DirectDK said:
I could definitely be wrong. I hope I am! Haha. I was slightly distracted, chatting with Incantation / taking pics of the statue, when I overheard Chuckles talking with the other customer next to us. I know he certainly said "$1000" but maybe I heard it out of context?
As iguana said they miiiight have been talking about Prime1 Guts? Maybe.. sure hope they did at least.
DirectDK said:
[T]he Berserk inflation I think will play a part in the pricing. If you look at the Max Factory statues too, those are upwards of $1000, so I wouldn't be surprised if F4F follows suit.
I'm of the (maybe unpopular?) opinion that the Max Factory Guts is horribly overpriced haha!

We'll fully know it when we have the P1 statues in hand, but I think their pieces prove one thing in particular. P1's Guts and Zodd are great value statues, not only in context on the source IP but in the statue collection world as a whole. Finding a ~90 cm tall statue with this much detail and such a huge base around the $1000 mark is unheard of, not to mention
P1's notoriously excellent paint application and the fact that they utilize translucent resin for the skin on the statues (and mixed media for Zodd's fur apparel).
They're still making money from these statues even though they're what I would definitely call great value, and from the Berserk license at that, which has had expensive written all over it from all previously released statues (I would say that GECCO Guts is a fence sitter in regards of price, not too expensive but definitely not cheap). I mean, check out the recently released Sideshow Iron man statue " https://i.imgur.com/LoTcBYR.jpg ", it's 63% of P1 Zodd's height and roughly 62% of its price, which sounds just right in paper, until you realize that height and price does not correlate at a 1:1 rate. A piece that is twice as tall as another is four times as big, and that is before taking into account Zodd's wealth of interchangeable parts as well as his mixed media and translucent resin (both of which makes the statue more expensive to produce).
Might just be that Young Animal / Miura love the company and statues so much so that they gave them a great deal on the license fee, however that sounds pretty silly.
DirectDK said:
Also, Chuckles mentioned to me (I did eventually talk to him haha), that there will be an exclusive version (the base will light up, as well as the faces on the bottom) and there will be an option for bloody vs non-bloody... which is quite reminiscent of AOW, haha.
Oh yeah totally, this is the exclusive version by the way. But the final product will have some LED light-up in the clear resin part of the base!
Alex was first of the opinion that there should be no blood or gore on this statue at all (probably why they went with the Berserk 2016 pinkish purple blood spirits for the base..

), but I think it took some community backlash to get the blood option out there. I like the idea, some will want it while others wont, so everyone will hopefully be happy!
DirectDK said:
[...] which is quite reminiscent of AOW, haha.
At least it won't have a rust / blue / green / extra much blood versions as well!
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IncantatioN said:
Zurth, if it helps, here's a comparison photo of the statue with me next to it. I'm 5'9 if that helps
Eyy IncantatioN, I altered my comparison and added your and DirectDK's photo instead (nice pic mate

), mine was actually a bit too small, with an emphasis on "a bit". Since F4F Guts is allegedly 75 cm tall, and P1's Guts is just over 74 cm to the top of his head the top of F4F Guts' sword should stick up just a bit above P1's head.
Here you go:
These pictures has gotten me to talk way too much about P1 pieces in a F4F thread, sorry about that. I'll try and restrict myself more in the future. As I said previously, I try to remain non-biased and neutral.
