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Originally Posted by Philintheblank
Okay, I'm not trying to get into it (why respond then? good question.), but you're talking about 15 years ago. BD produced product for almost ten years after that. Improvements were made...in both sculpt and paint. To the point where you'll be approaching a level of detail that would abandon the aesthetic most love about BD if you look to add more. You're also comparing to SS and XM...I'm not sure what you're looking for...honestly. If it's detail like SS and XM then I'm not sure how well that'd go over. Anyway, my apologies if I come off as a jerk. That's not my intention...I can get caught up sometimes and the DS comparison rustled my jimmies a bit.
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During the height of that Bowen run I would look at the competition and it was exceedingly rare that I would see anything that came remotely close to Bowens comic-style releases. There were just too many liberties artists took in their interpretation. A point that really stood out to me was the initial version of Firelord that was posted on here as a preview... the artist took a lot of liberties and the Bowen collectors really reacted negatively. If I am not mistaken the piece went back for some "touch-ups" to bring it into the comic-style aesthetic that defined Bowens work. The result was a piece that fit with the overall style of Bowen.
This to me was the problem with so many other companies, Their artistic liberties really clashed with what I wanted. I don't want realism... I WANT THE CHARACTERS I GREW UP READING In 3-D. I started with Bowen, have only collected bowen and can't stomach the idea of a piece from another companyy in a different scale or aesthetic that clashes with the continuity of Bowen. In reality it just sets off my OCD and drives me insane.
My brother once bought me an Iron man bust fom another company... I simply can't display it. It just doesn't fit.
I know many collectors like myself who are only into Bowen because he maintained a standard. That was part of the appeal. You knew what you were getting and the only thing that held you back from a piece was whether you liked the character or not. Once Phase 1 was complete and a style had been established it was a foregone conclusion that an announcement of a character was all you needed to know if you were going to purchase it. The consistency of Bowen was that good, whereas other companies it seemed like a crap shoot of "I'll wait and see what the artist does with this".
