Exclusive PG Buffy Hair Must Change

[The004Slayer]

Yesterday I e-mailed Sideshow Toys from their website about the exclusive PG Buffy hair and asked them that if some changes will be made to her hair because I found it HORRIBLE. Today they replied telling me this:

No word at this time on any changes to the figure. I have forwarded your
comments on to our prod. dev. team. We appreciate your input.

This could be a lie, but I recommend that you e-mail them too and told them that you totally dis-like the hair of the exclusive one and would like it to be changed, because maybe if many ppl do that they will be forced to change her hair. PLEASE, even if you don't care about the 12" line of figures, do us a little favor and e-mail them to. It would be great, THANKS!!!

Here's the link to leave them an e-mail about this product:
www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/email.cgi?category=buffy_12&item=20131&type=store&action=support
Thanks Again!!!

[gooball]

It was very cool of you to contact them to voice your concerns. But there's no need to bombard them with emails... they know how bad it is. It's still being worked on (hence prototype), but also confirmed to people at SDCC that they know it's not right and they're fixing it. Actually, I guess there is still some merit in people still contacting them; it will emphasize just how truly bad it looks.

The weird thing is that Sideshow have always been saying one of the main reasons they want to do rooted hair is because of articulation. Seeing as the hair's up in this case, they may as well sculpt it.

Sarah has final approval on all product so I'm thinking that, if nothing else, she won't let it be released.

I'm not sure, but Sideshow could possibly have found a loophole. You notice that they have used the same headsculpt for all three/four figures? It's possible that Sarah's approval of the first sculpt applies to all others, and that she doesn't have control over hair/outfit. This doesn't sound right to me, but it's a thought that popped into my head.

If you're undecided on the exclusive version, get your order in anyway everybody! You can always cancel, no questions ask. But if you leave it too late and she sells out you will miss out on what may become a very cool figure. At least keep your options open.

[The004Slayer]

I will, I'm not planning on canceling my order until I know what it is really going to come in the package. About the hair, I don't dislike the idea of rooted hair is just the way it is done. It has been put up in such a ridiculous way that it doesn't look a bit like on the episode. In the episode it looked like if Buffy had a pretty good blower on and in this figure it just look like the hair of a house-cleener wich doesn't have time to undestand the concept of beauty.

[Glory]

No, I don't want them to change the hair. I know it doesn't look at all like it did in the episode but who cares? Buffy's hair looked like crap and she was wearing the first season valley girl makeup too...it was too in the moment to look good now. Sideshow obviously looked back to this episode probably with screencaps and I'm sure they noticed that Buffy had shorter, darker, wet hair and they may have even considered going with that look for awhile but then they probably realized that the lighter, longer, layered hair was just more Buffy. In the first season Joss noticed that Buffy's makeup and hair really wasn't what he had in mind for the character of Buffy so they decided to bleach SMG's hair which did change who Buffy was to a certain extent and I feel like that's who she is today.

[buffyfannumerouno]

I would actually like the rooted hair if it was the hair color that she had and she wore it up with curls in it. The straight Blonde hair wasn't until the Fourth Season. Her hair just doesn't match the season or episode.

[Lior Knight]

Basically, if you wet her hair it should look exactly the way it was in the episode because she had that look when she faced the Master for the second time, after drowning. So, maybe after getting her hair wet it would look right?

[Raven]

Little gel, little mouse, warm curling iron .. you can do wonders.

There are several gels that are made to give the wet look, that may be an option. I'm sure I'll have to fool with her hair a bit before I'm happy with it. It's kinda like being a 12 year old girl again

[Glory]

Okay....



Do you think that style of hair could be styled for every single figure? I think it would be far too complicated to get just-drowned-in-sewage look and still have it look like Buffy. Buffy's hair goes all the way down to her shoulders (like current figure) so sculpting it is out of the question. The most Sideshow could do is thin the hair out (which is pretty complicated) or die it a darker color...then it would just look like semi-brunette Buffy with straight dry-looking hair that she really never had anyways. SMG's hair was bleached out during the second and third season and usually it was down to her shoulders anyways so this would make a great generic Buffy headsculpt because she's had straight blonde hair almost every season (except seasons 1 & 6).

[gooball]

Glory, that's not what The004Slayer is talking about... this is:

[Glory]

Oh ahahahaha...I can't believe I was defending that ...yeah I take back EVERYTHING I said...the exclusive is definatley f%$ked up.

[gooball]

lol

I agree with what you were saying about the regular version's hair, though. Even if it isn't episode-accurate, I can't see the 'mangy' hair working on the figure . But I do wish that the figure was dark with light highlights instead of vice versa.

The exclusive version's hair both looks bad and nothing like the episode . I'm really only buying it to get the jacket, which imo should have come with the regular version. I can't believe Sideshow is handicapping 7500 figures simply to allow 750 to have a cool exclusive accessory. You'd think they'd sell more in total if the regular came with the jacket.

[prophecygirl]

i agree, the jacket should have come with the regular. for people who aren't buying the exclusive, like me, there's no way to get the jacket

[BoredNow]

I have mixed feeling about this figure, both versions. I don't see why, since the hair is up and all, that the exclusive version can't have sculpted hair. I mean, that looks horrible, and sculpted hair would make it look like such a better figure. The rooted hair just looks ... I mean, for $40 I don't think people want Barbies with amazing an facial likeness. Also, the dress looks weird to me. That's not how it was in the episode, you couldn't see her legs... And on the regular version, I'm surprised that they chose not to include the jacket, I thought Sideshow was all anti-arm/leg showing. But besides all that ...