Enterbay: GODFATHER

[casper]

 

[Voorhees27]

I'm not a happy man right now either. I'll have two Godfather figures and one will be superfluous. Unless I buy some books.

So what's your address? Do you want them loose or sent in their packaging? Hey wait a minute. I thought you wanted mine. No good asking Roy, it wasn't that long ago that he changed his board ID, and without his Terminators we'll have to call him The. That's just be stoopid.

I dunno, I kind of like the sound of that ......... "THE" with caps. Hmmmmmmmm ........... well maybe its not a good idea, people will then be able to add something like ass, dork, loser .......... yeah not a good idea.

 

[blakus939]

FINALLY some full pics! Meh, they ruined it, what on earth is with those eyes! WHY OH WHY! They are so tiny and squinty and sleepy, looks like he just woke up! What's the use of having fancy glass eyes if you can barely see the dang things! All this resculpting time ruined imho! I think he also looks too chubby, like a sad bulldog. They definately have the paint app edge ( i guess, tough call there, the HT one is damn sweet ) and general quality on the upperhand also, the EB always seem to have that over HT with most of their figures, but man, really not seeing Brando in there, the comparison pic clearly shows it, HT nailed the look, i think EB misses the mark. What i believe HT captured better, and they also point it out, is that Marlon wasnt an old man, but was done up like an old man, somehow HT captured it perfectly, a midlife guy, done up as an old man, with the puffed out jaw. The EB just looks plainly like a REAL old man, not a younger man made up, and slightly on the overall flabbier side, not just the jaw. Hmmm kudos for trying i suppose, still a quality figure. If i hadn't bought the HT version and had waited to see this, i still would've gone HT though to be honest, easily

 

[chilipep66]

man I think the Enterbay is my fav for sure. I think the hot toys figure is a tremendous piece of work and won't bash it like many others have, but for me, Enterbay is the way to go! I just hope it comes with some great accessories

 

[The Ween]

I think they're both good figures and depending on what comes with the Enterbay one, you wouldn't go wrong with either one.

 

[hydrobud]

something wrong with those eyes

 

[Devil_666]

I disagree that it doesn't "look" like Marlon Brando. I think it does. Clearly it does. And you can easily tell. So it's not so much overall likeness. It's just he looks high and has an overly fat face. Again, Marlon Brando wasn't really fat when he made "The Godfather". So my comments about the face (in case anyone didn't understand) is if you removed the puffyness of the JUST the cheeks on the HT figure the face would be pretty thin and accurate to what Marlon Brando looked like while making that film. But if you removed the puffyness of the JUST the cheeks on the EnterBay figure the face would still be fat.

Disregarding the absurdity of this pic lol) it shows exactly what I'm talking about. You can clearly see Marlon Brando didn't have a big fat face in "The Godfather". It was cotton balls and make-up. So the only thing that should stick out around the cheeks is the spot with the cotton balls.

That's the problem with EB's sculpt and why the face looks too fat. They smoothed out that area of the cheeks and ran it straight into the rest of the jaw. So that effect of something in the cheeks is lost, and the end result is just a fat face.

That doesn't mean it doesn't LOOK like Marlon Brando. It does. And it doesn't mean this sculpt doesn't look like "The Godfather". Because again, it does. It just looks like Marlon Brando from "Don Juan DeMarco" redoing "The Godfather".

 

[Voorhees27]

Sorry Devil, what were you saying?

 

[Devil_666]

Sorry Devil, what were you saying?

2 + 2 + Train = TWOTWOTRAIN!!!! All Aboard!!!!

 

[Cap'n Cook]

2 + 2 + Train = TWOTWOTRAIN!!!! All Aboard!!!!

EPICLY brilliant!

 

[Voorhees27]

2 + 2 + Train = TWOTWOTRAIN!!!! All Aboard!!!!

Ahhhhhhh I see, I figured thats what you were saying.

 

[Devil_666]

Glad we cleared that up.

 

[Voorhees27]

Glad we cleared that up.

In all honesty I will say that the only positive (over HT's) is the skin tone. Although it may look like Vito its not a winner in likeness and overall accuracy factor. It IS a nice looking Godfather figure but all of my criticism comes in comparison to the HT's one.

I dunno ....... better luck next time I guess?

 

[siquisiri]

I have the HT on display...Im waiting for this one... but i must say that based on these new pics, the face still looks too fat.. and the eyes do look odd. Although Im not an HT or EB guy, gotta say that based on the latest pics, EB paint looks better, but HT has them in terms of the likness. To me that is more important.

saludos

 

[siquisiri]

2 + 2 + Train = TWOTWOTRAIN!!!! All Aboard!!!!

 

[plasmid303]

Looks quite good. Of course, I'd like to see it under more unforgiving lighting conditions so we can fully assess the final product.

You Godfather fanatics don't know how good you have it.

nelog posted this brightened up pic over at ezhobi. The eyes look really off IMO.

 

[IronFingaz]

Looks good but i prefere the HT version.

 

[Odowankenobi]

It certainly looks good and will be a treat for whoever gets one, but I'm very happy with my Hot Toys version.

 

[Nerdy Black Guy]

This version is nice but it's the Hot Toys Godfather that got me into collecting 1/6 scale.

 

[supekudx]

Wooow, what a lot of passion here!
Well, in my opinion, some facts explain why there is lot of argument.

I will try to define some groups of persons:
1) people who have already bought Hot Toys Version or Enterbay Version. For this group, people already paid a lot of money for the Action Figure. Some of the Hot Toys buyers already received the Action Figure and others don't. This type of group is very influenced by the money already compromised. In my opinion, a large amount of people of this group won't admit they made the wrong choice.

2) people who haven't bought yet (either HT or EB): This group of people have not paid for the AF, but there is a lot of influence of the future price of the AF. If there will a clear difference in the quality of the versions, there will be a clear difference in the prices. If the majority of people will think the EB version is better, the price will goes up than the current price of 170-190 dollars.

In my opinion, the photos published by EB are very unclear and it is not possible to judge until now. The best judgement will be in person, not in photos.

I belong to the group 2 and I confess a lot of anxiety. I didn't like so much the Hot Toys version, but I confess that I can regret in the future if I change my mind. I have a lot of hope that EB will satisfy my personal appreciation. But if it fails, I won't buy neither version.