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[Drakul]

I have been saving my points for Sauron and I think I'm just over $300 right now with another $200-$300 pending. I can't wait to see in hand pics of this thing. By then i should have enough points to outright get it for free.

Wouldn't be better to use your points on a cheaper piece and have Sauron give you a bunch of points instead?

 

[Adolfo]

I have been saving my points for Sauron and I think I'm just over $300 right now with another $200-$300 pending. I can't wait to see in hand pics of this thing. By then i should have enough points to outright get it for free.

Remember After using your points, that you cannot collect points on whatever balance is left in Saurons price ...If you could pay for it in full by points it would be better...If not then buy Sauron and use those points on something where you would fully pay it off...It would save you some money...just a little....Weta does give points on your balance remaining, SS does not

 

[nemenforcer]

Remember After using your points that you cannot collect points on whatever balance is left in Saurons price ...If you could pay for it in full by points it would be better...If not then buy Sauron and use those points on something where you would fully pay it off...It would save you some money...just a little....Weta does give points on your balance remaining, SS does not

you r very wise. I had no idea

 

[Adolfo]

you r very wise. I had no idea

Thank you...I did that once on a high priced SS item...I called them up they basically said no...I only pay in points if I could pay it off completely or at least the vast vast majority of if...Imagine using 200 dollars worth of points on a say 600 dollar item and not getting any points on the remaining 400 dollars...SS policy is stupid IMHO and certainly squeezes as much money from those who purchase from them

 

[TD-0488]

Agree with this...saved my points and with the points from Sauron, get something else.

 

[TD-0488]

Wouldn't be better to use your points on a cheaper piece and have Sauron give you a bunch of points instead?

Agree with this...saved my points and with the points from Sauron, get something else.

 

[Mr Fell Beast]

3 feet.................. :eek

Massive and very impressive.

Couple of things on this guy for me is the pose

I just am not caring for it, looks a bit goofy or clumsy if you will, I can not see a entity such as Sauron standing like a lady who is trying on shoes and looking in the mirror, just not evil enough. Also why is the armor so shiny and new looking, with him in Mordor being a dark and evil place one would think aging would be all over a new metal suit. Up to this point all my statues are all 100% poly and am wondering how this would look with some cloth on him vs all the others in poly. I do not own any PF figures and being here in the great Southwest and the dust issue we have, not sure how to keep the dust off of the cloth on a continual basis and ever how to clean it up, my weekly dusting of these guys are a HUGE pain but is so worth it as they just look awesome. This guy @ $900 and with the shipping probably at $50+ I am pondering the 1K for him and how to explain this one to the wife and most importantly I have zero room to display him, my space is 99.9% used up and I will get killed if I spill out of my space into the other parts of the house. If I miss out on him and end up seeing this guy somewhere I will start the long expensive quest for him BUT the SSW version is in my collection now and is as impressive 1500 of him at 1K might take awhile to sell out.....hmmmm what to do

 

[odb]

3 feet.................. :eek

Massive and very impressive.

Couple of things on this guy for me is the pose

I just am not caring for it, looks a bit goofy or clumsy if you will, I can not see a entity such as Sauron standing like a lady who is trying on shoes and looking in the mirror, just not evil enough. Also why is the armor so shiny and new looking, with him in Mordor being a dark and evil place one would think aging would be all over a new metal suit. Up to this point all my statues are all 100% poly and am wondering how this would look with some cloth on him vs all the others in poly. I do not own any PF figures and being here in the great Southwest and the dust issue we have, not sure how to keep the dust off of the cloth on a continual basis and ever how to clean it up, my weekly dusting of these guys are a HUGE pain but is so worth it as they just look awesome. This guy @ $900 and with the shipping probably at $50+ I am pondering the 1K for him and how to explain this one to the wife and most importantly I have zero room to display him, my space is 99.9% used up and I will get killed if I spill out of my space into the other parts of the house. If I miss out on him and end up seeing this guy somewhere I will start the long expensive quest for him BUT the SSW version is in my collection now and is as impressive 1500 of him at 1K might take awhile to sell out.....hmmmm what to do

I think the pose looks better in person than in the photos. He's a part of the PF line, so there was always going to be some kind of cloth on him otherwise he would have been a maquette. On him being clean in a dirty place, well, the physical form of Sauron always struck me as a "conjured presence" rather than a man walking around in armor. As such, I am not sure his armor would get dirt, wear, etc. like normal under that assumption.

