Quantum Mechanix 1/6 Star Trek TOS Kirk and Spock

[Sybeck1]

If yours is in natural light it looks gold. I think the studio lighting in the 60's also gave it golden color

 

[HAL9000.]

There are two great Youtube from The Spot for each one of these characters, even after all these weeks being out. I personally find that strange given the awesomeness of these. I don't need any more affirmation by review that these are great, it just seems more videos should be up. Should I use that as a barometer of demand for these?

These of course are my first sixth scale figures I have ever bought. Mainly it was NECA Apes or the Hasbo's Black Series that was on my buying list for the past couple of years, and at their prices any kids could buy one and post a video.

Is this normal for the high end figures? Just wondering of course

Why does the demand bother you? Just enjoy the figures.

Perhaps the main reason for lack of video reviews is because QMx is only just starting out. HT and the like are far more well known and have legions of followers.

 

[Pixelpiper]

Unless a video review stars Triumph the insult dog, I'm not interested anyway.

 

[Johnny Utah]

I haven't been this excited about a license in a long time in the 1/6 game. These are great times.

On another Trek note, I tweeted Mezco last week to say TNG is 30 next year, they replied with 'That is true...'

 

[HAL9000.]

Unless a video review stars Triumph the insult dog, I'm not interested anyway.

Plus you always scare off video reviewers saying their voices are annoying

 

[Cocoboloboy]

^^^^Nice repurposing of the custom stand made for R2 and 3PO!

Thanks! That's just my Jawa stand though. I wanted to see how they looked on it since I'm making another more Trek specific stand for them with a similar finish.

I agree with everything you said in this posting. Especially the "green" shade of the command shirt. Having grown up with TOS, I've always pictured it more mustard/gold. Now, if they do the wrap-around shirt, I'll take the green.

The wraparound shirt is exactly the color this shirt reminds me of.

If yours is in natural light it looks gold. I think the studio lighting in the 60's also gave it golden color

That's the color I see when I watch the show, a more mustard/gold color. My figures rarely see natural light so the shirts always going to have a green tint to me.

 

[thecapn]

Thanks! That's just my Jawa stand though. I wanted to see how they looked on it since I'm making another more Trek specific stand for them with a similar finish.



The wraparound shirt is exactly the color this shirt reminds me of.



That's the color I see when I watch the show, a more mustard/gold color. My figures rarely see natural light so the shirts always going to have a green tint to me.

Huh, it looks nothing like the wraparound to me. The wraparound was a full-on Kermit GREEN. These are like an old gold with a slight bit of overripe avocado green in there...there has been so much discussion of the colors. Nanjin went to the length of matching the fabric colors to actual set used costume swatches, as well as the Anovos costumes; and then, when the protos were revealed, people said they looked all wrong, so he went back and adjusted both colors to be a bit closer to how they looked on TV, and then he got crap from uniform fans who said they were all wrong lol. He posted all that in this thread earlier.

Personally, I think the final uniform colors are spot on, but that's just my opinion. Everyone's entitled to theirs!

Danged if you do, danged if you don't!

 

[Pixelpiper]

Next time...

 

[ali032373]

Here's what we're NOT discussing- these figures look nothing like spock and kirk. So in the grand scheme, debates over kermit green and goldenrod yellow fall pretty low on my complaint scale. I think these figures were homeruns and im glad they got the attention. I just wouldnt want the creators to get frustrated over a shirt color debate and view it as a *touch* of ingratitude for the work and license. If thhis is the best complaint, i would chalk it up as a victory.

 

[Weapon]

Here's what we're NOT discussing- these figures look nothing like spock and kirk. So in the grand scheme, debates over kermit green and goldenrod yellow fall pretty low on my complaint scale. I think these figures were homeruns and im glad they got the attention. I just wouldnt want the creators to get frustrated over a shirt color debate and view it as a *touch* of ingratitude for the work and license. If thhis is the best complaint, i would chalk it up as a victory.

"ingratitude"?? Seriously? we still paid them for figures. they weren't free. I think they are fantastic too but thats going a bit far. People are more than welcome to critique in a constructive way because its an open forum.

 

[ali032373]

Im not saying people arent free to criticize. Not at all. What would the world be without dissent?

But i know what it's like to pore over details of your work and still get criticism. I can tell you it sucks. But thats life. But no one was rude or out of line in expressing that criticism.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

Huh, it looks nothing like the wraparound to me. The wraparound was a full-on Kermit GREEN. These are like an old gold with a slight bit of overripe avocado green in there...there has been so much discussion of the colors. Nanjin went to the length of matching the fabric colors to actual set used costume swatches, as well as the Anovos costumes; and then, when the protos were revealed, people said they looked all wrong, so he went back and adjusted both colors to be a bit closer to how they looked on TV, and then he got crap from uniform fans who said they were all wrong lol. He posted all that in this thread earlier.

Personally, I think the final uniform colors are spot on, but that's just my opinion. Everyone's entitled to theirs!

Danged if you do, danged if you don't!

Yeah, colors, like likenesses, can be so subjective. I never caught the discussion on colors by Nanjin but it may look perfect to his eye and compared to the cloth swatches. All I can describe is what I see from my own eye and in my own setting and as I've been watching the first season on Amazon I noticed how yellow Kirk's shirt is compared to the figure's.

Definitely didn't keep me from buying it though.

 

[Sybeck1]

Mezco's canary yellow looks terrible IMO. No attempt at detail like QMX.

 

[thecapn]

Mezco's canary yellow looks terrible IMO. No attempt at detail like QMX.

Mego was a really potent egg yolk color. Kirk was the only one released in yellow, though. The DST Mego re-releases were close in color, but a little less bright to my eye.

Playmates was all over the place. The 12", 9", and original box set 4.5" were all canary yellow. The Pike 4.5" and 9" was almost peach, and the Kirk from WNMHGB 4.5" was almost like a dijon mustard, while the 9" version was a washed out wheat color.

But at least they were consistent among the main crew. DST (Art Asylum originally) couldn't get Kirk, Chekov, and Sulu to match to save their life. The original Kirk was a slightly olive color - probably the closest to realistic we ever got. The Mirror line was close to it. The original Sulu and Chekov were almost a highlighter yellow IIRC? The re-releases ended up being pretty much canary yellow. The minimates were definitely a canary yellow. The 1/4 scale Kirk was too.

Anyway, point being, everyone seems to depict the captain's color differently.

 

[abake]

Got charged by BBTS!
Hope to have my figures in a couple of weeks...

 

[Fremen]

Got charged by BBTS and CC declined!
Thought it was coming next week sometime...put money on card just now, hopefully they'll try it again today.

 

[Pixelpiper]

I love this thread. Unlike some other threads where you feel compelled to read every post, this one is so much quicker to get through. Each time you log on, there are fewer posts in the thread and it takes no time at all to get to the end.

 

[HAL9000.]

I love this thread. Unlike some other threads where you feel compelled to read every post, this one is so much quicker to get through. Each time you log on, there are fewer posts in the thread and it takes no time at all to get to the end.

Not gonna lie - had to read that a few times to understand what you were getting at

We'll be back on page one soon.

 

[Pauln6a]

I think he's been doing a little too much LDS.

 

[Jaymas]

I love this thread. Unlike some other threads where you feel compelled to read every post, this one is so much quicker to get through. Each time you log on, there are fewer posts in the thread and it takes no time at all to get to the end.

We are moving kinda like this...