Official Enterbay-Hot Toys Bruce Lee Line General Thread

[karamazov80]

Painted eyes > Googly eyes

 

[Lejuan]

Painted eyes > Googly eyes

in most cases I'd agree, but I don't think I'd get the most out of my posing of Bruce if my FoF figure didn't have moving eyes. I love being able to have him look to the side while his head is turned a different way.

 

[RagingBull]

This'd be risky for me. I love what HT have done with their Bruce Lee figures, and I'm saving up for these plus whatever HT has in store for their next Bruce figure/s. To lash out on an EB GoD that's only been shown as a seamless prototype is too tough an ask.

There'll still be time to pick up the GoD MSRP once the final product pics have been released, but I guess if you've preordered now then you know for sure you won't be missing out.

Yeah, it's not just an impulse buy, I've been wanting this since I 1st see it. Sold a spare Batman Dx & I've managed to buy the HT BL Dx & this, not a bad swap.

 

[breakersrevenge]

The EB GoD has been selling very well at OSB.

 

[RagingBull]

The EB GoD has been selling very well at OSB.

I got mine from your site. Such an awesome looking figure, I couldn't pass it up. Really looking forward to getting it

 

[watermelon]

figuremaniac.blogspot.com

 

[78Myers]

Who has thicker eye-brows?

 

[jayveeeusebio]

^^ Hahaha!

 

[gunm]

Bleh, that paint job is not too good. All that red around his cheeks makes him look like he's in Chinese opera.

 

[jayveeeusebio]

Bleh, that paint job is not too good. All that red around his cheeks makes him look like he's in Chinese opera.

Yup, and his playing a gay role haha!

 

[axecutioner18]

The bushy caterpillar eyebrow reference reminds me of a panel from Asterix the legionnaire also the flushed face looks like a bad side effect from viagra ingestion...

On a serious note, as great as this figure was suddenly the quantum leaps in turns of just paint and texturing in the 1/6th world in just a few years is MIND BOGGLING! :O This figure just looks toyish compared to the more human looking DX04...

Thank god I didnt drop that big load of cash for this one...

 

[sifu74]

Try not to bash EB's Bruce because it was done by Arnie, and he works for HT now. So in a way, you are dissing HT.

 

[SAB]

Try not to bash EB's Bruce because it was done by Arnie, and he works for HT now. So in a way, you are dissing HT.

What a bizarre thing to say.


But it is interesting to see how quickly the 1/6 quality is rising. People went nuts when this figure came out. This was one of the main figures that made people declare Arnie Kim was easily the greatest 1/6 sculptor ever.

And now just 3 years later its mocked for being so horrible....and people aren't really incorrect compared to the new Hot Toys offerings.

 

[78Myers]

Try not to bash EB's Bruce because it was done by Arnie, and he works for HT now. So in a way, you are dissing HT.

So Arnie is immune from critique? Some are you are ridiculous...

 

[ripsnorter]

I think he was being sarcastic.

 

[bplus73]

my custom Fists Of Fury duo. Cost around $230.
Heads and suit all not originally from enterbay. Bodies are enterbay BL3.5

 

[SolidLiquidFox]

The production values Enterbay has are inferior to those offered by HT. That in itself is inexcusable since Enterbay is usually charging more for their product.

Did anybody see that Enterbay Club in the news section of the Enterbay website? They have different tiers of memberships and offer discounts and such. Sounds like something worth considering, right? It is until you read the very non-customer friendly rules as you scroll down. Having had 2 poor quality experiences with their products already, it makes you want to hold off all their products and just stick with HT for your 1/6 Bruce Lee needs.

 

[Monger]

I can't really describe it, but while Hot Toys is the bigger company with the pieces that look more realistic/better, I feel like Enterbay often has a lot more heart in their releases. When I see things like the Hot Toys Thor or Jill, they look so lifeless and sure they are very realistic, but the likeness is almost not there because they take the realism almost a bit too far and sometimes seem to forget to capture not just how something looks physically, but the kind of spirit it has. I know this all sounds like mumbo-jumbo, but I cannot really explain it any other way. Sometimes, I think of Hot Toys as that huge chain of stores and Enterbay that small specialty store that all its frequent customers prefer. The big chain has the better tasting food, more things, and is sometimes cheaper, but that small specialty store has its own touch and charm to it that you can't just replicate.

That and Enterbay releases are sometimes just plain better than Hot Toys. Hot Toys does some awesome things and they also do some not so awesome things. Everyone wins sometimes and loses others. I see a lot of people heavily criticize Enterbay even going off of one or two figures and its so easy to do those kinds of sweeping generalizations, but I never see people do it with Hot Toys. You can take one of Hot Toys not so stellar releases and then just make an assumption about the whole company and it would be really bad, but no people instead of always keep Iron Man in mind so that Hot Toys is artificially looked upon as this kind of god of sorts.

 

[Lejuan]

I can't really describe it, but while Hot Toys is the bigger company with the pieces that look more realistic/better, I feel like Enterbay often has a lot more heart in their releases. When I see things like the Hot Toys Thor or Jill, they look so lifeless and sure they are very realistic, but the likeness is almost not there because they take the realism almost a bit too far and sometimes seem to forget to capture not just how something looks physically, but the kind of spirit it has. I know this all sounds like mumbo-jumbo, but I cannot really explain it any other way. Sometimes, I think of Hot Toys as that huge chain of stores and Enterbay that small specialty store that all its frequent customers prefer. The big chain has the better tasting food, more things, and is sometimes cheaper, but that small specialty store has its own touch and charm to it that you can't just replicate.

That and Enterbay releases are sometimes just plain better than Hot Toys. Hot Toys does some awesome things and they also do some not so awesome things. Everyone wins sometimes and loses others. I see a lot of people heavily criticize Enterbay even going off of one or two figures and its so easy to do those kinds of sweeping generalizations, but I never see people do it with Hot Toys. You can take one of Hot Toys not so stellar releases and then just make an assumption about the whole company and it would be really bad, but no people instead of always keep Iron Man in mind so that Hot Toys is artificially looked upon as this kind of god of sorts.

I can see your point, but don't agree with it when taking the whole suite of offerings by the respective companies into account.

Based on what I've read rather than what I myself have experienced, it seems that HT hit way more than they miss and EB - their Bruce Lee figures aside - are erratic.

EB's Godfather doesn't measure up to the HT version. EB's Mr Bean is a wonderful sculpt sitting on a crap body. Ip Man, which I own, had to have a TrueType bought for it because its body is also crap. Then there is the whole range of figures that have been in the pipeline for a million years but for whatever reason never made it into production. Man, was I hanging for that Bulma figure!

I'll take superior QC over touch and charm anyday - and if it happens to cost a stack less cash to get it, so much the better

 

[SolidLiquidFox]

I'll take superior QC over touch and charm anyday - and if it happens to cost a stack less cash to get it, so much the better

I agree. You usually assume that a higher price from a smaller company will buy you more personal care, at least comparable QC and a better product from time to time. This is just not so for EB. It's hard to make a case for them as a mom and pop shop that cares even more so now that they don't have Arnie Kim doing BL figures for them.