Gee thanks for the preview . I actually asked them before if they were gonna make her as she was one of my favorite . I liked the character so much that I actually got a 1/10 figure of her in armor form from another maker while waiting for this . Well hope it comes out better than the prototype.Hope they watched this preview too .
Thank you so much for watching! It sucks it's one of your faves and not well executed in proto yet. Exo-6 seems to be very consistent with proto - final results. For better or for worse. The good ones usually turn out good, and the rough ones still look pretty much the same. I think if you have mad love for the character, you'll be able to squint a bit and enjoy her with the crew. I didn't like many of the voyager final products from exo, but once the line was together and posed up, the looked awesome still! Let me know when you get it how you feel! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🖖
OMG I totally agree w you Ben.. Why.. WHY does the quality seem like its going backwards???? I think they should drop the 'Museum Quality' part of their advertising because they clearly are not.
@@TheBenThomasShow i will not purchase her because they did not root her hair....if they would have rooted her hair i would have purchased her...i hate female figures with molded hair....i will not buy them
i only wanted archer and he is the only one that i bought...screw the rest of them...especially females with molded hair....i have am not paying a high price for molded hair females...that is a cheap way to produce the female figures
Great vid Ben and agree with your comments and take on this figure..also agree that a release schedule of some sort would be awesome! I'm an Original film series as well as TNG fan so this one is a hard pass. I did end up pre ordering the Picard figure after I said I wasn't 😃
I agree with your comments. I'd be happier if they focused on fewer characters and better-quality head sculpts. Do the main characters first and then the secondary characters. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and then Sulu, Scotty, Uhura and so on. They push out so many characters so quickly that I pass on ones like Hoshi. If they spread them out more, I could possibly get all of them.
It's tough because there's soooop many characters in trek. And there's only so much time in a year to both produce and get out too people. If they waited to long, I don't think we'd even come close to fuller lines like voyager. But rushing them also seems to be hurting production quality. So what hurts worse. Quality over quantity or vice versa. Trek has also spanned 80 years so every age group wants to collect their favorite trek . But I think there is a natural order they could have followed, or at least provide a road map so we can plan what lines we want most. Or all if doable for budgetting! Thanks for watching as always 🖖
Problem is that you just never know what you're gonna get. Nanjin takes promotional photos and box art way before the actual figure is done. Sometimes it gets improved (as with Geordi) and sometimes not. On top of that he can get incredibly defensive and will block you or call you an 'expert' that doesn't know anything, while we are the paying customers here.
Any business or businessman that tries to silence opinion that is valid and constructive and meant with heart and appreciation, shouldn't be in business. He tried to bully me 2 years ago through messenger because i spoke about qc issues. And tried to silence me with threat of litigation. Empty threats from a sad dude. I love trek and I've been rooting for exo 6 to succeed since it's inception, but it pains me to support him most days. I make this content for you all and because I want continual improvement in figures, not backslides in quality after this long in the game. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!! 🖖
Hi Ben thanks for the video and review as always nice comments and very accurate your opinion about it ...mmm just let me tell you this figure ....sucks !!!!! for every where that you look it ... by the way i cant find the real actress betwen the figure ... so complicate imaging boths ...sorry but i keep my past figures for much more ( Picard and Data FC, Sulu and Spock MM, Janeway, Saru, My great Sisko, Savik R One, Pike and still wait for my Worf of FC !!!) and nothing more haha !!! from Costa RIca ...Live Long my friend ...take care 🖖🚀
Exo6 quality is all over the board. Some figures are spot on yet others are poor. For example, Voyager and Enterprise line are very mixed. I agree DS9 (very good but could be better), Strange New Worlds (spot on so far), TNG (spot on so far except Crusher hair looking like shiny plastic) are on the higher end.
I think they definitely have different teams all together working on all elements of each line. Some look like they are made by a different company lol thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🖖
I am in total agreement with you Ben. I am going to have to pass on this one. I have T-pol, Archer, and Shrak, but if this is where we are headed with the rest, then I will have to pass on the rest. I will say that the uniform looks to fit better than the Archer figure if we are looking for a silver lining.
