[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The price cannot be helped, this is a Japanese toy after all.

He looks accurate to me. SH2 is not the only time PH appears. There is the movie and the fifth game.

It is true that Japanese figures tend to cost more than we'd like. Pyramid Head is after all kind of the franchise mascot so it does show up in a good deal of the installations. This figure though is clearly the original Silent Hill 2 rendition, what with the spear and flat-front pyramid (Homecoming and the film version cut a side out and give it an edged front). It's not bad at all, I just note that the arms are too muscular and the skin tone should be paler. Something I've noticed often from Japanese toy companies making non-anime figures is they tend to beef 'em up to accommodate the amount of pose they want it to have, which makes PH look like it's been lifting more than usual and developed wider shoulders, not totally bad, but technically off. Here is the Silent Hill 2 render of Pyramid Head for comparison.

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Originally Posted by merqabah

with revoltech, figma and figuarts, you really get what you pay, highly articulated figures with an extreme level of detail, and tons of accesories, best bang for your buck.

Not always, for instance I'm very displeased with the monsterarts wolf predator. It is shorter than it should be, as far as on shelf next to other toys at all, and while highly articulated the details fell short of expectations(possibly due to size, NECA predators I own dwarf that guy and thus have more room for little details). The accessories were cool, but not justifying of Japanese mark-ups on price. Japanese toy companies do well with Japanese licenses, but I'll pay less to get bigger, more accurate, albeit often less posed American toys for my Sci-fi/Horror genres. If I could afford all their offerings I'd certainly have a full Godzilla shelf and Pyramid Head would be joining them, but I'm a realist not a six-digit earner (not saying all people who buy Japanese import toys are crazy rich, but they must certainly be allowing more toy budget than I do).