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Post by Insanity on Oct 13, 2005 2:34:23 GMT -5
OMG... Fred, poor fred, I bet all the girls are teasing her on the action figure shelves. What happened? she didn't even look like that at SDCC when I saw her in person I think Fred needs to lay off the Chow Mein... Angel looks really good though.
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Post by Sire on Oct 13, 2005 2:38:47 GMT -5
YUCK! That Fred is eww.. Please please please release a 'A hole in the world' 2-pack with wesley and a repained shells Illyria as Fred. I think that would look fine... and we'd have a pretty Fred with a normal looking face.
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Post by shivi1978 on Oct 13, 2005 2:41:33 GMT -5
for me Illyria looks great but why is she so ... huge ?! is this only the angle ?!
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Post by willowswarlok on Oct 13, 2005 3:00:34 GMT -5
what the hell happened to illyria. look at the prototype in the banner. he looks like iillyria only mini, now the face colour alone looks awful. of course i wil wait to see but what happened. i think they put so much effort into the one prototype and it looks awesome, people get their hopes up then, wham, when the thing is finally mass produced, painting aps are rushed, making it very very bad wayne
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Post by shivi1978 on Oct 13, 2005 3:11:16 GMT -5
yeah but the colours are affected by the flashlight I guess ... the pic in the banner is surely made with a SLR reflex camera and it has shadows and great contrasts. and the prototype has always a better paintjob then the massproduced figures I think. I`m rather worried about her size ...
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Post by Insanity on Oct 13, 2005 3:23:47 GMT -5
She almost looks like a 7inch figure. I'll try to take some pics tomorrow of her compared to some of my 7 inch figures. She looks really big compared to the other figures. If you think about it, all the sculpts made from scratch by DST are biger than the MAC made figures. I hope she doesn't look wierd displayed with the other figures. If so, I might put all of the Angels and Fred/Illyrias on their own shelf so it doesn't look bad.
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Post by Rogue on Oct 13, 2005 3:38:37 GMT -5
Wha...? No way am I getting Fred. I had fancied the thought before, regardless of how much I hated her outfit. I'll just hope for a version of her in the skirt. Illyria, though she's super tall, looks okay. I'll just "pretend" that she was able to change her height after taking over Fred's body. Or something DST, you're starting to slip...
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Post by Vala on Oct 13, 2005 6:54:00 GMT -5
Has anybody in the UK got the Fred and Angel figures yet?
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Post by x-esque on Oct 13, 2005 7:19:04 GMT -5
The cardback is interesting. It hints that Angel died in "Not Fade Away" which if the comics are accepted as "canon" is untrue. Cheers, Haeph. Of course Darla's cardback reads: "Darla made her first appearance the same day Buffy enrolled at Sunnydale High, causing trouble for the Slayer until being staked by her sire and former lover, Angel. " So sometimes they slip up on cardbacks.
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Post by MasterPizza on Oct 13, 2005 7:34:09 GMT -5
It's hard to tell much from that lineup. Darla and Buffy are very short people. Tiny, even. The Willow Deluxe Fred is next to is actually a Buffy figure, so that's not a fair measure. The Cordy figure is the one most out of scale in that lineup. She should be much taller than Buffy, even considering that her legs have a wide stance.
Buffy deluxe figure, it's taller than the real Buffy, she's out of scale, if you take a look in the costum deluxe Willow made with the deluxe figures, she looks better in that scale, about Fred, she is extremely tall, i don't remember her be so tall, even if she is taller than Cordelia, i think Cordelia is wearing heels boots and Fred is wearing just shoes. Damn i think, Fred and Illyria are out of scale, what a big mistake of Dst. I like the new pictures of Angel, he isn't smiling like in the other pictures, i'll like to see more dark pictures of him, and i read the Michael crawford review about his hands are out of scale, is that true? About Fred, i don't get it this, Willow was a little smaller i can take that, but Fred be so taller, really sucks. Dst you blow it. Here it's the height -Buffy 5' 3" (1.60 m) She most of the time is wearing heels, but she isn't so taller like the deluxe figure, besides that figure is without heels. -Willow 5' 6" (1.68 m) -Tara 5' 4" (1.63 m) she's shorter than Willow, but she's wearing heels boots. -Cordelia 5' 7½" (1.71 m), she's taller than Buffy and Willow. -Fred 5' 8" (1.73 m) she's taller than Charisma, but she does't wear highheels like her on season three. -Angel 6' 1" (1.85 m) taller than all the girls. -Spike 5' 11" (1.80 m) smaller than Angel -Wesley 6' 2" (1.88 m) he's more taller than Fred and even Angel. -Faith 5' 5" (1.65 m) She's taller than Buffy, they can't share the same body. -Darla 5' 4" (1.63 m) The same size of Tara.
