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I also notice, at SDCC, the panel on the right of the throne was red like the Luke pics, but at the new con, it's not anymore.

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It looks reddish because of the light reflection off the guard, but it's definitely gray here.
 
His face reminds me of this battlefront promo:
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Good. Lets keep our eyes peeled for eventual surprises on the HT Star Wars front then :monkey3
 
I definitely hope we get more shots of this portrait with sharp image quality, the closeups here are granulated cell phone zoom quality.
 
Yeah I'm in the camp that's not feeling that sculpt, I'm surprised too because I though this one in particular HT would really knock outta the park. Hard to tell but his coloring also looks too flesh toned, to me the Emperor looked crazy pale, almost a light light gray coloring. I'm not sure if that was just the lighting in his throne room or what though.
 
His face reminds me of this battlefront promo:
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Definitely not!!! That Battlefront Promo looks like the Emperor and is a 1000x better than the Hot Toys Sculpt! If it even looked remotely like that Battlefront image I would be happy!
 
It's certainly not perfect but I don't think it's nearly as bad as most of the recent comments. I still think there is plenty of potential for it to come out looking great.
 
The only thing I see concern with at the moment is how defined his cheek bones seem to be, almost too strong, perhaps could benefit from being a little more subtle. It's almost like they sculpted some features as if that were an actually face and not a regular face with prosthetics laid over it.

One thing I love about Tim Miller's sculpt on the Sideshow head is subtle things that capture the look of the makeup and not trying to idealize the sculpt to be, what if that were just a face with those features and not makeup on someone. Bottom line is, it was makeup on top of a face and to do it the most justice, you have to embrace it. It's a feature that sets the Enterbay BD T-800 apart from all others, they balanced giving a realistic look of a face with a metal skeleton beneath being exposed with the look of Arnold in the movie having a prosthetic laid over his face and it came out wonderful. Many other companies just try to sculpt Arnold's face as is really is and then tear parts away, it doesn't look awful, but doesn't remind you exactly of the movie as much either.
 
It's just ok. Not what I had hoped HT would do though. Maybe some pics at a different angle will tell more but so far it definitely isn't blowing the SS version away.

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I don't think I'll get this unless it's $100 or around that number. Its just a robe with hands, you don't get a great look at the head in the movie and I already have Sideshows version. If there are lightning hands I would want those but I don't think I would pay $229 for this figure just to get those.
 
The skin color has way to much life in it. Needs to be much more pale and grey.
 
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