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Black Series Complaints

Anonymous Tue 22 Dec 2015 03:05:41 No.5351432 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>5351446 >>5351450 >>5351476 >>5356434 >>5356622 >>5356644 >>5356687 >>5357364 >>5358703 >>5363545

First off,
>inb4 Hasbro is shit
Anyway, what are your complaints with the Black Series line? I would have to complain about the low supply of many figures, the lack of a Leia that looks like Leia and the light sabers in the newer figures. Also a minor thing is that my Vader's right leg is very loose.
Pic related is my collection, I am getting Bosk, Boba Fett, and Scout Bike soon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 22 Dec 2015 03:13:33 No.5351446 Report

Quoted By: >>5351473

>>5351432
They're a huge step back in quality compared to the Vintage Collection, the best Star Wars action figure line, releases of a few years back. The only good thing about them is that they've upgraded from the t-crotches, everything else about them is worse. The 3.75" line is dead, so I recommend you collect the Bandai Tamashii Nations S.H.Figuarts figures instead. They're exactly what the Black Series should have been, an incredibly detailed six inch line aimed at collectors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 22 Dec 2015 03:16:45 No.5351450 Report

Quoted By: >>5351455

>>5351432
my huge complaint is no double jointed elbows. it would help a lot of the figures a lot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 22 Dec 2015 03:20:11 No.5351455 Report

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>>5351450
They'd be poorly implemented just like the double-jointed knees are. They need to upgrade to figma style joints instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 22 Dec 2015 03:28:19 No.5351473 Report

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>>5351446
3.75 IS NOT FUCKING DEAD, STOP FUCKING JINXING IT INTO MORTALITY, 3.75 IS GODTIER AND ETERNAL SCALE FUCCBOI KEK BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 22 Dec 2015 03:29:03 No.5351476 Report

Quoted By: >>5356564 >>5356597

>>5351432
Hasbro does not make "polished, precise and heavy QC" toys. They make crappy toys and Star Wars fans still snatch them up. And for all of 3A's faults, I would never say that their toys are "crappy in the technical sense," save for the odd misfire here and there (Master Chief, for instance). So yeah, 3A should definitely being doing the Star Wars Black series instead of Hasbro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2015 22:02:50 No.5356434 Report

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>>5351432
My Greedo has loose hips and the knees are fucking weird

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2015 23:27:15 No.5356564 Report

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>>5351476
Heh

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2015 23:49:42 No.5356597 Report

Quoted By: >>5356620

>>5351476
Can any company make a decent stormtrooper face?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 00:10:04 No.5356620 Report

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>>5356597
Yes but you'll have to buy a model kit

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 00:12:36 No.5356622 Report

Quoted By: >>5356649 >>5360516 >>5360643

>>5351432
TFA stormtroopers arms can't bend worth a damn or hold a fucking gun

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 00:15:33 No.5356629 Report

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The FO Stormtrooper has shit elbows but I like everything else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 00:22:57 No.5356644 Report

Quoted By: >>5356717

>>5351432
The first wave with Maul was actually really well-done and exciting. But since then it seems like they don't even try half the time. Their paint is just so absolutely shitty and they've gotten gummier plastic. I'm also pretty damn salty about IG-88's t-crotch and hope that's no an indicator for future droids or Grievous. I also wish they'd lay off the cloth material. Kylo turned out good but Vader shouldn't have had cloth on his torso and Palpatine would have looked way better if they had just done him in plastic like Maul.

As they are now I just buy the Black Series for army building and masked characters that Bandai probably won't do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 00:25:48 No.5356649 Report

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>>5356622

The elbows are pretty bad, but they can hold the guns just fine...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 00:36:17 No.5356661 Report

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Luke and Leia are made short for "accuracy", but Finn and Rey ignore this. I would prefer Luke and Leia scaled up to look better with the others.

No TFA character includes Luke's ANH blue lightsaber.

Mass market Kylo Ren has an inaccurate lightsaber. The correct one is with the more expensive Kmart exclusive, but Kmart is a few hundred miles away.

Greedo/Han TRU set doesn't in lude the dxtra items released with the singles despite no price break.

