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Post by poindizzle on Jan 18, 2012 23:07:59 GMT -5
I'm going to go ahead and weigh in by saying that I thought the scans were mostly top-notch last year. Of course, for every amazing scan like CM Punk, John Morrison Christ Superstar, and Undertaker, there was also Heath Slater and High/constipated Big Show.
The first year wasn't bad, but a lot of the figures were just passing resemblances. And some were great but poor paint apps brought them down, like Edge.
This year is still very young and I am glad to see new scans, but I'm mixed on them. Ryder might be great in person. But I can't imagine Riley and Miz looking to terribly good. Riley looks like an alien that is too big trying to wear Riley as a suit, and I don't remember where I read it, but one of the members here nailed it when they said that the Miz looks like a garbage pail kid.
Love em' or hate em' new scans and body parts indicate that the line is doing very well.
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Post by theperfectmountie on Jan 19, 2012 0:53:20 GMT -5
i voted mostly good, there are some that are scary good and a few that are misery but for the most part all good
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Jan 19, 2012 0:59:59 GMT -5
They are mostly good....the first year man, a lot of them were CRAP. But they have gotten real good. Some guys just apparently don't scan well, and sometimes the way Mattel paints them makes a good scan look bad.
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Jan 19, 2012 1:31:34 GMT -5
I think Miz kind of looks like a garbage pail kid (and a gargoyle) anyway. The new headsculpt is a good likeness.
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Post by juicewinslow on Jan 19, 2012 2:30:29 GMT -5
I think they are mostly good. The ones that are bad are really bad though.
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Post by Richikane on Jan 19, 2012 4:17:17 GMT -5
the last few have been disappointing, del rio, miz, riley, ryder, angry cena, they've all been letdowns. I didn't think the first few series were awful though looking back on them. Some were good, some weren't, they were just getting going. But I'm looking over my collection and the majority of it are figures from the 2nd year, and they are all fantastic. But I also don't buy a figure with a bad head sculpt.
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Post by bcm77 on Jan 19, 2012 5:34:34 GMT -5
I think they are mostly very good but would like to see some improved ones of the following,
Present day Undertaker
( A better one with a neutral expression is needed as the one used early in the line is mediocre )
Shawn Michaels
( None of Mattel's attempts so far look very much like him )
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Post by thespecialone on Jan 19, 2012 5:42:08 GMT -5
Mattel is getting better at them...remember the first scans that came out? Edge? HBK? Jebus!
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Post by dunkjayz on Jan 19, 2012 5:52:16 GMT -5
Most of mattels headscans are good, some are great. Others are missing finishing touches, have the wrong hair color (hbk, ahem) or are just terribly bad. Good for the most part.
I hate to admit it, but jakks nailed a lot of headscans in comparison to mattel :x
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Post by PJ on Jan 19, 2012 6:28:24 GMT -5
Some were bad, but most were good to very good the first year. People bitch about the first HHH scan, but the scan is/was great it was the gap between the hairline that was cr@p, but they fixed that with his first PPV figure. But really other than Swagger & Morrison I don't think any scan was terrible. The scans for the most part were very accurate with wrong color paints. But they did/do use the same company (Gentle Giant) as Jakks.
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Post by Richikane on Jan 19, 2012 6:40:04 GMT -5
Just throwing it out there, but I've never heard anyone say anything good about the first Morrison headscan, but honestly when I first got it I didn't think it was bad. It's a little big, but it wasn't awful. The new one on E10 though, there's no comparison, hands down best head scan they have put out so far.
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Post by 0,Y on Jan 19, 2012 7:19:19 GMT -5
There are more extremely good scans (recent JoMo scan, TLC Edge scan etc.) than extremely bad scans.
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Post by poindizzle on Jan 19, 2012 9:01:04 GMT -5
There are more extremely good scans (recent JoMo scan, TLC Edge scan etc.) than extremely bad scans. Agreed about Edge. TLC was the same scan as Elite 1, and I've heard a lot of people hate on that first elite. All it took was a fresh coat of paint to make it shine. There have been a few figures like that. I think that Mattel must have several artists who tweak the scans with that modeling program after the star has been scanned, because the consistency between scans both now and then vary so much. Some have fine tuned and detailed hair and creases and wrinkles on their face (first year was Batista) and some look very soft and Dough-y (like Cena's first scan), with hair that looks like it was modeled in play-do (Nexus Heath Slater). The artists perception has a lot to do with how a completed sculpt looks like sometimes. So maybe it's not the machine but the person running it that creates a Shawn Michaels that doesn't look like Shawn Michaels. |
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Post by punksnotdead on Jan 19, 2012 9:22:58 GMT -5
There are a number of ones that I think have been amazing, TLC EDGE, SSH Orton, Swagger's new one looks good, Takers, Mark Henrys, Warrior's screaming scan, Ziggler's B10 scan, Cody Rhodes recent grotesque one, and I even have liked scans that seem to be less popular like DBryan's and Justin Gabriel's new one.
I will say they tried with Del Rio's new Elite but that one fell flat. I like Ryder and ARy's new scans but I think the Miz one looks a little worse than I originally thought, largely because I think the head looks big on the figure. But I don't fault Mattel for trying something different. Cena's screaming scan is absolutely atrocious though.
The scans don't bother me though when they are hit or miss. It's the easy things like getting Shawn Michaels' hair color right that pisses me off. How about beards, or knee pads, those are things that are frustrating to me, and not so much the scans. The only time the scan thing is frustrating is in a situation like DDP where we will most likely only get one shot at it. I like the DDP but I know some people had an issue with it.
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Post by JC Motors on Jan 19, 2012 9:23:06 GMT -5
Some are bad some are good. Eve has a terrible scan, looks nothing like her at all.
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Post by marino13 on Jan 19, 2012 10:38:57 GMT -5
I think this past year the positives have heavily outweighed the negatives. We are finally getting some emotions in our scans, which is a plus over the plain faced ones.
And I'm most impressed with the fact that Mattel doesn't just rest on one scan for too long. They aren't afraid to give certain stars several new scans a year where Jakks would force feed us outdated crap.
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Post by Cammi Oh on Jan 19, 2012 14:15:37 GMT -5
I think the original scans (1st year) were okay but some were bad. Over the past 2 years, the scans have improved a LOT.
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Post by jfinnomore on Jan 19, 2012 14:19:00 GMT -5
Most are passable, however 90% of the divas are just awful.
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Post by Epic Z on Jan 19, 2012 14:32:48 GMT -5
IMO almost every elite since series 5 has been acceptable, but i'm just not a fan of the basics I hate how close the legs come together. Only basics I get are PPV heritage's and one's that I really like or need in my collection that elite hasn't made yet.
But my answer would be that I think that they are mostly good.
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