Hot Toys - MMS - Star Wars Episode VII: Finn 1/6th Collectible Figure

[QuiGonFishing]

This is just my personal opinion, and I don't want to upset anyone, but I'm seeing a caricature of a black man in this rather than the character of Finn as played by John Boyega. The lips are larger, his expression is angry rather than resolute, his face is more thickset, the skin colour is darker than the prototype and the whites of the eyes are more pronounced. HT have done plenty of good sculpts of black actors, and I'm not jumping up and down alleging anything, but that's what I see. Quite happy to be told I'm seeing something that isn't there.

From what I've seen, 100% agree. Happy to hold final judgement until I see some more in hand shots, but I'm very disappointed today...

 

[IarnaOrgana]

The sculpt looks fine to me Yeah, you could nitpick, but it's clearly John Boyega. Didn't PO this one - waiting for Stormie Finn - but it looks great. Seeing that jacket reaaaaally makes me want a plainclothes Poe. Alas.

 

[K1NG J0RDAN]

That's an awful pic to use the comparison with above. Need an in hand natural lighting pic to do that with.

 

[Tom Day]

That's an awful pic to use the comparison with above. Need an in hand natural lighting pic to do that with.

But no amount of lighting is going to change the smaller forehead, the hairline, the much simplified and misshapen ear, to take just the obvious differences.

 

[BuGz]

I think he looks alright.

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[spindrift]

Looks good to me- these pics alot of times distort certain elements of the faces so in hand will be the test

 

[Tom Day]

But no amount of lighting is going to change the smaller forehead, the hairline, the much simplified and misshapen ear, to take just the obvious differences.

... the heavier jawline, the squarer chin, the simplified shape of the hair and hairline, the shallow sculpting of the hair...

It's like the factory saw what they wanted to see, not what was there.

 

[Tom Day]

Looks good to me- these pics alot of times distort certain elements of the faces so in hand will be the test

Yeah, agreed, anytime I doubt this I just have to look at my Han Solo figure.

 

[Mandible]

But no amount of lighting is going to change the smaller forehead, the hairline, the much simplified and misshapen ear, to take just the obvious differences.

And the lips, and the flattened nose...

EPIC FAIL!

The proto was AMAZING

 

[Mandible]

"Alright" being the key word - if you're comparing him to they guy out of GTA5...

I think he looks alright.

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[QuiGonFishing]

That's an awful pic to use the comparison with above. Need an in hand natural lighting pic to do that with.

Find me a better one and I'd be more than happy to re-compare. The shots above are even worse. The interpretation of the production portrait reminds me of the "interpretation" Time magazine did of OJ Simpson for their cover during his trial (for those of us old enough to remember).

 

[Centrocal]

It no longer resembles the actor. I don't know who this is anymore.

What a shame the proto was flawless. Why would they do this.

 

[BatBrain]

 

[Rainpaulo]

Messed this one up did hot toys.

 

[QuiGonFishing]

Thanks for posting that video, BatBrain. Seeing him being moved and rotated through space with the opportunity to see him from all those angles confirms it for me....this is a hatchet job.

Easy cancel.

 

[r3dPyramid]

HARD PASS. No thank you and goodnight.

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[The Green Goblin]

Seeing more pics and comparisons, I agree that this is a new sculpt. I don't think it's bad though, except for the lips looking slightly too big. I think it looks like Boyega, but the old one looked like him too, just better maybe. I see Boyega a great deal in both sculpts.

 

[piccolodaimaoh]

From what I've seen, 100% agree. Happy to hold final judgement until I see some more in hand shots, but I'm very disappointed today...

It looks like they changed the shape of his head and made his nose smaller. The other one looks so much more accurate.

 

[Underworld54]

Watch them butcher Rey as well.

 

[QuiGonFishing]

That snarling upper left lip is atrocious, not Boyega at ALL.