Hot Toys: Prometheus - MOVIE SPOILERS!

[VintijDroidGutzz]

They're large versions of said toy, that get used as samples at trade shows.

 

[Devil_666]

Yeah.. they're twice the size of the figure and they have custom paint jobs i.e. they're not even remotely what you'll be getting.

Here's an example:

2-up Prototype

Actual 7" Figure

 

[Wulf]

Oh sorry, I didn't know that. Then I suppose the paint job will be worse on the actual product for sale..

Sample for trade shows..? Doesn't sound like a good reason to sculpt two different versions of the same figure.. One with more details, better paint job and bigger, just to release an inferior version..? In my eyes.. that's false advertising.

 

[BadMuthaDude]

2-up Prototype

Isn't that the 1/4 scale version? I doubt they would have used real netting on the proto for the 6" figure.

 

[greygoose]

Isn't that the 1/4 scale version? I doubt they would have used real netting on the proto for the 6" figure.

This is the 2 up version of the 6" figure.

 

[BadMuthaDude]

This is the 2 up version of the 6" figure.

So it's been said, but the real netting would make no sense wouldn't it?

It appears to be the 1/4 scale on display with the netting and 3 head versions.

EDIT: I saw pics of other 2-ups with netting too. I guess they sculpt on the netting texture for the scaled down final product after.

 

[Silasya77]

Isn't that the 1/4 scale version? I doubt they would have used real netting on the proto for the 6" figure.

If only their 1/4th netting looked like that.

 

[CelticPredator]

Oh sorry, I didn't know that. Then I suppose the paint job will be worse on the actual product for sale..

Sample for trade shows..? Doesn't sound like a good reason to sculpt two different versions of the same figure.. One with more details, better paint job and bigger, just to release an inferior version..? In my eyes.. that's false advertising.

They sculpt it big, to get all the details, and shrink it down for mass production.

It's not false advertising. Every toy is made this way.

 

[olbertfrog]

So by the way it looks a unicorn has more chance to happen than an Engineer

 

[CarrotBun]

 

[Wulf]

They sculpt it big, to get all the details, and shrink it down for mass production.

It's not false advertising. Every toy is made this way.

It's not only false advertising, because many here thought it looked awesome, which was misleading when it's not even going to look like that. But a waste of what could have been a great figure. That Predator looks awesome... what they released though looks like something I collected when I was 8.

 

[a-dev]

It's not only false advertising, because many here thought it looked awesome, which was misleading when it's not even going to look like that. But a waste of what could have been a great figure.

I feel that pain. However this has long (or always) been the way with NECA. Their collectors know to expect a drop in quality on the final production figures. We hope for the best and thats all you can do.

 

[CelticPredator]

It's not only false advertising, because many here thought it looked awesome, which was misleading when it's not even going to look like that. But a waste of what could have been a great figure. That Predator looks awesome... what they released though looks like something I collected when I was 8.

It's not false Advertising. They clearly state it's not the final product.

Toy collecting is a hobby built on disappointment. You don't know how many products I looked forward too, only to find them turning out to be a piece of crap.

You just have to play the game.

 

[a-dev]

It goes to show I think that some of NECAs sculptors are too good to be working at low-end.

 

[CelticPredator]

I agree with that. Paint is everything. It will make or break your product.

Not to say NECA hasn't had their hits recently. All my Evil Dead stuff was pretty perfect, as was my buddy's Clap Trap. But for some reason, their Predator, Terminator, and RoboCop lines have suffered IMO. I wanted a few, but ended up passing on each and every one of them. Meh.

 

[EVILFACE]

It's not only false advertising, because many here thought it looked awesome, which was misleading when it's not even going to look like that. But a waste of what could have been a great figure. That Predator looks awesome... what they released though looks like something I collected when I was 8.

That is why Toy Fair is for retailers and not the buying public. Half the stuff there won't see store shelves.

 

[a-dev]

I agree with that. Paint is everything. It will make or break your product.

Not to say NECA hasn't had their hits recently. All my Evil Dead stuff was pretty perfect, as was my buddy's Clap Trap. But for some reason, their Predator, Terminator, and RoboCop lines have suffered IMO. I wanted a few, but ended up passing on each and every one of them. Meh.

Thats essentially what The Rider has been saying and everyone jumps on him.

 

[Wulf]

I feel that pain. However this has long (or always) been the way with NECA. Their collectors know to expect a drop in quality on the final production figures. We hope for the best and thats all you can do.

Yeah I didn't know.. Haven't collected NECA figures before but now I know. Really weird way of promoting your products if you ask me.

It's not false Advertising. They clearly state it's not the final product.

Toy collecting is a hobby built on disappointment. You don't know how many products I looked forward too, only to find them turning out to be a piece of crap.

You just have to play the game.

I just don't see the point in showing a superior version if they're going to release an inferior version. Why not just show the inferior version to begin with..?

They should state it's not the product at all.. So much difference.. I mean, even Hot Toys products says "not final product" but they don't change that drastically to an almost completely different inferior figure.

Maybe it's not false advertising, but it is a bit misleading. In my opinion anyway.

I don't care that much. I was impressed by the Shaw figure and thinking it was 6".. For a moment there I was considering buying that figure and the rest of the NECA Prometheus line if HT would desert their Prometheus line.. But now that I know, thank you everyone who told me, I'm not going to.

It goes to show I think that some of NECAs sculptors are too good to be working at low-end.

They're really good!

 

[BadMuthaDude]

Every toy company creates a prototype of each figure. Every prototype has higher quality detail and paint than the manufactured product. If you don't show the prototype to generate interest, what can you show? Nothing.

 

[Wulf]

Every toy company creates a prototype of each figure. Every prototype has higher quality detail and paint than the manufactured product. If you don't show the prototype to generate interest, what can you show? Nothing.

Of course, but with that major difference that was shown in this thread to me? Come on. The Predator prototype was basically a work of art. The released product looked like something that came out of a kinderegg.