Very late to the party, but I got my Claire in today from the recent Giantoy restock and I’m pleasantly surprised after months of going back and forth.
I’ve always despised the “it looks better in hand” claim; not because I don’t believe the one saying it can genuinely tell a difference, but I’ve just personally never found it to be obvious for me or that there’s ever enough of a difference to really justify it as an actual positive.
But… Claire is the first figure making me eat my words. The sculpt looks so much different in person to me, especially with some dimmer lighting, and I’m not really sure how else to describe what I’m seeing. The jacket on mine doesn’t seem too horribly baggy or oversized (and there doesn’t appear to be any flaking) but I’m still a little sad by the changes from what they showed on the prototype.
I have zero photography skills when it comes to figures but always snap a few pics during unboxing (and mini cat hairs will still manage to show up), and this is the only one I took where the sculpt looks anything remotely like how it does to me in person.. it
still looks pretty corpse-like compared to how it looks in hand, though:
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