 

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[davejames]

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The more I look at the sculpt, the less I like it. Hot Toys needs to go back to the drawing board with this one and start from scratch. Arguably the worst likeness of the entire line.

It's not just the facial features that are off. Sculpt is also super soft and symmetricalized.

Not sure if it's the sculptors trademark to idealize and symmetricalize every sculpt, but I've seen a number of Hot Toys sculpts that look quite similar to this one. They all have that weird idealized look to them. What a bummer.

Yeah it's just bizarre that they had an actress with such an obvious and defining feature in those big eyes, that they didn't even try to capture in the sculpt. Because when you're a sculptor chasing after a likeness that's exactly the thing you usually zero in on.

 

[The Buffinator]

Yeah it's just bizarre that they had an actress with such an obvious and defining feature in those big eyes, that they didn't even try to capture in the sculpt. Because when you're a sculptor chasing after a likeness that's exactly the thing you usually zero in on.

I wonder if the rolling eyeballs feature played a part in their size for the prototype - i.e., HT used a “standard” size that was already available. Hopefully they tweak them for production.

 

[Asta]

One Sixth Republic​

Ken Fong · 4 h ·

Shin Baylan in SB.

 

[noheddardstark]

Yeah it's just bizarre that they had an actress with such an obvious and defining feature in those big eyes, that they didn't even try to capture in the sculpt. Because when you're a sculptor chasing after a likeness that's exactly the thing you usually zero in on.

It's also the nose. It's just too narrow. Ivanna's nose isn't that narrow and I think it's making the entire face look off.

This sculpt is not awful, but it's not close to the quality of Baylon's. I'm going to order it, and I'm happy we're getting it. But let's not pretend it's as good as the rest of the line, folks.

 

[Damien]

I agree with the fact that eyes and nose should be bigger
I ordered
gonna look good to pose with Sabine for f...ighting

 

[agonistes86]

After they pretty much nailed the likeness on the rest of the figures from this line, I'm rather disappointed with this one. It's mainly the eyes that puts it off for me. Their just to small imo. Still a nice figure overall, though. Will definitly pre-order her and Baylan.View attachment 692375

Another thing throwing off the likeness are the eyebrows. I've noticed somewhat of a trend of HT sometimes slapping on those generic straight eyebrows, while the actress has quite distinctive ones. It's like the sculptor didn't even use any reference for them.

 

[newapelles]

I think it's possible HT will tweak this sculpt before release. They did with Supergirl and Obi-Wan, so why not Shin? She's definitely the worst sculpt in the Ahsoka line. From a distance the figure looks like Ivanna, but things start to fall apart when you get in close. She might end up being one of those figures that actually looks better than the prototype.

 

[davejames]

I think it's possible HT will tweak this sculpt before release. They did with Supergirl and Obi-Wan, so why not Shin? She's definitely the worst sculpt in the Ahsoka line. From a distance the figure looks like Ivanna, but things start to fall apart when you get in close. She might end up being one of those figures that actually looks better than the prototype.

Well the vast majority of people were singing its praises in their FB post, so I'm not too hopeful about them making any changes. Unless they happen to realize themselves that it still needs work.

 

[noheddardstark]

Well the vast majority of people were singing its praises in their FB post, so I'm not too hopeful about them making any changes. Unless they happen to realize themselves that it still needs work.

How many of those people are actually pre-ordering, though? I very much doubt it's a 1:1 relationship, or even a representative sample. At the end of the day, the units moved will rule the day.

 

[darth dennis]

How many of those people are actually pre-ordering, though? I very much doubt it's a 1:1 relationship, or even a representative sample. At the end of the day, the units moved will rule the day.

True but I suspect that the enthusiasm for the characters release, coupled with Baylon no less, had a lot of people day one pre-ordering. I did...but I'm never too bent on the sculpt at ultra close and poorly lit angles. This will look fantastic on the shelf regardless if they do revisions or not.

 

[Pose Mastery]

I’m perfectly happy with the way it is. The scenes she was in weren’t all well lit either. I hope HT doesn’t mess with the sculpt based on those possibly making it worse. *cough*… Jyn Erso *cough*

 

[Wor-Gar]

I have to say, I was wondering why people were signing praises about this sculpt.