10 Mar, 2010
Statue Alert : Sideshow Collectibles Iron Man Mark III 1:2 scale maquette
Posted by: Dr_Teng In: Features
It’s strange that most of my statue alerts are about Sideshow Collectibles. Probably due to the absolutely huge amount of product they’ve been putting out lately from a variety of factories, I’m sure they’ll still working out the kinks.
Anyways, this enormous $2k beast of a statue started shipping out and there’s been a few problems. While there have been some paint problems, I don’t consider those a major issue (at least not from what I’ve seen so far). The issue here is that the packing materials are subpar and some statues have arrived broken. SideshowDusty responded to this and said many of the newer shipments will include better packing materials, but this is obviously a concern for people buying on the secondary market and for international buyers. The piece is so thin in some areas that it appears to have contributed to this problem. Normally I have no issues with hollow statues, but this one may simply be too thin in areas that get stress put on them during shipping.
So yeah, be really careful about this. In hand pictures make it look very impressive, but if you were to receive one and it were broken, I can only imagine the frustration.
