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Originally Posted by Gyro Zeppeli
Prime 1 is a heavy hitter, but it isn't just them. Out of nowhere we went from just having Art of War to every company grabbing the Berserk license and all intending to release a Guts. This statue is cool, but it isn't going to be his finest statue and so I think it will just be swept away by the competition, as with most of the other statues. I imagine the Berserk license grab will collectively be a pretty big dud (for other companies) because Prime 1 is just going to be so difficult to top.
I think companies had a better chance going with the Berserker armor. Prime 1's statue for that is very reserved, but you couldn't definitely do an insanely aggressive sculpt of it. Could also do a non helmeted Berserker armor with Guts in control.
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They could have potentially leapfrogged Prime 1 if they started with the Berserker Armor version, but hindsight is 20/20, I realize.
I think the real opportunity for F4F with Berserk is Skull Knight and perhaps a smaller-scale Apostle Zodd. Prime 1 is going to price plenty of people out with those two.
Beyond that my initial reaction is that 570 Ex orders doesn't actually sound that horrible, but it's hard to know how to really evaluate it without knowing more details; I do constantly see ads for Guts on Facebook, so maybe they spent quite a bit on advertising.
Some thoughts:
- The Ex base's design is a bit polarizing, meaning there may be a higher % of regular-edition orders with this one
- The Ex seems expensive for a F4F product, maybe more than what their base is used to / comfortable with
- It's the second premium-statue Guts to go up for preorder in the past 1-2 years
- 570 isn't a HUGE ways off from the ES of the Prime 1 Guts Ex (750), which didn't sell out on Prime 1's site until very recently