This! Yes the more images and videos posted of them standing side-by-side are crazy. I remember DX07 was fantastic when it arrived all those years ago.
Same here, I just pre-ordered it like a week ago too… lol
Blows me away just how little these YT reviewers know - in the space of ten seconds he says the DX07 boots weren't pleather (they are,) says the new Bespin outfit is a more accurate color than the DX07 outfit (it isn't - it better matches the prototype/promo costume's creamy color) and the new fig "fills out the outfit better" suggesting the DX07 outfit was too baggy (it isn't - the DX25 is too snug and "fatsuited" looking, the DX07 better captures the somewhat baggy fit of the costume, especially in the pants.)
And he loves the stubby, wrong-color, wrong fabric type, thick-straps DX25 boots over the DX07's quite close match to the costume boots.All HT had to do was changethe color on the Snowpseeder boots and it would have been perfect - but they didn't for some reason.
The problem is those two aspects are the ONLY improvements - a spot-on MH facesculpt and a much better cut/sew quality (not overall fit though) on the outfit. And perhaps the base USB connectivity.
The rest is meh boots (noticeable step down from DX07,) slightly off color and too-tightly fitted outfit (with no way to remove fatsuit, and pants not having enough volume to match the costume anyway), dim light-up saber, underwhelming sweaty hairsculpt (proto's hairsculpt looked amazing but HT changed it,) straight re-release of 12 year old DX07 Vader head, and minor reboot of the old SSC freeze chamber base.
I can’t think of much to remedy the pocket flaps, short of finding a suitable close match of the fabric or getting a second DX24/5 set to cut up, other than to make them from scratch.Yeah will check the color once I have it in-hand (browns/greys/greens are hard to capture in pics and this outfit is a bit of all three) but this one just feels like it's going to be a lotta work to me.
The pockets on both pants and shirt look to me to be a tad undersized (the shirt pockets look like they might benefit from your slide-the-flap mod) and I'm already mulling fixes like you are. Great idea on the re-sew of the pants to get the volume/drape up a bit over the boots.
It's just the cut is proportionately wrong in subtle ways - look at the example of the actual shape of the pocket flap on the HT figure versus the costume below. Like you slide the flap up to help proportion, but its still off cause of the shape/size. Time to start the "DX25 modifications thread".
I always applaud this level of dedication, when people go to such lengths to improve a stock figure. BUT my argument is, why the hell should any of us have to go to these ridiculous lengths to get movie accurate figures. I mean, if we’re paying $100 bucks then yeah fine, but these things are SO expensive these days, we should be getting a much higher standard of accuracy, straight out of the box!
Mods to give the pants and/or jacket a looser fit and to provide more durable boots I get, but I can only shake my head at complaints like the minor discrepancy in the shape of the pocket flaps. In this scale that pocket is no wider than my thumb - I'm not losing sleep over the taper on its flap starting 1/16" closer to the side than it should be lol.
