Sideshow Chris Reeve PF

[Biggunz]

I think neca nailed this better than ss tbh.

[nearmint]

I wonder if the second batch could be produced without the seam.

[Y3E]

This is so sad. It's so bad.

How can SS let this be released?! Bad seam at the neck and bad seem at the jawline. Let's not mention the crappy sewing job on the emblem at the back of the cape.

The First SS Reeves Superman had an odd pose but the portrait was a bit better. This one, good pose but worse portrait.

[Shoo]

Originally Posted by nearmint

I wonder if the second batch could be produced without the seam.

Not if it's a PVC head sculpt (which it is) on a polystone neck, as I suspect - not having done head and neck in a single PVC piece so that the seam would be hidden under the suit* is already a VERY sloppy move, but doing both head and neck as separate PVC pieces would be downright moronic.


* That's what Blitzway did with their 1/3 Game of Death Bruce Lee (back in 2013!) and their recent 1:4 The Way of the Dragon Lee statue. With their 1:3 Enter the Dragon Lee, however, they couldn't avoid the seam since it's a shirtless character, but even so they still managed to conceal it better.


Pic by wookster.

[ukshaun]

This video popped up today.. seems like an honest review.

A Complete Disaster But I Kept It. I Know, I know.....
https://youtu.be/t3MdG4Q2L1k

Fix the logo on the chest, change the cape for a cape with a better rear 'S' logo and add a high end custom portrait,
this could be a very cool piece.

[nearmint]

So who owns this piece and is happy with it? There must be some.

[ukshaun]

Originally Posted by nearmint

So who owns this piece and is happy with it? There must be some.

That one guy on this forum. I forget his name.

[pdenham]

Originally Posted by nearmint

So who owns this piece and is happy with it? There must be some.

Ran across this several weeks ago.

This is how this particular object d'art plays to some of the non-collector crowd.

I'm not posting this to mock them. There's simply different metrics for success for people that aren't steeped in this "hobby".

I'll also say, as someone who was there in the theater anticipating this film's release at the time, the minimalist base and packaging are sensationally evocative of that era to me. The clean lined, black base is basically the back of the soundtrack album cover sans track titles and movie credits, while the box art is exactly the same as the film's theatrical teaser posters, which I saw hanging in the theater like Christmas ornaments during the fall and winter of '78. Like so much so much of the aesthetic of that period, the minimalism was something that struck me at the time as adult and sophisticated. It was so cool to see a property that appealed to someone like me (a kid, a comic book fan) treated with that kind of gravitas, even in the films marketing (don't even get me started on the teaser trailer).


In just about everything except the portrait, this would otherwise be my ideal Chris Reeve Superman statue.
It's depressing that they ultimately cut so many corners with it.

(Not looking forward to DS's, as I think the base for it looks cheesy, and the price will probably be a non-starter anyway)

[generalszabo]

Originally Posted by nearmint

So who owns this piece and is happy with it? There must be some.

People with low standards, there will be some

[Y3E]

Damn, looking at the pic in pdenham's post, this is bad. The face is did a 180. What was ok in the first reveal is now terrible. The head is not attached right? The body and pose is good and I can live with the bad emblem but if I could get a custom portrait for this I would buy this. There are few good sculptors out there who can make it.