>>5293162>How else do you explain them going from a more accurate helmet to a more stylized one? What could've possibly been the intent other than stylizing it?So you're saying that they purposely stylized the Stormtrooper just because and figures like Darth Vader, Luke, and Darth Maul are just the opposite, aimign for a realistic look with the use of their dot matrix printer?
That doesn't make any sense at all... but neither does the fact that they don't even make their figures to scale with one another.
But what's more likely is that that sculptors have a style (as seen with 90% of all figuarts) and that influences how the sculpt looks, no matter what their goal is. So you tend to notice the cartoon proportions across all their licenses and can even tell when it's a specific sculptor, because of tell-tale signs that all artists exhibit.
BTW, the helmet being elongated is most likely because they thought the original one was too bobbleheaded. So instead of going back to produce another head (the time table to produce such a thing takes many months), their deadline required them to make the quickest effort and just elongated the helmet, causing it to look horsefaced.
This happens all the time, sometimes even by accident.
So the most common and simplest explanation is likely the truth. No need to pretend that they failed on purpose, especially when you consider the fact that they're trying to make the rest of the line look realistic (and mostly failing there too).
See pic. Bruce Willis' head got mashed somewhere, somehow, and became somewhat elongated, whereas all the other sculpts are identical from wax to production.
but no, if this were a Bandai figure, i'm sure you'd be claiming "THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE!!!"
Again, it's obvious when they do it on purpose, like the Avengers line where their stuff was obviously stylized (though it's funny how i had to argue this point, with people claiming it wasn't animeized)
