Statue BLITZWAY- Enter the Dragon- Bruce Lee Tribute 1/3 scale Statue Ver. 2 spec

[xpl0sive]

Agreed, the ETD likeness is better and the expression is helping this.

Will you be able to see it in-hand before buying?

I should be able to, unless Popcultcha do not have one opened for display, or don't allow me to view the piece before buying.

I'm puzzled over the measurements.blitzway gave one that is 1'' lower,the pics gave it as 1'' taller,but the owner says it's the same as GOD 28''
also going by blitzway's stats I worked out the base was approx. 14.5''W/D and 5''H....which made it 27''H..I'm lost

That's confusing as hell! haha. Would be great if there were a few more comparison pics between the 2 statues.

 

[Tyderium]

Makes you wonder what the body is made of then?
Doesn't sound like Polystone from 30cm's description. I think he mentioned being able to see light come through the hands when shining a light source from behind them.

 

[Darkavatar]

Makes you wonder what the body is made of then?
Doesn't sound like Polystone from 30cm's description. I think he mentioned being able to see light come through the hands when shining a light source from behind them.

Probably what Xpl0sive said, translucent resin, which is good for wanting a soft look to make it look like skin but not as good as polystone resin when it comes to showing detail. Like I said, I don't mean to put this statue down I think it looks fine/ok but it just looks like a big toy to me IMO because of the plane one tone/color paint job. And I can't see myself spending 1 K on something that looks like a big toy. Nevertheless, I am still on the fence, but I doubt I will get this because I won't have the opportunity to see it in hand, so I can only go by pictures and videos and in my experience, that media never lies provided pictures are taken with high quality cameras in the right lighting.

 

[Tyderium]

Yeah agree on all those points. I also won't have a chance to see it in-hand. It will be a case of relying on some high quality photography coming through, which hasn't happened yet and/or reviews from people who start to receive this here.

 

[gypsycatcha]

They are using them for eyes so they can avoid the googly eyed effect that they are known for. Using decals for battle scars is so pathetic IMO, unless they looked very realistic but this is not the case, they just made simple looking designs and slapped them on there.



The scars don't, paint job doesn't either but that is only speculation.




Yeah I would say I am guilty of that to but nevertheless, it seems that a lot of people are in denial about how good this looks to. And using decals fro battle scars is a cheap and lazy method to use on a statue. However, using decals in general for statues like for their eyes etc or something that shouldn't be sculpted onto the statue like Battle scars should of been with this piece is fine.



Well other than the paint job this pretty much is identical to the prototype except for the hair and maybe the lack of striation and vascularity to.



Then this company is not for you then, except for the accuracy part. I don't get blitzway, I mean come on what is the point on making the sculpt PVC if they going to not paint it realistically, which then makes it look like a plastic toy head and not a realistic like EB 1/4 figure heads? I was hoping they would step up and make the paint job better on this but no it looks pretty much the same as the GOD one. It might as well of been polystone because although that has a stone effect it doesn't have that that plastic toy look about it.



The likeness is great and perhaps better than the GOD, but the paint job really lets it down and since it is shirtless this is more noticeable than it is on the GOD statue, because your main focus when you look at that is the suit. Still a decent statue though but I think people are over praising it as I am am probably under praising it.

Yea maybe the scars dont but not really a deal breaker for me. They look ok. The sweat seems a bit hit and miss but 30cm shots look very realistic to me and the second vid from the original video on the tube showed some decent tones to the skin in and around the torso. . 30cm shots in particular do not look cartoon like at all imo.

 

[Darkavatar]

Yeah agree on all those points. I also won't have a chance to see it in-hand. It will be a case of relying on some high quality photography coming through, which hasn't happened yet and/or reviews from people who start to receive this here.

Yeah I would really love to see this in hand because like so many on here I do want this to look good but from what I have seen it doesn't. I even had a space of where I was going to put this to.

 

[mrchris]

surley blitzway are not misleading us with the ''polystone''body,which may end up something different,just kidding.
maybe as some guys have said,see it in real before making a commitment to buy.
me I will get him,and if I like i''l keep.if not make a very nice profit when I sell(guys who know me will be saying''yeah right,you will sell this-NOT'')

 

[gypsycatcha]

Fair enough bro, just read so much negativity over the last few pages that it gave me the impression that people just didn't like it. Seems like people keep focusing on the negatives of this piece, and not so much on the positives.



