I will only buy this if Inart doesn’t make Thranduil. I have a dozen Asmus LOTR and they are all decent, some better or worse. Galadriel was undersized and production suffered. Prologue elves have strange color fabric that doesn’t match source material but I still love them. Hobbits are fine, I managed to get the correct blue eyed non sickly Slim Frodo. Arwen looks great. I think Young Bilbo also looks fine.
Haldir and Thranduil I’ve been waiting for a long time as many know. Unfair though it may be, comparing Inart Thorin to Asmus there in completely different leagues. Same as comparing the derided HD Aragorn to Inart FOTR Aragorn. Looking back at my HD Legolas I can see the body proportions look wrong, a lot of Asmus LOTR figs also have gigantic hands that throw off the whole body.
IMO this is interesting just seeing how collectors view things. Obviously I'm a happy ASMUS customer.
And while I'll readily agree the InArt Thorin face looks spectacular - like the actor/prosthetics/hair and Aragorn's sculpt is very nice, for me my first InArt wasn't nice enough, as it were. Overall with ASMUS with figures like Thorin, young Bilbo, Gimli, GTG I feel like I got more than I paid for, thanks to excellent material use, lots of accessories, hands, sturdy bodies....
While with InArt it's more - not "premium" ENOUGH. Because if you are going to be premium, you'd better get things right that even Sideshow managed (aside from the fact I got *&^$ hair on Aragorn). The too-short tunic of an inexpensive material (I was expecting microsuede or similar); the very stiff hands, the indifferent production of the elven cloak of another inexpensive material, the questionable use of what looks like bonded leather for the belts and straps which may or may not be a problem in time. From the looks of it, Legolas is gonna need some upgrading as well; the proto council cloak is awful. Even one of the little diecast tabs on the "cord" that hold's my Aragorn's arrows has the end broken off (yes it is a tiny part but it bugs me).
Then there's the Harry Potter cheap peg issue (I already got some extra pegs for Aragorn, just in case).
It's not that I wouldn't buy another InArt; it's just I feel cynical which I don't feel about ASMUS, HT, or even some third party companies.