Everything looks good to me. If you see something wrong, let me know because I don't. In your opinion, do you think I got the one with the normal sized S or the Large S on his chest that people were talking about.
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It?s the normal s. Figure looks good to me.
There was no need to send any back, the art box was sealed and everything inside was still in place from factory packing.
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That Superman looks new to me, and not tampered with. It has the plastic on the hands and I assume the boots, as well as behind the neck.
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That is odd. Was the round piece of tape on the art box cut or looked like it had been peeled back? Even if it wasn't, still sounds like a returned figure to me. It's annoying that Sideshow lies about it, other people have received supposedly new figures in much worse shape. Plastic covering removed from the figure's hands, hair or dust in the art box, etc.
Round piece of tape looked cut. I pointed it out to them & it isn't covered in their terms of service. The box/package doesn't count as part of the item. I guess they can get away with it, but at least the figure itself looks to be in new condition.
I tend to not mind if I have returned figure if it looks like what you got here. However, I've been the victim of receiving a damaged returned statue (89 Batman PF) which was incredibly upsetting considering they no longer had any replacement parts available by the time I got mine from them. I mean the whole thing really needed replaced aside from the body and base. everything else was garbo.
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Wow cut tape. At least it looks okay. Was this a waitlist convert?
Just out of curiosity, how long were you on the waitlist?
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There is the Kryptonian script through the middle of the "S" ("hope" symbol) which is accurate for the suit but because it's reduced to 1/6 size at a glance could look like a line.
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The actual suit has a clear line in the curving through the center.
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I want to get the figure to use it in dynamic poses. How delicate is the figure? How delicate is the fabric?
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The real issue with this isn?t necessarily the fabric or the pose-ability, it?s usually the clamp on the figure that can leave marks. I?ll try and take some telling pictures of my personal JL Supes to show what these clamps will do even though I had both MoS and BvS Supes? displayed for years before the JL version arrived. I knew what to look out for, I knew that I could put him in a pretty dynamic pose without risk of damage but my JL shelf where he was going called for a pretty standard ?hero? pose with little to no stress on the suit. I noticed the damage about 2-3 weeks after my JL Supes arrived as I wanted to swap over to the heat vision head because I had made a few more USB to AG1 wired battery conversion cables.
Take notice of the 1st picture?s position of the clamp around Supes waist. I?ll then try to post higher detailed pictures of the damage to the suit that I noticed in 2-3 weeks of this pose that is nowhere nearly as dynamic as the material could withstand. All the suit damage is on the light blue piping pattern on the sides where the clamp held up the figure and that is permanent. Lots of people just switch to a standard crotch grabber but that makes the poses even more limited (unless you do some creative ?puppet wiring? using the grabber as just a balance). I knew this was going to happen so I only blame myself because of my experience with the previous versions but I was really taken back by the quickness and relatively large damage area considering the clamp has a small footprint and is padded. Lastly, the marks are definitely small but they are everywhere on both sides, the included pictures are just a couple of the many examples unfortunately. Good luck.
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I'd try lightly (and I mean lightly) heating up those problem areas with a hair dryer on low and see if you can tease out the compressed areas with your finger. It shouldn't be any different to creases in other Superhero suits which typically spring back or "self heal" with a bit of heat.
I was considering going the "pin the in back" route, as my preferred pose would be him hovering slightly higher than the others. By using a pin into the back of the body there is no clamp needed. But I need to investigate how to get the pin through with minimal damage to the suit.
I'm sure others have done this, and I'm surprised Hot Toys haven't adopted this as any small hole in the suit is covered by the cape.
Open to more info from anyone who has tried this.
I was considering going the "pin the in back" route, as my preferred pose would be him hovering slightly higher than the others. By using a pin into the back of the body there is no clamp needed. But I need to investigate how to get the pin through with minimal damage to the suit.
I'm sure others have done this, and I'm surprised Hot Toys haven't adopted this as any small hole in the suit is covered by the cape.
Open to more info from anyone who has tried this.
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Hey Hoody! So I?ve been at this and more for quite some time (I even started painting about 3 years ago now I?m up to over 250 colors!) and that blue piping material is some kind of really thin, hard plastic so the amount of heat needed to get any movement just melts the piping unfortunately.
Yeah, just go for the pin in the back mount as there is a zipper that goes from his butt to his neck. I?m unaware if you own this version or you?re considering it but the changes from BvS, from what I can observe personally, are different thigh muscles as the rest of the body seems identical. The suit colors have obviously changed and that blue piping material was changed from a soft rubberized plastic to a thin, hard plastic. Because I did a couple cape swaps on the BvS Supes, I?ll pass back the recommendation on using heat. When you figure out how you?re going to pin the back and go to zip the seam zipper back up behind the cape, be certain to keep that upper body portion of the suit nice and warm or you will rip the zipper right off.
Good luck, Thanks for the recommendation even though I should have stated in my post that ?healing heat? is the same temperature as melting heat for the new material they switched over with the blue piping.
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