Alternate take: free advertisement. His photos are of Hot Toys products even. Like when Disney used Hot Toys emperor's face for their episode IX poster. I don't think a lawyer fight ensued after that, more likely drinks poured. Of course normal courtesy would be to at the very least give a heads up
If they use ESB body for RotJ Vader people will start stealing dx28.
That said, I think the RotJ proportions look better then ESB on product photos which is what makes me think they're using same body as dx27/28.
I'm super fine with waiting by skipping the coin. After all I ordered my Vader from Popcultcha, ETA May 2038 or so, a couple more months for a coin free SS shipment is childs play..
I deliberately po'd figures like Maul and Revan without the coin, only coin coming my way is the artisan Luke one since there was no option without.
Unless they're die-cast and super detailed/enameled etc, an actual art object they are 900% pointless
Yep you're right I see it now. Tough I'm not that worried about the new sculpt, it looks like Mark but the issue is it looks like Mark a couple years before he met the droids. And the monster collar is more accurate to the cover art on the product photos, while on Howards model it's more...
Looks like the same sculpt to me but different hair, posing and the lighting in his room is not like you're at the dentist. Also eyes positioned differently. And his collar is even more edgy 90s.
Figure looks fine if anything the pauldron pieces are a little small/placed a bit sloped. Besides that and wishing the light somehow was usb not battery its a nice figure, and I bet we will see non limited variations of this since having r&d done for the helmet only to make 2500 is weird.