I wasnt being ignorant...and while the Vintage stuff is cool for its time..(I had most of all Starwars,He-Man,G.I.Joe,Transformers as a kid) and it still doesnt measure up to the standard in sculpting of today as much as anyone wants to argue.I had most of everything in the 80's,but looking at now vs then..there is no comparison on the majority of toy lines...I wasnt dissing Waller at all until he made his point that he is dumping MOTU Classics and said (in our classics forum) that he was spending that money on vintage starwars (and I was kidding,as I believe he was too by his responses.)
Collect what you like, but why rub it in our faces...and say goodbye MOTU Classics when there is so much more greatness coming in this line...it is all I am really saying
You may not have intended it - in fact I'm sure you weren't - but you may have been coming off that way a little bit!
It's all in how you say it.
Sure, sculpting gets better and better - and I totally get your point. I myself much prefer the MOTUC figures to the originals. However, that is not the case so much with GI Joe and CERTAINLY not the case with Star Wars.
In the case of GI Joe, I like the vintage originals ('80s RAH, I mean) just about as much as the 25th Anniversary stuff. I think the 25th sculpting, while good, is a bit overrated - while details on the whole are sharper, almost every single original RAH figure had a distinct face, with personality. The 25th face sculpts, while a bit sharper, are bland in comparison - you can tell that the originals were based off of real people. Same with proportion - vintage haters talk about "melon heads" but people forget that peoples' heads are in fact quite big. The 25th figures look great but you can tell that the designers grew up on comic books - every figure has superhero proportions, whereas the originals look more like real people.
But yeah, like I said, I'm being a bit hard on them - they're great figures.
SW, on the other hand... Well, vintage will always be vintage. They continually come up with new sculpts for the same characters and they always seem to look good - and then they come up with an even newer sculpted version 1-3 years later (depending on how popular the character is) and all of a sudden that figure you thought looked so great is pretty dull... And while the original Kenner figures may be more primitive in construction - they will ALWAYS maintain their collectibility and coolness as they were the first.
Anyway, I digress. I love both old and new, especially MOTUC! Now time for sleep...
i'm so glad i waited. though i still have a few of my older figures in storage and i don't plan on ever getting rid of them.
