Overall I
did like the statue. I don’t mind much for the crocodile head, I think the
humanoid head much more cooler but it’s a nice add since it gives a more
monstrous vision to the character but then, instead of living in sewers, it
should be found in the swamps of Louisiana.
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| You can smile but I still don't like you very much. |
My main
complaint is that pose gives the statue the impression of suffering of leaning
problems since it is too incline to one side if saw from these angles:
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| Leaning effetct. Maybe it's just the pictures. But it bothers me. |
The part I
love the most about it is that it really shows it was hand sculpted, there’s a “crude
finish” to it that is not achievable by ZBrush and other 3D modeling software. It’s
like the Designer told the artist to make it apparent it was hand sculpted, leaving
the marks and imperfections of hand sculpting, the asymmetry to pop up so
whoever sees it perceives it was done by hand. I like that approach, rough,
crude that has all to be with the character. The contorted pose is not easily
reachable by 3D CG modelling as well, what I beleive was another designer
decision to share the world the figure was hand sculpted.
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| 100% handmade and proud of it. |
Au contraire
of the Prime 1 counterpart here all the cloths and bandages are real, not sculpted.
I believe the Sew and Cut department of Sideshow to be one of the pluses of the
company and I love when a statue goes mixed media and have them involved. I
liked the color scheme with a wide range of colors from light cream yellow to
blackish green accordingly with the thickness of Killer Croc skin.
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| Sew & Cut Department involved in a piece. Always great news. |
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| Nice color scheme. Very varied yet completely harmonic. |
My concern
about mass production is the painting of the eyes. They have a very complex
painting scheme I don’t know mass production will be able to grasp. Hope SS QC
(Quality Control) team (if there’s one) does its work right or it may ruin the
figure since the face, as master Mark Newman says “is the focal point of the
statue”. I see the “strip” pupils to be the greatest concern, since both have
to be the same average thickness what is not easy to achieve, especially if you
have dozens of statues pupils to do. Let’s cross fingers here.
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| I can't take my eye of you... |
I thought
the price a bit salty it could go for $499 easily but $20 bucks is not a huge
difference. But when I see the five in front of the price it gives me that “overpriced”
feeling. Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know.
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| I wonder if all Sideshow Collectibles statues will have this annoying translucent effect from now on. What a boring trend. Hope it passes fast At least here is justifiable. |
Overall, I
loved the statue as it is everything Prime 1 won’t: it won’t occupy much space,
it is akin to most comic artist's visions of Killer Croc, it has a different
creative monstrously contorted pose, it has real cloth and principally it has
that personality only hand sculpted figures have. So, if I had money and
Malavestros didn’t exist I would buy this piece because I love comics monsters
characters.
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| Did you notice Killer Croc's companion on the pic? |
By talking
about monsters it’s damn time to Sideshow does a decent Swamp-Thing PF statue.
I’ve waiting for one all my life as I don’t like the one I see from time to
time on eBay (and I don’t think is a Sideshow one).
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| Companion or meal? |
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