Congratulations on getting her!!!! I've kind of been hoping to find a parted out sculpt but the way things are going on second hand market, it's probably easier to buy the boxed figure. And yes, some forums (mostly those geared toward military figures/God bless/I also have a my own collection) insult HTS. They claim HTS saturated the 1/6 scale market driving up the cost of all 1/6 scale. But in reality, they just raised the bar and forced competitors to make better products. And off the top of my head - I can't think of another company besides HTS that makes an excellent female figure based on real life actors. Phicen does a great job with their body (you must be willing to do the huge lot of maintenance work involved). Their head sculpts are however a 3 out of 10*(IMO only).
Thanks! Yeah, wasn't any kind of a deal, for sure
, but after just a general look onlinw - CW Widow hard to find in U.S., marked up 'bay prices, at the moment looked like a flood of TWS and other BW (not that cheap tho...). So many KOs that I was happy to pay for a sure thing (IMO KOs are fine IF you know what you are buying.)
So hope you can get her too! I've had good luck with Popcultcha so far or maybe the 'bay has her at a *decent* price. I could've waited I guess, hoping w. the next film folks dump previous versions, but I just felt I wanted this fig new and not messed with at all.
Re your close up pics - I always kinda liked her look in IM2 when she is kicking @ss - reminded me of a deadly kitten or something w. those doe eyes and pouty lips. Probably my fav IM2 scene. Heck, maybe I'll pick BW #1 up sometime.
They claim HTS saturated the 1/6 scale market driving up the cost of all 1/6 scale.
Not sure I follow that; e.g. usually it's RARITY that forces prices up among other things. Far as I can tell if you shop you can get lots of 1/6 cheap esp. parts. *Shrug* if a company improves its product and then charges a premium, and people are willing to buy it, then isn't that telling other companies to up their game? I see comments like that mostly with polystone and the rising prices - true enough, past a certain price point I'd be forced out of any hobby
. But for right now (for me) I'd rather have a stellar sculpt and pay a bit more, than some cartoonish blobby generic face on a figure, or doll-like clothes with poor scale
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Besides, all prices for stuff went up. Look at the prices for vinyl toy figs even.
Sorry you feel you have to give up a BW tho. LOL for my favs (the *holy trio* of Cap/Bucky/Falcon, SW) IMO the more the merrier
. And IMO it's so easy adding a BW to my displays (I'm beginning to dump the HT stands tho in favor of generic stands and diorama backgrounds - the generic stands take up less space. Except Falcon re being a flyer). IMO Black Widow is easy to work with on the shelf. I think I might put her with a Bucky kind of as a nod to the comic art - maybe print out the comic cover as a background. Or do CW with BP
- after FINALLY ordering her, now I just want her to get here!
See how far HTS has come/how much work they've done to develop SJ's portrait?!?!?!?!?! And I'm not dismissing the Iron Man II Figure. It was this film's figures that primarily got me into collecting Hot Toys. When A1 came out, I liked it better and used a Phicen body to give this BW a few "extras." In those days, Hot Toys and Phicen may have had a profitable working relationship because Phicen's first 4 attempts with stainless steel skeletons also had skin tones that precisely matched Hot Toys. Those days are gone!!!! And the other thing I liked about making this a Hot Toys/Phicen hybrid figure is her height. With the Phicen body she is equal in height (give or take a few cm) to both Iron Man and Cap. But............ If I'm going to sell one to make room for CW, it will be this one.
