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Originally Posted by Autobot_Goldbug

wow so tall in comparison!
and disappointed the gold color is way off

Star Trek gold uniforms going back to TOS have often been picked up by cameras in different ways under different lighting (and some were actually a green material that showed more as gold on screen). Googling the 2009 movie uniform pictures finds variety there too with how the lighting picks them up, with some photos lining up with Hiya's. It's just an interpretation, maybe not the ideal we think of, but the figures display well on the shelf.

[Ozymandias13]

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Originally Posted by MagicWazard

I know this is a Hiya thread, but how were those Playmates 3.75" figures from the 2009 movie? They seem a bit undersized and the faces weren't great but they looked alright otherwise.

Absolute irredeemable *garbage* in every way an action figure is to be judged, imho. The best item in their packages is the fucking *chair*. I cut the figures up for ball joint fodder.

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The web pages with official photos are up for Strange New Worlds Pike and Strange New Worlds Spock.

[Ozymandias13]

They've got great headsculpts and they look good in these pics but they keep going too pale with the paint on the end-product. Let's hope they learn but it's been their norm since the Robocop and Dredd lines.

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Originally Posted by Ozymandias13

They've got great headsculpts and they look good in these pics but they keep going too pale with the paint on the end-product. Let's hope they learn but it's been their norm since the Robocop and Dredd lines.

The paint apps look way better on these than what there doing with there Gi Joe

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Originally Posted by Ozymandias13

They've got great headsculpts and they look good in these pics but they keep going too pale with the paint on the end-product. Let's hope they learn but it's been their norm since the Robocop and Dredd lines.

Yeah, I don't expect that to change, just to have to accept that the style for the line is paler faces. If anything, it looks to me like they are going paler with the official images now to better match the figures, rather than going the other way.

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One thing that has had me curious for a while is why do the prototypes in the official photos seem to have a double joint in the elbow. What I mean by that here, is that in the crook of the elbow, it looks like two joints squeezed together side by side. FYI, if anyone is wondering and hasn't picked up this line yet, on the retail figure the elbow is a regular joint.

[Ozymandias13]

All the pics of the 09 crew show the elbows they've got, but it looks like they're changing the format for the SNWs back to match what they've been doing for all other figures since RoboCop and the later Preds.

The real question is why does SNW Spock look to have a traditional thigh swivel-cut instead of the inserted hip-cup swivel.

[MagicWazard]

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Originally Posted by jabalong

Pirates of the Galaxy posted a comparison photo recently, while DieHard3point75 looked at the Playmates figures in his Hiya unboxing.

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Originally Posted by Autobot_Goldbug

wow so tall in comparison!

Yeah, no kidding! I'm sure the angle isn't helping much, but still, those two lines definitely don't blend.

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and the face sculpt is a little bit better.

A 'little bit'?