Re: Hot Toys - MMS - The Phantom Menace - Darth Maul and Sith Speeder
You could ask yourself that very same question, just the other way round. Why are you brushing the question of the narrow jaw, likeness or the tattoo lines off for the HT when you’re complaining about things like the width of the tattoos?
...if you didn’t have that lol in the end, maybe you would get an answer to your question.
Because I'm talking specifically about the tattoos, and was responding to a comment specifically about the tattoos.
For me, the jaw width looking less like Ray Park isn't anywhere near as big of an issue. Maul has a skinnier face in TCW and Rebels, yet his tattoos are pretty consistent (especially the nose which is easily the biggest offender).
If the biggest issue with a sculpt is the width of a jaw, then I'd say it's pretty good. Almost every other SW sculpt has something that's not good about it.
The engraved lines don't really bug me personally. In person it looks fine, and you'll be able to light it so it's not noticeable.
The tattoos on the other hand, would need to be repainted. You could show both of these heads and a pic of Maul from the movies to someone unfamiliar and go "spot the difference", and it wouldn't be difficult at all to point out how the tats on the SS are wrong.
The tats might be the right size, but in the film they don’t look like they’re engraved into his head, but look smooth as tattoos should look. Not sure why you’re brushing that off either.
It’s a give and take scenario, as many have noted.
Again, I was responding specifically to a comment about the tattoos. A comment which said they could find numerous examples in the movie where the tattoos are inconsistent and similar to the SS. Which is false, and people are literally making up excuses as to how the shapes of the SS tats are "also accurate". Context is important.
And at no point did I ever say the engraved thing wasn't an issue. It's not personally an issue to me, as noted above, but I didn't even mention that. So don't try to put words in my mouth saying I brushed it off. I would prefer they didn't have engraved lines, but they're a far smaller issue than the paint apps on the tattoos being completely wrong, which some people are trying to say are totally accurate because it's like that in some scenes in the movie (it's not).
Where is Krennic?...
