. SS’s base bodies have been utter trash for awhile.
It's unfortunately a case by case basis. I've had a number of more recent SS figures and some of the bodies are fine with nice stiff joints. Others are stiff in some places and floppy in others. You really just never know until you get it in hand unfortunately.I preorder this and it will be a good Comic version, and my Hot Toys one can remain being the movie version. Because I’m not seeing Brandon in this one’s sculpt. Agreed the face paint hides a lot of issues with the sculpt. My main concern is - I just really hope the under body isn’t a piece of
Yeah it’s upsetting because the Batman figure with the Bruce head I went through 3. All of them couldn’t hold a leg up without flopping down. Sideshow customer service told me after the second exchange they were all like that and I wasn’t going to get one “batter” and asked if I wanted to keep the Third one they sent out. It was disappointing to say the least. Same problem with my Freddy Kruger but at least I could open that body up to tighten the joints. Same with Ghost Face which was a literally rag doll out of the box. Jedha Patrol had a new Anakin have loose joints out of the box and break on camera during his review. At least I know what to expect when I purchase one of their products - and with their Eric I should be able to get to the base body if I need to Frankenstein something.
Agreed. It's definitely something that shouldn't be happening at this price point. It's definitely hard to be a fan of Sideshow's products at times. They've been in the game longer than many others yet their final products tend to leave a lot to be desired esepcially in paint, casting and build quality of the bodies. Their figures end up usually needing a good amount of work to bring them up to snuff. And while the argument can usually be made that ppl even mod HT figures, they're usually taking a pretty great looking out of the box figure to the next level to make it even better, where as Sideshow figures tend to need the work just to bring them up to the level they should already be at.
100% with you on that and I don’t want to bash Sideshow either in fact I wish they would step up. I just hope a lot of these guys that actual make the decisions on the pieces and parts they use knowing full well how the final product is going to turn out lacking either start making better decisions or step down and someone who’s passionate about the hobby steps in.
they put out. They created false scarcity by short printing certain covers over others. I know of multiple friends who complete got out of collecting because of that. Might not be a true comparison of Apples to Apples but the same thing rings true, if you keep putting out an inferior product be it a $3 comic book or $250 figure…people will walk away. At that point it’s next to impossible to bring them back.
I don't think so, I believe who ever painted this head just had too much gloss on the brush when painting it.When you shine a light on it, it sticks out. The right eye almost seems to not have any gloss over it which is why I'm questioning the left eye
Looks good. I literally postponed my last payment until I could see some in hand photos of him. So, thank you.
If you do a body swap, the main thing that won’t fit are the boots. Sideshow uses much larger ball joints at the ankles than anyone else. So you’d either have to mode the boot to accept a standard sized ball joint, glue one end of a standard ball joint in so you’ll still have function of the upper ball joint, it just use blue tack to secure the joint in place.
