Mattel paints a lot of hair/beards the wrong color

Only thing I can think of is Punk's hair looks way darker when he slicked it back with product. Now that he's buzzed his head and has that awful patchy, 12 yr old beard, it looks way lighter.

Yea Punks hair did look black before, a lot darker with all the stuff in it.

Can't figure Michaels air out though.....fairly common hair color to get right IMO lol.

Look at Sheamus they recently made his hair color the color of a velvet cake...

The ginger hair for Hbk and Daniel Bryan drive me nuts lol

Man thats the first time iv seen that new punk head scan (as i dont collect basics)..and iv gota say its pretty awful!,hope they dont use it on his elite

I agree I read this a few hours ago and that was my thought. Honestly you could have picke a better picture of rhodes his hair looks kind of black. The punk you chose his hair you can see brown, but is mostly black. I don't know about orton there was no comparison photo and I'm not going looking for one. same thing with Ryder. Also figure this the figure is based off something a year ago. so just pulling a random photo and saying that not how they looked. really? Do famous people not change thier hair style and color atleast once per year? Yea I know that may not apply to wrestlers, but I think you know what I mean and most of them do. Rhodes for example not rockin some upper lip hair changed his look

Mind bogglingly? I learned something new.
All the scans look ok with me with the exception of Orton.

I totally agree with you. The SCANS are great. But my point the whole time is that a great scan can be made to look like crap if it's not painted properly.

I mean, look at Elite 9 Randy Orton. GREAT scan, painted well, overall fantastic figure.


Now, let's look at that SAME SCAN used on a different figure, but this time painted with a horrible magic marker beard.


Hmmm, not looking as good all of a sudden, is it?

Every single light beard they make should look like Andre's. They NAILED it for that figure.

All the Ortons with a beard look weird because a) it's too thick and b) he doesn't have a full beard, but some sort of mutton chops thing going on.

As far as hair goes, HBK always seems off. The ones that have orange hair just look silly, and the ones with more accurate hair (E19) are still too dark brown:


Sheamus looked great in that B20 set. His hair was orange and it looked like the right shade. Then they kept making him with that (as a previous poster put it) 'velvet cake' hair. And then they changed his torso to Austin/Rock's, so I actually think his Basic figures look all-around awful now aside from attire deco.

I hate how most of the divas have straight colored hair. Hair, women's long hair especially, has texture. Any hair that especially needs that and is instead just a glob of one-tone paint looks bad. I've seen members do a tremendous job fixing up hair this way. That new Christian scan is his best yet, and with just a little extra texturing, it fully shows. They do it for some people, but not nearly enough. The thing I miss about Jakks is that their jeans looked like jeans and their hair usually looked like hair...in figure form, of course. It's because they textured things.

Of everything they do well, this is probably Mattel's weakest area.