Statue Alien: Internecivus Raptus Statue

[El Mule]

Quick side by side I did using the raw 3D model pics, I'm not very skilled:

Original pic of the 3D model with all the views in case someone more skilled wants to do a better comparison:

 

[Collectorcol]

Any news on weight/materials?

First time a proto has had leaning issues

 

[GeneralZodLives]

Yeah, doesn't give me much faith that the production sample will be better.

 

[choopie]

SSAlex confirmed on the other board in the Ask Sideshow section that the weight on this is accurate. Most of the body and head will be plastic, to capture detail. Decided I'm passing on this.

 

[DarkMario616]

Meh. If it looks good I guess I could care less if it's pvc.

Watching alien 4. What is this abomination

 

[Collectorcol]

Sideshow goes all Neca... But still charges $450.

 

[HODLr]

I have to put this in here so all of the Alien fans see it. IMO the best Alien print I've ever seen, and now up on Rotworks.bigcartel.com. He's a member of some of the statue groups on FB. I bought the first one.

 

[BobaNerd]

Sideshow goes all Neca... But still charges $450.

lol, that's the best way to put this.

 

[Asdf]

Sideshow goes all Neca... But still charges $450.

Sad but true

 

[Python]

That's a shame, I'm passing then, I'm not paying this much for plastic however nice it looks.

 

[DarkMario616]

I really want this... But it's plastic

 

[clutch]

What do you think resin is?

 

[Python]

What do you think resin is?

A different form completely? Why do we hear this line all the time, it makes no sense, it's like comparing apples to oranges dressed up like apples. Do you realise how little the difference is between human and chimp DNA? Are we the same? Actually don't answer that, too easy a set up


Darkmario, just buy it then, don't be put off by the opinions of others.

 

[clutch]

It's all plastic. If the final product looks the same, what's the difference? Other than one potentially sagging over time due to weight and the other maintaining its shape?

 

[GeneralZodLives]

My problem is with the $450 price tag for a big ArtFX figure.

 

[clutch]

Now that I'll agree with.

 

[BobaNerd]

It's all plastic. If the final product looks the same, what's the difference? Other than one potentially sagging over time due to weight and the other maintaining its shape?

The typical PVC retort when someone mentions they don't like it because it's plastic. Who gives a **** if it's all plastic, dude? By Sideshow's production standards, PVC looks and feels as cheap as a plastic toy. Most don't like that. End of story. Almost everyone would want this to be polystone/polyresin anyway so get over the whole, "what's the difference?" crap. If Sideshow turned in a product similar to what Blitzway turns in, then it'd be a whole different story to talk about on here and people wouldn't be so hesitant or afraid to buy a PVC related Sideshow piece. If you don't give a **** about the difference then cool, more power to you, and you can go on buying SS's Man of Steel, Chris Reeve, and Godzilla pieces.

 

[clutch]

I guess that's fine if you like fondling your statues.

 

[Collectorcol]

I guess that's fine if you like fondling your statues.

Yup...

 

[El Mule]

It's all plastic. If the final product looks the same, what's the difference? Other than one potentially sagging over time due to weight and the other maintaining its shape?

Sorry but this is one of the stupidest statements ever, given the context. I hope you realize that resin and PVC both come in different grades and qualities. The quality used by Sideshow on PVC pieces, like the Man of Steel, is nowhere close to the one used by Bliztway or Hot Toys. So no, you're wrong, it's not "all plastic".There's plastic and plastic. First point.
Second point, I prefer my statue to feel like a statue. Why people make a big deal out of it? Because certain companies... sorry, rephrase: ONE certain company marketed the polystone gimmick in the last decade. I won't tell you which company - take a wild guess. And now the customer base has that kind of preference. We might argue that the weight, the feeling when touching it, like stone, are all accessory and unnecessary to the sight, we might say that there is really no specific relation between these factors and the final quality and the fact that something heavy and stone-y "feels" like quality doesn't imply that it's really quality... but guess what, this hobby is made of a number of things that have little to do with just how good something looks on the shelf. And one of these things is for statues to feel like statues and you can ask anyone, a "statue" in their mind won't be made of super light smooth PVC.

Now, PVC has a ton of advantages of course and it's a better material overall than polystone - this is the rational verdict. Still, for most people, if something CAN be achieved with polystone/resin... they prefer it that way, for the number of reasons just written above.