It's as if all they took from the original Firefly to influence this figure was: urban camo pattern, wears mask, has explosives, and evil facial expression.
As I said before, one could easily same the same thing about Beachhead's design rationale.
If they hadn't released the camo head (as again, they didn't originally intend), if you showed it to a typical Joe fan, and if you didn't tell them that this was supposed to be a Joe figure, I don't think they would have immediately said to themselves, "hey, that's Firefly!"
I doubt it. The human mind is a pretty good pattern-recognition engine that way.
Ultimately, we can only agree to disagree, but if you had a poll I'm pretty sure I know which figure would be viewed as more similar to the original character.
Like Mark Twain said, there are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics.
But Firefly was not a matter of small details. Like Kara said they were not going to gives us the camo head, and without it we would not think think of Firefly when we see it.
I actually the original colour. It offsets the costume rather nicely, I think.
SS version of Firefly is missing his crossed bandolier
Beachhead is missing his ammunition satchel.
Further, Firefly hasn't always been depicted with two bandoliers.
So is Beachhead, and it actually hurt the figure because there no is place to store his crossbow (or, for that matter, to hook the bottom of the backpack onto, unless you got a little creative).
the color of the camo is way too light for a saboteur, looks like an artic trooper.
I've mentioned Beachhead's trousers before, right?
Beach Head is Beach Head when you first see him, no doubt about it.
And so is Firefly, though, as Karamazov says, we'll probably have to agree to disagree on this.
I think it looks like firefly but Sideshow tweaked/changed/missed a lot of little things that all add up imo. I would like them to do a new version and basically just copy EF's custom. Sideshow's FF is definitely not as much of a ringer as their beachhead though. He is pretty much spot on except for his chest rig.
And mask, and trousers, and boots, and backpack, and...
we'll just agree to disagree. You like SS's FF look, I don't. Let's leave it at that.
Besides, original figure card art > anything else
