My 3PO arrived and he's a beauty... Very impressive. There's lots of nitpicks, but the good outweighs the bad.
For me this is the most accurate sculpt of C3PO to date. While the Tamashii wins on an engineering front, i've always felt it was a little too clunky and toyish looking.
This HT version looks more like a guy in a suit, with my only real nitpick being the neck is a little too thin. Maybe this was done to help with the articulation.
There's also a lot more DIECAST than i was expecting, with the pelvis, legs, upper arms and back plate being all DIECAST. Whereas the head, front torso plate, shoulder pieces, pistons, lower arms, hands and feet are all plastic.
I'm still not the biggest fan of the speckled on weathering, but from a normal viewing distance it's forgivable, and doesn't take away from how great the figure looks on display.
My biggest gripes are the tiny batteries used for the light-up eyes and the horrid crotch grabber. A light-up base would've been nice too.