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Originally Posted by OrangeCrush
Well, your entitled to believe that if you so choose. Me, I'm not buying that at all. IMO, this is one of the top 3 sculpts I have ever seen before, in the entire history of the statue industry. It absolutely blows away every previous Sonja statue produced. Statues of this quality are rare enough. Add to that the absolutely perfect rendition of the character itself and....well, again I am just not buying it.
We will no doubt see more Sonja statues as the years go by, but I don't see this statue being topped for a VERY VERY LONG time. If you want to wait for that "awesomer" version, then by all means wait away. Myself, I am buying this one as again I don't buy for a second that we will see a superior version anytime soon, and by soon I am talking 5+ years.
Same here. I actually really like the last PF. I think this new one is a much better version overall, but I still loved the last PF and will definitely be displaying the 2 side by side.
There ya go! It was on the tip of my tounge and just couldn't pull it out. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Just have to add my 2 cents, The original SOnya EX with head is available to me for $400 and there are a few I can pick up locally as people are unloading these.
If you have no body sense and dont know a skinny chick from a soft useless chick to a female fighter the original is OK but if you can see what type of person you are looking at you can see the original is the palace play toy and has a soft weak body made for pleasure and could not fight her way out of a paper bag. The body type of the original sucked and my girlfriend is more hard bodied and built than that soft skank. She looks good for a sex object but as a Red Sonya a total fail.
Hard Hero BLOWS away the last PF and has the same body type as the new PF almost exactly down to the arms and abs and legs.
The new one is a fighter, A warrior, A woman to be feared and respected. I am into MMA and a woman can fight a man and does not have to be huge but in training you can see clearly who has it and who does not. Just like I knew Holly Holms would be too strong for Rousey to take down or hold down and would get beat up. It is easy to see these things if you are aware of body types and what they are capable of.
The new Red Sonya is a sexy killer, the original is softer than anything I have ever seen in any gym or fight club and is good for pleasing men.
If you think both woman are hot buy them as hot chicks but if you think the original represents the She Devil with a sword please dont even reply as she is hot but anything but a warrior.
And what got me ranting is that statues are not comic books, the 1st one made means nothing at all or the most valuable statues would be the first ones from Applause Marvel universe made of polystone. In the statue world they always get better and the originals seem to climb as lemmings drive up the value but new collectors want the newer better version. Perfect example, Original Applause Hulk statue worth nothing and Sideshow Hulk moving slightly down as the new EX is out and wait for an even better Hulk and you will be lucky to get 1200 for that thing down the road.
They always get better as they just look at what was made in the past and improve on it.
Everything gets better every year and the best ever male and female statues will be made next year and even better ones the year after, already people are looking at there Wonder Woman and saying "this is not that great" when a year ago it blew peoples minds.
The only thing that holds statues value is lemming effect and buying what other collectors say is the best, left to new buyers all the old stuff is forgotten as better comes out, Just waiting for a Doom on throne by XM or somebody and watch the original slide fast.
Nothing wrong with that, it is the nature of sculpting, it always gets better, Spawn toys proved that and always got better and statues are no different, we can learn a lot about statues futures from Mcfarlane toys, Awesome one day and forgotten the next. Always something cooler coming down the pike.
That said, the new Red Sonya is amazing and hope the production piece is as nice, they are charging $150 extra for her over statues her size and she is the same price as HULK so I hope that money is for quality control and paint. One can only hope as $550 for a female statue is a new all time high for Sideshow and opens the door to $700 for big men.
