Bandai S.H. Figuarts - The Lord of the Rings

[ronnieb555]

 

[ronnieb555]

 

[Deinonychus]

I prefer the head sculpt on the inart aragorn, they’ve captured the cleft better.

 

[DioramaMaker]

Frodo looks like he's about to head back to Neverland after a long tour.

 

[Kalkylen]

Mostly terrible apart from The War of the Rohirrim figures which look great. My wallet breathes a sigh of relief.

 

[spaceghost2000]

I think they look great. Far better than toybiz and considerably better than Diamond Select.

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

These look terrible.
I can't even look at Gollum without laughing at him.
Frodo looks very feminine in the sculpt.

No way are these better than Toybiz.

 

[Kalkylen]

These look terrible.
I can't even look at Gollum without laughing at him.
Frodo looks very feminine in the sculpt.

No way are these better than Toybiz.

Don't remember Aragorn wearing a miniskirt either these would be fine for £25 like but they not much better than the recent Diamond Select offerings which are around that price.

The cloaks are absolutely horrible too.

 

[JorjeCroft]

They don’t look good imo, but animated ones are cool!

 

[Ramman81]

Sculpts look soft.....

 

[chrisstbh]

I prefer the head sculpt on the inart aragorn, they’ve captured the cleft better.

No way, you prefer to the one that's like 5-6x the price?

 

[spaceghost2000]

These look terrible.
I can't even look at Gollum without laughing at him.
Frodo looks very feminine in the sculpt.

No way are these better than Toybiz.

No no you’re right, Toybiz really captured….

 

[spaceghost2000]

Don't remember Aragorn wearing a miniskirt either these would be fine for £25 like but they not much better than the recent Diamond Select offerings which are around that price.

The cloaks are absolutely horrible too.

The DS figures are really bad, I bought them and they’re some of the very few I simply regret getting. Doubt I could give them away.

 

[Kalkylen]

The DS figures are really bad, I bought them and they’re some of the very few I simply regret getting. Doubt I could give them away.

Yeah I didn't bother picking any of those up either. My kingdom for some half decent 1/12th LOTR figures! Say what you want about Hasbro but a lot of their most recent Black Series figures are great for the price point! If someone gave LOTR the same treatment and went all in on the line I'd be in big trouble.

 

[superdoug]

I guess I am in the minority but I don’t think DST LOTR figures are that bad. I actually think some of them turned out really well and are upgrades from the old ToyBiz figures.

 

[spaceghost2000]

I guess I am in the minority but I don’t think DST LOTR figures are that bad. I actually think some of them turned out really well and are upgrades from the old ToyBiz figures.

I will say Gimli looks good, but I stopped after wave 4? Boromir/Lurtz onwards the line may have improved.

 

[scumonkey]

uh......NO

 

[cbulas1]

As an owner of several Figuarts figures, I know these head sculpts will look better in person than they do in these photos, but... yikes!

And the Elven cloaks look like giant billowing capes... not accurate at all!

 

[superdoug]

To each his own. I am definitely not saying DST are InArt, high end quality but to me they are a step up from ToyBiz in most categories. Somethings like the sheaths not being attached, articulation choices, accessories, etc. are mind boggling to me but not to the point I have bailed on the line. Granted I am a very easy mark for LOTR. I used to have every ToyBiz 1/12 that they made and I even had the NECA Balrog. At one point I had the crazy idea of building a Helms Deep dio. At the time I had the figures for it but never got around to it.

 

[markecho]

Saw this announcement, am not hopeful. And am big LOTR fan.
Been collecting MCU SHF and SW SHF and I have to say figures are great!
Some of the early ones like Star Prince are on the short side. So they do not scale well with ML

However...SHF is notorious for not finishing teams. Guardians still no Groot and was previewed many years ago. No Drax. No Vision, also previewed. Star Wars SBD previewed long ago, and I think SWB beat them to it.

And of course being the overseas company, releases are really slow.
So let's say 7+ years to complete the Fellowship, if they would even do it.

Would be a sweet scale to do because would be cool to get Rohrrim, or Mumakil at that scale, but those be pipe dreams!