I'm concerned about the sculpt. But I have noticed that 9 times out of 10, the figures always look far better in hand than they do in the photos. For one, we already know that they take the marketing photos while they still have only a prototype. And two, I don't know what it is, but the photos they shoot never make the portraits look good. It "will" look better in hand. As for Scott Bakula: the sculpt we got wasn't their first choice. The first one was much better. ...but Scott didn't like it. Where the heck did you order an Archer from? Is it a small reseller? If so, I'll bet it's never coming. You should contact them. As for how long we're going to have to wait for anything Exo-6: this was always planned to be a five year mission. After 5 years, that's it. So use that as a gauge. They're just starting to get into actual Star Trek clothing now so maybe it's been extended? As for multiple teams: They're just one small crew. They outsource "some" things now and then. Now I don't think that applies to sculptors. I've noticed that lessor characters tend to have bad sculpts. (Harry Kim, Tom Paris). I think they're spending less money on sculpts for characters that won't sell as well as A-List characters. And as for a roadmap: forget it. No company does that. That would be a bad business move. Customers need to get excited about what is coming out next and that's it. As for another company starting a Star Trek line: No way in hell. This franchise is not showering money on anyone. And hasn't for a long time. It's a freaking miracle that we've got Exo-6 and an even bigger miracle that they are committed to lessor characters. Hoshi will probably look a lot better in hand. I've seen it over and over again. The photos suck, but in hand, in better light, they look way better. And for me, Hoshi is an Instabuy. fingers crossed.
Lots of great comments here! Well said! I have heard from so many collectors that they wish they knew what was coming so they could plan their lines and space in the collection. I think you're right that hype helps sell! So not forecasting can be beficial....unless the proto looks this bad. And over and over again they have spotty track record for quality. I agree some have looked way better in hand, and transparently I haven't owned them all. But I feel like our love for trek allows a passing grade to exo more than we should sometimes. I've been rooting for them from the beginning, but something needs to change, because most comments I'm getting lately are people feel done with the company. I want to see people love what they are seeing, but only few of us remain so optimistic. But I think everything you said was valid and offered some insight to people wondering some of these things. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!!
In fairness, I think effort is there.. I think skill level is in question. Why are some lines significantly better than the others? Vastly different levels of talent working on each line it seems. I think the goal is still to give good product, but lately with spotty results. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
I have no clue whatsoever about Star Trek so I googled "Hoshi Sato" to compare the figure's likeness to the actress. The eyes and eyebrows look off to me. Also, your thumbnail for this video was the fifth image when I searched her name on Google images, lol.
Haha love to see it! I'm one of the only channels that covers trek it seems! Happy to do so even when I'm not happy with the result lol thanks for watching 😊
The quality of this line has been sus from the beginning, even as their pricing has reached Hot Toys range. I have three of these figs, but I'm way over it. Hopefully a better company gets this license soon.
totally agree! personally I am waiting for the release of kirk, spock and mcoy start trek and then I will no longer order if they continue I ordered hoshi even though I found the HS mediocre because I can do things and hoshie is very long time I have it too
Even as a huge EXO-6 fan, this is the weakest since Paris. Which didn't bother me as I was a fan of Paris. However I really like Hoshi & this isn't a good likeness. One angle from the left side looks OK, but all the other angles don't look good. I hope like with some past releases that the production piece looks better
I remember as a young guy watching Enterprise I thought Linda Park was beautiful!! She still is but sorry to say the EXO figure makes me cringe. If this was 90% Linda Park I would consider picking it up. But then my wife would question my purchase lol 😂
How long until Mafia comes in running, defending this scultp as only being a prototype…yet expect people to shell out good money on it. Their sculpts are very week imo.
Happy to see you stuck around despite your distaste for the short. I haven't seen mafia run to any defense. When I spoke with him he agreed it needed work. It's still proto, so things could improve especially if we are vocal enough about it with the people who can make changes. But unfortunately not being naive, most turn out exactly like the proto looked. For better or for worse. But I'd love to be wrong! Thanks for watching 🖖
Once again the hair is really throwing me off. Also the jawline/cheeks are not quite right. Even the tailoring is not great: The layering of the fabric on the shoulders and zippers don’t scale, and the suit is too baggy especially in the midsection. I’m still going to get her, though. She was a favorite character of mine.
It's so tough when she's the only option in 1/6 scale and yet we aren't super happy with it. Tough position! She was great though in the show. Definitely a highlight for me! Thanks for watching and supporting the show!
