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Sure. Lemme clarify - BSG is on a whole new level of large, all by itself, far and away.
I think your comparison of Brick to Baker is a good one - something a bit large you can look past. Baker just hurts me personally because it would have been my favorite remego. As much of a SW geek as I am, I'd rank right-sized-head Tom Baker on par with any Obi Wan or any Star Wars mego announcement. The likeness is "long in the face" if you will, so the fact that both the head (4cm - whereas Shazam is 3.2cm) and the total face height (2cm) measures the same as Apollo still leaves Apollo worlds larger in total scale comparison. Put Baker on a 10" body and he seems a bit small headed, not so at all with Apollo who is right at home there. So Baker is scaled for a 9" body - Apollo very definitely for a 10" one.
Perhaps I've never seen a final production Juliet? Is that the deal? I had seen photos post-release that I thought were final product, but if not and the heads shrank down some amazing percentage I am unfairly maligning the figures. That's my mistake.
Skin tone is interesting, because Brock came out kind of mego tan, and that was on model for the character. So yeah, the paler skin is probably BBP preference.
It's not done by computer, no, but any technical sculptor can make any item at any given size - you know? I mean I have a measuring stick, and I can scale my ref photo printouts to match and compare. You want something 8% larger, I can do 8% - I'm not turning in a shot in the dark with a 20% variance and saying close enough.
The guns are dead on, and faces aren't magically different on the sculpting side, so something is going on there.
I think your comparison of Brick to Baker is a good one - something a bit large you can look past. Baker just hurts me personally because it would have been my favorite remego. As much of a SW geek as I am, I'd rank right-sized-head Tom Baker on par with any Obi Wan or any Star Wars mego announcement. The likeness is "long in the face" if you will, so the fact that both the head (4cm - whereas Shazam is 3.2cm) and the total face height (2cm) measures the same as Apollo still leaves Apollo worlds larger in total scale comparison. Put Baker on a 10" body and he seems a bit small headed, not so at all with Apollo who is right at home there. So Baker is scaled for a 9" body - Apollo very definitely for a 10" one.
Perhaps I've never seen a final production Juliet? Is that the deal? I had seen photos post-release that I thought were final product, but if not and the heads shrank down some amazing percentage I am unfairly maligning the figures. That's my mistake.
Skin tone is interesting, because Brock came out kind of mego tan, and that was on model for the character. So yeah, the paler skin is probably BBP preference.
It's not done by computer, no, but any technical sculptor can make any item at any given size - you know? I mean I have a measuring stick, and I can scale my ref photo printouts to match and compare. You want something 8% larger, I can do 8% - I'm not turning in a shot in the dark with a 20% variance and saying close enough.
The guns are dead on, and faces aren't magically different on the sculpting side, so something is going on there.
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