The thing to me thats unforgivable is just how bad a ball was dropped on such an important license.
This is not a flash in the pan marvel movie of the moment and the 7th version of the character from the same company. This is not something with highly genre specific audience such as a horror or sci-fi fi thing. This is not even a cult movie. It's a movie that has the ability to transcend generations and audiences, bring in new customers who have not been introduced into the hobby and set Star Ace to a whole new bar.
The MIB figures were mentioned. Its sad, so many years ago we had those, flawed but beautiful "guy in suit" figures and now it's OK to have product like this, from a far more coveted film that has been deprived of officially lisenced figures for decades.
To say anyone is too negative over the way this turned out is pretty unjustifiable in my opinion.
The thing is I HAVE seen Star Ace pull off passable figures, which makes the ball dropping here all the harder to deal with.
In this age of Threezero, Star Ace and Asmus making figures that Hot Toys doesn't want it makes me long for Enterbay. How could they have been so light-years ahead of all of these other companies years later?
And how many millions of Sam Jackson figures have been made in the last 25 years? I've seen some weak Jackson portriats It's an impressive feat to pull off something that I think may one the worst likeness to him I've ever seen in any scale!
And poor Pulp Fiction. it just always seems like this duo gets the shaft. Even with really great talent working on it in the custom world they just have had so many weak figures.
The Rainman figures were the first attempt at doing the duo right, and while Yunsil has improved a lot in the suit realm since then the suits are decent. Where things fall apart is the heads. Vince was better and bears resemblance but he had almost a cartoony quality to him. Then Jules just did not look like him at all. Even with the revised sculpt. To make matters worse, because at that time there were no black bodies on the market Rainman had it fit the Enterbay J body. Which is something I never got. so now the suit is massive and he's huge next to Vince. And because of the feet he had to give him cheap knock off shoes.
Then along comes Cult King, at a time when they were saving the day upgrading many figures in need of modernizing. You wouldn't expect Iris to top Yunsil but it was an opportunity to get new heads. Not only did they come out super underscaled, which made it even more impossible to put on the Yunsil suit especially Jules, but the Jules Yumi Kim sculpt was great. Which made it even harder to deal with the undersized scaled the fact that he was painted far far too ashy white in complexion.
Then Vince, while Yumi killed it on Jules, Vince was not so good even after the revised Chewbacca esq cranium.
Finally Mina Yu killed it on her ponytail Vince version 2. But its still not a solution to finally have a perfect Vincent and Jules together, even if it does work with Mia.
And all that to say it's still not passable since they missed all the details on his outfit, the leather collar and black jeans... so there's that.
So after all of this we have yet to have passable Pulp Fiction figures. Mass produced and custom figures alike.