Yeah let's just all start being honest. EXO-6 head sculpts are just absolutely awful. They've never ever been decent quality or accurate and certainly not worth spending the amount of money we are charged for them. I'll wait for the next company, hopefully Hot Toys, to start making Star Trek figures.
I'd even take three zero or SooSoo toys lol. But yes they seem to be trending in the wrong way. I can see why you'd feel that way. I love my locutus, geordii and data, but I'm also wildly blinded by nostalgia for them :)
I do not think Hot Toys will get in Star Trek. Maybe Exo-6 pushes the figures out to fast. But Overall i love this company...an hope they will put more effort in their figures.
Gee thanks for the preview . I actually asked them before if they were gonna make her as she was one of my favorite . I liked the character so much that I actually got a 1/10 figure of her in armor form from another maker while waiting for this . Well hope it comes out better than the prototype.Hope they watched this preview too .
Thank you so much for watching! It sucks it's one of your faves and not well executed in proto yet. Exo-6 seems to be very consistent with proto - final results. For better or for worse. The good ones usually turn out good, and the rough ones still look pretty much the same. I think if you have mad love for the character, you'll be able to squint a bit and enjoy her with the crew. I didn't like many of the voyager final products from exo, but once the line was together and posed up, the looked awesome still! Let me know when you get it how you feel! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🖖
Thanks Dude ! It is still a may be for me so I am not sure if I would go for it . Perhaps I can wait till the final product is out ( :
OMG I totally agree w you Ben.. Why.. WHY does the quality seem like its going backwards???? I think they should drop the 'Museum Quality' part of their advertising because they clearly are not.
Hah 1000% I wanted to say that too! Dissapointed to see it. Thanks for watching and supporting the show!
@@TheBenThomasShow i will not purchase her because they did not root her hair....if they would have rooted her hair i would have purchased her...i hate female figures with molded hair....i will not buy them
The head sculpt looks more like Romulan Admiral in Picard Season 1
Honestly, I totally can see that! 😅😅🖖
Yeah I have captain Archer and Shran and I think I'm good
Absolutely!!
i only wanted archer and he is the only one that i bought...screw the rest of them...especially females with molded hair....i have am not paying a high price for molded hair females...that is a cheap way to produce the female figures
@@TheBenThomasShow even the people at executive replicas gave the lost in space judy and penny rooted hair
Great vid Ben and agree with your comments and take on this figure..also agree that a release schedule of some sort would be awesome! I'm an Original film series as well as TNG fan so this one is a hard pass. I did end up pre ordering the Picard figure after I said I wasn't 😃
Hah that's fair! He's awesome!! But yes a releasee schedule would be perfect for keeping buyer interest imo. Thanks for watching!!
I agree with your comments. I'd be happier if they focused on fewer characters and better-quality head sculpts. Do the main characters first and then the secondary characters. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and then Sulu, Scotty, Uhura and so on. They push out so many characters so quickly that I pass on ones like Hoshi. If they spread them out more, I could possibly get all of them.
It's tough because there's soooop many characters in trek. And there's only so much time in a year to both produce and get out too people. If they waited to long, I don't think we'd even come close to fuller lines like voyager. But rushing them also seems to be hurting production quality. So what hurts worse. Quality over quantity or vice versa. Trek has also spanned 80 years so every age group wants to collect their favorite trek . But I think there is a natural order they could have followed, or at least provide a road map so we can plan what lines we want most. Or all if doable for budgetting! Thanks for watching as always 🖖
Problem is that you just never know what you're gonna get. Nanjin takes promotional photos and box art way before the actual figure is done. Sometimes it gets improved (as with Geordi) and sometimes not. On top of that he can get incredibly defensive and will block you or call you an 'expert' that doesn't know anything, while we are the paying customers here.
Any business or businessman that tries to silence opinion that is valid and constructive and meant with heart and appreciation, shouldn't be in business. He tried to bully me 2 years ago through messenger because i spoke about qc issues. And tried to silence me with threat of litigation. Empty threats from a sad dude. I love trek and I've been rooting for exo 6 to succeed since it's inception, but it pains me to support him most days. I make this content for you all and because I want continual improvement in figures, not backslides in quality after this long in the game. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!! 🖖
@@TheBenThomasShow Well said. And for what it's worth, I just subscribed :)
Really appreciated! Lots on here already if you've just found the show and tons more to come! 🖖
Uuuhh Hoshi figure might need a new sculpt. I'm trying to really like it
Tough eh! Thanks for watching!
