E39 Sting...Plus Seth at TRU and WalGreens Holiday Cube

It did? I'v been trying to find the picture but had no luck

Thanks for the pictures as usual PJ! I think I'll need a new shelve putting up for Sting only.

Head still looks very off to me. The personal attacks/insults sparked by this figure were not appropriate, but the constructive criticism for this headscan was and still is more than deserving in my opinion.

I don't know, man. People say that about figures all the time. But we've seen multiple pictures of this Sting from multiple photographers in various lighting conditions and it looks "the same kind of odd" in all of them. Rarely do I feel they do a bad job representing a figure in picture form, and that's ESPECIALLY true when the guys on here start posting comparison shots.

I'm skeptical that this figure will look different (better or worse) in person. I don't mean to argue about it. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." and so is "disgust," I guess.

I saw some posters mention how good he looks from the side and it's completely true. He looks spot on from the side and when you turn him about 3/4 perspective, but then he loses it at a straight on view. He's really grown on me, once I got over the fact it wasn't an attire I cared about.

But my point is when you look at the figure in hand the scan is very accurate to a modern Steve Borden scan. I know some won't see it, but I just wonder if they are actually looking at it from his face in 2015 and not from what he looked like 10-20 years ago. I just think those who are saying how bad it is in pics should wait to actually see it in hand, because the camera is drowning out much the face's shadows especially if you use a flash. But in hand you can see it in much better detail. If people still don't like it then that is fine to each their own. But to me the face is the saving grace of this figure. Because I wanted a cloth shirt, over the B55 singlet design...as I hate molded shirts that look tucked in on guys that were singlets.

Mattel should not be pleased with the Sting head. It doesn't look like Sting. It looks like a random person dressed up as Sting for Halloween.

I found this pic on Google of two ToyBiz TNA Sting figures from almost 10 YEARS AGO......Mattel's Elite 39 Sting doesn't even come CLOSE to being as good as these scans.




Mattel needs to cut the crap and actually PAINT ON THE FACE PAINT. This ridiculous idiocy of having the head be white and painting on the skin is ABSURD.

I really don't understand why the head couldn't be cast in skin colored plastic and then you PAINT ON the white and black face paint, but it RUINS Sting figures for me.

People who do customs have shown in the past how it's not always that Mattel's head scans are "bad', it's that a horrible paint job will make them look that way.

This. Exactly this.

I didn't like the proto, but the final product looks great. It is (apart from the shirt instead of the singlet) a great representation of a 2015 Sting. Just cool it down a bit Lorenzo, it's only a toy after all.

Looking at mine while I type this, and I can tell you the scan is dead on. I didn't like the proto pic either but I figured it would look better in hand. And it certainly does. I love it.




PJ, are you sure the skin tone is different than the basic Sting? Cause E39 & DM Sting both have the tan tone to them.

Some of good points in this:

I admit when I think of Sting I don't think of his big forehead like he has now or the way his hairline kind of grows into his hair like the shrubs at the foot of a forest. I guess to me that's the big deterrent, which isn't really fair to the intention of the design which is meant to show these "flaws".

I ABSOLUTELY agree with the molded shirts blip! Then anyone could do a head swap if they don't like the "2015" head and get a Sting that at least represents his late 90s look, not to mention it's more accurate to today's Sting to leave the shirts separate. I guess that level of tooling plus the cloth accessory would've limited what they could do with the coat. I do like that coat.