Change is difficult.
I've been on these boards since 2006, when I joined, this was a small community, where almost everyone knew everyone, there were pipe dream projects of figures people knew would never be touched (Medieval Kurgan), and the majority of members, like myself, grew up with Hasbro as our only source of Star Wars figures, and Star Wars being one of few properties to get a thorough representation in figure form.
Hot Toys were in their infancy, these were what Hot Toys was turning out at the time and to most of us, they were cutting edge.
I was beyond ecstatic when Jedi Luke was debuted by Sideshow, and I'm sure many other too, though I know a lot of collectors always disliked the stare in his eyes, I was fine with it. I thought, finally, figures that look like the movie, not crazy toys that bare no resemblance to the film like Kenner toys, not He-Man proportioned Luke figures like Hasbro, but figures that looked like the actors, had real costumes and all the accessories you could want.
So you have to understand, for those who've been around this site for as long as I, and even longer than myself, or collecting longer, it's been like a lifetime of dreaming of figures to the level of this Luke, to the point where something like this is beyond anything we could ever have imagined possible, so criticisms of small features that, while may be accurate and true, that seem small in the big picture of the overall figure, seem almost crazy and ungrateful in the eyes of those who never thought we'd see the likes of these figures.
On the flip side, there are new generations among the population here now that know nothing but the golden age of collectibles where seemingly anything you could want is either available through custom artists or licensed manufacturers and to a level like nothing we could have dreamt of 20 years ago, and in a world where near perfection or even perfection is achievable, anything short becomes unacceptable because people know better can be done and expected, because these companies also strive to make collectors happy and tweak and work things or re-release them again and again until everyone is content.
Sure it may feel tedious to hear too much from the opposite side, but in a mixed community, it's going to happen, and all you can do is ignore it or find some way to interact with it and redirect it in a positive manner rather than taking shots at each other's perspectives.
I've been on these boards since 2006, when I joined, this was a small community, where almost everyone knew everyone, there were pipe dream projects of figures people knew would never be touched (Medieval Kurgan), and the majority of members, like myself, grew up with Hasbro as our only source of Star Wars figures, and Star Wars being one of few properties to get a thorough representation in figure form.
Hot Toys were in their infancy, these were what Hot Toys was turning out at the time and to most of us, they were cutting edge.
I was beyond ecstatic when Jedi Luke was debuted by Sideshow, and I'm sure many other too, though I know a lot of collectors always disliked the stare in his eyes, I was fine with it. I thought, finally, figures that look like the movie, not crazy toys that bare no resemblance to the film like Kenner toys, not He-Man proportioned Luke figures like Hasbro, but figures that looked like the actors, had real costumes and all the accessories you could want.
So you have to understand, for those who've been around this site for as long as I, and even longer than myself, or collecting longer, it's been like a lifetime of dreaming of figures to the level of this Luke, to the point where something like this is beyond anything we could ever have imagined possible, so criticisms of small features that, while may be accurate and true, that seem small in the big picture of the overall figure, seem almost crazy and ungrateful in the eyes of those who never thought we'd see the likes of these figures.
On the flip side, there are new generations among the population here now that know nothing but the golden age of collectibles where seemingly anything you could want is either available through custom artists or licensed manufacturers and to a level like nothing we could have dreamt of 20 years ago, and in a world where near perfection or even perfection is achievable, anything short becomes unacceptable because people know better can be done and expected, because these companies also strive to make collectors happy and tweak and work things or re-release them again and again until everyone is content.
Sure it may feel tedious to hear too much from the opposite side, but in a mixed community, it's going to happen, and all you can do is ignore it or find some way to interact with it and redirect it in a positive manner rather than taking shots at each other's perspectives.
