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A lot of collectors rate Loontentoys and I have pre-ordered the Hot Toys Wonder Woman Golden Armor on Ebay from them reasoning that I always have Paypal's 6 months protection. The problem is I am coming up near the 6 months limit now and there is still no definite date on the release. WW...

I find the best way is to buy the figure new. Play with it for a few years. By then, I have had my fill so to speak and pretty much played every possible poses with it. Then sell it on quick before the rubber and pleather starts to deteriorate. Most of the time, I can recuperate nearly two...

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I don't mean everybody that have bought a Hot Toy is a profiteer. Sorry, I wasn't very clear but in the other thread, I was referring to people selling it brand new unopened even though the Hot Toys Catwoman is nearly a 7yr old figure. If they have never even open their collection in all that...

This is what Hot Toys wants you to think. Have you look at the current market recently? Xensation af22 the advisor, Enterbay Leon, Asmus Gandalf, Blitzway etc. I don't think its just the sculptors are getting better. A lot of them are using 3D Facial mapping to get the basic head shape and...

As I said in another similar thread, as soon as 3D facial mapping becomes mainstream in the figures market, the bottom will completely fall out of it. All those profiteers that bought Hot Toys for $300-400 will suddenly find they are competing with new figures that are a lot cheaper and photo...

Technology march on relentless. You can't stop it. For the avaerage consumers, all they care about is to get as realistic a figure as possible at as cheap as can be. As soon as 3D facial mapping becomes mainstream in the figure market, the bottom will completely fall out of the 1/6 market...

I have the Fire Toys Joker and I can tell you the head sculpt and body is top notch. Especially impressive when HT Joker is frequently voted as one of the best ever head sculpt. I don't have the Fire Toys Leia but the general consensus was that it is quite close to HT quality. Hard head...

So would you agree that on average 8yrs is a good rough guess for pleather, rubber degradation or would you say its a lot longer. Maybe as a Chemistry guy, you can give us a better range of estimate. Is it also true that pleather treatment helps only minimally? I think on the other forums...

Yes. I am the guy that asked a Chemistry Major guy about the pleather average life time. Hot Toys Catwoman have a lot of flaking issue even from year 4 (taken from other owners experience on various forums but I don't actually own one myself). But then again you have other users here saying...

3D facial mapping software? Never thought of that. Although I suppose with Hollywood studio's digital effects- this is a natural progression. Technology always get cheaper over time. So, I imagine these type of software are super expensive at the moment but overtime, it will eventually...

Yes, that head sculpt definitely looks a lot better than the Hot Toys one. Although bearing in mind the original was 2013 - with 6/7 extra years of experience and improving techniques/technology you do expect them to be better. Fire Toys do seem to have brilliant sculptors and good past form...

Re: Fire Toys A025 Selina Kyle Catwoman Anne Hathaway Just changed thread title with model number and clearer wording to which version of Catwoman this is for.

I think some Hot Toys will lose value over time simply because some of the cheaper materials used means that it has quite a limited shelf life. I made a post about the Fire Toys Catwoman and started getting confirmation about the flaking faux leather and rubber. Googling shows this is quite a...

Re: Fire Toys Catwoman $250 is definitely on the very high end as Ebay price history shows most completion was around the $180-$200 mark. I take it it is new mint in box hence the high asking price? Although I have heard that just keeping it in the box also causes problems. You are suppose...