Molecule8 John Lennon UPDATE 5/10/18 - SCAM COMPANY!

[Wor-Gar]

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Official head shot from M8 . . .

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Welcome to the next level..... the Molecule8 Level.

I'm not sure that would be acceptable 10 years ago.

 

[JacktheRipper]

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Even with all the ribbing done in this thread it is obvious many people want them to succeed, me included. But, bullshi t is bullshi t and M8 is full of it. I get touting your company as the greatest ever, but it's time to shut your mouth and deliver. This display is piss-poor.

 

[Chunk]

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I hate their strategy and the way they've gone about selling this...Kinda feels like a kickstarter. They definitely should come clean about production because from what is clear the production hasn't started properly yet!
But if I'm honest I'd welcome a company if it plans to improve the product and offer something new especially with some cool licenses! There is a lot of room for improvement whether they take that on board and fix it is another matter.

On the money side I wasn't 100% so I paid £40 deposit with a UK retailer least that way I'm covered etc.

I can see your point, but the dishonesty is what gets me the most, personally. I can't get past it, so I'm out even if they do, by some miracle, produce something halfway decent now.

 

[Lejuan]

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But if I'm honest I'd welcome a company if it plans to improve the product and offer something new especially with some cool licenses! There is a lot of room for improvement whether they take that on board and fix it is another matter.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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Everyone should be out.

If Lennon comes out looking like this, you'll be able to snatch one off ebay for $150 easy.

 

[Der_Doktor91]

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Everyone should be out.

If Lennon comes out looking like this, you'll be able to snatch one off ebay for $150 easy.

You mean 15$

 

[Wor-Gar]

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Well, I tried to be reasonable.

 

[Lejuan]

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Come on guys, the incredible endoskeleton alone is worth more than fifteen bucks.

Well maybe not A4, but definitely poster-size.

 

[Der_Doktor91]

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I actually ask myself why they didn't use the finished sculpt from K.A.Kim

 

[Phine1]

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Seriously wtf. This is atrocious.



Look at the loss of detail - notably in the hair, and insane distortion in the sculpt. paint is worse than SS and most 3rd part companies. body looks like a joke with alien arms and very limited poseability. sculpt lost it's neck and now looks really really weird because of it.

honestly, anyone who is still supporting this company - after 4 months with only THIS to show - needs to see the light and smell the coffee

Anyone saying: "This is a prototype, wait for final". NO. you are wrong. the prototype was K. A. Kims master sculpt. It was m8's job to try n match that quality. This is what they are putting forth.

laughable.

 

[Travis Baumann]

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If you have a master crafted head sculpt with expert paint, 2 of them in fact. Why would you not continue to tout that?

They have it on the booth banner (as well as a cube with all their fancy renders being shown) but not the real thing? That hair looks atrocious. At first I thought maybe some of that was just 3D prints of objects but those heads look terrible with that paint application and hair stuck on there and those glasses are even worse than I imagined them to turn out based on how thin and fine they were in the renders.

Utterly mind boggling. But as everyone said, this would still be a hopeful pass to what may come IF THEY HADN'T REPEATEDLY LIED about the current state of the figure, the level of progress, and the delivery date. Delays happen all the time in this business. No big deal. But all that they preached and then this is what they show?

At the very least, if development had been started as early at they claim, the endoskeleton would have been represent, even in an unpainted form. It doesn't exist.
Too bad Budget Stark could not have pinched the figures to see what that silicon feels like and whether there was anything under there. Pretty non-dynamic posing if those things actually are boned.

 

[JosefSteven]

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So, if they announce another delay to fix it, are people going to be happy they're listening to feedback, or upset about another delay?

 

[Tom Day]

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So, if they announce another delay to fix it, are people going to be happy they're listening to feedback, or upset about another delay?

Nobody trusts them because they've got a track record of over-promising and under-delivering. How about that?

They shouldn't be fixing anything. They took people's money for a $300 figure promising it would be out in April, and at the end of July they have shown a $30 prototype. They are full of **** and their only achievement is commissioning a nice sculpt.

 

[kstarke-records]

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They need to listen to this song..please

 

[Phine1]

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https://imgflip.com/gif/1t6mv4

that loss of detail tho......... jeeeez

 

[Tom Day]

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They need to listen to this song..please

How about 'The End'?

 

[Chunk]

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Recast KA Kim's beautiful sculpt using:

 

[Plastic Bateman]

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Recast KA Kim's beautiful sculpt using:

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I legitimately feel bad for KA Kim, getting suckered into attaching her name to this project

 

[Nailz]

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https://www.instagram.com/k_a_kim/?hl=en

 

[Travis Baumann]

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https://www.instagram.com/k_a_kim/?hl=en

That is a great link... so many good things she has done, and what a cute girl. I had no idea she was at SDCC last year! Dammit.