For some reason I can't seem to be able to post pics.
Hot Toys secret base revealed the size of the box and had news pics of the product... Looks like the video we saw really is the final product.
It don't fit in your back seat?
Does this mean we are getting it earlier, I thought the shipment date was early 2019?
Glad pop culture does free shipping.
Who cares how heavy it is? How would that improve the piece?
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Who cares how heavy it is?
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That's the same question that has been applied to all statues, when the question of what materials they're being made from.
The answer being that it probably doesn't. It's more or less a psychological thing.
But that doesn't stop a large portion of collectors (me included) who want their statue pieces etc to have a bit of heft to them.
This is meant to be a replica of what I can only assume is a metal like Gauntlet.
Though I'm not even sure this was ever made for the studio, but I wouldn't be surprised if during filming they had a stand in prop made out of a variety of materials.
But as I also said, I'm not sure I really care in the end how much it weighs considering how I plan to display this piece.
The majority of collectors.
Even the actual gauntlet couldn't have been made so heavy that wearing it would be a struggle.
I think collectors need to be realistic about things like this. This is SUCH a large piece, and such a large portion of it (the forearm) is just empty space that filling it just to make it heavier would have been unwieldy. It likely came down to a matter of practicality ; either its too light, or too heavy.
Yeah, but why? Do you have an actual reason why, if a piece looks great on display, you think it's better if it weighs a ton?
How often do you pick up your statues? Once in a while to dust or move them? I mean, you aren't playing with them, right? If you have friends over and they admire your collection, do you invite them to pick stuff up so they can see how heavy it is?
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If it didn't matter every high end statue would be made out of pvc and vinyl, but they're obviously not, as most high end manufacturers know the kind of response they'll get. Honestly if all the statues that I currently have in my collection were made out of vinyl etc, I probably wouldn't have purchased a large portion of them.
They don't make high-end statues out of polystone solely for the weight. They do it because it's cheaper than vinyl if you're not mass-producing the product, and at these price-points, they're not going to be mass-produced. Other factors like the shape of the figure, where the weight distribution and stress points are also factor into what material is best. Vinyl and PVC can be softer, but polystone is more brittle.
So my next question is, if it's purely psychological, wouldn't gluing some sandbags inside the gauntlet for heft solve the problem?
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