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Post by Buffy&Angel4Ever on Mar 21, 2005 6:47:18 GMT -5
I finally received my 12 Willow figure last saturday (03/19), and after a little disappointement, I think now that this doll is not so bad as you said guys. Ok there's true problems with the face (a eye a little much higher than the other, a impression of distortion between the right part an left part of face) but this doll is no ugly and I recognize Alyson Hannigan on her (much more than Eliza Dushku on Faith figure). And my god, the oufit, the hair and the accessories are perfect, I love them. I received my prophecy Girl Buffy in the same time, and I think that Willow figure is much better that this poor "Barbie". PG Buffy's face is not horrible, but it's impossible to do something decent with her hair, so her head seems to be really bigger, which is ridiculous.
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Post by FireflyFlanatic on Mar 22, 2005 22:57:38 GMT -5
Sideshow now has listed on their site a "Second Chance" offer for the Exclusive version of Willow. I'm guessing a lot of people returned her or cancelled their orders. I've never seen this happen with an Exclusive or any of the BtVS figures before. I wonder if that is enough of a hint for them to realize they really messed up with her.
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Post by Raven on Mar 23, 2005 9:54:17 GMT -5
It has. I got two offers with Vamp Angel.
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Post by FireflyFlanatic on Mar 23, 2005 11:12:06 GMT -5
Yes, but Vamp Angel wasn't offered for sale through Sideshow like the other figures. It was exclusively for the SDCC and if there were any available after that it was then that the people on the waiting list were contacted. Also, as far as I know, it was only through the waiting list that you could get it. They didn't list it for sale on their website as they are now doing with the exclusive Willow. What I'm getting at is this isn't Sideshow contacting people who were on the waiting list and offering it, anyone can now go and order it directly through Sideshow. Which implies to me that they had enough people cancel it so that the supply is back up and people on the waiting list were saying "no thank you" when told it was available.
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Post by Raven on Mar 23, 2005 11:15:48 GMT -5
My friends also got a second chance offer on Faith.
It happens.
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Post by FireflyFlanatic on Mar 23, 2005 11:18:49 GMT -5
Okay, again, I think you are missing my point. This isn't Sideshow e-mailing people and telling them it's available, this is being relisted as now being available for ordering directly through their website.
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Post by Raven on Mar 23, 2005 11:20:29 GMT -5
Ah my mistake, apologies.
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Post by FireflyFlanatic on Mar 23, 2005 11:24:17 GMT -5
No problem! I don't think I made it clear what I was getting at when I first posted.
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Post by Raven on Mar 23, 2005 11:34:59 GMT -5
Or either I am very sleepy and just made up stuff
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Post by achtunglemon on Mar 25, 2005 16:58:23 GMT -5
Sideshow changed Willow's pictures. The figure is up on the site now. All those wonderful looking pictures of what we should have got are now gone ... Please give me a moment...
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Post by Sammie on Mar 25, 2005 17:16:47 GMT -5
Well, at least now; what you see is what you get Sideshow did the right thing by doing this, it's fair this way
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Post by willowswarlok on Mar 25, 2005 17:26:43 GMT -5
yeah and these pics really do show how bad the figure turned out, one eye is clearly bigger than the other, well atleast it can be fixed with a bit of paint -wayne
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Post by rogueslayer2 on Mar 25, 2005 19:04:50 GMT -5
It was good of them to do this, but why now a month after its release? It looks as if they took a chance with the prototype image, hoping we wouldn't see the difference when the figure arrived.
Lets just hope they learn from that mistake and next time make it clear when a figure doesn't quite resemble the figure we are expecting.
Fingers crossed that will never have to happen
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Post by FireflyFlanatic on Mar 25, 2005 19:08:29 GMT -5
I'm glad they did this too. That's one of the things that I mentioned when I e-mailed to complain about the picture, that they had plenty of time before it was mailed out to accurately show what she looked like. Now people know what they are getting. And this is also an indication that they had a lot of returns and cancellations of the product because she didn't look like the prototype so yeah, I hope they learn a lesson from this.
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Post by rogueslayer2 on Mar 27, 2005 5:46:29 GMT -5
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Post by willowswarlok on Mar 27, 2005 14:29:10 GMT -5
thanks for letting me know, this will defo cut the cost of my willow customs -wayne
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Post by aerosmith on Mar 27, 2005 18:34:02 GMT -5
I dunno but the Willow figure looks more like Amy. Hmmmmm.... maybe i'll get an extra Willow and kitbash it and make an Amy.
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Post by FireflyFlanatic on Mar 27, 2005 18:48:21 GMT -5
I was thinking of getting another one and trying to make her look like vamp willow (without her vamp face of course!) Then I could have one with her in the Willow outfit too.
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Post by Fruit Punch Mouth on Mar 28, 2005 1:30:28 GMT -5
Just to bring this up again... I happened to look at my first post ever on this board... and it was about this figure... when it was first available for pre-order... and this is what I posted... AGAIN, in my FIRST POST ON THE BOARD... the first topic I felt was worthy enough for Fannigan.
"Hello, I'm new here... and by looking at my name, you can figure out that I am a fan of Alyson Hannigan... hence Fannigan. But anyways, I think this figure is great. Yes, some flaws... but I can't wait until the day it comes out because once I take it out of that package, no matter what my thoughts were beforehand, I KNOW I will love it. "
I could not have been MORE WRONG. I hated this figure when I took her out of the package.
I'm glad I made the tiny "Sunnydale Supermarket" brown grocery bag to put over her head... and then drew my ass on it... and it looked better.... not saying Aly looks like my ass... I just meant that... oh god... wait, was I just complimenting my ass? Because Aly is beautiful... and if a picture of my ass was better looking than the Willow figure they made... that would make my ass equal or greater than the beautifulness of Alyson Hannigan... but again, I could be mistaken by someone else thinking that I think Alyson looks like my ass, where the person would come to believe that my ass is ugly, but they dont know me, or my ass, so they dont actually no... but when you think of an ass... you don't think Aly's face.
I am so going to end this post now.
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Post by alcazarzgirl on Mar 28, 2005 12:38:31 GMT -5
Or either I am very sleepy and just made up stuff HEY! I do that too!
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