canuck_spartan
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they have eyes plates you can change behind the face.
BurningRage
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I like this pic
omegaglory1
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Thanks for the links canuck_spartan! The pics have put me more at ease. Judging from the different angles and poses, I see few problems with the tunic. Some might argue the green is too bright but I'm no Legend of Zelda purist and most of us probably have more to do than argue about the exact shade of Link's outfit.
Is this the first time Medicom have made a PERS type system for their figures? It'll be interesting to see how it compares with HT. Other companies could learn from having interchangeable faces.
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Omegaglory, as long as you aren't like the people at MyFigureCollection who are defending this figure and Medicom and being total pricks to everyone else, I think that's fine 
the people defending it are out of their mind, hating on the people who think they're getting ripped off with the changes and all.
I mean, I think it still looks all right but this is still a disappointment. When I get a 1/6th scale figure, I expect a lot.
the people defending it are out of their mind, hating on the people who think they're getting ripped off with the changes and all. I mean, I think it still looks all right but this is still a disappointment. When I get a 1/6th scale figure, I expect a lot.
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Those pics do make it look great. I have a feeling that's more how it will seem in hand…where the "towel" effect isn't as apparent.
omegaglory1
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Omegaglory, as long as you aren't like the people at MyFigureCollection who are defending this figure and Medicom and being total pricks to everyone else, I think that's fine
I mean, I think it still looks all right but this is still a disappointment. When I get a 1/6th scale figure, I expect a lot.
My attitude is that if the figure isn't to my liking I don't buy it, regardless of who made it. Most of my collection may be HT and SS but if I paid £200 and opened up a box to find something that's a total con or not to their usual standard then I won't be trying to make excuses for them.
My theory is that some people build up high expectations for an upcoming product and find it difficult to process their thoughts when it isn't 100% perfect. These figures aren't cheap and some people need to validate their actions rather than admit it was a disappointment. There's also the fact that there some people are absolute elitists.
That aside, I do like what I'm seeing so far
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My attitude is that if the figure isn't to my liking I don't buy it, regardless of who made it. Most of my collection may be HT and SS but if I paid £200 and opened up a box to find something that's a total con or not to their usual standard then I won't be trying to make excuses for them.
My theory is that some people build up high expectations for an upcoming product and find it difficult to process their thoughts when it isn't 100% perfect. These figures aren't cheap and some people need to validate their actions rather than admit it was a disappointment. There's also the fact that there some people are absolute elitists.
That aside, I do like what I'm seeing so far
This is the stage I'm going through right now
omegaglory1
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This is the stage I'm going through right now
We've all been there, Biojex. Not just talking about action figures either.
Interchangeable plates? Sorry for the misinformation. One guy had said on another forum it had new things used on the Berserk figure like the individual movable eyes and the articulation on the ankle which it does appear to have
Even with the not so good lightning and background and unfutzed pics, I think it looks great. Yeah, minus the tunic fabric which looks like indoor football carpet. Maybe the change was to match color?
Even with the not so good lightning and background and unfutzed pics, I think it looks great. Yeah, minus the tunic fabric which looks like indoor football carpet. Maybe the change was to match color?
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yeah u can see they have for plates for looking front, left, right and er..up/down?
i like the articulated boots. mami had those long boots and they were stiff as wood.
the color on the prototype was fine imo. does it look like they change the box cover to the tunic now though?
imo the version now is not as bad as i initially thought, but not as good as the proto.
Yea I was going to order this but yea money saved way to go Medicom.
SurlyJ
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I think the gallery photos look pretty great!
I have no issue with people not liking this due to the changes. However, I do think that medicom delivered on everything they advertised except the tunic, and I do 't think the tunic as eggregiously bad as some.
I am curious though, had this final tunic been in the prototype, and we never saw the other one, would those who don't want this now still dislike the tunic as much? Basically, is the tunic itself so horrible, or is it really just seeing a downgrade from something else you came to expect? Speaking of expectations, I don't really except an answer to that question. It's somewhat rhetorical and impossible to answer objectively. Guess we'll have to set up a double blind study.
I have no issue with people not liking this due to the changes. However, I do think that medicom delivered on everything they advertised except the tunic, and I do 't think the tunic as eggregiously bad as some.
I am curious though, had this final tunic been in the prototype, and we never saw the other one, would those who don't want this now still dislike the tunic as much? Basically, is the tunic itself so horrible, or is it really just seeing a downgrade from something else you came to expect? Speaking of expectations, I don't really except an answer to that question. It's somewhat rhetorical and impossible to answer objectively. Guess we'll have to set up a double blind study.
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Everybody always flips out at the first in-hand pics. It's just drive-by haters. Then once the actual fans and people who like the product chime in, the consensus swings in a more positive and representative direction.
Personally, there was always going to be stuff I was going to change about this, I want a more traditional Link, something in line with Twilight Princess is good, but a more "generic" LTTP version would be grand. I have no need for that elaborate bow, or whatever the heck that beetle/hookshot thing is. I never played Skyward Sword.
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Yeah, the cycle is fairly standard with some exceptions. Given the choice between Skyward Sword Link and another Link like Ocarina, I would go more classic, but Link is so basic this version is kind of as good as any when I boil it down. And Skyward Sword is a pretty great game, you should play it.
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Wow, I love EMS.
Scanned in Japan at 1:00 this morning, and then was scanned in at Customs in San Francisco at 6:30 this evening. I might have this bad boy tomorrow.
Scanned in Japan at 1:00 this morning, and then was scanned in at Customs in San Francisco at 6:30 this evening. I might have this bad boy tomorrow.
omegaglory1
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Wow, I love EMS.
Scanned in Japan at 1:00 this morning, and then was scanned in at Customs in San Francisco at 6:30 this evening. I might have this bad boy tomorrow.
My stockist won't receive his stock until early April. Oh well, just have to keep myself occupied with these pics.
Makes no logical sense to change the material from a nicely tailored tunic into this green nut rag.
guess the tunic in proto will cost so they used a cheap farblic which imo hurt the figure.
Looks like a mediocre custom tunic made by someone on here, at best.
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