SSC Superman 1/6th Scale figure

[Mister Ski]

I was able to cancel this and switch the RP to Hoth Han Solo.

I'll wait for one of the inevitable other editions of 1/6 scale Supermans that SS has in the works. This one was a big miss in my book.

 

[MxBxM]

Also, using the worst pics that can be found on the internet to argue that this is a terrible figure isn't entirely fair. It's not the best figure, it's not the figure it could have been, but it's easy to find horrible pics of a figure and use them as evidence. Just the same way great pics can make a figure look better than it actually is.

Well, besides the pics Sideshow updated, there aren't any production pics that look good. They range from OK to bad.

Once you guys get your hands on this, please post a picture where he is standing straight in front of the camera after he has been all futzed up.

No modding or customizing, just straight out of the box futzed. We'll see how much better it can look than what the reviews have shown.

Its easy to hide the problems and flaws when a figure is shown at certain angles and poses like Sideshow did on the new pictures.

 

[Sardo Numspa]

Once you guys get your hands on this, please post a picture where he is standing straight in front of the camera after he has been all futzed up.

No modding or customizing, just straight out of the box futzed. We'll see how much better it can look than what the reviews have shown.

Its easy to hide the problems and flaws when a figure is shown at certain angles and poses like Sideshow did on the new pictures.

Definitely true that posing at certain angles hides the flaws... but how many people pose their figures standing straight, arms at their side? Part of the reason most figures don't look good when posed like that, is that there's no life. I don't have a single figure posed like that, regardless of how good the figure is...

 

[The Mike]

If someone could take this out of the box and pose it in a way that would look good, it'd sell a ton more figures for SSC. Every person who got this early has been lackluster in posing and taking photos of it and I don't have much faith.

 

[MxBxM]

Definitely true that posing at certain angles hides the flaws... but how many people pose their figures standing straight, arms at their side? Part of the reason most figures don't look good when posed like that, is that there's no life. I don't have a single figure posed like that, regardless of how good the figure is...

Almost everyone I have seen poses them just standing there, the famous museum pose.

I personally think that its beats the purpose of it been a posable figure, but to each their own.

 

[Sardo Numspa]

Almost everyone I have seen poses them just standing there, the famous museum pose.

I personally think that its beats the purpose of it been a posable figure, but to each their own.

Maybe I didn't express myself well there... you are correct Sir, most people do pose them just standing there, museum pose, but most do make use of some minimal articulation: either holding a gun, or prop, turned a certain way, or an arm bent here or there. Most of the SSC Batmans I've seen (for example) are just standing there, but with a cape draped over one side, or holding the grapple, or batarang. I guess that's more what I meant. I still consider that "museum" pose, and I guess I consider that different than a figure just standing straight with arms at their side. I don't pose any of my figures very dynamically, but as it is Superman, I'll likely have him in a hover/takeoff pose since he comes with that high stand.

Like you say, the benefit of these figures is the articulation/poseability. I change my poses on the shelf every 3- 6 months typically. Actually, maybe that's another conversation for the folks here who are still buying Supes.... how are you planning to pose him?

 

[MxBxM]

Before I decided to not get this after the first reviews, I had a pose already planned for him about to throw a punch with his heat vision while in the air.

[emoji25]

 

[onethousandmasks]

Before I decided to not get this after the first reviews, I had a pose already planned for him about to throw a punch with his heat vision while in the air.

[emoji25]

Oh ,you mean like this one

 

[MxBxM]

Oh ,you mean like this one

Yes, but much better an intense, though.

 

[Groovy34]

you know in this pose the bodies look the same

 

[onethousandmasks]

you know in this pose the bodies look the same

It's the side angle shot of Batman.

 

[MxBxM]

you know in this pose the bodies look the same

Sideshow did a good job with this deceiving pictures.

They put Batman on the side and Superman a bit more frontal on this picture and on the other one, they put Batman slightly behind Superman and darkened most of his body from the Batman emblem.

Very smart on their part and are seemingly been successful.

 

[EVILFACE]

How dare a company make their product look better!

 

[Sardo Numspa]

Ya the bodies are definitely different, Batman is quite a bit bigger. But, at the same time, the Batman figure doesn't look great in this pic either, and considering how good he is in hand, I'm still holding hope...

 

[IrishJedi]

That figure is not worth $200. Not even close.

 

[EVILFACE]

If anything just swap the bodies.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

Your'e right Sardo. In fact Batman doesn't look as good as Supes in that pic. Looks like Supes arms are bigger than I thought too.

 

[amos brearly]

Batman definitely looks the most awkward in that photo. Superman doesn't look bad at all.

who knows......

 

[**16k**]

Oh, man, the wait for this is becoming insufferable!

 

[kl241]

Ya the bodies are definitely different, Batman is quite a bit bigger. But, at the same time, the Batman figure doesn't look great in this pic either, and considering how good he is in hand, I'm still holding hope...
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Those look like they're deformed. Terrible.