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Originally Posted by Augen
I was curious when you look at statues how you decide if you want a particular one or not. Have my five points that push me one way or the other.
1. Character - Simply put right out the gate if it is someone I don't care about can do everything right and still pass on it.
2. Art Style - The is the big deal breaker, if the style doesn't appeal you cannot save it with everything else for me.
3. Value - For the quality of the piece I do an assessment of valuating it. I can love how something looks, but at $1000+ I struggle to rationalize it.
4. Face/Expression - I've learned how much facial design can put me off. Where my eyes go first and make the biggest impression.
5. Pose - Adds life to a piece making it feel vibrant with attitude fitting the character.
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Agree with most of that.
I do primarily buy characters I like, but I'll allow a good statue to sway me if I know the character only by reputation (for example, the bishoujo Katana). I will not buy a character I personally dislike.
I won't buy a statue with a bad face sculpt. A face sculpt could be ruined for me either by a sloppy paint-job or poor design to begin with. (For instance, that's the reason I skipped the recent Gamora/Rocket statue by Diamond Select)
Pose ranks a lot higher for me. The more generic the pose, the less the appeal. If the pose is either unusual or perfectly suited to the character, it makes me like it better.
Apart from 5 you mentioned, here are an additional 5 parameters of my own:
1. Props - I like my statues to hold something, prefarably something signature. Cap's shield and Thor's hammer, for example, are nearly always present. Batman with a weapon and Green Lantern with his power battery are rarer. Then there's someone like Joker who can hold anything from a camera to a walking stick to cartoonish bombs and guns. I prefer those to an empty-handed statue. You get my point.
2. Costumes - If I own a great statue of a character in their most iconic costume already, odds are that for my next statue I'll go for a different costume than the same one. given it's a variant costume I like. I'll buy an average statue if it features one of my favorite characters in a costume otherwise rare to find. Conversely, I'll skip a good statue if it's a variant costume I hate.
3. Diorama - I'll buy an average statue if I need it to complete a diorama. For example -I'm considering getting the Kotobukiya Marvel Now Cyclops to go with the other X-Men I have from that line.
4. Character accuracy - I'll pass on an otherwise good statue if it features glaring inaccuracies in character design - wrong hair color, missing logo, wrong proportions... stuff like that. I don't mind artists taking some liberties, like changes in non-iconic belts, shoes and such; but the statue should give me the feeling that it's the character I know.
5. Preservability - If an otherwise good statue looks like the odds of it being warped/stained/damaged with time are significantly higher than usual, I'll skip it unless there's an excellent reason not to.
Finally, and this is too rare to be a regular concern, I love it when a statue demostrates an unusual superpower in a visually striking way.
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Wow... I had no idea there'd be so many things to consider. Really enjoyed quantifying why I like what I like. Thanks.
