POLL :- What's Your Favorite Vacation Fozzie ?

[Tregaurd]

Red or Blue ?

 

[Zack the Dog]

Oh No! Don't do this to me!

I don't know, i like the bule but i like the green floaty a lot better then the orange one. Well, the colors do match with the each other, red and green go well together (think chirstmas)
and blue and orange go together, but seeing that fozzie is, no, not really orange, but in that simmarler color, the green floatly looks better on him.

Zack)Rowlf the, i can't decide...that's why i bought them both...;-)Dog.

 

[Gonzo]

RED.

I have a matching shirt. I probably shouldn't admit that...

Quinnnnnnnnn

 

[Luke]

Originally posted by Gonzo
I have a matching shirt. I probably shouldn't admit that...

Oh we soooooooo need to see a comparison shot of you and your Fozzie on Quinnarama.com ! LOL !

 

[frogboy4]

From the picture I would have said the red shirt and green floatie, but I actually think I prefer the blue shirt with the orange floatie. I can't exactly say why. Maybe the darker color looks better on him. The bear looks nice in blue!

 

[Luke]

Originally posted by frogboy4
From the picture I would have said the red shirt and green floatie, but I actually think I prefer the blue shirt with the orange floatie.

Yeah what is it with the photos, they look so different from the actual figures. I know some people say it's just the angle but i'm noticing lighting shadows, and much higher quality paint jobs. I guess they are the two-up scale figures taken extrememly professionally - hey maybe i've just found the reason to buy the Mega's ! LOL !

From the photos i prefer the red Fozzie, but from seeing them in packaging on Ebay the blue looks great too and the red seems slightly less red. I'm yet to buy one of these but i'm definitely going to over the next few days.

 

[Stryder Wolfe]

hard decision, but I think I prefer the blue...but I could never decide between red and blue in any case....

 

[frogboy4]

Luke

Are you saying the photos look better than the figures? I totally disagree. I think the figures look so much better in person. That's been kind of a running thing people have been saying around the board for a year. None of my paint jobs look bad as you've said. Maybe the UK gets the first batch before the learning curve. Hmmm

 

[Luke]

Jamie

Originally posted by frogboy4
Are you saying the photos look better than the figures? I totally disagree. I think the figures look so much better in person. That's been kind of a running thing people have been saying around the board for a year. None of my paint jobs look bad as you've said. Maybe the UK gets the first batch before the learning curve. Hmmm

No, i'm not really saying overall they look better, just different. There are some paint shades that i think have looked better in the photos (for instance the Red in the Vacation Fozzie) than whats made it onto the figures, but at the same time i thought the Red Jacket on Floyd looked far superior in person than in the photos. Overall, yes the figures have looked a lot superior in person. It does suprise me though - you would expect a companies professional publicity photographs to look better than the actual product put out - you'd kinda assume a handpainted, large scale prototype would be of higher quality than mass produced stuff. It's not a criticism just a comment.

I'm pretty wowed by the Vacation Fozzie publicity photos though - i haven't seen the packaged figures in person yet, just on ebay but if they look better in person then i'll be even more pleasantly suprised. They obviously used great lighting/lenses, posed the figures well and got right up close, bringing out lighting shadows and the different paint textures. Top quality stuff - i'd challenge anyone to do better !

 

[ResidentLilly]

Luke I agree totally with you in this case.

It doesn't suprise me, because these protos get painted by 6-8 hours by a painter like Eddie and then you have a product that gets painted in mass production. All the beautiful subtleties on the protos get lost, and color matching is a bee-atch. Sad reality, but it is nigh impossible to capture those great aspects of the proto in the figure itself. You always fight to with the factory...but then you have to cut this or cut that or change this or that so you always feel like you are losing the war.

But yeah I agree especially on the Vaca Fozzie's...definitely a step back in the figure.