1/6 Sideshow 1:6 Indiana Jones - Temple of Doom

[matrix69]

That hoth han sculpt is just plain cartoony awful ! The new indy one looks very promising,but does anyone know if their going the same way with the eyes? It looks to be a full paint-up on the proto sculpt
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[Rorywan]

That looks amazing. Especially the paint applications. Looks like skin. Why is a LALLA job?

However, switch out the amazing painted skin to skin coloured vinyl and stick in some marble eyes roughly and what will we get?

 

[kl241]

Yeah a hand-painted prototype custom painted by LALLA will not look the same as a Chinese factory-painted sculpt. The final product won't look anything like that.

 

[matj007]

Especially if SS persist with their bug-eyed system.

 

[Rorywan]

But why get one of the best painters in the industry to hand paint a phototype for a mass produced head sculpt?

 

[Bucky Underbelly]

That has always driven me nuts about Sideshow. It varies from piece to piece, of course, but to my eye they're the company with the biggest disparity between proto and factory paint jobs. Frustrating.

 

[karamazov80]

That looks amazing. Especially the paint applications. Looks like skin. Why is a LALLA job?

However, switch out the amazing painted skin to skin coloured vinyl and stick in some marble eyes roughly and what will we get?

Magic?

But why get one of the best painters in the industry to hand paint a phototype for a mass produced head sculpt?

Because they sell more figures that way, obviously. And I would guess 70-80% of buyers will just grin and bear whatever it is they receive in-hand, no matter how off from the prototype.

 

[matrix69]

That's false advertising which shouldn't be allowed. They should be trying to raise the bar on the production piece and get it close to the finish on that proto sculpt. That would justify their obscene price hike on their current output

 

[kl241]

But why get one of the best painters in the industry to hand paint a phototype for a mass produced head sculpt?

It's called "Bait & Switch" and it's to trick customers into thinking that is what they will be getting when the reality shock is more like Nathan Drake.

 

[TaliBane]

That has always driven me nuts about Sideshow. It varies from piece to piece, of course, but to my eye they're the company with the biggest disparity between proto and factory paint jobs. Frustrating.

I'm surprised some government watchdog hasn't come after them. I can just see it in court, a govt lawyer holding up proto Drake and Production Drake - "Look at this, your honor!" And the judge's eyes going googly and him yelling "Guilty!"

 

[karamazov80]

I'm surprised some government watchdog hasn't come after them. I can just see it in court, a govt lawyer holding up proto Drake and Production Drake - "Look at this, your honor!" And the judge's eyes going googly and him yelling "Guilty!"

LOL

Seriously though, I think many of us pay a disproportionate amount of attention here because these are expensive items, and stuff we obviously collect. But across the spectrum of collectibles and other goods/merchandise you will frequently see idealized prototypes that don't match up to what you get in production. Think about the picture of food you get on frozen dinner boxes vs. what it looks like after you pull it out of the microwave, a glossy highlight reel of a commercial for a pretty mundane movie, or Hasbro's prototypes of Star Wars figures vs. the stuff you see on the shelves at Target. Is it disingenuous? Maybe. But everybody's doing it. Hot Toys is more the exception than the rule it seems in giving us something that's usually pretty damn close to what you see in solicitation pics.

 

[jimmie_dimmick]

LOL

Seriously though, I think many of us pay a disproportionate amount of attention here because these are expensive items, and stuff we obviously collect. But across the spectrum of collectibles and other goods/merchandise you will frequently see idealized prototypes that don't match up to what you get in production. Think about the picture of food you get on frozen dinner boxes vs. what it looks like after you pull it out of the microwave, a glossy highlight reel of a commercial for a pretty mundane movie, or Hasbro's prototypes of Star Wars figures vs. the stuff you see on the shelves at Target. Is it disingenuous? Maybe. But everybody's doing it. Hot Toys is more the exception than the rule it seems in giving us something that's usually pretty damn close to what you see in solicitation pics.

I would say most 1/6 companies give us close to the prototype versus SSC who are always off (mainly sculpt paint).

AF, EB, ThreeZero, DAM and even DiD give you production pieces close to the prototype pics.

With SSC you know you're not going to get what you see.

 

[davejames]

Yeah this new Indy was already looking a bit off to me in the preview pics with the beautifully painted head, so I can only imagine how much more off the final production figure will look.

 

[choopie]

Yeah, it's disingenuous, but that's marketing for you. Advertise something better than a customer is going to get to get them interested in a product. Then slap some disclaimer in fine print somewhere to circumvent any claim of false advertisement. Countless companies do this. Then it's on the customer to either just accept it the way it is, or go through the hassle of returning or exchanging it.

 

[Prime Clone]

Yavin Luke was always the worst example for me. While not a stellar sculpt to start with, no repaint ever came close to what was shown as the prototype...

 

[siquisiri]

I have absolutely no hope in SST that theyre production Indy will look like the this ^ prototype....

 

[bbl]

Looks bad. Nobody should/will buy it.

Man that looks baaaadddddd. Looking at the indy proto pic, that looks like a reaalll quality ht type paint, but sadly it will probably look like echo hans dolly twin :/. Did somebody already repainted han?


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[Jay1138]

I'm gonna keep my hopes up for Indy. I've been wanting another 1:6 Indy, and I will make it work damnit!

 

[generalgrevious]

I bought my first Indiana jones 1/6 toys McCoy figure. I guess I have always liked that figure. maybe I will up grade it with some of the existing parts from sideshow and hot toys.

 

[Tom Day]

I bought my first Indiana jones 1/6 toys McCoy figure. I guess I have always liked that figure. maybe I will up grade it with some of the existing parts from sideshow and hot toys.

I had that figure years ago, it's a lovely item and really nicely made.