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[bzarcher]

Oh. Also, while out, I decided to pick up one of the Halo toys from Sam Goody. And to my surprise, the price had come down to $16 apiece. They had 1 Cortana, 1 Warthog, and 7 MC's. I got the Warthog.

It's a fun little toy. I like it, and some of the little details (adjustable angle on the gatling, suspension, wheels), are rather nice.

Seeing the effort put into this, the Cortana figure pisses me off even more. They put so much effort into this, the Chief, and the Covenant stuff (even if it hasn't arrived in Wooster, the pictures are pretty obvious), and then Cortana they totally fell down on. When a figure is made for nearly pure visual values, they should have put far more effort into making visual features, and not simply relying to the 'light up' features on the base.

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[grandmoff.livejournal.com]

They shouldn't have made her clear. Or the clear version should have been a shortpack alternate to an opaque version. The fact that it is 'clear' obscures any detail, and generally makes the figure look crappy.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

At the /least/ I wish they'd used translucent or reflective paint apps to highlight the details of the sculpt rather than trying to just cast the figure in the sculpt.

But, yeah. We're both preaching to the choir on this one.