I've changed my focus more and more towards customizing through the years, and nowadays I'm almost exclusively buying figures that I know I want to update. I'm much more invested in the projects and how much fun I'll have doing it than I am about collecting and displaying stuff. Since I don't...
They wouldn't dare. You'd just create the perfect Vader and ruin Hot Toys business strategy. Every figure needs at least one glaring flaw, to allow for them to "fix it" on their subsequent release/version of that character (While simultaneously ruining some other detail that looked really good...
I don't blame the prequels but the vandalised versions of the OT itself. Lots of old school fans (including yours truly), can't even stand the Special Editions. Imagine if we could go to the cinema and watch the unaltered Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi once every year or...
You give them way more credit than they deserve. Believe me, If they could write great characters and stories, they would. The messaging is all they have and their biggest chance of making an impact is by hi-jacking popular franchises...
I agree FR is a top notch film just like RW. I would argue they're not even in the same sub genre though. While RW is very grounded as far as the story, action and visuals go, FR is in effect a Post Apocalyptic Fantasy flick. Sequels are always tricky to get right but if this is at least half as...