I agree man. People keep criticizing this piece, yet this looks way better than a lot of the stuff Sideshow sells, and definitely looks a lot more realistic, and people don't criticize Sideshow stuff this much lol. If Sideshow made this, I can guarantee it wouldn't look anywhere near this good, and there would probably be an even greater difference between proto and production piece. For starters, the headsculpt would be polystone, and would really look cartoonish. In some of the pics posted by 30cm, with proper lighting, it actually looks pretty realistic to me.

I love the base also. You're right, having a mirror backdrop would have completed this, and I think I'm going to make one myself.

The exclusive with this is the claw. Basically, if you buy it during the pre-order period, you get the claw. I think it's the same as when the GoD statue went up for pre-order, you got the personalised plaque if you ordered during the pre-order period.

To be honest I dread to think how this would look if sideshow produced this. Some of the stuff they have been dishing out of late has been dog **** lol. Oh cool. I like the claw. Would suck if you did get one without it especially with the extras that came with the first statue.

 

[Darkavatar]

Yea maybe the scars dont but not really a deal breaker for me. They look ok.

They are not a deal breaker for me either I just hate companies that take short cuts, it's like they just don't care but I agree they look ok.

The sweat seems a bit hit and miss but 30cm shots look very realistic to me and the second vid from the original video on the tube showed some decent tones to the skin in and around the torso.

You mean this video that looks like it has been taken under water?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUkj31mlzU

. 30cm shots in particular do not look cartoon like at all imo.

Don't know about cartoon like but they look toyish still like plastic looking. The eyes look real fake.

 

[gypsycatcha]

They are not a deal breaker for me either I just hate companies that take short cuts, it's like they just don't care but I agree they look ok.



You mean this video that looks like it has been taken under water?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUkj31mlzU




Don't know about cartoon like but they look toyish still like plastic looking. The eyes look real fake.

Yea if you look around the 30 second mark, there are some nice, red ish tones in there and some good depth. I wouldn't say it looked one color or waxy there.
I dunno, Im just not really seeing the toyish, plastic looking appearance. I mean yea, the head is plastic, no getting away from that but the sculpt, facial proportions and paint application give it a decent sense of realism more so than a toy imo.

We all see things differently tho. I know when I got the god statue recently, I studied tons of pics and watched every vid on the tube and only one video sold me and was a close to true as to what I received in hand.

and yea, it does look under water like you say lol but when the waves settle down, it looks pretty decent .

 

[Shoo]

I had written a long-winded post pointing out some of the sillier complaints that have been made on this thread since the first pics started showing, but it'd only cause bad blood and more endless questioning, so it's really not worth it. I must be getting old.

I guess I'll just do as I've been doing mostly so far, which is paying no mind to certain comments (or the wearisome harping about them) and being delusional.

If I find any more videos or pics, I'll post them. I will also post a couple of pics of mine when I get it, perhaps along with my thoughts on it.

 

[mrchris]

and I so wanted to read it my friend.i'm only kidding,just some light hearted banter

 

[Shoo]

and I so wanted to read it my friend.i'm only kidding,just some light hearted banter

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry, Chris. ;-)

 

[Darkavatar]

Yea if you look around the 30 second mark, there are some nice, red ish tones in there and some good depth. I wouldn't say it looked one color or waxy there.

Yeah it doesn't look too bad there, but the head sculpt still looks toy looking and not realistic like EBs ones do. I don't know this is probably the only video I have seen of it where it actually looks like it has some color and tones to it because it sure has zero color/tones in this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeQ4u47SQxY

And I believe the above video is how it will actually look, since the GOD paint job was so plain.

I dunno, Im just not really seeing the toyish, plastic looking appearance. I mean yea, the head is plastic, no getting away from that but the sculpt, facial proportions and paint application give it a decent sense of realism more so than a toy imo.

Well Raf said the same thing when he got his GOD, he said you can tell it doesn't look realistic it looks like a plastic head but I guess he used to buying CM statues that use silicon for skin. With the right paint job these PVC head sculpts can almost look as soft looking like the real thing but because Blitzways paint jobs are not up to par, they just look plain looking and toy like.

