Re: Molecule8 - 1/6th Scale John Lennon
Now it looks like this may be too much for M8 to survive.
Nah, you just keep producing stuff. People will buy it.
If people cared about quality, Sideshow wouldn't still be around. Phicen wouldn't still be around. Hot Toys probably still wouldn't be around. Hell, we're talking about a company who's Batman figure "melted" and they've gone on to make 2 or 3 more versions of that specific character. Whose Iron Man figures faded, and people are STILL buying them, even after the same problem has happened multiple times.
Collectors have very short-term memories. They see a character they like, and they buy it. It's that simple. People still bought the Nathan Drake figure, even AFTER they could see it sucked. People still bought the Snowspeeder Luke, AFTER they saw the X-Wing Luke sucked.
People on this forum are not representative of the market as a whole. Lennon is probably popular enough that folks will scoop up the figure once it's finally released. The majority of the chatter here is people just having a laugh, passing the time, trying to score useless internet points by being funny or outrageous. There's a significant amount of hyperbole here. For example, saying Lennon looks like 2005-era Sideshow. Let's remember that in 2005, Sideshow looked like this
And in 2015, Sideshow looked like this
Now, M8 is showing this, which looks better than Sideshow in 2015.
The point being, I think the face on Lennon is good, the eyes look realistically dark and glossy, I can see some nice shading around where facial hair growth should be, the eyebrow area is nicely "fuzzy", aka, it's not just a sharply painted line. The cheeks look sufficiently blushed, there's nice shading in the nose area. It all looks decently realistic. It kinda falls apart at the hair, where it looks like they applied a simple wash to bring out the texture instead of using multiple shades to bring out the variety of detail, but maybe that can still be improved.
Now, granted it seems like we've seen three different painted heads for Lennon. Who knows which version we're going to get? I don't know. Why are we even blowing up at this point, when we literally haven't even seen a finished product?
At this point, their narrative has fallen apart, and they are showing us a WIP in real time, but that's fine. Let's wait until the finished product. I can't count how many times, people have said "It looks better in hand". I've seen a lot of **** photos from people on this forum who insist a figure is great and I just can't see it, but they insist "My photos don't do it justice, in hand it's great". Oooookay. . .
