JND: Justice League Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) Platinum 1:3

[GaryPool]

I love this photo from the FB group. What a time we live in with such collectibles. I can see what people mean with her mouth, side profile is spot on though, so I don't know how that works, doesn't look strange from those angles.

Waiting for mine to be shipped out.

Genuinely looks like a promotional image for the film.

 

[Singuy]

 

[Singuy]

Yeah JND seem to not be able to do Mouths properly, look at the Catwoman.

Still its a really nice looking statue and the realism and detail is fantastic.

I wouldn't trust anyone's iphone picture who doesn't know how to use the zoom function to reduce distortion. Only trust those who actually knows how to take a portrait shot using at least 40mm. The pictures I posted above are miles different than the iphone pics.

IMO it's getting near impossible to tell the difference between this JND and the real actress. It's way better than the prototype and anything else out there that's 1/3 or 1/4th.

 

[generalszabo]

She looks like she has dentures, because she literally does

 

[WolfBoy]

She has a bit of an overbite, which is probably what's throwing the mouth off for you.

Unboxing someone posted over on OSR:

That looks absolutely terrible. The teeth throw the whole thing off. A bajillion dollars later and customers get buck teeth lol.
Harley’s teeth looked off too, way too big.

 

[Lokki]

That looks absolutely terrible. The teeth throw the whole thing off. A bajillion dollars later and customers get buck teeth lol.
Harley’s teeth looked off too, way too big.

I honestly respect your opinion, and your use of hyperbole "that looks absolutely terrible"......I'd be very interested in knowing what you would pitch against this statue from your personal collection. Something you have spent money on, which therefore (in your opinion) is far superior than this piece.

You don't need to even select a wonder woman statue - you can literally pick anything from your collection, that you believe surpasses this piece.

As I said, I fully respect your opinion, but I'd love to get a frame of reference for your statement, based on what you consider good enough to spend your money on.

 

[Singuy]

That looks absolutely terrible. The teeth throw the whole thing off. A bajillion dollars later and customers get buck teeth lol.
Harley’s teeth looked off too, way too big.

There's also the possibility that the dentures were knocked out of place during shipping and can be put back into place. This happened with some Harley's statues on FB.

 

[Gipetto0812]

No offense to the original person who took those pics as if you’ve seen any of the few times I’ve posted pics on the board, you know I can’t take any good ones whatsoever

But, I don’t think the ones above are the best at potentially showing what it really looks likes. I’ve seen a good handful of pics on the JND Collectors group that really make this piece look like a show stopper. Obviously, I can’t speak from personal experience, but based on the other pics I’ve seen, just like nearly any collectible in our hobby, a great piece can look like trash with bad photography; and, unfortunately, those pics appear to be making a good statue look pretty bad

 

[generalszabo]

No offense to the original person who took those pics as if you’ve seen any of the few times I’ve posted pics on the board, you know I can’t take any good ones whatsoever

But, I don’t think the ones above are the best at potentially showing what it really looks likes. I’ve seen a good handful of pics on the JND Collectors group that really make this piece look like a show stopper. Obviously, I can’t speak from personal experience, but based on the other pics I’ve seen, just like nearly any collectible in our hobby, a great piece can look like trash with bad photography; and, unfortunately, those pics appear to be making a good statue look pretty bad

I feel like the company with the highest percentage of people saying it's just a bad pic, is JND statues. "It looks better in real life", "it doesn't look like that really", "the mouth looks normal", "the likeness is 100%"... I don't doubt there are bad photos, but pictures are literally how something looks. I also don't doubt that this looks stunning in hand, but this doesn't mean the likeness is 100% or that it's worth the money IMO

 

[generalszabo]

I honestly respect your opinion, and your use of hyperbole "that looks absolutely terrible"......I'd be very interested in knowing what you would pitch against this statue from your personal collection. Something you have spent money on, which therefore (in your opinion) is far superior than this piece.

You don't need to even select a wonder woman statue - you can literally pick anything from your collection, that you believe surpasses this piece.

As I said, I fully respect your opinion, but I'd love to get a frame of reference for your statement, based on what you consider good enough to spend your money on.

