You didn't miss much at Anime North, Raithos, though I sure wish I could've seen ya!
Omfg, I'm sorry I completely forgot about that
I think it was difficult to make the 'perfect' sculpt if they based it on the anime. Looks like now they're revising Lucci with the reference of his manga version.
He's Rob Lucci now. Would they include his coat? Would be awesome if they do.
They keep improving the sculpt but some sculpt was just bad from the start (POP Neo Ace) that whatever efforts they put in it would be a waste. Better come out admitting yes we messed up that one and then make a new one.
That's why I'm against the re-releasing of the Neo SHP bar Nami (Neo ver.1, they didn't choose that version maybe because it would be awkward to have shiny bikini) and Robin. Or maybe Zoro.Hehe poor Luffy never gets the proper treatment. He tried with the JF version but still I'm not impressed. Why is it so hard to sculpt a proper Luffy figure? Even Banpresto have this 'curse'.
A Neo Nami re-release is looooooooooooong overdue, why they would re-release her pointless Ver.2 with a repaint is beyond me. I have a feeling that by the time I get my Neo, she'll get some phantom re-release in a form of a super shiny repaint or some altered 1.5 version. Still I wouldn't mind seeing it pop up again as she is one of my most wanted.
Everyone has that curse. MSP Luffy was good but not spot on, GLM 10 Luffy had the squished face, and the POPS, lol don't even get me started on those. And they keep getting that same guy to sculpt each one, I hate it. Get someone else already. I still say the only scaled figure even close to resembling Luffy is the Ichiban Kuji Marineford crouching one.
I really want that Robin too. I'm not a fan of the shiny paint, but I really like the figure so I'll obviously get it, especially sicne I missed out on the Neo. Who knows? Maybe the shiny paint will make her stand out a little better amongst the others? It's a prime opportunity to get a figure that otherwise would cost a stupid amount of money to get.