Troopers aren't easy to come by. Peroid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 01:00:28 No.5356687 Report

Quoted By: >>5357101

>>5351432
I got the 3.75 figures of the black series,
han and luke
i opened luke and boy is he exceptional
hes amazing
then i opened han and was soooooooooooooo dissapointed
what a downgrade all around

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 01:16:17 No.5356717 Report

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>>5356644
I'd honestly argue Palpatine should have LESS plastic. That plastic skirt combined with the cloth robe make neither plastic fans or cloth fans happy.
I just cut it off and glued the robe shut. I like him way better now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 04:42:46 No.5357024 Report

Quoted By: >>5357103

Which is better/worse, the 3.75" or the 6"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 05:25:35 No.5357101 Report

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>>5356687
>sooooooooooooo
faggot for fucking sure

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 05:26:38 No.5357103 Report

Quoted By: >>5357579

>>5357024
>people unironically want 3.75 inch figures

ultimate jew

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 07:00:23 No.5357289 Report

Quoted By: >>5357368

im into buying a black series 6 inch darth vader. and im seeing one pretty cheep on Ebay. Are there KO Black series darth vader 6 inch figures?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 08:12:01 No.5357364 Report

Quoted By: >>5357588

>>5351432
my biggest gripe is the low supply and retailers never getting new waves.
TFA line seems like it is doing better with supply but for older releases im stuck paying aftermarket prices. also other lines are shittign on their quality. figuarts, medicom and the elite line out do their sculpts and paint apps. but Black Series will always have a scope the other lines will never cover like In scale vehicles, I hope a x wing will come down the line.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 08:14:24 No.5357368 Report

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>>5357289
i belive their is KOs but they look like shit. i kinda wanna sell my black series vader now that i have my mafex.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 13:28:14 No.5357579 Report

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>>5357103

Some of us don't have space or money for the larger figures. It's also much easier to set up dioramas in general and more fun to fiddle with them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 13:35:02 No.5357588 Report

Quoted By: >>5357624

>>5357364

It's pretty much the same storyline with these figures as it is with other toylines (or at least, other Hasbro lines).

Stores over order the first 2 or 3 waves, so there are fuck tons of figures on the shelves.
Dozens of the same pegwarmer start to accumulate.
Stores always look like they have stock of that particular line, so the system never updates that it needs more.
New cases never get ordered, same Pegwarmers are sitting there forevermore.

Before the TFA figures came out, the last wave I saw of the Black Series 6" figures was the wave with the generic clone trooper. By then, there were so many Hans, Greedos, and Slave Leias clogging up pegs across the land nothing else came in.

Same thing really ends up happening with Marvel Legends and the like. There were a lot of waves that got skipped because there were like, three different Iron Men from different waves warming pegs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 14:20:49 No.5357624 Report

Quoted By: >>5357639 >>5357640

>>5357588
Ever heard of ordering online, dumbass? Who the fuck buys things in a store anymore? You can get sealed cases now!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 14:37:33 No.5357639 Report

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>>5357624
Not him, but because the paint apps are all over the goddamn place, I hate buying online.

And why the fuck is this unsolveable street sign captcha back? Took me five minutes before it finally worked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 14:37:40 No.5357640 Report

Quoted By: >>5357661 >>5358682

>>5357624

And deal with the horrific paint apps that throwing the dice for online ordering brings?

No thanks. I'd rather not have the figures at all.

If I'm ordering online, I'll take superior SHFs or something, thank you.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 14:52:40 No.5357661 Report

Quoted By: >>5357665

>>5357640
>complain about poor paint apps
>would rather suffer from poor sculpts instead at twice the price
between a rock and a hard place, yo.

or not, since there's 5 other brands releasing the same characters

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2015 14:56:00 No.5357665 Report

Quoted By: >>5358659

>>5357661

To be fair, exactly zero of those Stormtroopers that have been put out look right.

I don't have the Figuarts Stormy anyway.

Besides, no matter what, people will always bitch about how the sculpt looks just to have something to bitch about, but when it comes down to it, you just pick up the ones you like the look of best.

On the other hand, it is pretty undeniable that the Black Series generally tend to have shit paint apps, and just like most American toys, you have to rifle though entire cases or pegs just to find the one or two that are "acceptable" looking.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 03:08:55 No.5358659 Report

Quoted By: >>5358681

>>5357665
>exactly zero of those Stormtroopers that have been put out look right.
At this point, you're basically saying
>sharp knees, wouldn't bang.
To expect perfection is retarded, because it's impossible.
I think for most of us, we pick the one that looks the closest to what it's supposed to be. So we choose which has the least amount of flaws.
Obviously, there's a point where something is too off for us to even consider ever buying it.

What I find crazy are people who claim they forgo aesthetics for just poseability.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 03:27:05 No.5358681 Report

Quoted By: >>5358997

>>5358659
>To expect perfection is retarded, because it's impossible.

