An unboxing and photshoot of the Faora 1:6 scale icon statue from DC Collectables and Gentle Giant Studios from the movie 'Man of Steel'
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JT Says? This line of statues from DC and Gentle Giant has not got the best of love since they were released. The faces seem to be the main cause for the hatered towards these, with almost all in agreement that the armour on these rock (unless it's Superman himself off course). I myself cancelled a pre-order after seeing pics of Superman, because the face looked like a plastic doll... Superman does not have the superb armour to make you forget about the dodgy face he has though, but the rest of the line does. I had seen lots of images of Zod and Jor-El and they looked not too bad, hell even the faces look fine to my aging eyes. But I could not for the life of me find any images of the released statue of Faora.
Faora (Ursa in Superman 2) is a baddie, she's 2nd in command to Zod, so I've always liked this character. What stood out to me about this piece though was that armour though. As I'm a huge fan of the video game Skyrim this reminded me of that game, Foara was also one of the first images I saw online when the movie was coming and the pose on this statue is not that far away from that image I first saw. (below)
Anyway... I took a chance on this piece because after hunting high and low for some buyer pics, just so it was going to be more easy to make my mind up if I should buy it or not (after all, they are not cheap).. All I can say is that I'm glad I did. The face, while not a patch on what Hot Toys could bring to the table? Is more than fine and captures the actress (Antje Traue) pretty well. The paint could be a bit lighter on the face but It's far from horrid. Anyway? If you were like me and you were sitting on the fence to buy this? All I can say is? I myself love it and I'm glad I took a chance (if I hated it, it was going right back to amazon :p).. I hope the video below helps you make your mind up either way.
