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Nintendo Amiibo Look a Bit Different in Final Production vs. Advertised
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Whimsical Phil
Ninja School will help you
No, no, no. They pretty much all use hand-painted prototypes.
Here's one from Hasbro, a "non-cheapo toy company":
That's their Transformers Classics Ultra Magnus from a few years back. On the left is Hasbro's stock image--the one shown on the back of the box. The right is the final retail figure--the one actually in the box.
Note the prototype's detailed shading to bring out the molded detail (especially around the shoulders). Note the extra paint applications on the thighs, crotch, arms, and head. Note the gun that's a completely different color.
Toys almost never look exactly like their promotional shots. Budgets can frequently change between the initial prototype stage and the finished product resulting in less paint, lower detail, dulled edges, even fewer points of articulation.
That's just how the toy biz works...the hand-painted prototypes always look better. Think of it like the ample bullshots we see for games.
Empyrean Heaven
Member
In before the "Link really needed to pee!" meme.
TDLink
Member
I kind of agree. They should have put them all in poses that didn't require the supports. Stuff like Samus' or Marth's work pretty well. Link and Fox less so. I'm scared for Captain Falcon now.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
Yeah, after seeing these it made me cancel all of my preorders. I expected a quality dip, but this is father of a dip then I expected. There is no way I'm paying $13 for that. I could buy a pack of Heroclix for that much and get five Clix that all have better models then that.
Let me overreact, I'm too sad to face reality.
And the giant ugly yellow plastic pole up Mario's and Peaches ass, which replaces the much more elegant metal version.
In before the "Link really needed to pee!" meme.
cannot unsee. fuck.
Like what? Every feature is there. It just looks worse, which bad lighting could easily cause.
spyroflame0487
Member
The yellow pole on link is garish. I hate that so much. Should have just made it clear...or do something with them. Like, do they have to be a pole? Couldn't they have say a rock behind DK or someball or something by WFT's leg?
Dude they will eventually all bend like that. It's the plastic being used. I am not shitting on Nintendo here it's the truth of all mass produced toys. But like others were saying they had to make them softer to avoid injuries to small kids. I need to look up more toy prototypes do they always work from higher quality sculpts like this?
kitchenmotors
Banned
Let me overreact, I'm too sad to face reality.
Honestly the lighting does nothing for these. Whoever took these shots are a terrible photographer.
Banana Aeon
Member
I still have hope for the Samus Amiibo. If it can replace the garbage figma I own, that would be nice.
Rosalina's is no longer on my waiting list.
Rosalina's is no longer on my waiting list.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Mario, Pikachu, Yoshi, Kirby and wiifit trainer look practically identical, if they don't look the same is becuase of one is done with professional lighting and photo equipment and the other with a shitty phone camera in a bad lit room.
Link and marth looked like shit on the originals, and still look bad.
Peach is sadly the only downgrade I see here, and I say sadly because she looked really good in the original and her face is somewhat strange in this one.
At the end of the day is going to the amiibo aisle, and look every figure to see which has the better paintjob, just like I did with Disney infinity ones.
Every toy that is not a collectional 50 dollars plus figure doesnt look like the promotional shots, and sometimes not even that.
Link and marth looked like shit on the originals, and still look bad.
Peach is sadly the only downgrade I see here, and I say sadly because she looked really good in the original and her face is somewhat strange in this one.
At the end of the day is going to the amiibo aisle, and look every figure to see which has the better paintjob, just like I did with Disney infinity ones.
Every toy that is not a collectional 50 dollars plus figure doesnt look like the promotional shots, and sometimes not even that.
spyroflame0487
Member
Ya those are a special figure...uh I forgot what the series is called in Japan. They're really detailed and they only brought a handful of them over here (and if I'm not mistaken, they used them in the Trading Figure Game too.
That Marth is ugly as hell. Peach a bit weird, I dunno. As for Yoshi I am a bit bothered by the way his joints show. And Link has an ugly standard.
Mario, Kirby and Pikachu look fine to me.
I am a bit dissapointed in the effort to be honest. Maybe it is because of the difficulty to make certain characters or something (I have no knowledge on this end), but I think the Disney Infinity and Skylanders stuff looks a lot better (qualitywise, not necessarily artdirection).
Edit: Wow, are people really suggesting that the less refined parts of the figurines are due to bad photography/lightning?
Mario, Kirby and Pikachu look fine to me.
I am a bit dissapointed in the effort to be honest. Maybe it is because of the difficulty to make certain characters or something (I have no knowledge on this end), but I think the Disney Infinity and Skylanders stuff looks a lot better (qualitywise, not necessarily artdirection).
