I didn’t have a hiatus from collecting. I just didn’t buy a HT figure b/c nothing interested me. So it’s not like “oh I haven’t seen a HT figure in a while so this looks amazing to me.” Quite the contrary. I was bored with new HT offerings. And you can even catch me in this thread way back saying how unsatisfied I was by the in-hand pics. However, I ended up taking a chance on this anyway recently with the help of a giftcard and some points and I’m quite glad I did. I liked it so much that I’ve been buying other Marvel characters that I’ve passed on. My point was I wasn’t buying HT as I don’t think everything they put out is amazing, therefore I’m not a HT fanboy. I’m not over here like say Justin’s Collection who obviously is a HT fanboy and thinks/says every new release is the best thing ever. But, I think this looks really good. I look at it on my shelf and see Chris Evans Cap and quite honestly, that’s all that matters. But, I don’t see why just b/c it looks good to me (or anyone who likes it as is) makes me a HT fanboy
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With that said, I’m a customizer myself so I’ve been on the other side of the coin as well. And for transparency, before I got this figure, I did buy a custom unmasked Evan’s sculpt in the event I did ever get a Cap figure again, which I do think is a little better likeness than the HT unmasked. But, in hand, there isn’t enough of a difference to me to go through the trouble of painting it myself or even sending it off to get painted. To me, no matter how good a custom sculpt is (and there are a lot of them of various characters that are arguably better than HT), it makes no difference if you can’t paint it/get it painted as good or better than HT production paint. Those Unreal sculpts pretty much make my point as well. They are nice, but they lack detail in the skin textures in the sculpt and paint, though his fantastic photography sort of masks that. I’m not knocking Unreal as I own many of his capes and thinks his a fantastic artist who is great at capturing likenesses on all his sculpts but that extra finesse and detail is still lacking in them IMO.
And as another example, I finally spent crazy money on getting custom Indiana Jones gear this past year b/c I was unhappy with my DX05. Though, there are obviously ppl who are happy with it as is seeing how much it goes for on the secondary market. Same with TDK Joker. Many ppl think the DX11 is perfect, for others it’s quite clearly not. So I understand it from both sides. I just think calling ppl who are satisfied with stuff as is “fanboys” is a bit extreme as we all have varying degrees of what’s good enough for each individual character we collect.