That's exactly what I was trying to say, though.

People will bitch no matter what.

If the figure looks super accurate, and has a great, unbroken sculpt, it is probably going to be lacking in articulation.

If the figure has tons of articulation, it is probably going to be lacking in sculpt.

You kind of have to give up something to get something, and have all aspects of the figure meet in the middle somewhere.

But people will still always find something to complain about, just to make a point that they "had to settle." It'll be something retarded like, the head shape isn't exactly what they wanted, or the arms are ever so slightly too long, or the feet are a smidge too big or something. And people will insult another brand no matter how good or bad the actual figure is, just to justify how much/how little they spent on their particular figure.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 03:27:32 No.5358682 Report

Quoted By: >>5358693 >>5358694

>>5357640
> superior SHFs

Look at this fucking elbow joint. It looks like hot garbage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 03:33:35 No.5358693 Report

Quoted By:

>>5358682

No, it looks like he has a murderous death-spike growing out of his elbow, which is awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 03:34:20 No.5358694 Report

Quoted By: >>5358719 >>5359348

>>5358682
Please look at the black series single jointed elbows and then kill yourself for even joking that the SHF are worse than the black series

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 03:41:52 No.5358703 Report

Quoted By:

>>5351432
they're pretty good and have believable articulation limits since i don't expect Strormtrooper to pose like JoJo or jump like Spider-Man. the only thing that would piss me off is if they have limitations in simple things like holding a gun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 03:53:49 No.5358719 Report

Quoted By:

>>5358694
Honestly I think Black Series Ren looks much better than SHF.

>BS can pull back hood, and be fixed to a position, SHF cannot
>While BS only has a 90 degree elbow bend, it doesn't look as bad as the elbows on SHF.
>Cloth cloak looks better than the plastic, doesn't get in the way as much

I mean, in all seriousness, what good is more articulation if the figure looks like absolute trash with all the articulated joints?

But the SHF does have a much better lightsaber at least. I would get that if it had an unmasked head too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 03:54:30 No.5358721 Report

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In terms of figure selection it's been poor. The first wave was amazing, in fact most of the orange and blue boxed figures were ok. This red boxed stuff the quality has gone complete shit and they've up the exclusives up 10 fold. Pretty much all collectors groups on FB have gone down by half in activity or membership since then and its common for people to sell their whole collection.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 07:16:58 No.5358997 Report

Quoted By: >>5360742

>>5358681
sorry if it seems like i disagreed with you or anything, i was just adding on to your point.

>If the figure has tons of articulation, it is probably going to be lacking in sculpt.
this i do disagree with.
There's tons of examples of figures having a ton of articulation and not lacking in sculpt from many many lines, like those Stormtroopers. Obviously, the Revoltech is hyper poseable because he has a lanky sculpt, but the other figures can do many many raelistic poses even though they're accurately sculpted.
Or look at McFarlane's amazingly sculpted Halo line that had a lot of well disguised joints that allowed for a ton of great poses.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Dec 2015 13:46:39 No.5359348 Report

Quoted By: >>5360726

>>5358694
Compare the pic of above with this. Now kill yourself after realizing the truth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 27 Dec 2015 03:23:43 No.5360516 Report

Quoted By:

>>5356622
they held the gun fine. Should be able to shave down the elbos to improve articulation but better off with the bandai kit

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 27 Dec 2015 04:42:50 No.5360643 Report

Quoted By:

>>5356622
They can hold them, aiming them is another story

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 27 Dec 2015 05:25:34 No.5360726 Report

Quoted By: >>5360730

>>5359348
Did a bird crap on his skirt?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 27 Dec 2015 05:27:10 No.5360730 Report

Quoted By: >>5360742

>>5360726
He got into his dad's coke stash

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 27 Dec 2015 05:33:47 No.5360742 Report

Quoted By:

>>5358997
their halo figures or at least the spartan/covenant figures are great. their ac figures, not so much.

>>5360730
lol on several levels.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 2015 18:04:56 No.5363545 Report

Quoted By: >>5364896

>>5351432
I'm debating on Revoltech or MAFEX Boba Fett. Can anyone vouch for either?

Also... is MAFEX Fett even out yet?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Dec 2015 03:55:02 No.5364896 Report

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>>5363545
Gee I dunno, what does the internet say? The very thing that can answer a question in seconds have to say? Oh, you're retarded, sorry.

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