We all see things differently tho. I know when I got the god statue recently, I studied tons of pics and watched every vid on the tube and only one video sold me and was a close to true as to what I received in hand.

Really? I have to say pretty much all the pictures I saw of it (except the ones with the flash) were what it looked like in hand. The paint job didn't look good (but didn't look bad either) in any pictures or videos I saw. However, the eyes on the GOD looked almost like glass eyes whereas the eyes on this just look like plastic painted eyes.

 

[mrchris]

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry, Chris. ;-)

shoo hulk

 

[Shoo]

And don't you forget it!

 

[mrchris]

I'd better start warming up

 

[FriendlySamurai]

This statue does not have a flat, one tone paint job. We have already seen at least one pic of a torso with some nice shading going on. I highly doubt Blitzway only painted one production piece that way. That we can't see it in this pic or that vid is irrelevant.

Getting past all the nitpicky stuff the only place I think this statue has dropped the ball is the claw marks. I don't mind that they're decals if they're good decals. In this case they were treated like more of an afterthought. They could have been painted better but the bigger annoyance is the spacing- to me anyway. Still, the claw marks are not a complete deal breaker imo.

The likeness is pretty spot on. Everyone was originally saying that the lack of facial texture was what was causing a toylike appearance- now we have pics of facial texture why are we still on about him looking like a toy? Everything else to me so far about this statue has been pretty impressive. The sweat is going to be impossible to convey in pics/vids. He's not the proto but I'm not even sure the proto is the proto anymore. I'm starting to think its possible that its an amazing render, the face imo is almost too intricate... has anybody actually seen it in person? You would think it would show up somewhere at a show or convention... but then again we went from proto photo to in hand in what 4 months? lol some kind of record

Fabric is always going to look more realistic than a painted body sculpt.

I wouldn't say thats always the case. Fabric in some cases can make a statue appear more doll-like imo. Also it can never convey or capture a sense of motion. I have a 1/4 polystone statue of Naru from Love Hina with a gorgeously sculpted flowing skirt for example. And you have to admit, if Bruce's pants were sculpted we could all quit worrying about "futzing" with his pants for the right effect

 

[Darkavatar]

This statue does not have a flat, one tone paint job. We have already seen at least one pic of a torso with some nice shading going on. I highly doubt Blitzway only painted one production piece that way.

I am sure there is some shading but it mainly gives the appearance of one color.

That we can't see it in this pic or that vid is irrelevant.

It's not just that pic it's in nearly every pic or video of it, even 30 cm pics it looks one color. I am sure it will look plain just like the GOD looks plain, which is why Bruce Lo repainted the entire body. I highly doubt he would do this if there was noticeable shading throughout the piece.

Getting past all the nitpicky stuff the only place I think this statue has dropped the ball is the claw marks. I don't mind that they're decals if they're good decals. In this case they were treated like more of an afterthought. They could have been painted better but the bigger annoyance is the spacing- to me anyway. Still, the claw marks are not a complete deal breaker imo.

The likeness is pretty spot on. Everyone was originally saying that the lack of facial texture was what was causing a toylike appearance- now we have pics of facial texture why are we still on about him looking like a toy? Everything else to me so far about this statue has been pretty impressive. The sweat is going to be impossible to convey in pics/vids. He's not the proto but I'm not even sure the proto is the proto anymore. I'm starting to think its possible that its an amazing render, the face imo is almost too intricate... has anybody actually seen it in person? You would think it would show up somewhere at a show or convention... but then again we went from proto photo to in hand in what 4 months? lol some kind of record

I said it was a combination of both the plain paint job and lack of skin texture, the lack of skin texture was mainly the reason people thought the GOD looked more realistic but it seems that there is skin texture now, so both are equal in terms of realism. However, because the paint job is not realistic it still looks plastic and toy like, just like the GOD one does to some extent.

 

[mrchris]

there may be some subtle shading on the torso,although some of the red/pinkish shading on 1 of the vids seems to be coming from a red light/background catching the statue when the camera moves.i agree with the slash marks across the abs way too wide.
to me if it can match up to GOD i'll be pretty happy,well way happier than a couple of weeks ago.