Showing absolutely no regard, or respect, for their client base. We collectors are stuck in a George Orwell nightmare in the way Sideshow is applying their business practices. Double speak, regarding their design choices & QC nightmares, double tweak for their blatant money grabbing strategies. It seems like they are actually waging a psychological war on their clients; ignoring reasonable requests, giving us the finger when it comes to QC, & repeatedly raping us with these truly unjustifiable price gouging hikes.
- They have ignored iconic, logical, reasonable character requests from fans for years. When it finally comes, they inexplicably omit the very essence of a 50 year old iconic character's very identity, by not producing the classic portrait? Like them saying, "yeah, we heard you, this is what we wanna do, so open wide & eat it", at a premium price of course.
- They clearly stated an Ex feature, which Igo seemed to have been excited about, our clients are so stupid they won't even remember, so lets just cancel the Ex feature???!!! And this after all the fan speculation on what the EX might have been, which of course Sideshow is totally aware of EVERY post written,.... always!
- And their BS excuse about not having the time to produce classic portrait because sculpt was well under way? But they did have the time to omit cap straps from original digital concept, & removing pumpkin bombs from satchel strap, & killing any EX feature that was apparently established 3 &1/2 months ago, as per Igo. Yeah, they found the time to give us less of a product, & of course charge us more for less. Again, you want it(?), eat it!
Really don't know where to go from here. I like the sculpt, though it should have been slightly taller, as their misleading vid suggested, & I find the close-ups of the costume reveal a slightly crude attention to detail. But the fact is, I still need this character, cause Sideshow is not going to produce another for a very long time.
