I found my pipe baggy, it flew under the table when I took the box out of the shipper. Thanks for the heads up on that being in the shipper.
So I've been futzing with him the last hour and here are my thoughts.
Things that I like:
Most of all its his presence. He does command a very great presence especially at a distance.
The clothes. The clothes look pretty great but they do need a bit of futzing. Outside of that I don't know if I'll be doing the water method just yet or not.
The accessories. While there aren't too many accessories the book is cool (mine doesn't open is it supposed to?), and the sword and staffs are nice.
The hair and beard. These were executed much better than any other mainstream release I've seen to date. The glue job is messy in areas however, so depending on how lucky you get with yours your mileage will vary. Mine really isn't that great.
The paint and sometimes the face on certain angles in very particular light. He looks very good lit on a 45 degree angle top down with rim lighting. He has to be shot from the side or 3/4 angle or looking downward to look good IMO.
The packaging. The packaging was really nice and almost what you'd expect from a hot toys DX figure.
The details/grass on the base without any accessories on it.
Things I dislike or even at times hate:
The eyes. I've already said this many times on the thread why I hate them I think everyone knows well enough about that lol. But yeah, due to the eyes its very hard to find angles and lighting where he looks good. Between the gloss, the upper eyebrow sharp cuts on the sculpt(especially eye to your right), and the distance they are set back it just really becomes a challenge
The mustache. The mustache looks like total garbage close up. I'm not sure how they woulda made it look realistic while still being cost efficient, but damn close up it is UGLY. I will include a close up of the mustache on my particular figure.
The hat. The hat for the same reason everyone else hates the hat. I don't know wtf they were thinking.
The base. The base could have been great but the mailbox peg is too small and does not plug into the base it just falls over. The fence posts barely fit into their peg holes and flop over. The stand its extremely stiff to adjust. It's just a complete mess I don't have any idea how this passed QC.
The body. The body is especially loose on mine and I can only imagine how much worse it'll get with time.
The eyes.
Overall: I'd give this figure a 7/10 when I'm factoring in the price. QC really shouldn't be this big of a problem on a premium series figure. I've really never had an experience quite like this on day 1 with a figure before. My particular piece the base is almost completely non functional out of the box, The paint on the staffs is so-so, the eyes are a big problem, the body is super loose and flimsy, the arms and hands don't support the heavy sword very well either IMO. There really was an overwhelming feeling while unboxing him that this figure was rushed despite the delay. A lot of features felt slapped together without any well thought-out engineering.
Putting all of that aside I still do enjoy the figure and I'm happy to have him so far. He really does command quite a presence even with his sombrero on as long as he's posed well and looking downward/looked at from a few feet higher from where he's displayed. I imagine myself holding on to him and not selling him. It just might take me a little while to feel less buh-hurt about the obvious gripes.
davejames I stole your pose as I it's the best I had seem him look thus far and while futzing with him.
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