In conclusion, Cordelia looks good in scale, next to Angel, but Fred is out of scale, and she isn't wearing heels, so she's the worst figure ever. Also the likeness is bad, she looks like an old lady.
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Post by rogueslayer2 on Oct 13, 2005 9:00:39 GMT -5
Illryia looks a lot better in person, I think it is the flash from the camera that has made her skin paler. But theres no excuse for Fred, she's a monster.
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Post by FM on Oct 13, 2005 10:12:54 GMT -5
Got Illyria, Angel and Fred yesterday.
Angel looks GREAT. Illyria looks GREAT...and her massiveness is excusable because it just seems to work for her.
But Fred is AWFUL. Probably one of the worst DST toys yet. She is FAR too large...I dont care how tall Amy is, this figure is waaaaayyyyyyy tooooooooo big. I used to say I wanted more Fred figures and now I dont anymore. They are ridiculously large. DST needs to go back and re-do this one.
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Post by Wicca on Oct 13, 2005 11:48:09 GMT -5
OMG. They are hideous. Fred and Illrya are like an inch taller than all the other figures. DST is seriously going downhill with the quality of these figures. I think I will have to decrease the number of Fred/Illyria figures I get to...zero!
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Post by Lior Knight on Oct 13, 2005 11:51:41 GMT -5
WOW! What’s with the height? I hope Buffy & Dawn line won't be so huge.
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Post by Sammie on Oct 13, 2005 13:25:30 GMT -5
Yuck @ Fred, and also.. like others said, they are WAY too tall
I'm so hoping Buffy and Dawn will turn out o.k., please DST!
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Post by Ouija on Oct 13, 2005 13:38:19 GMT -5
Aww, they are so big now, and I was looking forward to that Fred. When I get one, i'm gonna try and shorten her to Cordy height, which will probably be out of scale but it'll be better than this. If you look at the pic, her lower legs look ok, since the knee joint is at the same place as Cordy's, so i'm going to chop some height off at the thighs, give her a Willow torso, and Buffy 2 arms with some sleeves, and keep the Fred head and repaint it. And besides, Fred's top had a different collar. I hope the Dawns and Buffys will be OK too, but if you think about it, people from the board have been up close to the prototypes of Buffy and Dawn, and never mentioned anything about them being too tall (I think)
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Post by Girl Power on Oct 13, 2005 13:46:54 GMT -5
I don't think Illyria is that bad. It's a fantastic sculpt. Her height can be attributed to Amy's height, plus some mega-tall boots.
Fred's bad, though. I think the face can be used with the hair taken off and other hair (Illyria's?) added after the back of her head is reduced some.
But it's a waste of a sculpt, IMO.
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Post by jmay25 on Oct 13, 2005 14:00:33 GMT -5
I'll reserve judgement until I have the figures next week but doesnt seem promising on Fred. Amy may be tall, but she is not a boxy amazon. I did notice that the picture posted wasnt taken on a flat surface but on a couch or something. This may be throwing the perspective of the figures off when comparing ot each other. I hope.
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Post by Ouija on Oct 13, 2005 14:07:39 GMT -5
Actually, just looked further back into the thread and these pics make the Fred look alright, so I may not have to resize her.
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Post by ajmets on Oct 13, 2005 14:15:30 GMT -5
A few people have said that Fred (Amy Acker) is tall in real life. How tall is she? She always seemed so petite in my mind.
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