Asmus Toys: Witch-king figure

[pixletwin]

The store I bough them from fully expects a July release too.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Asmus is not a large company making 15,000 units of 20x licenses on a production line that has to be scheduled a year in advance and one screw-up can delay tons of product. If Asmus is lucky, they will one day.

There will probably be a small delay but its likely they will make their schedule as someone mentioned, and I agree, they probably had some good lead-time... and they are starting with a figure that, once the parts are made, is fairly simple to pop together.

 

[FLOSI]

AD Artwork Pm'd me that they expect the factory to be finished soon and to ship next month.

 

[superdoug]

AD Artwork Pm'd me that they expect the factory to be finished soon and to ship next month.

Great news!

 

[Kuzeh]

AD Artwork Pm'd me that they expect the factory to be finished soon and to ship next month.

For reals???!!!!

 

[Darth Cruel]

Was there some kind of a pre-order on these? If not, where are they selling?

 

[robbiethepainter]

Most of the normal retailers.

AlterEgo and Monkey Depot has it for preorder.

 

[Darth Cruel]

Thanks! I took the plunge and ordered from alter ego. I know I am late in the game and these two items have likely been addressed.

But I am curious about there being no "Morgul Blade" (the short sword) and I do hope that the mace is not sculpted into the hand.

Edit - I am excited about this figure. I am so late in the game that I don't have a long wait. I am curious about the scale as well. I wonder how it will match up against the Sideshow LOTR figures like Aragorn. I am not all that critical about the figure towering over the others such as Boromir, Faramir, and Aragorn...just so long as it is not shorter.

Also, one more thing. It won't stop me from giving the figure a chance (I ordered two). But I have never really been very fond of metal parts on action figures. We'll see how that works out.

Anyway...now I am really excited about this figure coming in!

 

[The Josh]

No need for a Morgul Blade. He stabbed Frodo with it and it devolves there on Weathertop. At the point we see the Witch-king like this he doesn't have it. So no real need to include it but if they do a regular Ringwraith later then they might.

 

[FLOSI]

They will and it will.

 

[pixletwin]

Who will and what will?

 

[FLOSI]

They will make a Ring Wraith and it will come with a Morgul Blade.

 

[Geb]

I am curious about the Mace handle being ATTACHED to the hand. In the PRESS imagery it definitely shows the mace being attached to the LEFT hand...i.e. NOT REMOVABLE. That may present a problem to folks who want to interchange it with the other hand.

Has anyone asked Asmus and have they answered this definitively? If not...I'll ask

 

[pixletwin]

They will make a Ring Wraith and it will come with a Morgul Blade.

Ah ok. Not sure why that didn't make sense to me before.

 

[hoodonit00]

I am curious about the Mace handle being ATTACHED to the hand. In the PRESS imagery it definitely shows the mace being attached to the LEFT hand...i.e. NOT REMOVABLE. That may present a problem to folks who want to interchange it with the other hand.

Has anyone asked Asmus and have they answered this definitively? If not...I'll ask

I asked about it and was told that it wasn't attached.

 

[Geb]

Good to know...kinda contradicts the image, but if they said it, it must be so

 

[hoodonit00]

Good to know...kinda contradicts the image, but if they said it, it must be so

Going back and looking at the images and what was responded to I'm not positive now. This is what I asked and was responded to. Don't know if they were affirming it was not a statue or that the hand was not sculpted to the mace. I put both in quotations because my dumb butt can't figure out how to multi quote.



"Originally Posted by hoodonit00
Hope this isn't a dumb question. That hand isn't molded to the handle is it? These are going to be articulated figures correct? Not 1/6th statues?"

"No, of course not. It was just to try on the right size, see if it fits in the hand."

 

[qbomb71]

Going back and looking at the images and what was responded to I'm not positive now. This is what I asked and was responded to. Don't know if they were affirming it was not a statue or that the hand was not sculpted to the mace. I put both in quotations because my dumb butt can't figure out how to multi quote.



"Originally Posted by hoodonit00
Hope this isn't a dumb question. That hand isn't molded to the handle is it? These are going to be articulated figures correct? Not 1/6th statues?"

"No, of course not. It was just to try on the right size, see if it fits in the hand."

It would be crazy to have it sculpted to the hand, but the picture does make you scratch your head.

 

[Geb]

Also...this image showing the PROTOTYPING reveals the HAND attached to the mace handle.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Why is the hand being attached a problem?

Maybe the mace is too heavy and would slip out of the hand.