>>7073870Eh, Hasbro makes so many figures that its like they gave every sculptor in their employ a chance.
so many characters have gotten revision after revision, and that they're really not considered revisions. The bad ones don't suddenly make the good ones awful. Whereas with Revoltech and other collector companies, its usually their only shot.
So if you were to rank their figures, Hasbro would still be on top. They'd also be somewhere in the middle or bottom, but usually these middling sculpts were revisions of revisions of revisions, that got replaced later on with a god tier sculpt.... if not the first one was god tier and the later ones were middlers.
I doon't think you can really average them out, because like Kaiyodo/Revoltech, they have done quite a few great sculpts, so they belong near the top of the tiers. If you count the Yamaguchi crap, it'd drag the entire line down. I think the amount matters most, or rather, what they're capable of. One or two god tier sculpts doesn't put them in the leagues of others, but they should be high tier nonetheless.
See also Bandai in how much output they have and how poorly made a lot of their toys are. They're the Mattel of the east, but they're certainly better when it comes to collector quality toys.
And that's why you should look at what they're capable of to consider what tier they belong on. As mentioned with NECA and those other companies they produce a lot of god tier sculpts, but they're limited in scope. They pick what they do excel at and produce fantastic looking figures. See also Figma. I'd put them higher, but like NECA or Mezco, once they choose something that isn't their style, they falter. So you get that 300 Spartan guy, which is a fine likeness, but it's a cartoony likeness.
I don't rank Figma as high either because even when they do cartoon figures, the sculpts are still mushy. They get the styles down pat, but not the fine details like with this link. They've improved though.
