I definitely ordered the exclusive version, but they ought to make some slight tweaks. First, as others pointed out the coat's length and its sleeves need to be made longer and the lapels should be adjusted. Unlike Angel, who wore multiple coats of varying style and length, Spike only wore
one long leather coat on
Buffy. He wore others on Season 5 of
Angel, but for all his seasons on
Buffy there was only one long leather coat worn by James Marsters as Spike (a second was worn exclusively by the stunt double). As such, it's important to get the jacket right. At one point believe it or not, that jacket was valued at $400,000.
https://www.atnzone.com/tvzone/features/buffycon_1.shtml
So, getting "the one true Spike jacket" right is important. Secondly, the brow ridges on the vamp face aren't typical of how Spike looked in most actual episodes. Maybe Sideshow based them on Season 2 promo shoots or very early S2 eps in which they were exaggerated and overly painted, but for the vast majority of
Buffy Spike's ridges on-screen were very different from what's shown. Around the eyes the raised area of the facial appliance isn't well-defined and chiseled as in the SS proto--it's thicker, but blended into the actor's face with no deep-lined boundaries. Screenshots from any S3 to S7 episode show this, but for a quick shot that's already online try the bottom left screenshot on the first wallpaper linked
here. Given the promo photo derivation of both the Buffy PF and now the vamp Spike PF head, I think it would be a great idea if SS weighed heavier the actual on-screen appearance of characters, not just their look in a photoshoot or atypical early appearance, in future. While the Spike vamp likeness SS is using is technically accurate since it was used in Spike's first appearances and promos, it's still not what he usually looked like.
That's just my opinion, though. I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth and am glad to be getting this, but I just think the above are constructive criticisms which would benefit Spike in particular and the line in general.
). If you look carefully you can see the difference.
I'm sure I sound like one of those dorks at a scifi convention debating unimportant minutiae. Or like the Trio from Buffy:
