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Originally Posted by Resseh
picked up my CE today but im disappointed. the book seems very nice. but the statue seems very cheap and nasty considering the RRP. I probably should have waited for it to be £50 but most stores seem to be running out of stock.
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That depends on why you think it looks cheap and nasty. Is it because it does not weigh much? Remember that the stand is just that... a stand and personally I think it holds up very well what I like the most about the the whole thing: the statue itself. In my opinion the statue is not trying to be something that it is not. What I mean is that it is not trying to look like something ELSE that it is NOT(this is what failed so miserably the GoW3 Pandora's Box box. It LOOKS like it is cheap plastic spraypainted to look like bronze, or gold or whatever it is supposed to be. In fact it fails so epically that all it looks like is just that: cheap plastic spraypainted with the gods know what so it doesn't looks like gilding nor any type of metal, Just crappy plastic). To me the Alduin statue looks like Alduin, Remarkably. PVC is a somewhat new technology that is becoming more refined as moulders master their processes in getting their works to look amazing.
I had a word with my local Comic/figurine store and asked her, before the Skyrim CE was released what I might expect in this statue as I was very worried that the statue being plastic, as I had heard on the net, might render it as looking and being a piece of crap. She told me that the point was not yet moot on whether polystone nor pvc were better or worse than the other. Each has its good and bad points. But she assured me that I would not be disapointed and not to expect something that looks cheap and nasty. And she was right.
All of my visitors to my home have remarked how amazing the dragon statue looks, yet on picking the thing up some have altered their opinion for the worse because it is so light on the hands and they have relegated it to the "it must be cheap plastic because it is too light" bin. On my explaining about PVC and the fact that I feel it is not trying to BE anything that it is not(apart from a statue of course), they looked and weighed and felt the statue with a different perspective, and I hope a much better opinion of the wyrm. peace....