The head on mine has to sit in exactly the right position or the connector does not make contact and the eyes light up, I thought the eyes were dead at first and then I wiggled it a few times and it lit up.
If you look at the sideshow gallery and ads it's more shiny, I was really disappointed that mine was so matt out of the box, it looked like dull plastic, it's fine now but yes that prototype with the brushed copper look would have been perfect.
yours looks a little more shiny than mine was out of the box, they are possibly all slightly different depending on who was finishing them off at the factory.
I used a very soft microfiber cloth which couldn't damage it and the polish actually removed some kind of matt residue so my guess is that when it was painted at the factory they didn't finish it off carefully.
Well you get the option, if you like it dull then don't polish it but it's nice to know that a small amount of polishing work can bring it up to a more shiny look, I'm happy with it now :)
Just in case anyone is interested, mine arrived yesterday and the gold face was very matt and dull, I was very disappointed, however I just gave it a good polish with some decent car wax and it made a HUGE difference, it's nice and shiny now just like the red areas. When I was buffering it there...
5 hours of work, are you kidding? Mine was done in about 20 mins - I found a 4.5volt power supply and simply connected the + and - to the correct two contacts in the battery compartment, hey presto it works exactly the same as though batteries are inside. If you want to know which PSU I used...