InArt: The Lord of the Rings - Legolas 1:6

[Sassafras]

I don’t know how you can forget having a timeless character on PO.

For one thing, I already own 2 ASMUS Legolas with very nice accessories, the Helm's Deep base.

This just isn't a brilliant release IMO. 2 cloaks that look completely unfinished and you don't even get the silver pin of the council cloak, 1 bow, no Hobbit Mirkwood armor, no interesting base with, say, a tree trunk or something to go with a "woodland elf" or even a bit of Amon Hen. Plastic boots. Not enough arrows IMO.

To be fair, more stuff probably would raise the cost even more.

Then, the release isn't due for months and who knows if it will be delayed. I might get more excited with the first in-hand pics. Or horrified .

Actually several months in, I'd say Aragorn is a more exciting figure if you have the Ranger cloak. Or not.

INART makes relevant power players. Designs that actually excite. If they had Disney licenses, they’d also do characters of similar nature and staying power. You know they’d finally give us Indiana Jones (no, not Dial of f*cking Destiny Indy), Jack Sparrow (again, no, not stupid-ass DMTNT or OST Jack), a Tobey Spider-Man figure worth it’s salt from the Raimi trilogy, Alien or Aliens Ellen Ripley, etc. I didn’t even mention the boatload of Star Wars or MCU classic/iconic designs they’d be able to do too.

Sorry, but the Ashoka line, or any other “flavor of the week” products, are forgettable and I think it’s head-scratching/comical when people liken figures from subpar IPs to actual power players that INART makes. They just don’t compare. Is it okay to like “crap”? Of course. I mean, I’m getting Romulus Rain and the Scorched alien but I know it’s nowhere near the level of Alien and Aliens (even Prometheus imo). I wish people in this community were more objective.

Do you mean "view collecting like I do?" As far as "relevant power players" nope, I don't own a Batman or Joker. Well, a few DC pieces as 1/10 Iron Studios to represent, that's it.

Depending, I've always liked logical world expansions, because of Hollywood desperately needing to rehash/sequalize, for one thing - tho I don't always object to sequels. The Hobbit expanding into the North (Mirkwood, Laketown, Erebor, Angmar) for me was exciting. The Outer Rim for SW - finally, because I was Sky-walkered out, and even then Luke got dragged back in. POTC expanding into different pirate strongholds.

E.g. the various renditions of these "power players" over time for me is just monotonous (even if a lot of them are &^%$ likenesses). So, you may think of Baylan Skoll as part of a "subpar IP" but as part of my collection he's 1) Beautiful fig and 2) an interesting aspect of Force Users. (At the moment he's standing next to Aragorn and you can't tell me which sculpt is better quality, Baylan is stunning. )

I'm Gandalf-ed out too. I own WETA statues, ASMUS, people keep making Gandalf. Am a lot more excited about getting a new Thranduil and IF InArt releases Thorin.

Or - MY shelves sort of loosely depict a created world, with diorama bases, accessories, droids, etc.
I don't WANT a lineup of "power players" who may not even be characters I am into, like Spiderman.
Am slowly bashing a "random female woodland elf" together right now to go with Thranduil, for a background character. Am happy ASMUS released some elf soldiers. Droids to go with SW displays.

Am sure InArt will produce, sooner or later, "relevant power players" or someone else will, and that's cool, but it's hard to get excited about the 73rd Iron Man or Gandalf #48 for me anyway.