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Originally Posted by worstgamerever
This statue is a masterpiece. We can't use that word for most of the statues in the hobby but I believe this statue falls into the category. It was a labour of love by Udon and the quality of materials they used - to the point where the resin feels like steel - is mindblowing. I'm not sure how many people have seen one in person being as the ES is so limited. However, why this was never in the conversation for statue of the year would forever blow my mind. The thing should be in conversation for statue of the decade. It is that good.
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Actually the word "masterpiece" is thrown around quite a bit on these forums.
In fact, it sort of just denotes a slightly above-average piece, from what I've seen. There's one guy in particular who uses it for nearly every release Sideshow makes... I'm not sure I've seen a single statue yet, in my time in the hobby, for which I would use the word masterpiece. There are plenty of good ones. Sideshow Thanos throne, Dejah, and Galactus are pretty good. XM Thanos/Death and Modern Thor and P1 Batman Who Laughs and some of their Transformers are pretty good. Damtoys Warcraft series, especially Guldan and Blackhand are pretty good. Franco custom X-Force Wolverine is pretty good. I think those are the best ones in my collection, off the top of my head. But I still can't bring myself to call any of them a "masterpiece."
As for why the Uman Witch King didn't get more praise, I can only say that I didn't really care for it. In my view it's "okay"--a rung down from "pretty good." I saw it in person at a comic shop and it just didn't do anything for me. Not a fan of the pose, the mace, or the orcs, to name a few. They also had a Weta Ringwraith at the Ford right next to it and although I'm not a big fan of the company, I looked at them both for a long time and preferred the Weta, which has some energy at least, though the scale doesn't fit my collection so I ended up skipping both.