EXO-6 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Figures

[afrog]

It also helps if folks stop taking pics with their crappy cell phones. Get a real camera, or don’t post your lousy photos.

Most people post perfectly decent photos with their "crappy" cell phones. At least for our comparison purposes. As with any camera all it takes is a little bit of care with lighting. We are fortunate to live in an age when cell phones are more than adequate cameras. Unless you're Ansel Adams.

 

[mediame]

Most people post perfectly decent photos with their "crappy" cell phones. At least for our comparison purposes. As with any camera all it takes is a little bit of care with lighting. We are fortunate to live in an age when cell phones are more than adequate cameras. Unless you're Ansel Adams.

I think the issue is with the focal length of the cell phone camera, how close the person taking the photo is to the figure, the person not understanding how the focal length and distance affects the photo of the figure, etc.

 

[jsgord58]

Has anyone asked George Takei what he thinks of the sculpt?

 

[Jgg1701]

Alright, I take it you disagree. That's fine.

No disagreement.
I thought QMX could have done much better for a $200.00 figure

 

[Reflector]

Obviously not scientific but how many of you are buying TUC SULU ? Or have second thoughts with the head ? This might very well be the first TOS I’m passing. Not feeling it . What about you?

I definitely considered it, but decided to pass. I'll just pick up the 1:12 version from Nacelle if I can't shake the Excelsior-related itch. Having a spare body in a maroon captain's uni would've been another motive, but not with the belt position in question.

Might've gone for Valeris if she'd been the first TUC drop instead (and complete the Vulcan Lady Bridge Officers Trifecta), but she's a we'll-see in the meantime. Timing is everything with so many competing POs in this hobby.

 

[Reflector]

How much have sculpts improved for other figures when he said that they were not final, and they would be improved?

Every Exo figure I've received (a total of 13 now) was an improvement over PO pics for me, with my reaction range being satisfaction to literal awe. I've been dabbling in 1:6 figures for ~15 years, and in my experience with most other companies the opposite is bankable more often than not, followed by what-you-see-is-what-you-get.

Apparently it's just a resource-frugality strategy for them and they save their true efforts for the actual production figures, so it's just something that has to be accounted for when investing in this line. The only safe bets are to set your expectation level to the proto shots and only order the ones that satisfy as-is, or wait for POs to ship and base your decision on actual in-hand reviews and hope there's enough left over when they're made available for immediate purchase.

Speaking of...

It also helps if folks stop taking pics with their crappy cell phones. Get a real camera, or don’t post your lousy photos.

I too get frustrated with haphazard/rushed first-arrival shots that usually make the figures look worse than the prototypes (especially when I'm trying to decide whether to smash the immediate order button on a PO I wasn't confident in), but I doubt it's the camera's fault in most cases. Photography 101 is always going to be more valuable than the most expensive camera you can get

 

[Pauln6a]

Ordered mine.