I’m really looking forward to this wave, hopefully they don’t drop stateside til after the holidays; my poor wallet can’t take it right now haha.
Yeah, when I saw Dan Who starting reviews I panicked. The last thing my wallet needs right now is another wave so soon.
More sculpted detail should be common all over the line. I really don't know how expensive it could possibly be in this day and age of modern technology to add things like thin raised diamond on say the Visions chest and his unique boot and glove lines on an existing buck. Surely it isn't that involved.
Here's the thing.... if they do it as separate add on pieces that's - glued on for the diamond, or added intstead of the existing legs and forearms - they have to tool those extra pieces on a new steel tool - which as we've been told is by far the most expensive part of the manufacturing process so it adds significant cost to the production side.
If you mean have it added by modifying the original sculpt then they have to modify the base steel tool to add the element which means that it would have to be used again or filled in for subsequent uses of the tool in the future. So, it is significantly more expensive from a production standpoint to change the sculpted details on a mass produced toy like this. These aren't individually 3-D printed, so it's not as easy as modifying the file.
Sure it might be nice if every figure had every minor detail sculpted uniquely, but the figures would be a lot more expensive if they did it that way
I'm generally pretty willing to accept that the line is going to have a lot of reuse - things like Future Ant-Man or Crossfire just aren't going to get a lot of dedicated pieces, and that's fine - I'm willing to accept a cheaper figure for the d-listers because I like the wide variety, and they help fund the new sculpts that show up next to them in the wave. But if they're going to crank out multiple versions of a single design they've got to do start doing it right. And for the most part they've moved in the right direction with Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Widow - and most of those were released at premium prices, to your point. I guess I'm saying, if it has to cost more to add the correct details - so be it! I'd rather pay the extra 5 dollars.
I am legit asking this bc I don’t know. They literally have 1 steel mold for say the Vulcan Buck chest? One and only one?
It's possible, but maybe for that one they have multiples. They've said before that the reason some figures are on a certain body because other molds are currently in use.
I was already excited for the majority of this wave, but having now watched Dan WHO’s reviews of Vision, Power Princess, and Crystar I’m even more pumped.
More sculpted detail should be common all over the line. I really don't know how expensive it could possibly be in this day and age of modern technology to add things like thin raised diamond on say the Visions chest and his unique boot and glove lines on an existing buck. Surely it isn't that involved.
Here's the thing.... if they do it as separate add on pieces that's - glued on for the diamond, or added intstead of the existing legs and forearms - they have to tool those extra pieces on a new steel tool - which as we've been told is by far the most expensive part of the manufacturing process so it adds significant cost to the production side.
If you mean have it added by modifying the original sculpt then they have to modify the base steel tool to add the element which means that it would have to be used again or filled in for subsequent uses of the tool in the future. So, it is significantly more expensive from a production standpoint to change the sculpted details on a mass produced toy like this. These aren't individually 3-D printed, so it's not as easy as modifying the file.
Sure it might be nice if every figure had every minor detail sculpted uniquely, but the figures would be a lot more expensive if they did it that way
I'm generally pretty willing to accept that the line is going to have a lot of reuse - things like Future Ant-Man or Crossfire just aren't going to get a lot of dedicated pieces, and that's fine - I'm willing to accept a cheaper figure for the d-listers because I like the wide variety, and they help fund the new sculpts that show up next to them in the wave. But if they're going to crank out multiple versions of a single design they've got to do start doing it right. And for the most part they've moved in the right direction with Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Widow - and most of those were released at premium prices, to your point. I guess I'm saying, if it has to cost more to add the correct details - so be it! I'd rather pay the extra 5 dollars.
Especially with costume elements that can be re-used. Things like gloves, puffy sleeves, and boots. I can't bear the thought of buying another lady with sloppily painted thighs when a dedicated sculpt could be re-used 10 different times.
My issue with the new one is how the cape seems to float over his shoulders.
When announced, I was thinking I might get this Vision just so I could put the better-looking cape on my old shiny Vision (as well as stealing the reaching hands), but it just looks kind of weird to me. I'm skeptical that it would look better on the smaller version.
I’m really looking forward to this wave. The Dan Who Reviews are cool. Whole wave look like winners to me.
Regarding Vision, I do love the metallic colors from the vintage card version, but otherwise this new Vision looks like an excellent upgrade. Vision should be tall with a powerful silhouette, in my opinion. He’s such a powerhouse character, and now he appropriately looks the part.
I have the opposite reaction to seeing the Power Princess shots - she feel short! Justice looks very plain in these shots and also not as big as he should be. Vision isn't doing it for me so far.
And why does Dan Who take multiple shots that are almost identical, but never shows the back of the figure?
BBTS sent processing soon on the two figures I preorders from them, Crystar and Power Princess. Could be a while before they're actually in the POL, my last couple figures took over a week
Yep I got “processing soon” for the whole wave from BBTS.
These random comic book waves are always the ones I look forward to the most. Saw BBTS was shipping thought I'd ordered mine through Pulse so I figured I'd be seeing them super late, but actually got this wave through Amazon. Hoping they start moving early from them, too. (I'm at the point where I'm rarely in a rush anymore for any figures to ship, but Justice, Power Princess, and Namorita are among my top wants at the moment, would love to not wait til February for the wave.)
They must be fulfilling “whole wave” orders first as I pre-ordered every figure except Namor and Black Panther and haven’t gotten notified yet.
Which is fine by me considering once again they’ve thrown release dates to the wind and intend to assault my wallet when I’m not ready for it.
They must be fulfilling “whole wave” orders first as I pre-ordered every figure except Namor and Black Panther and haven’t gotten notified yet.
Which is fine by me considering once again they’ve thrown release dates to the wind and intend to assault my wallet when I’m not ready for it.
I only preordered Justice and got a charging soon notice for him.
I just got two arrival notices back to back. I open them up expecting Princess and Crystar except it's two Storm Collectibles figures that BBTS didn't warn me about with processing soon emails.
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