Definitely looks better with rooted hair! Great job, congrats to zombieshop, definitely a big improvement on the original.
But yeah, back on the "debate", after relooking at various shots from the movie, I have to agree that Myers' mask never looks the same. It's crazy how it changes from scene to scene. When you watch the movie without pausing, you don't really notice it, but when you compare shots, it's crazy how different the mask looks. It's even to the point it looks different when you look at the frame and then watch the scene in motion. I came to the conclusion that no headsculpt is dead on and looks exactly on point.
And when you don't have a reference picture and just remember what Myers looks like in your head, it won't ever be like what it looks like in the movie.
Bottom line is we all have a different interpretation/visualisation of Myers in mind, and even in the movie it's just different in every scene.
And it's the same for the coveralls. The color looks different all the time. Sometimes it's spruce green, sometimes blue, sometimes gray, the only way to know the real color is by looking at shots from when they shot the movie. But if you look at the movie for reference, you can't pinpoint the right color. Again, you'll have an interpretation of the color in your mind, and I have to say that it's blue for me. In reality it was green, but with the lighting of the movie, the mental color I have from the movie is blue. Though I definitely prefer the green color on customs.
It's just interpretations.
Aside from the faithfulness from the source material, be it the movie or shots from the movie, or shots from the movie in the making, I think the bottomline for me is: how good does the figure look and does it represent the image of Myers I have in mind and love?
That's why I prefer the customs over anything official that's been released to this date. The quality is clearly better on customs, but even the representation looks far more faithful to me.
I have to say, "The Blackest Eyes" sculpt from Ones is really growing on me. Would love to own this. It's not faithful to the movie itself, but very faithful to one of the covers on the jacket of the movie (but I think it was used for Halloween 4 or 5 cover, not sure, I'll have to check). And the thing is, this specific cover/artwork is an image that I've looked at countless times, and I've kind of deformed it in my head with time, and Ones headsculpt exactly represents this mean, scary look of the mask.
And the Madbug versions just suit my interpretation perfectly.
The TOT figure, I still don't quite understand what it is I absolutely dislike. Maybe the face is too triangular, I don't know, it looks like a clown to me, in person. It doesn't look scary like the Ones HS, and it doesn't look "scary peaceful/emotionless" like the Madbug ones. Granted with the right lighting, it's definitely faithful to some shots of the movie. I don't know, but that's very subjective.
Then there are the other problems of this figure: the coveralls... They look okay, but compared to the Yunsil ones, it's just not on par. Again it's subjective. I just find the Yunsil coveralls far more classy, badass.
And yeah if we talk about the boots and everything else, the custom world is so crazy in that regard that it makes the TOT figure look very cheap.
Still, I'm sure that if Hot Toys tackled Myers, the result would be awesome. They'd probably not include a proper metal knife, but they would nail the headsculpt and coveralls at the very least.
Maybe we'll see a proper Sideshow version at some point, I really dig the PCS statues. Not gonna buy those but they really look dead on. If they manage to shrink this down to 1/6, it will be perfect and affordable for anyone.
Or maybe Trick or Treat will remake this Halloween line and put more budget next time, and ask for a higher price tag. It's definitely a great start at this price range, but surely they can do much better.
No offense to anyone, I completely respect your opinion & love for this figure.
Just want to give a huge shout out to Mrzombieshop for the beautiful rehaul of my tots myers head! Looks so good in hand then in picture.And I got the more movie accurate boots.