I don't own it, but the Infinity Gal Gadot wonder woman bust is the best likeness to me

 

[GaryPool]

I feel like the company with the highest percentage of people saying it's just a bad pic, is JND statues. "It looks better in real life", "it doesn't look like that really", "the mouth looks normal", "the likeness is 100%"... I don't doubt there are bad photos, but pictures are literally how something looks. I also don't doubt that this looks stunning in hand, but this doesn't mean the likeness is 100% or that it's worth the money IMO

Pictures aren't literally how something looks. Pictures are representations of how a thing looks, and there's a wide array of how those representations come out. Any Photography 101 lesson will give the reasons why.

Flip your front facing camera on your own face and judge whether that's how you actually look. These statues are just difficult to photograph primarily because most people don't know how to take a decent photo. They just leave their phone camera on a preset mode and take it without any good lighting. For every bad photograph there are brilliant ones like below.

Now the mouth, yeah that can easily be discussed if it's done well. Not sure how this can be described as absolutely terrible lmao.

 

[Gipetto0812]

I feel like the company with the highest percentage of people saying it's just a bad pic, is JND statues. "It looks better in real life", "it doesn't look like that really", "the mouth looks normal", "the likeness is 100%"... I don't doubt there are bad photos, but pictures are literally how something looks.

While I don't disagree with you there, there does seem to be something about trying to capture these JND statues with photos. You have some photos where the pieces looks really off and others where they look phenomenal. I don't think anyone can deny that there is an art to photography, otherwise we wouldn't hire professional photographers for weddings and other special occasions if anyone could do it just as well ourselves. There's definitely some skill required when taking a proper photo and not everyone has that skill, especially when it comes to taking pics of our collections. Just going on the JND group pics for this, you'd be hard pressed to find any two pics of this that look the same from the various posters.

To a certain degree though, I feel like this is the same type of argument that happens with most collectibles in our hobby between the 1/6, 1/4 and 1/3 items across the board (though not as polarizing as JND-most likely due to cost ). There will always be ppl who rave about a statue/figure with those same arguments you mentioned ("It looks better in real life", "it doesn't look like that really") not matter what it is, and others who don't. For instance, I know I'm in the minority, but I personally don't see what's so great about the 1/3 Prime1 Hush Superman statue. I'm a huge Superman fan and have been reading the comics for nearly 30 years at this point and I don't see that statue as the epitome of Superman statues the way that others tend to. I don't really care for it to be honest. Or, right now there's an on-going debate from the past couple of days of whether or not the new HT BvS Batman 2.0 is an actual upgrade, etc. where some are completely happy with the update and others see it as a terrible release (not trying to bring that conversation over here btw, just using an example). And for a final example, most seem to feel the InArt Joker is the end all be all 1/6 TDK Joker; but to my eyes, it was quite the disappointment when I got it in hand.

I also don't doubt that this looks stunning in hand, but this doesn't mean the likeness is 100% or that it's worth the money IMO

For sure, and I definitely wasn't equating likeness to the overall appearance. I think one can appreciate the overall piece of any item while also having other criticisms whether that's likeness, pose, finish, etc.

Not just for this statue, but just about any collectible in our hobby, I personally don't think there will ever be a 100% likeness on anything b/c at the end of the day, there will always be a level of interpretation by the artist. When you consider just how many TDK Joker sculpts there are out there, there are always some who say one is 100% and then there is usually an approximately equal amount saying it's off and looks terrible. It sounds like a cop out, but you literally can't please everyone as we all have an idea of what something/someone should look like in our mind and typically no amount of reference pics will change what we interpret as a good, near 100% anything. Even if we were to take a fullsize life cast of someone, there will be folks who say that's not who it's supposed to be. I mean, Matt Black said he used the Chris Reeve life-mask to sculpt the portrait on the first Sideshow Reeve PF and look at how bad that came out

 

[Lokki]

I don't own it, but the Infinity Gal Gadot wonder woman bust is the best likeness to me

I'm not debating likeness, that's purely subjective and really not worth discussing. I was challenging the "it's a terrible piece" statement. I think we can have a constructive discussion over whether a piece is "terrible" on a technical level, where it's artistic merits would have us going around in circles.

I can't tell you that you're wrong for liking the Infinity bust - even though there are numerous complaints about the pieces technical execution by people who own it.

 

[WolfBoy]

I honestly respect your opinion, and your use of hyperbole "that looks absolutely terrible"......I'd be very interested in knowing what you would pitch against this statue from your personal collection. Something you have spent money on, which therefore (in your opinion) is far superior than this piece.

