So winged Kira and closed-mouth Fizzgig are not getting a retail release? They are forever limited to 500 pieces sold only at one event in one city?
That is an incredible disappointment. I was very excited for winged Kira, as I was hoping for this variant of her since I first heard the news of this line. But I can't afford or justify paying the $200+ after-market prices. What a shame. This has significantly diminished my excitement for the entire line. I've never understood the "all or nothing" mindset of wanting a complete collection or none at all, but I do now.
Exclusives are great, when limited to special packaging or a slight paint difference. But for key character variations like winged Kira and closed-mouth Fizzgig, really the only variations from the film, to be made extremely limited is very disappointing.
I was already a bit put off by the vast difference in paint detail from the promo images to the final products. Ursol especially suffers from lack of paint; it almost looks like an entirely different figure.
I'm very happy there are now action figures for The Dark Crystal, and I'm grateful for the work put into them. But these two factors have me seriously reconsidering if I want to buy
any of them.
I guess there is no hope of producing a few more winged Kira with closed-mouth Fizzgig in a single-pack, even as an online exclusive or something?
That way the previous exclusive remains exclusive, and more people get a chance at these important character variations.