Lejuan
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Thanks to Spartan Rex for flagging DiD's upcoming version. Latest post from DiD's facebook:
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That looks pretty good to me. Not enough for me to replace the facepool one I just got. Really hope DID redoes Ryan.
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Wow, very nice. Looks like Hanks for sure.
How come they haven't officially licensed these? Is Saving Private Ryan and the war genre in general just not lucrative enough?
I just seen the DID Captain Miller go up for preorder. It seems a little on the cheap side. Does anyone have a DID figure? Are they any good?
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I just seen the DID Captain Miller go up for preorder. It seems a little on the cheap side. Does anyone have a DID figure? Are they any good?
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a licensed military figure. The military fig companies often use film characters as ‘inspiration’ for their sculpts. Because they’re sold as military figures and not movie figures they can avoid the licensing that goes with it. DiD’s original ‘US Ranger’ figure was called Captain Millers and just happened to look a lot like Captain Miller from Saving Private Ryan. The 1/6 military community is pretty big - enough to drive after-market prices on some sets to 2-300% MSRP.
Well there was the Hot Toys Platoon figures. It disgusts me to this day that they never made Elias to complete the main trio of characters.
Taylor and Barnes were terrific though - apart from their uniforms not being green enough. I remember looking around for even non-licensed Saving Private Ryan figures at the time but never pulled the trigger on anything I saw. And then without Elias it really diminished the value of having the Platoon figures in my collection so when I needed money off they went. And that was that, I didn't give the military genre any further thought.
Jumped on this as I missed the FP version. Looking pretty good!
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