Statue Prime 1 Studio: Suicide Squad - 1/3 Harley Quinn

[Uncle Bingo]

I don't think these head sculpts are nearly as bad as many make them out to be. Yes there is room for improvement, but I can definitely see Margot in there.

 

[jadekite22]

Don't even try to say you can see Margot...You know those kotobukiya statues that are all just basically the same Japanimated sexy doll face...that is what it looks like. And Prime 1 is Japanese. They looked at Margot and said "she isn't pretty enough, let's make her look like some fantasy generic lifeless doll face" that is pretty according to them....
Screw them for altering her. Why else would it not be Margot? Headshot looks like Will...they don't care because he is a dude but they think girls have to look like that...f#$ck them. I am going to meditate hard on this for next 3 weeks and decide to cancel or not.

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Be sure to share whatever decision you come up with for everyone to see here. I know I'm eager to hear whether someone who clearly disliked the sculpt from the beginning keeps their PO??? Did you order this just to add credibility to your rants? Hope you got your money's worth . . .

 

[Darkavatar]

I don't think these head sculpts are nearly as bad as many make them out to be.

Maybe, but they are still not very good, especially when you compare them to Hot Toys ones.

Yes there is room for improvement, but I can definitely see Margot in there.

I agree there is some likeness level of likeness there.

 

[Kalel-sonofel]

Preordered the first day and will definitely keep her.

 

[Darkavatar]

Be sure to share whatever decision you come up with for everyone to see here. I know I'm eager to hear whether someone who clearly disliked the sculpt from the beginning keeps their PO??? Did you order this just to add credibility to your rants? Hope you got your money's worth . . .

I think he is just upset that a 12 inch doll has better likeness than 1/3 scale statue.

Preordered the first day and will definitely keep her.

Apart from the likeness on the sculpts, it's still an amazing statue. Although I would have preferred real clothes instead of sculpted ones.

 

[StormShadow2017]

Be sure to share whatever decision you come up with for everyone to see here. I know I'm eager to hear whether someone who clearly disliked the sculpt from the beginning keeps their PO??? Did you order this just to add credibility to your rants? Hope you got your money's worth . . .

My perspective changed after the hot toys Harley came out and I see how beautifully accurate that sculpt is in the reviews. It's a home run. I preordered the prime 1 thinking that the open mouth alternate sculpt was good enough likeness to Margot at the time....but does time really change everything, you know. What I thought was good back then just isn't good enough especially for what we are shelling out for this statue. I just don't think I can accept what they are offering now that my standards have gone up. Didn't mean to come off like a crazy rant...I had a point after all.
I returned my sideshow Ledger joker for the same reason and preordered the prime 1 version. It just didn't compare.

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[Kalel-sonofel]

Real clothes - jacket and shirt would be really nice.

 

[Darkavatar]

Real clothes - jacket and shirt would be really nice.

They could have done at least a real Jacket, that way you could have different ways of displaying her.

 

[Kalel-sonofel]

They could have done at least a real Jacket, that way you could have different ways of displaying her.

That's true.

 

[Darkavatar]

You are right. Maybe it's the print.
We will see on wednesday.

Storm was right.

 

[Kalel-sonofel]

Storm was right.

Ok. So hope for some close ups on wednesday.

 

[Darkavatar]

Ok. So hope for some close ups on wednesday.

Yeah I would buy this over Prime because it's mixed media. Can believe how small ES is, the sculpt better be good considering how limited it is.

 

[jadekite22]

Yeah I would buy this over Prime because it's mixed media. Can believe how small ES is, the sculpt better be good considering how limited it is.

The ES is for the print.

 

[Darkavatar]

The ES is for the print.

Oh that's right the EX's with prints are usually that low. So there will be a regular edition for this PF?

 

[jadekite22]

My perspective changed after the hot toys Harley came out and I see how beautifully accurate that sculpt is in the reviews. It's a home run. I preordered the prime 1 thinking that the open mouth alternate sculpt was good enough likeness to Margot at the time....but does time really change everything, you know. What I thought was good back then just isn't good enough especially for what we are shelling out for this statue. I just don't think I can accept what they are offering now that my standards have gone up. Didn't mean to come off like a crazy rant...I had a point after all.
I returned my sideshow Ledger joker for the same reason and preordered the prime 1 version. It just didn't compare.

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It's all good. Doesn't affect my purchasing decisions one way or another, but I do get irritated with posts that dictate how everyone should feel about a piece. I love the expressive Hot Toys portrait but I don't think it's 100% (that wasn't my reason for ultimately cancelling my waitlist conversion, but why should anyone should care whether I cancelled or not?)

Even being more a fan of this than the HT, it was irritating listening to people go on about how the HT should've done this or that when all they would've done is complain in most cases when it raised the cost past its already expensive asking price or ultimately didn't turn out the way they liked either. For all the people complaining about the knee joints, there would've been just as many complaining about potential cracking others have experienced when articulating seamless Phicen-type bodies. For all the people complaining about lack of mixed media jacket on this, just as many would've complained about maintaining it.

It seems like all these threads go through a cycle where everyone needs to defend their purchasing decisions by complaining about things that were evident from the initial photos. There is a ****-ton of SS Harleys on the market. Just buy what you like. No one expects everything to appeal to everyone and it's boring frequenting forums like this for product updates and having to scroll through personal tirades, like the one I'm posting now.

 

[jadekite22]

That's a separately-sold, likely very expensive framed print. The EX for the statue, if there is one, will probably be a switchout of some sort.

 

[Darkavatar]

I love the expressive Hot Toys portrait but I don't think it's 100% (that wasn't my reason for ultimately cancelling my waitlist conversion, but why should anyone should care whether I cancelled or not?)

Well no sculpt is 100%, although I would have to disagree it sure looks like 100% at least to me, so people did care when you cancelled?

Even being more a fan of this than the HT, it was irritating listening to people go on about how the HT should've done this or that when all they would've done is complain in most cases when it raised the cost past its already expensive asking price or ultimately didn't turn out the way they liked either. For all the people complaining about the knee joints, there would've been just as many complaining about potential cracking others have experienced when articulating seamless Phicen-type bodies. For all the people complaining about lack of mixed media jacket on this, just as many would've complained about maintaining it.

Yeah u can't please everyone, good analysis. BTW I am not complaining about the lack of mixed media on this, I just prefer MM statues.

It seems like all these threads go through a cycle where everyone needs to defend their purchasing decisions by complaining about things that were evident from the initial photos. There is a ****-ton of SS Harleys on the market. Just buy what you like. No one expects everything to appeal to everyone and it's boring frequenting forums like this for product updates and have to scroll through personal tirades, like the one I'm posting now.

I totally agree with everything you said.

That's a separately-sold, likely very expensive framed print.

Oh I see, have they ever sold something like this before on its own? The prints usually come with the EXs

The EX for the statue, if there is one, will probably be a switchout of some sort.

Like most EXs

 

[Phoenixblazes]

I thought it had been years since they had sold Prints with their Exclusives?!

 

[Darkavatar]

I thought it had been years since they had sold Prints with their Exclusives?!

Might be, I rarely buy PFs, so I wouldn't have any idea when they stopped selling prints with their Exclusives. The last two PFs I bought didn't come with art prints, so your probably right.

 

[Kalel-sonofel]

XM is selling their statues with prints.