beaker
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I saw Diamond's response to the issue with Beaker, and it could be Diamond is brave enough to make a Beaker that resembles the promotional pose Beaker photos in a way that hasn't been done before. I'm so used to the Palisades Beaker, that I never stopped to realize in all the promo pose photos Beaker does have these big puffy arms.These can easily be nit-picked to death, but the real answer is...there is no real answer. I think some people think of the previous figures as accurate when they're actually just one more interpretation of something that's difficult to pin down. If the arms were to be exactly on puppet model, they'd look long, thick and gorilla-like (a lot more so than what we see in these prototypes).
Beaker and Bunsen are "live arm/hand" puppets. We fanatics know that means their arms and hands are gloves that fit human hands inside of them. They don't connect the same way on the poser versions of the puppet. Those tend to look skinnier or sometimes thicker.
Beaker has baggy sleeves. These may have translated a little bulky, but not much bulkier than the production puppet. If anything, Bunsen's arms are too thin, but they do match his poser. I think people will forget about most of it once they start playing with these and posing them. But I can say with a moderate degree of certainty that the arms were not switched in production. That's not how design like this works. They simply wouldn't fit.
I'm so glad to hear the reviews of Animal, Statler and Waldorf. All very 70's retro. That Waldorf is very much Jim Henson's classic Waldorf and I love the stuffing out of that crotchety old fella!
I'm really starting to see the genius of this line and I do feel it will distinguish itself from the Palisades line a lot. They also seemed to say there will be
two different sort of packaging releases for retail vs more collector versions online. I got tired of the endless nitpicking when Palisades, as gracious as they were to be very involved with the fan community in the early 2000's. But I don't see too many reasons to nitpick with these. I am surprised there's no Piggy in either of the first waves, but I also am guessing the time between waves won't be too long.