I just got the Hot Toys Gorilla.
From a lot of the previous pics I've seen I wasn't as impressed with how he looked compared to Ursus, but an opportunity came up for me to snag him for $75 so I decided to go ahead.
My initial main problem with him was the bushy hair, but after futzing with it and tucking it into the vest I liked it a lot better. I still wish he had a bigger brow ridge and a smaller forehead but he looks pretty good.
I love the color and material of the vest and gauntlets. The raised ribbing on the pleather was sorely missed on the Sideshow gorilla uniform.
I find that the velcro that holds the vest closed on mine will come open with a little posing. Annoying but not too bad.
Boots have great detail and are nice and shiney.
Initially from photos I thought the purple-ish shirt and pants were too bright, but in person they're fine.
Backpack, club and man catcher are fantastic.
I'm not as crazy about the rifle and bandolier.
I cannot for the life of me see the bandolier as being that color green when I look at photos or one of the movies/tv shows. And it's almost too detailed. the pouches are a little too thick, mainly I assume to make them able to open up. Since as far as I know, we've never seen a gorilla ever open up one of those pouches, I don't think it's necessary to make it functional on the toy.
Similarly, I don't like the removable ammo clip on the rifle. It sticks out too far, slips out too easily (as Michael Crawford's review pointed out) and again, as far as I know, we've never seen a gorilla have to reload before.
I like the color of the rifle, but the wood grain is too extreme and the over all shape of the gun looks a little off to me.
I took a pic of my HT Gorilla with the Sideshow rifle (which stays in his hands much better than the HT gun) and a custom brown bandolier I made (using the sculpted pouches from Sideshow):
I have some more pix here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/33233581@N05/sets/72157622973944747/
-Ray
