It's amazing to think how fair the original Blitzway figures were priced and how long they were available for retail. Something popped and they really spiked in price just over the last couple of years. I feel lucky to have snagged the full deluxe set when I did for the original price. The sculpts never bothered me and looked fine in-hand, but Zeddemore really was the weakest of them all. I never even took him out of the box.
The odd thing is, I'm not even a huge Ghostbusters fan, but always liked Blitway's products and appreciated having something very different available on the 1:6 market at the time - different from the juggernaut overflow of nauseating Marvel and Star Wars stuff we were seeing a few years ago, so I decided to move my buying power and drop my cash on the set. Blitzway put a lot of dedication, blood sweat and tears work, into developing the Ghostbusters figures and even delayed the release to get a few things corrected so they didn’t prematurely dump a substandard product out there for eager collectors. It bothers me somewhat to see a 3rd party come along and rip off their work - assuming that's what's happening here - so I hope Present Toys puts their own effort into diving deeper into the (non)license and doing it some justice. Maybe even correcting what Blitzway didn't get quite right years ago, respecting it and building on it rather than just replicating it.
Anyway, Blitway's really is a great set with tons of fine features, but I always wished the bodies had some variation in height or build to create the necessary distinction between characters/actors. If you have the full set it really is 4 nearly identical figures, nearly identical outfits, with only different head sculpts and a unique coloured body set for Winston. I found the unboxing experience to be a little boring after opening the second figure and finding it was just more of the same, with only the sculpts to make them interesting.
This Present Toys offering should be good for anyone who missed out on the original Blitzway set and can't pay thousands for it now. For me the unlicensed products never quite fill the niche or make for a compelling substitute to the original licensed versions, even if those originals had minor faults. I just always feel like the unlicensed versions are substandard products that we settle for rather than really enjoy and can respect in our collections. I don't know how other collectors feel about this.