You're misreading me. I didn't say the figure is crappy, I said the materials and craftsmanship are. Kyle has made the best P1 likeness to date. I'm not going to argue that because I agree with you on it. But, NECA took that and made something cheap. HT, since they keep being brought into this, IMO doesn't do that. They try to make things quality. "Nothing wrong with it but the netting tearing on us. Oh...and the seam is pretty bad. And the gap in the visor, but nothing else." Who are we trying to convince here? How much do they have to screw up before we say NECA needs to do a better job?
I paid $80 (small compared to HT) for the figures and 2 of the 3 have netting tears in the box. I've never touched them. The masked one has all the issues people have talked about. I don't recall torn netting being a feature on the purchase description of various stores. If you opened a toaster up and it was scratched up, you'd take it back to the store. Why has this figure mesmerized us to the point where we completely toss out its issues? If I were the only one with torn netting issues, I'd figure I can just exchange it and join the rest of you. BUT, this keeps coming up and you even said you have netting tears.
As weak as that stuff is, in a year our netting could be hanging off the figures. At that point, I say we still praise what Kyle did, but do we still shrug it off for NECA? NECA has some great artists. But, they make cheap figures. Until they stop doing that, IMO they'll never compete with HT. HT predators look like crap compared to these NECA ones artistically, but the HT preds are still lasting because they have quality.
