For those refusing to buy or on the fence based likeness, or lack there of...
Don't sell yourself short on a great statue. Had this been pitched as just a regular Batman (comic) PF with no likeness, would you purchase it? While Im not discounting your complaints, I say take this for what it is... a really nice "Batman" statue.
IMHO
That's the thing, if this was marketed as just another comic book piece I probably wouldn't have gone anywhere near it.
Like a few people here I primarily collect movie related pieces only.
Of course that's not to say I haven't purchased a handful of comic pieces for my favourite characters, but I already had the Batman comic PF.
So in my mind accuracy to the actor is important. If Hot Toys and many other manufacturers can do it, why can't Sideshow? Imo there's really no excuse, other then they're being 'Sideshow'. I've just gotten use to it for pieces in the past three years unfortunately.
And if the piece had the same paint quality on the face as the standard Batfleck PF, I most definately wouldn't have got it. The paint was so basic on that one that imo it ruins the piece for me, whereas on this Armored piece the faceplate doesn't 'stand out' nearly as much for some reason so in the end it's more acceptable.
I have recently preordered a few 1/3 pieces from Prime 1's Arkham line, but come on those pieces are really impressive from head to toe. Now they're a company that knows how to do headsculpts.
I have about 40-50 pieces in my collection, and I only really regret getting two of them. The Thor Dark World PF, and the normal Batfleck PF. Both have terrible likeness to their respective actors. And the paint on the heads weren't anywhere near great either. And while I don't regret getting the Loki piece, the paint app on the face was quite bad too imo, but like this Armored Batman the overall presense of the piece gave it a passing grade imo.
