Post by poindizzle on May 24, 2013 9:30:24 GMT -5
Basic 29 John Cena has two versions. I pre-ordered mine through Ringside and on the one I received his belt and pants are both painted on what I'm assuming is black plastic. I went to Target and saw where they had just stocked these figures this week, and immediately noticed a difference in the color. I double checked when I got home and sure enough, the newer figures are cast in brown plastic and the pants are painted.
Basic 24 Cena also had something similar. I got one the first week or so of December, and then didn't see basic 24 again until the new year. The ankle connector was fleshtone on the one that I got, and is very noticeable when you look at the bottom of the shoe. There is a large circular shaped hole on the new basic shoe design where the ankle pin is pushed through, so on the early ones you can see that it's fleshtone. Also, his legs are painted skintone on top of black plastic. Newer assortments of basic 24 are colored plastic and the connection at the ankle is black. This is the same on all the basic Cenas that have come out since (except maybe not the t-shirt one, I'm not sure...)
I'm wondering, moreso about B29, why the change? It's cheaper to cast something in one solid color and then paint it, so did the extra paint process (putting Khaki and Brown on the same part) nullify the savings? Or did they change it because they didn't like it? I'll admit, the belt is pretty sloppy on the painted one.
Does anyone know of any other basic variants, especially very subtle ones like this?
Basic 24 Cena also had something similar. I got one the first week or so of December, and then didn't see basic 24 again until the new year. The ankle connector was fleshtone on the one that I got, and is very noticeable when you look at the bottom of the shoe. There is a large circular shaped hole on the new basic shoe design where the ankle pin is pushed through, so on the early ones you can see that it's fleshtone. Also, his legs are painted skintone on top of black plastic. Newer assortments of basic 24 are colored plastic and the connection at the ankle is black. This is the same on all the basic Cenas that have come out since (except maybe not the t-shirt one, I'm not sure...)
I'm wondering, moreso about B29, why the change? It's cheaper to cast something in one solid color and then paint it, so did the extra paint process (putting Khaki and Brown on the same part) nullify the savings? Or did they change it because they didn't like it? I'll admit, the belt is pretty sloppy on the painted one.
Does anyone know of any other basic variants, especially very subtle ones like this?