InArt: The Lord of the Rings - Gandalf 1:6

[snoop101]

Asmus for the win.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Let me help you with that...

 

[Tolkien Nerd]

Absolutely agree with you:

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Has he been on the old sunbed?

 

[satanatos]

Has he been on the old sunbed?

Heeey, everyone needs some sunshine every now and then

 

[Pizza]

Liked the pose they have him in, so figured it would be fun to do a side-by-side:

I made like you Pizza ;-)

 

[matrix69]

Dang that INART version looks beautiful!

 

[denrep-lilium]

I made like you Pizza ;-)

This looks less like GtG than the older sculpt. The eyes are bad there, but next to InArt it is obvious that the sculpt is pretty good, and as we can't see eyes clearly it looks pretty decent next to InArt.

 

[Chopper Face]

Has he been on the old sunbed?

That’s apparently a ‘lightened’ paint version of the GTW sculpt as well.
The stock head is pure mahogany.

 

[hoodonit00]

Plain to see the InArt is superior. With that said the Asmus one isn’t bad at all especially at the price difference. If they wouldn’t have tried moveable eyes on him it would have looked a lot better. Releasing the joke of a hat they did was wrong all around.

 

[Hologram AI]

Plain to see the InArt is superior. With that said the Asmus one isn’t bad at all especially at the price difference. If they wouldn’t have tried moveable eyes on him it would have looked a lot better. Releasing the joke of a hat they did was wrong all around.

One of the biggest downgrades I've seen from a prototype outside of StarAce figures. They were smart to switch to non-PERs for GTW and only announce it with a production version. That original GTG prototype looked really good. What a shame.

 

[hoodonit00]

One of the biggest downgrades I've seen from a prototype outside of StarAce figures. They were smart to switch to non-PERs for GTW and only announce it with a production version. That original GTG prototype looked really good. What a shame.

I can’t disagree. If Gandalf would have looked like this I would be saying InArt who?

 

[Wor-Gar]

As good as the above Asmus Gandalf looks above, the InArt Gandalf is still light-years better than Asmus' best offering in photos.

I shudder to think what it will be like to open that InArt box -- all twenty two feet of it -- and gaze down at a miniature Ian.

 

[Tolkien Nerd]

That’s apparently a ‘lightened’ paint version of the GTW sculpt as well.
The stock head is pure mahogany.

As in the David 'The Duke' Dickinson look!?

 

[achillesmf]

Kinda nauseating to keep looking at asmus stuff, there is no comparison, just sell it while you can and get the better Inart piece.

 

[Wor-Gar]

InArt will only make 4-7 LOTR figures over the next 5 years at best. So it is not impossible to upgrade the few figures they make, and keep going with Asmus on the others.

Key characters are worth the upgrade.

In any event, this is where the hobby is going, so in time you'l have no choice. In time, the $350 figure will be the "cheap" variant.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

In any event, this is where the hobby is going, so in time you'l have no choice. In time, the $1350 figure will be the "cheap" variant.

Agree.

 

[FlyAndFight]

...In any event, this is where the hobby is going, so in time you'l have no choice. In time, the $350 figure will be the "cheap" variant.

And that it will be my exit from the hobby. Or at least, a drastic reduction.

 

[Bucky Underbelly]

And that it will be my exit from the hobby. Or at least, a drastic reduction.

I mean ... that's what pushed me out of statues ...

Well, that and display space, which ran out years ago.

 

[Giimli86]

InArt will only make 4-7 LOTR figures over the next 5 years at best. So it is not impossible to upgrade the few figures they make, and keep going with Asmus on the others.

Key characters are worth the upgrade.

In any event, this is where the hobby is going, so in time you'l have no choice. In time, the $350 figure will be the "cheap" variant.

Agree.

Cant see Inart really doing more than Gimli, Frodo&Sam in a pack and Boromir besides Legolas and Nazgul (already mentioned by Inart) from FOTR.
And that will take them 5 years if they release 1 per year (Frodo and Sam released together). Starting in 2025, since they didnt show Legolas and Nazgul this year, meaning they show either of them in 2024 so thats a 2025 release date.

Otherwise I dont think Sam will draw in 5000 POs alone, not even 2000.
All the other characters can do 2500-3000+ imo, some maybe even more.


What I dont understand (have no insight so I might be totally wrong about what I think) why doesnt Inart make a poll/thorough market research what people would like to see?
But not in a way that anyone can mention anything but listing franchises and you can select lets say 3 from a list.
They could do this in China and outside of China as well.
And they would see what people want.
Pennywise PO numbers indicate to me that that they didnt do this and they could have gone with a character from Lotr/HP/Dune/DC etc. with much higher PO numbers.

 

[satanatos]

Well, Harry Poter and LOTR are not even in top 20 (per wiki) foreign films in China. And supposedly InArt is doing what the Chinese want/like. And to top it off, those have way more fans than IT. They should have really gone with a different character, esp that HT had their release earlier.