Asmus Toys Tauriel

[batsheva]

Touche. Different sculptor, maybe? or perhaps they are thinking that Aragorn has more fans so they focused more to him than to Tauriel. I mean just look at the sculpted hair and paint. If I could return this to Asmus and get my refund, I'd be so very happy.

 

[WolfBoy]

her face is horrible ..............why does she look so sad? and why is her make up so bad?

 

[hoodonit00]

Pretty sure something went wrong with that sculpt in the molding process. Left eye is lower than the right and the nose is leaning to the right.

 

[Stark Resilient]

Agreed, she looks like half of her face is melting away.

 

[batsheva]

Now.. let's just hope that it is a one time error, only happened to mine. And yours are better. Then I can ask for replacement to Asmus, and everybody's happy.
But if ALL products are like that.. then, hooray.

 

[Damien]

******* awful.

Just don't buy.
If I can cancel my order, I would. Unfortunately, my supplier doesn't allowed any cancellations. If anyone wants to buy it from me, for $150 (not including shipping), I would gladly sell it to you.

dear sir you have just saved me some money

 

[batsheva]

I'm glad I did.

 

[Asmus]

Thank you,
I will bring it up in our next production meeting
talking about this figure as an end product,
if there is something we could have made better.


Here are some of my shots!

 

[Asmus]

 

[batsheva]

Try to take a shot with an exact angle like the one I took. With normal (non studio) light. Try to take normal shot of the head from front, and side, with no tilt angle or looking down or anything, just normal front face. And we'll see how it really look like.
From my own experience, with actual released product, I got this:

A better solution would be to make a better headsculpt with much better likeness on Tauriel, and send it to the buyer.

Look, if your product is good, I will say it's good. I've wrote good things about the Witchking. I bought your products, even the Nazgul and the horse. But what I get now, this Tauriel is so bad, IMHO. So very bad. And I'm not badmouthing you or anything, I came with my proof, my actual shots. And people has the right to see the actual product shots, so they will not be trapped by some good-lookin-only-taken-at-certain-angles-studio-shots promo pics.
And I'm glad if my pics can help people see and made their decisions, whether to buy it or not.

My personal advice on this one, don't buy it.

 

[Asmus]

Thank you for your honesty Batsheva

We appreciate your feedback and like I have been saying all along, we take the buyers feedback very seriously.
If it is the majority's opinion, we will look into the possibility to make her better,
so please don't worry, or rush to sell it, we will be responsible to all our products,
especially the LOTR/Hobbit series.

 

[batsheva]

You're most welcome, Asmus.

Well, from what we get so far, I think we can all see that the majority's comments here about the actual product has stated their dislike.

 

[WolfBoy]

Agreed, she looks like half of her face is melting away.

tauriel, stroke edition.

it's good asmus are open with feedback and care about trying to fix things though.

 

[batsheva]

Yeah, looking forward to see how they will take care of this one.

 

[egel]

Yeah, looking forward to see how they will take care of this one.

Hmm, including a new Tauriel head with another release? That's like their 'thing'.

 

[batsheva]

Hmm, including a new Tauriel head with another release? That's like their 'thing'.

They're not going to force me to buy another product of em, so that they can make this thing right. No friggin way.

 

[Damien]

would be interesting if they could offer a new head to all who bought this
like BCS did with Amy Pond
altough I thing there second head was not great either

 

[TripleCP]

The head sculpt and paint job seemed to come out pretty bad. Not sure if batsheva's was just a bad cast, but even in George's pics the eyes are way dark and look like she's wearing excessive makeup.

Another issue is the thickness of the clothing. It reminds me of a comment Evangeline Lilly made about the original more armored design of Tauriel's costume which was shown in the appendices for Battle of the Five Armies Extended Edition. Because of its bulk, she ended up resembling a female dwarf once she actually wore it. That's kind of what I see with this figure, as well. Not sure if replacing the body with an ultra-thin one will have the desired effect, but it's something to think about.

 

[superdoug]

Don't start panicking yet. Mine just arrived.

First impression just like Bard and Aragorn are steps forward from Gandalf, in my opinion she is a step forward from Eowyn.

Body and outfit seem sturdier than Eowyn's. The plastic vest is not very form fitting but the only plastic is soft so maybe it can be reshaped a little. Boots are plastic but softer than Eowyn's. Not a possible as I want but it is better than I thought they were going to be. The knife that goes in the quiver is really neat but I cannot seem to get it and the arrows to fit in nicely. It's hard to explain if you don't have it in hand. Overall though outfit I would say 3.5 out of 5. If you pay more attention to detail it might go down to 3.

Weapons are fantastic in my opinion I would say 5 out of 5. If you pay real close attention to detail you can probably find in inaccuracies but I am not looking at screen stills right now.

Amount of accessories 3 out of 5. Compared to SS X-Wing Luke this is a 5 but compared to Asmus' Aragorn with the awesome base it scores out lower.

Body. Seems sturdy. Like I said I have only spent 5 minutes with it so far so I haven't even tried to swap out the hands or see what poses it can hold.

Sculpt - this is the tough one. To me right out of the box I would say 3-4 right now. If you have seen the movies it is totally recognizable as Tauriel. If you haven't seen the Hobbit but have seen LOTR you can see Middle Earth elf right away but I do not know if you would see it as Evangeline. Now once someone told you I think you would say "okay I think I see her in there." The eye shadow is a little heavy but not as bad a the pictures I have seen. I have some concerns with the hair lasting over time. Right now it looks okay and I kind of like the mix they did but if they do release an additional sculpt I kind of hope they go with sculpted hair. Again I do not think this sculpt looks nearly as bad as the pictures we have seen so far. In my opinion mine looks better in hand than Asmus' pictures. I think it looks more like Tauriel than Asmus' Eowyn looks like Eowyn.

Overall first impression is 4 out of 5. For reference I would give Aragorn 4.5 out of 5 and Bard somewhere in between the two. Eowyn 3.5 and Gandalf around 3. Hopefully that helps people out a little bit. I am happy with my purchase which is good because I caved and picked one up from eBay and I had already bought one from Timewalker so I was scared that I made two mistakes.

 

[superdoug]

I want to stress I might not be as hard a reviewer as others so take mine with a grain of salt. I said my opinion on the other human figures from Asmus so you can get an idea on how hard or soft I am in my judgement.