1/6 Hot Toys - MMS - The Phantom Menace - Qui-Gon Jinn

[davejames]

Something characteristic, rougher is missing here (like with most HT headsculpts in recent years), but it is still very close and he's one of my favourite SW characters. Would love to buy one, in case I find a new local dealer who sells him.

Yeah it's a great likeness but does remind me a bit of Crait Luke in the way he looks a bit younger and smoother than he should.

But still, it's an overall fantastic looking figure so I'll definitely be ordering when it goes up.

 

[sithocan]

Though I like Qui-Gon, I did not like the sculpt. The nose is off. And he looks like gazing elsewhere from the action.

 

[Xeno Junkie]

Very cool!! When’s this expected to go up at BBTS or Sideshow?

 

[DarkChocobi]

*** it, poed

And Mace Windu is coming too, very nice.

 

[Hoody999]

That sculpt looks incredible.

Yep totally agree. Looks amazing !

 

[Vonhahn]

I have no idea why people do that. The sculpted mixed with rooted looks worse than fully rooted.

Ahhh you nay sayers crack me up....the entire hair is sculpted.....

 

[DarkChocobi]

Mace Windu is not that far...

 

[QuiGonFishing]

Ahhh you nay sayers crack me up....the entire hair is sculpted.....

He's referring to the custom sculpt a few pages back...

 

[Vonhahn]

He's referring to the custom sculpt a few pages back...

Ahh I see...my bad. I just think too many people jump to extremes in bashing a figure right out of the gate, but I guess to each their own. I think there is something in this face that is not quite 100%, but it's awfully close....and to say "atrocious"...I just can't get on board with that.

 

[Xeno Junkie]

Where are you all POing this? I’m not seeing it at Sideshow. Unless it’s yet another Sidehsow glitch...

 

[user 67922]

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Mace Windu is not that far...

I wonder what the chances are of him being teased with Jango Fett are? He, along with Padme, seems the next most logical Prequel figure.

 

[Jar-Jar Stinks]

Hmmm....

The price from KG is interesting. Fingers crossed that this is close to the state-side pricing.

My thought (i.e. fear) was that with the additional poncho, and the set of 3-D printed holographic items (that in all honestly probably cost $0.12 about to make), etc. that this was going to easily be a $245 - $265 figure. Which is unendingly annoying to me because the trend is clear.

Set a few figures aside, add a few interesting but ultimately non-crucial extra accessories to the package, call it a "Deluxe" figure and get people nice and used to the $264.95 price tag, and then slowly but surely move the regular non-deluxe releases closer and closer to the deluxe price point, and Viola! The new "normal".

I love this hobby, but $300 ea. with shipping included for standard non-dx figures will be what drives me out. And we are just about there.

Are you listening Hot Toys?

^^^^

This

 

[xipotec]

I think the issue is the eyes, too rounded and almond shaped.....

Looks likes he plucked his eyebrows or something....


Sent from the inside of a giant slug in outer space.....

 

[Doodlebob7]

What? They nailed it!

They didn't nail anything. Nose, forehead, cheeks, eyes and goatee are all off. Actually look at the pictures. It's an excellent stunt double I'll give you that.

 

[Sabertrooper]

I think hot toys missed the Neeson nose. looks straight and symmetrical, which his nose is not. If they tweaked that, he would be much closer in my opinion.

 

[a-dev]

I like Qui-Gon even though he was a totally unnecessary character and I daresay even detrimental to the more important story of Obi-wan and Anakin.

Headsculpt looks decent but not fully there. Identifiable but not one of those sculpts that you'd call mindblowingly good.

 

[Johnny Utah]

They didn't nail anything. Nose, forehead, cheeks, eyes and goatee are all off. Actually look at the pictures. It's an excellent stunt double I'll give you that.

Right. Stunt double.

 

[SOU7567]

It looks like Liam Neeson's stunt double. Other than the eyes and hair, sideshow version looks better.

lmao

the things you read on the internet I swear

 

[Doodlebob7]

I bet you guys think Jedi Luke looks, "spot on." That seems to be the popular phrasing these days even though most people can't seem judge properly. Just because you're accepting of a mediocre sculpt, doesn't mean the likeness is good.

 

[Doodlebob7]

I think hot toys missed the Neeson nose. looks straight and symmetrical, which his nose is not. If they tweaked that, he would be much closer in my opinion.
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Nose is a big part of it but they also missed his eye sockets, cheekbones/creases are wrong, forehead etc. It needs a good amount of work but we all know hot toys is done with it.