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Registered: 03-2008
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Re: MMS200 - Man of Steel: 1/6th Superman


Wow, awfully quiet here these days.

Got this guy last week. Great looking figure. Very nice fabric on the suit, nice body shape and proportion (a bit taller than other figures), with minor gripes on shoulder/cape too bulky. Head sculpt is really nice in person, though my wife can tell right away that the eyes are a tad small. And after re-watching the movie on blu-ray, she was right! The likeness is there, with the face being spot on. If the eyes were just 10-20% bigger, he'll be as photo real as a HT can be.

Upon researching, there is a mod that can minimize the shoulder bulk. There is also a nice custom cape in the making, so I took the plunge and started modding the shoulder (its a pretty involved process and need to be extremely careful, since the suit leaves very little room for mistakes without ripping or ruining the texture). While I had some little mistakes here and there, its getting there with most of the major surgeries done. After some more paint touch up and re-stitching the back of the suit back up, I just need to wait on the cape to arrive.

If you guys like Man of Steel, this is a great figure, even without the mod. The suit is very well made and shouldn't have much issues, unless you need to mod it, then it becomes more delicate. Kind of sucks that HT did what they did to the shoulder and the cape, as if they didn't think it through ahead of time. Even their prototype is not as bulky. Having taken it apart, i know exactly what they did and what they shouldn't have done. Oh well. I guess for them, there can always be a ver.2 to correct their own mistakes. Unfortunately, our wallets disagree.

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Registered: 04-2007
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Re: MMS200 - Man of Steel: 1/6th Superman


Thanks for the mini review, MPChi!
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