Ok...and what are your thoughts on the people who are being constructive and choose to modify their figure when it arrives? It seems you (and I'm using "you" in the most general sense) have a beef with people who A) Don't feel the same way you do about the figure and B) choose to alter it. It's almost like people who do either of the above have attacked you in some personal way and you just spring to defense, when in truth we're talking about a collectible item, and a collectibles producer/company.
I keep up with this thread (or, I try to), and I don't remember anyone calling the figure hideous. The nit picking won't hurt the figure's feelings (and I doubt HT will see it that way either), so why defend it so adamantly?
Not going to say much more about this and continue to clog up the thread, but since a question was directed towards me it's only polite to answer. I'm not defending the figure adamantly - I'm accepting that there are areas that are not 100% screen accurate, and suggesting that repeating it ad nauseam, using really negative language about the way those details are highlighted and stating that the figure is therefore in some way a mistake/dropped ball/whatever (when those details are, in the scheme of things, relatively minor) is absurd. Call attention to an area that, in an ideal world, could be improved? Go for it. Express a wish that something had been done differently? Be my guest. But be polite about it, don't hyperbolize, and show respect for others' feelings. I'm quite sure the piece of plastic doesn't care. I think its proud owner might, and I'm not at all sure that I agree with you that any HT rep who might read this will be as unfazed as you seem to think.
As for altering something - go for it. You bought it, it's yours to do with as you please, and if you can modify it to make up for the compromises that had to be made in mass-producing, then hell yeah - go for it! I have plans to attack the heel of the right boot of my original suit figure with an exacto blade so I can create the removable bat-calling-device (that's its scientific name) from Begins. I've altered the costume on my V1 Joker so it (in my opinion) hangs better on the body, and I have both another HT and a third party sculpt coming so I can alter the head (which I don't think is their best work, but am accepting of it being the best they could do at the time, and as a result I bought it, with full knowledge that it wasn't an exact replica). The "hideous" comment you pulled out of my post was actually in reference to the Joker figure - someone had (gasp!
) made the chain on the pants longer, and was told that it looked hideous. (So, in that reference, I was actually standing up for the right to change what you want). That's the sort of hyperbole - on both sides of the "modifier" fence, that makes this sort of commentary unpleasant to read. For the record? I think that dremmelled Batman does have a feminine physique. But someone already posted that, so why should I fill up a thread by repeating it? It's been said, I nodded my agreement to anyone who was present to see (the dog and cat in this case) and moved on to at least appreciate the way the figure was put together, his ability to modify it, and wonder what he did with the extra rubber that the suit must have created.
Finally, I have no beef about people with different opinions to me (they are, of course, wrong, but being right always is my burden, and I try not to shoulder other people with it
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just kidding dude! cool picture, the finished bat, imo looks bad A!!!!!!