You don't need to even select a wonder woman statue - you can literally pick anything from your collection, that you believe surpasses this piece.

As I said, I fully respect your opinion, but I'd love to get a frame of reference for your statement, based on what you consider good enough to spend your money on.

Just to clarify, it’s the teeth that are terrible, and i still stand by the opinion that they’re throwing the whole sculpt off. Especially after paying 3k for this damn thing, i wouldn’t want to be seeing buck teeth that ruin the mouth. In the same way i wouldn’t want a Catwoman that looked like she had a stroke because of her droopy lips, Harley with horse teeth, Arwen who looks absolutely nothing like Liv Tyler or Ledger Joker with the same issue. JND need to do better for their laughably overpriced products.
The rest of the WW figure is very nicely done, it’s beautiful, but if i look over at this thing on my shelf after paying JND prices and see snaggle tooth mouth, i’m throwing myself out a damn window.

As for stuff i think is expensive I’ve paid for that i feel was worth the money…my Prime1 Poison Ivy is perfect imo, got exactly what i paid for. The InArt Pennywise 1/6th figure is well worth the cost too (and that is MEANT to have buckteeth!).

 

[generalszabo]

I'm not debating likeness, that's purely subjective and really not worth discussing. I was challenging the "it's a terrible piece" statement. I think we can have a constructive discussion over whether a piece is "terrible" on a technical level, where it's artistic merits would have us going around in circles.

I can't tell you that you're wrong for liking the Infinity bust - even though there are numerous complaints about the pieces technical execution by people who own it.

For me, likeness is the most important thing about a high end piece based on the likeness of an actor. If we're asking which one has the most expensive materials and advanced techniques, JND wins most of the time. How it looks is most important to me, however. I certainly agree that saying it's terrible is overexaggerating

Just to clarify, it’s the teeth that are terrible, and i still stand by the opinion that they’re throwing the whole sculpt off. Especially after paying 3k for this damn thing, i wouldn’t want to be seeing buck teeth that ruin the mouth. In the same way i wouldn’t want a Catwoman that looked like she had a stroke because of her droopy lips, Harley with horse teeth, Arwen who looks absolutely nothing like Liv Tyler or Ledger Joker with the same issue. JND need to do better for their laughably overpriced products.
The rest of the WW figure is very nicely done, it’s beautiful, but if i look over at this thing on my shelf after paying JND prices and see snaggle tooth mouth, i’m throwing myself out a damn window.

As for stuff i think is expensive I’ve paid for that i feel was worth the money…my Prime1 Poison Ivy is perfect imo, got exactly what i paid for. The InArt Pennywise 1/6th figure is well worth the cost too (and that is MEANT to have buckteeth!).

I just don't understand why they have to shove teeth in there like that's a selling point, when in reality it is the one thing that throws the likeness off. When working with silicone, even half a millimetre of movement can make it seem off. Whereas a more traditionally sculpted statue doesn't have this issue

 

[WolfBoy]

I'm not trying to persuade you to like / buy this WW piece.

No, it sounds like you’re trying to persuade yourself to like it. Anyway, enjoy your purchase.

 

[Lokki]

No, it sounds like you’re trying to persuade yourself to like it. Enjoy the buckteeth.

I deleted my post, because it completely ran counter to my assertion that "I'm not trying to persuade you...." - it's far too easy with these things to find yourself in an argument (pro or contra) over these pieces.

If you think it's overpriced, buck toothed and nothing like Gal Gadot I've got nothing to add, it's your money, your collection, your choice. I wish you all the best, enjoying the pieces you do like....that's the important thing. It's less about my choice is better than yours, and more about all of us being excited for the things we like. Seeing people's collections, and their enthusiasm for their choices is infinitely more rewarding than nit-picking over our differences in opinion.

 

[Akiratang]

I think we're all being abit too negative here

I agree saying "it's terrible" is overexaggerating, the teeth although is not how Gal's looks, I still think the overall piece is fantastic and If I were able to get it, I would. Nothing is perfect and this applies to this statue and literally everything else.

 

[Singuy]

Infinity studio vs JND's buckteeth. I am already picking which window to jump out of.

 

[GaryPool]

She just shipped out for me, very much looking forward to my new Gal Gadot x Donkey from Shrek hybrid-statue, love these concept art pieces from companies!