Big Chief Studios currently has Eleven out, with Amy Pond coming and Ten waiting for approval. As much as I'd love to get a 1:6 scale Ten, two things stop me. 1) The prototype is a great likeness of David Tennant as Ten, but he looks like he's been hit with a surprise bout of the runs. He should be smirking confidently, not looking as if something ambushed him. Nothing surprises the Doctor! 2) The company's very name and logo [a red dot wearing a stylized "Plains headdress"] reek of racism. I can't support that bigotry. Pity, as they have decent-looking dolls.
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The Pond figure looks a little too full in the face. I don’t think Karen Gillian’s quite that round. The accessories, though, are amazing. Not quite worth the giant price tag (to me), though.
“That was NOT a mere fart,” his face seems to say. I hope there’s an alternate head that’s more relaxed. There was another 1:6 Ten who looked more surprised with O_O eyes, so I was hoping the Big Chief version would look as nice as their Eleven. Their facebook page has an image of the unclothed Eleven figures, and it looks like they have nice articulation.
I was more disappointed by Tonner’s 1:4 Ten, who just looked terrible.
Yeah, you linked to a pic of the Character Options 1:6 Ten. He lacks enough expression in his face. There has to be a golden mean between “Meh” and “OMG I didn’t know Ood farts smelled like that!” Unfortunately, we haven’t hit it yet. Imagine what Hot Toys could do with the license…
Re Tonner…I don’t know why they even bother getting likeness rights, as none of their 1:4s ever look like the characters they’re supposed to. Every Tonner “likeness” just looks like a generic person of approximately the same sex and skin color as the source, with an outfit that looks approximately similar if you squint from just the right angle. I think they should stick to their original fashion dolls [e.g., Tyler Wentworth] and licensed characters that don’t have fixed appearanced [e.g., comic book characters].
Tonner has gotten it “right” on a few occasions, like some of the “Gone with the Wind” dolls (excluding the ballet ones), “The Golden Compass”, and Tim Burton’s “Alice”. Most of the time, it’s aaaalmost there, but won’t really shine til someone repaints them.
Do a search for Noel Cruz’s repaints. Holy cow, they’re amazing.
Cruz does indeed do impressive repaints. He even improved on the Hot Toys Sucker Punch Baby Doll! Tonner could really help him out by not giving every single one of their dolls the same square jaw.
Just found a hilarious example of Tennant making a surprised face. It’s not quite the same as the Big Chief figure, but we’ll pretend it’s close enough.
http://elizabethplaid.tumblr.com/post/21708075901/kodinlanewave-the-absolute-best-gifs-follow
LOL!
Any one of those expressions would be better than Big Chief’s choice, which is like o_O, which isn’t even characteristic for Ten.
I’ve read that Tonner himself is a huge fan of geeky things, so it probably matters to him that they acquire licenses (unlike, say, 75% of the action figure companies out there.) Then they go ahead and design a Generic Tonner Doll.