No re-use? Shoulder armor, codpiece, mid-section armor, belt, pants, boots, coat with tails, all re-used. How is that not re-use? I'm cutting them slack on the re-used gloves because there's a reasonable amount of change. The only really new pieces are the helmet and torso plate...
As I said, I didn't say the cowl wasn't right - I said I preferred the wrinkled look. Same with the boots - they look clunky and cheap, hence my moon boot comment.
Your review infers re-use of elements from the 2012 Snowtrooper. To be clear, there is NO reuse from that figure, though some re-use from the Sideshow ATAT driver (shoulder armor, boots and gloves) which is understandable given its a recent figure. The trenchcoat is a similar but new pattern that is about 3/4" longer than the 2012 Snowie one in the skirt (which was noticeably short.) The other armor pieces such as the codpiece and belt armor are new sculpts.
In your review, you were unsure where the re-use of the boots was from - "I swear these are re-used from some other character" - we pointed out it was from the recent SSC ATAT driver (it's just that you said you were a Hoth kind of guy - the SSC ATAT driver is a recent 1/6 Hoth release that shipped only a bit over a year ago.)
And to clarify re: cowl, it honestly doesn't seem to be about preference - the wording of your review really seems to suggest that you didn't understand the Commander's cowl was different - "They've made some updates here, particularly in the way the rubbery face covering is designed" and "The helmet and face covering is new, as I said. The original had the folds sculpted into it - this one is straight, smooth, and stiff. It does adjust though..."
Maybe it's just the way it's written, but this suggests that you believed that Sideshow was doing some kind of a "design update" to their regular Snowtrooper cowl but this time opted to do it without sculpted folds, not - as SSC did - correctly sculpting the Commander's unique rigid cowl.
And my point on the boots is that the actual costume has moon boots, and they're fairly clean so you can't say that the figure having moon boots "really hurt the score for me" - they're just matching the costume. Sure the sculpt could have had a touch more detail (compare them to the subtly more detailed HT Snowie Commander boot sculpts,) and some light weathering - but you shouldn't be hurting the score for a boot style that is both correct and also somewhat lacking in finer detail even as a real boot.
I know you do a ton of reviews and can't be expected to know every character in great detail, and your site is a valuable resource. But in this one isolated case, it felt like you didn't know the character/costume well enough to differentiate between aspects of the costume you don't like, and whether or not Sideshow accurately reproduced it. In the review as-is it's kind of muddled (take the other comments in this thread as confirmation of this.)
Sideshow often deserves scorn for their lack of attention to detail (and this figure is far from perfect,) but they shouldn't be criticized for re-use that doesn't exist, or for accurately replicating costume elements that some people don't happen to like or aren't aware of.
