In the case of Shills vs. Sheeple, the judgement reached was that the Hot Toys figure in question never looked very good to begin with.
Case dismissed.
I didn't personally inspect all the troopers in the show frame by frame(And i expect there might be members here who did), but when i saw the announcement for this, the weathering seemed so severe based on the armour which was in the show(Which, granted, was heavily weathered), it doesn't seem like HT based this on one specific trooper but, instead, just made one heavily weathered example themselves.
That's not a criticism by me, only an observation. My own comments about it, are merely centred around those of us who might army build(I am not one of them, but there are those here who do).
And i will point out that the remarks i made in a previous post were also just observations.
I never intended to get this figure, so my opinions on this matter were merely opinions.
I did(And indeed, still do) think that opinions, even if they differ from my own are still valid. Many a time have i followed a Hot Toys figure thread here on the forum, enjoying seeing people receive a figure they have waited a year or more on, in absolute delight at how great their new figure is, regardless of whether i liked the source matter myself. And also, regardless of whether i was going to buy the figure or not.
To regard fellow forum members as "sheeple" does all of us an injustice, i feel.
It's true that many members here can afford to buy loads of HT figures, and at the other end of the scale, there are those of us who cannot right now. I used to be in the former category, but Covid19 has relegated me to the latter category right now. But that doesn't mean those of us who express a negative opinion are doing it *because* we can't afford every figure(There may be some, as has been noted before, who only rubbish a figure because they can't afford it, in an attempt to persuade themselves the figure was garbage anyway), or indeed, that we are jumping on a negativity bandwagon to belong to one camp or another.
I have often read comments on here where someone says: "If you aren't getting this figure, you have no right to foist your opinion on us", and that's just rubbish. We all have a right to express an opinion. The reverse is also true. Everyone on here has to the right to completely ignore the opinions of others. You may even find there are certain people you always ignore, because of a previous argument. And that's fair enough. But don't accuse everyone who criticises a figure as having an agenda. Some might. But not all of us.
Exactly. The criticism is so dishonest and ridiculous those people should be embarrassed. Some sheeple have no shame and will follow the herd.
I have seen this kind of comment often. People shouldn't have to worry that merely criticising something means they have to feel shame.
If you don't like someone's comments that's fine, but there is something a bit meta about someone taking offence at someone else's offence...
I'm not having a go at you, and please don't take this as criticism.
Just saying that you have your opinion, but please don't take criticism of a figure as an attack on you. It's only criticism of the figure. Regardless of whether you like the figure or not.
