I don't think it has anything to do with it being mainstream or popular. But if your going to charge top dollar, you'd better get it right. I think maybe people are starting to wake up to just how annoying all the HT boot-licking is. You could crap in a box, slap HT on the label, and everyone would be like, "Ohhh, that's the best turd I've ever seen, HT is awesome, they've done it again, I have everything HT, I have to have this." Slap someone else's logo on it, "What the hell is the point of this?" HT is far from perfect. They have probably the most realistic-looking sculpts, and easily the best paint apps (except the constant dead-eyed stare), but as has been pointed out, Obi-Wan, Han Solo, the Black Widows, among others... do not look like the actors that played them; and it has nothing to do with it being difficult to capture certain people more than others. THAT IS B.S. I went to art school over 30 years ago (for illustration), and was surrounded by all types of artists. Some people are better at say sculpting a car, rather than people, or vice versa, so that is what they worked on. Art is little more than any other eye-hand-coordination skill, like welding, or being a surgeon. It takes hours, years, of practice, but anyone can do it, who puts there mind to it (maybe not the surgeon...) My specialty was people. I could draw a person's likeness from memory, but I couldn't draw a car or a building without a photo reference. The only possible problem with sculpting these likenesses is the size, but then, there are customizers that have made better sculpts than some of the ones put out by HT, so maybe the reason they can't capture a certain likeness, is they've hired the wrong people. They might want to look outside Hong Kong.
Because this looks great.
