After having her a few days, here are some observations/things that I want to adjust or fix.
1) Skin tone. As soon as I pulled it out of the box, my wife said she was too dark. I agreed. She suffers from the same, weird grey/brown skin most Hot Toys figures have. It's like they have one default skin tone for every figure, and it definitely doesn't suit Ripley, as she was pretty pale in Alien.
2) The waist of the jumpsuit. It was pretty slim in the movie, but on the figure it could use a little tightening up. The lacing in the back will complicate the procedure, but I planned to change that anyway. Also, and this won't matter to most people, but the clothes underneath. The white shirt has the pockets that should be on the left sleeve on the right sleeve, and the patch that should be on the right sleeve isn't there. Also, when Ripley had the sleeves rolled up, the sleeves of the green undershirt were long enough to be visible. They're not quite long enough on the figure.
3) The hair. I still would have preferred rooted hair, even though I can see the obvious problems that would have accompanied mass producing a rooted hair figure that needed styled hair to look accurate. The sculpted hair looks fine. They did a good job of giving it the proper silhouette, but I think rooted hair will bring the figure up a notch.
4) Hands. And, like the skin tone, this is another thing that isn't exclusive to Ripley. You just get the bog standard hands. Pair of relaxed, pair of fists, trigger and gripping hands. Hands can add a lot of life to figures, and I really wish we could start getting some more expressive ones, or maybe some scene specific ones. The trigger hand looks kind of odd, since the flamethrower didn't have a conventional trigger.
5) Body. I wouldn't have expected them to make a new body just for Ripley, but seeing as she's pretty petite the Black Widow body kinda fills out the jumpsuit a bit more than I would like.
All of that is pretty nitpicky, especially since I have no problem fixing most of it, but it's just some stuff I've noticed.
