1/6 Hot Toys -Terminator Genisys: T-800 Guardian

[P.]

casting was really on one level with story and designs there.

"i am Kyle Reese. i grew up in ruins, starving to death, and don't know how to smile. oh, and i ate all survivors."

 

[DioramaMaker]

I'm not a big fan of the Hunger Games, but the guy who played Finnick would have made an excellent Kyle Reese.

 

[P.]

mouths are really similar on that picture. Neca's Reese looks less like Reese than that guy.
and at least he doesn't look like future Bear Grills who hunts 10 terminators a day solely to eat their flesh.

 

[a-dev]

We'll see, we'll see...

You go too far Khev

I'm not a big fan of the Hunger Games, but the guy who played Finnick would have made an excellent Kyle Reese.

Looks like an infinitely better choice alright, as would a few others.

mouths are really similar on that picture. Neca's Reese looks less like Reese than that guy.
and at least he doesn't look like future Bear Grills who hunts 10 terminators a day solely to eat their flesh.

 

[a-dev]

My figure has already shipped Although I'd probably be unwise to hope for delivery next week.

 

[DiFabio]

Why a-dev, why!? Say it ain't so.


Yeah it's a nice sculpt, but this to me has got to be the most boring Terminator/Arnold figure ever made. An old man in a hoodie with a shotgun from a meh movie.

 

[2littlemoney]

may be HT make this figure based on this image from the art book.
but the HT one is like 20 years older!

 

[holtrax]

Why a-dev, why!? Say it ain't so.


Yeah it's a nice sculpt, but this to me has got to be the most boring Terminator/Arnold figure ever made. An old man in a hoodie with a shotgun from a meh movie.

True but on the other hand its:

 

[a-dev]

Why a-dev, why!? Say it ain't so.


Yeah it's a nice sculpt, but this to me has got to be the most boring Terminator/Arnold figure ever made. An old man in a hoodie with a shotgun from a meh movie.

I said all that too but I reversed the sequence so that the positive about the sculpt was the most recent thing in my head and before I knew it I had clicked the order button.

 

[P.]

the positive about the sculpt

but he doesn't even look like Schwarzenegger. extremely short, severely smashed potato face instead of this.

it's a good sculpting work but the sculptor never saw any of Schwarzenegger photos neither from the movie nor from real life.
nothing is right - face shape, skull shape, eyes, hair, skin... nothing.
passable for a normal "i-like-modern-crap" fan but not for you
well i guess HT sculptors have already mutated our minds into "we don't recognise any difference between your bug-eyed faces" attitude.

 

[a-dev]

If you think that then you should have no more praise for this head than you do MMS238. I mean MMS238 is ''good sculpting work'' too (but the likeness isn't there). MMS117 is good sculpting work (but the likeness isn't there).

I see more Arnie likeness here than in those sculpts. If you don't, OK, but I'm confused by your previous statements.

 

[sallah]

Not trying to argue here.... I just really can't see how anyone can dog this sculpt. But maybe that is just me.

Sallah

 

[Uncle Bob]

I made 2 collages for 1984 and 2017 Pops.

Definitelly, the face of this sculpt is more 2017 than 1984..
I definitelly want to pay for a custom head for 1984 and 2017. Do you guys know anybody who would do the job?

 

[sallah]

I made 2 collages for 1984 and 2017 Pops.

Definitelly, the face of this sculpt is more 2017 than 1984..

It has been discussed a few times in this thread that the sculpt is actually based on the poster and promotional images and not either version seen in the film.

Sallah

 

[a-dev]

(Please delete the post, I accidentally posted it 2 times)

Didn't they digitally alter his face for the 1984 scenes to make him look younger or something? And since that kind of work could have been ongoing very late in the production it's easy to see why Hot Toys just went ahead and made him look like present-day aged Arnold.

 

[Uncle Bob]

It has been discussed a few times in this thread that the sculpt is actually based on the poster and promotional images and not either version seen in the film.

Sallah

I already know. I'm just saying that I did this collage, maybe for a possible commission

Didn't they digitally alter his face for the 1984 scenes to make him look younger or something? And since that kind of work could have been ongoing very late in the production it's easy to see why Hot Toys just went ahead and made him look like present-day aged Arnold.

Yes, they did, look at my last post, you can see the differences, definitelly, he looks way younger, maybe a bit more old than in T3.

 

[sallah]

Didn't they digitally alter his face for the 1984 scenes to make him look younger or something? And since that kind of work could have been ongoing very late in the production it's easy to see why Hot Toys just went ahead and made him look like present-day aged Arnold.

Yup. They digitally altered him to appear closer to his age in T2 (since the Terminator he is playing in Genisys would at that point would only look 10 years older than the "evil" '84 T-800).

Sallah

 

[a-dev]

Yup. They digitally altered him to appear closer to his age in T2 (since the Terminator he is playing in Genisys would at that point would only look 10 years older than the "evil" '84 T-800).

Sallah

They didn't quite achieve that He definitely still looks older than even T3 as Uncle Bob said.

 

[Uncle Bob]

They didn't quite achieve that He definitely still looks older than even T3 as Uncle Bob said.

If they would have had more time, they would have done it better. You can see how in some shots he looks younger and in other he looks older. The shot of him looking at the T-1000 dying with the acid... he looks pretty young there, in other shots... meh

 

[Khev]

I thought Arnold (the actor himself) looked great in the "present day" 2017 scenes. He's still got some legit life in him if he can just get the right movies/directors.