Edit: Wow, are people really suggesting that the less refined parts of the figurines are due to bad photography/lightning?
Seriously, holy shit. These are 15 dollar toys. There are a lot of other things to get outraged about that rank higher than this.
Yeah they stunk to high heaven though.
The prototype versions would be a lot more than $20.
In before the "Link really needed to pee!" meme.
I really don't know why they didn't keep it clear, same with the Fox one. Bizarre choice to add colour. They should never have been designed in a way that they needed those extra bits of plastic in the first place.
I'm hoping Windwaker Link will have his feet firmly on the ground when released (hopefully that will work with Hyrule Warriors as well).
Zen_Arcade
Banned
I know this is the internet and people like to exaggerate, but please try and tell the difference between outraged people and annoyed/disppointed ones.
The guy you quoted was quoting a guy who posted a joking picture of ice cream for fucks sake.
probably 3 pages too late but this has actually been known to happen for most products
i realise this is different though as instead of food its a childrens toy.
The explanatiion is that, if they searched through millionss of burgers bought at retail, they would find one that looked like that. It is similar to when a cereal company will hire someone to find a bunch of perfect Corn Flakes. In short, they aren't using different ingredients when building the food for a picture. & there are actual laws regulating food advertising images.
As an aside, it bugs me when people pick on McDonalds because it is the only place I'm 100% sure of eating wherever I am in the world (well, except in China where the suppliers are corrupt, I hate eating there period).
McD uses real food, like 100% beef patties with nothing else except salt and pepper, tomatoes, ketchup, etc. It is a great, safe place to eat when you cannot cook yourself.
bumpkin
Member
As others have said, the E3 prototypes were shown with fine print that said they were prototypes and the final product might vary. After going through all of the photos, I really don't see a difference so dramatic that I'm going to go and cancel my pre-orders. They're $10 figures (after the Best Buy GCU discount) of characters I know and love that are of a decent quality. The contrast of the final product quality versus the renders are no more or less dramatic than Skylanders or Disney Infinity.
...but, I do concur on the comments that some of the stands for airborne characters are hideous; Link's is awful.
...but, I do concur on the comments that some of the stands for airborne characters are hideous; Link's is awful.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
At least Pikachu still looks great.
I have the feeling that colored plastics are actually cheaper to manufacture. Or at least cheaper to source, there's likely higher demand for clear plastics.
I have the feeling that colored plastics are actually cheaper to manufacture. Or at least cheaper to source, there's likely higher demand for clear plastics.
I'm pretty disappointed since I really wanted Peach and Marth...I might get them, but I'll have to cancel my orders and see them in person before deciding how much I truly do desire them.
It's not like Link or Samus that have great looking figures if you want to shell out a little more anyways :/
It's not like Link or Samus that have great looking figures if you want to shell out a little more anyways :/
spyroflame0487
Member
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure McD (and other chains +other food companies) use different things to make their product images. Like I remember milk is usually portrayed with glue or other stuff.
StreetsAhead
Member
In addition to CF, I'm scared for;
Which is far too much of the roster to potentially be sticking with random coloured supports.
Just go to the store and pick the one with the best paint job. Sometimes its best to just look and grab the one you like the most.
Who's ready for Luigi's massive plastic boner?
sixteen-bit
Member
If you can't tell by looking, I'd say focus on the gold detail. It's a recessed impression the prototype, but just painted on in the final.
King Gilga
Member
wtf is wrong with peach's face?
Well the only one I planned to get was marth, and he looks disgusting now, so money saved I guess.
Well the only one I planned to get was marth, and he looks disgusting now, so money saved I guess.
bobawesome
Member
I feel like I'm missing something here. These look perfectly acceptable for $15 toys.
dehalcyone
Banned
Marth is the only one I wanted, but that sword is too limp.
These are looking so appealing right now.If you want a really good looking Samus and Link you can always buy the Figmas.
Yep there is a whole documentary on this. The food used in ads are not edible. The have a bunch of tricks to make them look good.
Those are also $40 a pop.
The actual cereal is the cereal, however. They can't fudge the actual food they are selling.
edit: or at least they aren't supposed to. I'm sure there are companies and agencies who do, and don't care. But, big companies with a lot of hate directed towards them, like McD, kinda have to follow the rules.
NumberThree
Member
Yeah, that seems to be the biggest difference (apart from the stand colors).
Other than that, I'm not going to judge the final product's quality from out of focus pics under bad lighting.