Big Bang Theory - 3 3/4" Retro figures

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I look forward to it. I'd really like that Bernadette to turn out swell. I've got a couple of idea floating for that one.
 

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Sheldon's sculpt didn't look bad, but it was exceedingly difficult to tell with the paint.

If they botch the chicks with glasses they'll be nigh impossible to rectify.
 

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I don't understand the idea of making retro style figures and pricing them at $10 each. I guess what they say is true, a sucker really is born every minute. What's next, people paying for online porn?
 

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I think retro styled is a misnomer here. They have modern sculpts, they just have really basic articulation. They're like the SW figures now.
 

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FYI, BBTS has these up as well, so they aren't exclusive to EE in any way.

Of course, BBTS has the set, but it's at the same price as EE's singles, so you really only save on shipping. While I like this idea, and I'd like to have a set, none of these figures justifies $10 each. I have the SDCC sheldon, and he wasn't painted as much as dipped in a bucket of paint with the consistency of pancake batter.
 

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SDCC 15 exclusive

 

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Wonder how bad the paint apps will be this go 'round?
 

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Most of the figures I have from Bif Bang Pow had pretty decent paint apps so I'm hoping that was just a one off thing that happened since it seemed they were trying to rush those to get them out before SDCC last year.
 

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These are finally in stock...
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Should have them sometime next week for a closer look and some super awesome (not really) pictures of the actual product...
 
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Yeah my interest in the show died when the premise of the show went from embracing everything nerdy to more making fun of it.

Either way these figures are terrible. I have a feeling they got lost on a ship for the past year. All of the "diorama" cards are all warped and some of them looked like they had been left in a dank basement or something... One even had water spots all over the inside of the diorama card part.

The cards were all destined for the garbage anyway so I wasn't really concerned about that.

As for the figures though, the eyes seem all wonky because most of them are painted on the glasses they wear. Its very odd looking.

The girls all have ball jointed heads that pop off with a little effort but the guys all have swivel heads... WHY BBP WHY!!! Just make them all ball joints...

The other thing I didn't like about the figures is they painted the heads. I hate when the skin on faces are painted and on top of that they used really poor quality paint. It almost looks like Apple Barrel quality paint.
Luckily I only got one figure with a paint glob of death but it was right on Bernadette's cheek so it looks extra terrible. The rest of the heads were painted okay. The bodies are mostly okay as well. The only exception was that Raj has a strange yellow blob in his sweater vest.

And now on to the sculpt...
They all suffer from weird arm angles that look very unnatural. On top of that not enough or poor quality glue was used because the torsos are already coming apart at the seams...

Anyways these have to be some of the poorest quality figures I have seen in a long while.

I'll post some pictures of these monstrosities later today...
 

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They all are okay background civilians but nothing I would make the focal point of a display.





Here's a quarter, go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off....


The heads are good size and the scupts are decent but man the paint is abhorrent. What is she looking at?


Sheldon scales the best.