This will look awesome with John Connor and this Rick in my Hall of Canceled Garbage.
Why does sideshow even bother? Every one of their recent Terminator collectibles have been awful.
Sideshow T-1000 Production Peek
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Why does sideshow even bother? Every one of their recent Terminator collectibles have been awful.
Darth_Pain
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Not feelin it, so far.
I prefer a 1/4 PF anyway so,...pass.
I prefer a 1/4 PF anyway so,...pass.
Voorhees27
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You're ******* right about that!
Pretty damn close to perfect imo.
This will look awesome with John Connor and this Rick in my Hall of Canceled Garbage.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!Seriously though, WTF!!!!!
So is this an example of leaving the best for last? Who the hell would buy that ToysRus looking thing? Can Sideshow just contract Trevor to sculpt everything? Maybe find out which factory HT's is using to paint your pieces?
Good lord Sideshow! *Stands on the sidewalk with cash in hand as the sideshow truck drives away*
Poseable action figures only for me anyway so I don't really care. I don't tend to be hugely impressed by Sideshows Terminator stuff generally though. HT stuff is just simply amazing, NECA's stuff is good enough if you're still interested in smaller scale sculpted figures but Sideshow's....its below what it needs to be for what it is IMO. I don't think its just me going on this thread so far.
I think it looks like s***. Period.
I've not been at this as long as a lot of you, but SSC's stuff has been on a decline in that time. Their craftsmanship is crap usually, but what I'm talking about is just the underwhelming pieces they've been churning out. This is yet another example. I've more or less just been buying Hot Toys. It's not worth the risk of getting a poorly painted or moulded piece if they don't start to do better poses and sculpts.
I dunno. Spiderman Comiquette, Hulk Comiquette, T-800 PF, Cyclops Comiquette (regular version, anyway), Friday the 13th PF, the Joe statues, Big Chap Maquette, German Paratrooper, the Disney PFs, Angel Comiquette, StormTrooper PF. Just off the top of my head. Paint apps aside, these are all excellently conceived pieces either recently released or announced. Some up there with the best of what Sideshow's done in the past IMO. They're releasing/announcing some questionable pieces as well (Mummy guy being the worst offender), including this T-1000, but Sideshow's never released home runs every time they were up to the plate. From a systematic standpoint, I'm more concerned about paint apps than character, sculpt, and pose choices. . .
Actually yeah the T2 Cyberdyne T-800 PF is an exception. Great headsculpt on that except the overly bouffant hair.
Yeah Im not impressed with a lot of Sideshow stuff whether it be PF or 1/6. Although that doesnt exclude everything. That Friday 3 PF is awesome. Probably the best representation of Jason ever. I love it. But I dont like alot of their 1/6 figs aside from some of the horror figs they did(Jason,Freddy,Leatherface etc.). And I dont really like that T1 PF either. I dunno. This T-1000 doesnt look anything like Robert Patrick from what I could see.
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Yeah that one too!! I would love to own that bad boy. I think the paint apps could be a little better but if I couldnt get it painted ,eh, I could live with it. Great pc. I dunno see, Ive seen a lot of stuff I really thought were awful and some that really hit it out the park.Didnt they do a Predator cinimequette at some point and it was awesome? I could be thinking of something else.
edit:Nevermind Cinimaquette is an actual company
cokebabies
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Nope .
SolidLiquidFox
doing it...for all of us
How stuff like this gets approved is beyond my understanding.
Sideshow should be thanking God every day that Hot Toys only does 1/6 figures.
Sideshow should be thanking God every day that Hot Toys only does 1/6 figures.
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Prob cuz the Terminator franchise is bankrupt and every time a Terminator product is released, they get more cash to make another movie.
Oh yeah, and by the way, I guaran-damn-tee that if Hot Toys was to start pumping out as much stuff as Sideshow does, their quality would go down as well. It's just the nature of the beast.
That may explain some of the crummy sculpts, but does that explain the shoddy paint apps? Unless you are trying to get twice as much stuff painted in the same amount of time (which could be the case for all I know), my guess would be that HT has better sweat shops.
I was going to say... he makes it sound like it was miles off.
Meh, HT have done better, and HT have done worse.
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JC Hong can't paint everything.
Didn't you notice that before he joined Hot Toys, their paint sucked??
I've said it before and I'll say it again. There is only one Trevor Grove, and there is only one JC Hong. Before each one of those guys joined with their respective employers, their respective products were not that great. Remember when Andy Bergholtz, Matt Falls and Oluf Hartvigson were the only sculptors for Sideshow?? Most of the stuff coming out of Sideshow was not that great. They put out a great sculpt every once in a while, but if they put out that stuff now, we'd be laughing at them.
Crack open some of Hot Toys old military figures. You'll be quite surprised by what you find inside. The packaging and gear look great, but the orange skin and fat, globby paint will surprise you.
There's many reasons why Hot Toys figs are so good. One of the main reasons is that they're IN China, right next to their factory, so if the paint is messed up, they drive over there and show them how it's done. When Sideshow messes up the paint, it's not like SilentSurfer or small_studios can drive across the street and show the factory workers how to paint. The truth of the matter is, no US based company will EVER be able to compete with Hot Toys.
gagaliya
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T-1000 is never that interesting to begin with and there are already dozens of the same thing out there. What's the point adding onto that pile?
How about a 12" or PF T-800 full metal (non-arnold) version?
How about a 12" or PF T-800 full metal (non-arnold) version?
Maybe proximity to factory plays a role, but if it's just managerial oversight then why can't Sideshow get their painters or someone with taste regarding good paintwork to approve or disapprove production work from afar? They could mail them to the states, or even take hi res pics and have Sideshow approve or disapprove. Whatever the case may be, Sideshow's paint apps ain't always up to snuff, and their prototype work doesn't match up with production work as often as it should. Hot Toys rarely has this problem. I know HT's come a long way since MMS1, but the drastic shift in production work goes well beyond bringing on one of the best prototype painters around. It is about matching up prototype with production.
