Re: New Doctor Who 1:6 and 1:4 from Big Chief Studios!
He had it in front of him, touched pen to plastic, isn't that what you wanted? Lazy or not, dude had to sign what? 250?
No, that's not what I wanted. I wanted a
signature of the actor who played the Doctor. That is what was shown to us, that is what we were told we'd be getting, with a photo of exactly that to back it up and sell us on the idea, and that is what we paid 20 pounds extra for. And I don't think being disappointed in what we got instead is being overly critical. This wasn't a gift, after all, we paid a significant extra chunk of change for a signature.
If I had known ahead of time, before the order process began, that it was an initialing then I wouldn't have purchased the signature edition, because such things can't be classified as verifiable signatures, and as such, are pretty much meaningless, no matter how many bits of paper they come with.
Also Matt Smith would have been paid quite well for the couple of hours that it would have taken to give us exactly that. Instead I can't imagine it took him very long at all to just initial the whole batch, yet I bet he still pocketed exactly the same paycheck even while half-arsing it.
A scribbled initialing that could have been done by anyone just isn't much in the way of 'value adding' to me. It's certainly not worth paying more the figure by buying direct, and then paying another twenty pounds on top of that.
Like I said, I'm still glad to own the figure, and to support future releases, but I think this whole sig edition has been a bit of a botch job personally. Others may well think differently.
