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Amazon apparently decided to surprise me with the new TVC shock trooper on top of everything pulse is shipping out right now, not quite sure how I feel about it compared to the bootleg, expected to have a stronger preference for the official one but it's not quite right in a bunch of little ways that the bootleg didn't screw up as badly.
Pros to the official one:
>better helmet size/shape, of course
>slightly more precise paint overall
>more accurate red chin detail shape
>the more widely-preferred wrist directions (even though I think most two-hand blaster poses come out more natural-looking with the flipped wrists, and the flipped wrists let the figure correctly use the helmet commlink with the left hand)
Cons to the official one:
>the stripes above the visor are just blatantly wrong, too tall and they don't extend fully to the sides (the bootleg stripes are also too tall, but they at least go all the way to the gray part)
>white is very slightly yellowish, compared to the bootleg which looks brighter/very slightly bluish, bootleg is a more accurate white as far as I can tell
>red color is both too dark for RotS accuracy and too bright for TCW animated accuracy, the bootleg's red matches RotS better
>the faux-weathering kinda sucks, it's not enough scratching to look accurate to either source, and the shoulders look defective moreso than weathered
>the whole figure, especially the red, is way way way too shiny, which is again not accurate to either source, where the white armor was much more matte and the red paint doubly so
Neither of them have perfect-looking visors, at least not the ones I got, and both of them have the mouth painted ever-so-slightly off from where it's sculpted, so I can't really put those issues in the pros/cons here. Overall, objectively, assuming the prices are the same, which they currently basically are, the official one wins out, as you'd expect, but not by a whole lot, which I really didn't expect.
