No one said all the Court pieces has to be all skeletons.
The fact that the realm were divided into 3 factions gave us enough variations and characteristics of each group.
The OG Kier, OG Gallevarbe, Oglavaeil and Xiall were all amazing pieces in their own right that looks nothing alike.
Odium sounded fitting on paper. A behemoth beast created by the queen from various creatures of the underworld. The Frankenstein of CotD.
I am simply not blown away from the result. It's a combination of design, pose and finishing. If this thing is supposed to be stitched together from different body parts of various creatures why isn't that more apparent? Shouldn't his arms and legs be all different, more disproportion and mutated? I am also not sure about the overall white color finish. Finally the pose, simply makes him feels like a re-skin Hulk or Juggernaut as mentioned.
Also a bit disappointed the fact that they simplify the base. Not as bad as what they did with the Reaper 2.0 but the prototype was definitely better.
To me the concept drawings were much more interesting. Would have love to see him with 3 or 4 arms instead. feels to me that Sideshow played it safe and toned him down a bit too much.
On the bright side, Sideshow updated the info on Odium and is stating that the statue comes in at a hefty 22 lbs. I'm sure the base alone is probably close to 10 lbs however.
The Odium maquette reveal in 2016/2017(?) was what brought me to COTD and to the hobby in general. I have been anxiously awaiting his release ever since! It is the only character in the line I ever cared to own. I am not thrilled about the production material but Tom mentioned early on in a video that he would be fiberglass or other lighter materials, so I do not feel particularly blind sided. I expected him to be more expensive as well, so I am very happy about that. We will see when I open that box.
