Mattel heads come a long way?

Some scans are hit or miss.

yes i will admit, i was the biggest collector too say that mattel headscans are cartooney which some still are!!! BUT yes they have improve alot, not many ppl will say that!

I always like Mattel's scans. More serious and realistic than the big balloon heads from Jakks. The only thing was Jakks had mroe depth. Why? Because the heads were so big that they had more to work with, and they still do. The TNA line has big heads, therefore giving them more room to make a great sculpt/scan, so most of their heads have come out great. Mattel's head are on a smaller scale, therefore the room they have to work with is limited. Lately, though, they're looking ALOT better than before. And I never disliked them to begin with.

This is perfect. I mean you get some scans like a Jake Roberts or Rick Rude that are just spot on and then you get some people like Dusty Rhodes or Jim Duggan that are just a little off.

Personally, I think the old HHH scan was pretty good. The fact that his hair color was wrong and just the paint application, in general, made it worse than it actually is.

generally i feel that mattel headscans could use more sculpt depth/detail. for the most part, Jakks headscans have more sculpt depth/detail than Mattels.

in terms of likenesses/expression choices and multiple headscans for people, generally i've been pleased with current WWE figures, but the legends are hit and miss.

i think a lot of the legends headscans from mattel have been poor or average likenesses at best.

for example, macho man. personally i think that if you look past the accessories and beard, it looks nothing like him. but regardless of anyone's individual opinion of the headscan, the collective opinions of it were most definetely mixed. which proves that it can't be that great. its certainly not a dead-on likeness or definitive expression, or else opinion wouldn't have been so mixed.

for the most part, i've felt that Jakks classic headscans are a better likeness and have more detail than the mattel ones.


So yeh, to summarize, if mattel wants more of my money, they need to put more sculpt depth/detail into their headscans, and get better likenesses on the legends.

Let's be honest here, Jakks had just as many misses as they did hits. But some revisionists act like every scan was perfect.

But to stay on topic, I do think that Mattel scan are getting better. I think the main problem when they first started were the lack of expressions. Almost every scan was strait faced where now we get some emotions. And in some cases that helps catch the wrestlers likeness better.

Another early problem was the eyes. Some guys like Taker had no depth to their eyes. Where the new Elite 8 Taker has plenty. Same could be said for the Miz. His first scan was horrendous mostly due to the eyes.

Another improvement is the facial hair is being molded on instead of painted. I understand what Mattel was trying to do since so many wrestlers change their facial hair weekly. But in some cases (Sheamus, Punk, Triple H) it helps to have a fuller looking beard.

As for the first Triple H scan, I liked it but the hair was a little plain and the beard needed to be molded. But the scan itself was pretty darn good.

the new Triple H sculpt is terrible imo. but I never thought Mattel was bad at heads, just some of them were iffy.

Some are good,some are terrible, but none are great.