[LJN Style] Big Rubber Guys

Collectors just wanna have fun!… and show our True Colors!

Ok, I’ll stop.

Man, by their avoidance of the question the few times I've asked, I'm afraid their non-answer is their answer. It appears they're sticking with the black and white eyes. Disappointed for sure, but also surprised that I'm seemingly in the minority with that being an issue for me. Not sure why they didn't at least go with a brownish color, which is what many LJNs have if they don't have blue or green. Could be wrong, but I don't believe a single one had black. Ugh..
Edit: okay, it looks like there are a few LJNs. I stand corrected.

Now that I got that off my chest, I can't recall the status of Tony Atlas. After watching the Mr. McMahon Netflix show, I would love to see him in BRG form. Hopefully he's one of the 4 or 5.

I don’t see why it isn’t being addressed unless it turned out to be too big of an issue. If they are all hand painted, that is a decent opportunity for a larger margin of error leading to wonky eyes. It also costs you more time if you are waiting for hundreds/thousands of figures to dry.

I should clarify: I don’t have any information that they are hand painted outside of the prototypes. What I was trying to say is that I couldn’t see a reason for them not to be improved upon unless hand painting were the only other option in which case that volume of figures would be a huge QC concern.

I think it’s pretty common to have some spots that need to be hand painted. Cardona explained before that the fishnets on the Effy Bendie had to have some hand painting involved

That’s what I’ve always thought … there’s no way each one could be individually hand painted & come out looking identical the way they do … I’d say the prototype for each figure might be hand painted but that’s about it

Wow, had no idea the other companies have had to do some hand painted details. I just assumed it was all done with machining, with some sort of special process for the paint application to get it to stick. I do like learning about the behind the scenes stuff, very interesting to me.

This is purely just a guess on my part, but I assume the BRGs travel from the factory via ship to the west coast and then by land to North Bergen NJ where Kanik then mails them out. NY/NJ ports shouldn’t have any affect on this, but I could be way off here.

I may have missed it, but I'm pretty sure you're thinking about the reply which I quoted again on page 106, but that was a reply to me asking about how the Demolition eyes were flat with little detail, not specifically mentioning eye color, but I can see how the word detail could be taken to also mean color. I've since asked a few times specifically about eye color (anything other than black) only because I think it would make them more life-like, but of course, just my opinion. Don't get me wrong, there are some pretty badly done eyes in the LJN line, but then there are some really nicely done ones. IMO the best are those with three colors (white background > brown, blue, or green eye color in largest circle > smaller black circle > then tiny white circle). The eyes have gotten more rounded in later BRG series which is great, but I'm still curious about the color I guess. I didn't think his reply was speaking about color though, because I don't recall any digital renders or hand-painted prototypes ever having any eye color to begin with.