highlander1
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You could be right.
you can take my horse's n cattle billy the kid but NOT my face likeness right's ha ha...
i still like it but damn u lol.
1/6 Hot Toys - MMS 283 - Star Wars Episode IV: 1/6th scale Obi-Wan Kenobi
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you can take my horse's n cattle billy the kid but NOT my face likeness right's ha ha...
i still like it but damn u lol.
Dead right. Dammit.
highlander1
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Damn White people we ALL look alike.
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Here's HT's Ben "in-hand" - literally.
From Cihat Uygun on FB:
reminds me of this guy.
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OH COME ON THAT'S a BRIDGE TOO FAR...^^^No river kwai there i dont see it.
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Still buyin' but not my favorite hot toys sculpt. Going to pose him primarily with the hood up. The shadows the hood provides do seem to age his face by highlighting the wrinkles. I imagine him looking pretty sweet dueling Vader, or next to farmer Luke and a couple tusken raiders.
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The HT sculpt is as close to those last two examples as Alec Guinness, so it's anyone's guess what the sculptor used for reference. 
I just looked at my Sideshow Obi-Wan and this is one of the few times where I would say the old SS one holds up against this HT Kenobi... and is mostly better.
Not only is the material for the inner robes a much more accurate choice, the outer robe (cloak) looks just as good. And the sculpt on the SS one is total Guinness -- mired by terrible shiny lead-based paint. About the only thing HT did better was the belt... and maybe the light-up saber gimmick.
For the price of this figure, I'm considering using that money toward a repaint of the Sideshow Ben.
I would like the uniformity of HT across the board for my new ANH display... but a proper Alec Guinness is more important and will fit along with Sideshow R2 and Sideshow 3PO.
Not only is the material for the inner robes a much more accurate choice, the outer robe (cloak) looks just as good. And the sculpt on the SS one is total Guinness -- mired by terrible shiny lead-based paint. About the only thing HT did better was the belt... and maybe the light-up saber gimmick.
For the price of this figure, I'm considering using that money toward a repaint of the Sideshow Ben.
I would like the uniformity of HT across the board for my new ANH display... but a proper Alec Guinness is more important and will fit along with Sideshow R2 and Sideshow 3PO.
Everyone knows that older Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks exactly life like Bruce Willis. This sculpt doesn't look like Bruce Willis, therefore you're wrong.
Pixelpiper
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I want to see this guy's boots up close. Boots and belt are what I'm possibly interested in updating myself.
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The HT sculpt is as close to those last two examples as Alec Guinness, so it's anyone's guess what the sculptor used for reference.
We have come a long long way from this crayon fig headsculpt. I know this is stage aghh looks like so n so or WOW i'm happy and am. no cancel continue on lol.
anyway back 2 old white dude aghem i mean old Ben.
I don't have very good pictures of this figure since its so damn long ago -- what was it, 2007? -- I was in my old apartment still (some of you guys remember my old digs with the 'naughty kitchen')...
Pixelpiper
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Who is this guy and why is he so pale?
Because he has terrible paint...
Trust me, I'm the first to move forward with better stuff, but so far I haven't seen it. This old sculpt really is better. I'd love to start seeing in-hand pics that prove otherwise. Why are the people that have this not posting pics?
My old picture is crap, sorry I gave fodder to the blind. Here, not sure who's this is, is this better?
I'm certain this is a repaint though.
Now that I see this, the t-neck on the old one is too big. Blast!
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Pixelpiper
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Facebook. But enough relevant images have been posted here in the thread - nothing better or more on-point yet.
The 2007 Obi-Wan paint is about on-par with, maybe a bit better than, 2006 Hot Toys paint on their Firefighters if that says anything.
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my old ben still love and have enough room for both hot toys n sideshows more the better imo.
No one is arguing about the crap paint... is that really what distracts everyone when we were talking about the sculpt?
I can see where this is going as usual -- everyone is going to circle-jerk themselves into believe the new sculpt is so lifelike that it doesn't matter who it looks like, then a few years from now when Star Ace or someone offers a new version, everyone will be laughing about Asian Guinness.
You can justify that SS Vader is not too tall, you can justify that Chewie is not too short, and you can justify that this look like Guinness... that doesn't make it so.
Looks worlds better, if that's the SS head repainted. But seriously, I wouldn't have to be blind to not see this face buried in that terrible paint job.
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