Recent content by robomorph

Unfortunately, it seems that the issue with the right side of the closed mouth portrait (where the lip is detached from the tendons) seems to be present on all the production pieces. At least on the several that I've seen so far. Obviously that's no problem for the open mouth portrait, which...

I got notification of imminent shipping but no confirmation yet. I'm probably going to ask them to hold my order though, pending further in-hand pics of the closed mouth. That flaw would bug the hell out of me if they're all like that.

Alita herself looks great, but I wish the bonus extra was a smaller base to display her independently of that huge diorama. I'd rather have that than a bonus portrait.

Have to agree with the above comments. Paint app is McFarlane toy standard and the seams/gaps are very obvious. Detail looks very soft too. Hopefully some examples might come out better, but right now it's not looking good.

I believe these are now shipping, so pics should be showing up very soon.

Which in my case is an observation that I'm grateful to hear, and that will have a bearing on any potential purchase. Informed critique and dissenting opinion are the pillars of any forum, and I'm just glad that commenters like ComputerFly are willing to go against the grain if there's a valid...

The mud slippers = cancel for me. They blew it again. The Iron Man curse indeed.

That's very good news, thanks for sharing! I wonder how many will be available to Sideshow, since I imagine an ES that low will sell out fairly quickly?

Unless I'm missing something, you can't buy from outside Japan? I can't see any way to enter an overseas address or set up a customer account that's not in Japan. Very happy to be corrected if someone knows otherwise!

I was on the fence about this one so thanks to those who've posted in-hand pics to help me decide. Although for the most part it's a great statue, the likeness is still too far off for me. She looks vaguely like GG but only from certain angles (mostly in profile). I think it's a real shame they...

Unfortunately, this was another I was pretty disappointed in. While not as bad as the Carnotaurus, the paint app makes the statue look very plasticky. Not only are the colors off from the proto (where the whole dinosaur has more of a brownish hue), but the worst aspect is the glossiness of the...

Sadly, this pic indicates that all the Carnos were painted as badly, as this looks almost exactly like mine: a thick black line instead of mottled patterning along the side, and stripes that look very 'square' and un-organic. When I requested a replacement, Sideshow informed me that it was...

I'm surprised no one has posted any pics of the repaint of this one yet. I don't know what other people are finding with it, but the paint app on mine is so poor that I've requested a return on it. You can see from the pics that on the left side of the dinosaur there's a pattern of mottling and...

080/1000 in the house and I have to say I'm pretty pleased with this one. The paint job looks decent (no unevenness to the spray patterns between left and right sides on this one) and the eyes are done particularly well. There are no flaws or issues to report and it looks great on display. It's...

Thanks for pics - eyes look very good. Shame about the vagueness to the airbrushing on the right side, but overall it looks impressive on display.