Regarding dust, I have been using compressed air and that seems to do a pretty good job on keeping them dust-free (otherwise put them behind glass). On display space, that will certainly be a challenge for this guy - he's almost going to need his own piece of furniture or a deep horizontal surface as there are very few cabinets he'd fit in.

Just my thoughts. It's certainly one of, if not the biggest, most impressive pieces made by any company for LOTR. I think I would regret not making it a part of my collection. Also, the base is top-notch whether you care for the lava glow paint or not.

 

[Mr Fell Beast]

I think the pose looks better in person than in the photos. He's a part of the PF line, so there was always going to be some kind of cloth on him otherwise he would have been a maquette. On him being clean in a dirty place, well, the physical form of Sauron always struck me as a "conjured presence" rather than a man walking around in armor. As such, I am not sure his armor would get dirt, wear, etc. like normal under that assumption.

Regarding dust, I have been using compressed air and that seems to do a pretty good job on keeping them dust-free (otherwise put them behind glass). On display space, that will certainly be a challenge for this guy - he's almost going to need his own piece of furniture or a deep horizontal surface as there are very few cabinets he'd fit in.

Just my thoughts. It's certainly one of, if not the biggest, most impressive pieces made by any company for LOTR. I think I would regret not making it a part of my collection. Also, the base is top-notch whether you care for the lava glow paint or not.

OH that is one other thing that is a bit of a turnoff is the orange paint scheme, if he is staged alone in one collection it will look rather odd but I can over look that part. Here in the SW a closed case does not do as good of a job at the dust issue, compressed air does wonders as well as stealing some of my wifes finer makeup brushes, she just bought them put them on the counter and BAM they were gone some how Agreed on the impressiveness and it will be a space hog, what to do.......Thanks for the reply!

How do some of you plan on displaying him?
Is his armor going to be metal?
BTW the JV painting is very impressive by itself!

 

[The Josh]

The pose itself is straigt from Jerry's print. So it IMO looks pretty cool and I have to disagree about Sauron not standing like that. I could see him surveying his lands resting his foot on the skull of a dead Elf/Num solider. In person the pose is even better I think and it is one impressive piece as a whole. In person and I personally thought it comes through in the pics the Armor has a nice worn look. Sideshow nailed this one pretty good and translated Jerry's work nicely. I plan on displaying him maybe next to Weta's Barad-Dur piece myself.

 

[Mr Fell Beast]

The pose itself is straigt from Jerry's print. So it IMO looks pretty cool and I have to disagree about Sauron not standing like that. I could see him surveying his lands resting his foot on the skull of a dead Elf/Num solider. In person the pose is even better I think and it is one impressive piece as a whole. In person and I personally thought it comes through in the pics the Armor has a nice worn look. Sideshow nailed this one pretty good and translated Jerry's work nicely. I plan on displaying him maybe next to Weta's Barad-Dur piece myself.

Josh is the armor metal? I am so close in this one but just not sure....

 

[The Josh]

No, its polystone. Metal would make this thing cost more than the $900.

 

[Mr Fell Beast]

No, its polystone. Metal would make this thing cost more than the $900.

Thanks do you have any pics when you were at SDCC, I am trying to get a grip on the size of this guy, damn I am on the verge of ordering it

 

[The Josh]

Here are my pictures as well as some others.

 

[The Josh]

More

 

[The Josh]

And some more

More pics courtesy of thx217, to piggyback on Josh's pics. It's gonna come down to price for me since I can get the Weta version so much cheaper. This is a bad *** piece though.

 

[Mr Fell Beast]

Thanks, this looks very tempting, you calmed some of my fears on the paint scheme and his armor being so shiny that the SS web pics show it to be.............................


GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr................

 

[The Josh]

Its all about the light. The light inside the convention center gives you the proper amount of shadow to light. Its something I run into when I take pics outside like I do now. My Balin pics aren't as dark as I'd like because I had to take advantage of the sun being about instead of being too overcast. The pics came out ok but they're a tough briter than I'd like. All that said what you see in both is what you get as far as quality goes. The Sauron PF is by far the best PF Sideshow has done to date IMO.

 

[Patriot666]

He would look great next to my Lord of Darkness PF, as well as Prince Vlad which I don't have. I love the monstrous Lords lol.

 

[Adolfo]

In 3 weeks another Flex pay of 90 will make it 50% paid for....ooooh! Yeah!