To be perfectly honest, I think that all too often people get hung up on the company's name that's on a statue. I'll be the first to admit that I'm guilty of it, but there are better 1/4 scale representations of many top tier characters out there besides what Sideshow has produced.
I love most of the older Sideshow PFs and comiquettes, but it seems like the days of well thought out statues and the mentality of 'quality>quantity' is long gone. There are still quite a few high quality SS pieces coming out (Gambit, Black Panther, Spidey/Venom/Carnage comiquettes), but not like they used to.
Just one example of many, but this 1/4 Silver Surfer absolutely blows Sideshow's out of he water. I guarantee that people would have gladly paid $400+ and a non-refundable deposit for something like this with Sideshow's name on it.