Hi Ben thanks for the video and review as always nice comments and very accurate your opinion about it ...mmm just let me tell you this figure ....sucks !!!!! for every where that you look it ... by the way i cant find the real actress betwen the figure ... so complicate imaging boths ...sorry but i keep my past figures for much more ( Picard and Data FC, Sulu and Spock MM, Janeway, Saru, My great Sisko, Savik R One, Pike and still wait for my Worf of FC !!!) and nothing more haha !!! from Costa RIca ...Live Long my friend ...take care 🖖🚀
Thanks for your thoughts also! Appreciate you watching and supporting the show!!
Exo6 quality is all over the board. Some figures are spot on yet others are poor. For example, Voyager and Enterprise line are very mixed. I agree DS9 (very good but could be better), Strange New Worlds (spot on so far), TNG (spot on so far except Crusher hair looking like shiny plastic) are on the higher end.
I think they definitely have different teams all together working on all elements of each line. Some look like they are made by a different company lol thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🖖
I am in total agreement with you Ben. I am going to have to pass on this one. I have T-pol, Archer, and Shrak, but if this is where we are headed with the rest, then I will have to pass on the rest. I will say that the uniform looks to fit better than the Archer figure if we are looking for a silver lining.
Totally makes sense! Dissapointed to hear it for ya though! Thanks for watching and supporting the show!
My favorite character and I would have purchased it but it doesn't look anything like Linda.
So sad eh! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!!
I'm concerned about the sculpt. But I have noticed that 9 times out of 10, the figures always look far better in hand than they do in the photos. For one, we already know that they take the marketing photos while they still have only a prototype. And two, I don't know what it is, but the photos they shoot never make the portraits look good. It "will" look better in hand.
As for Scott Bakula: the sculpt we got wasn't their first choice. The first one was much better. ...but Scott didn't like it.
Where the heck did you order an Archer from? Is it a small reseller? If so, I'll bet it's never coming. You should contact them.
As for how long we're going to have to wait for anything Exo-6: this was always planned to be a five year mission. After 5 years, that's it. So use that as a gauge. They're just starting to get into actual Star Trek clothing now so maybe it's been extended?
As for multiple teams: They're just one small crew. They outsource "some" things now and then.
Now I don't think that applies to sculptors. I've noticed that lessor characters tend to have bad sculpts. (Harry Kim, Tom Paris). I think they're spending less money on sculpts for characters that won't sell as well as A-List characters.
And as for a roadmap: forget it. No company does that. That would be a bad business move. Customers need to get excited about what is coming out next and that's it.
As for another company starting a Star Trek line: No way in hell. This franchise is not showering money on anyone. And hasn't for a long time.
It's a freaking miracle that we've got Exo-6 and an even bigger miracle that they are committed to lessor characters.
Hoshi will probably look a lot better in hand. I've seen it over and over again. The photos suck, but in hand, in better light, they look way better.
And for me, Hoshi is an Instabuy. fingers crossed.
Lots of great comments here! Well said! I have heard from so many collectors that they wish they knew what was coming so they could plan their lines and space in the collection. I think you're right that hype helps sell! So not forecasting can be beficial....unless the proto looks this bad. And over and over again they have spotty track record for quality. I agree some have looked way better in hand, and transparently I haven't owned them all. But I feel like our love for trek allows a passing grade to exo more than we should sometimes. I've been rooting for them from the beginning, but something needs to change, because most comments I'm getting lately are people feel done with the company. I want to see people love what they are seeing, but only few of us remain so optimistic. But I think everything you said was valid and offered some insight to people wondering some of these things. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!!
Whoa absolutely no effort envolved.
In fairness, I think effort is there.. I think skill level is in question. Why are some lines significantly better than the others? Vastly different levels of talent working on each line it seems. I think the goal is still to give good product, but lately with spotty results. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
I have no clue whatsoever about Star Trek so I googled "Hoshi Sato" to compare the figure's likeness to the actress. The eyes and eyebrows look off to me. Also, your thumbnail for this video was the fifth image when I searched her name on Google images, lol.
Haha love to see it! I'm one of the only channels that covers trek it seems! Happy to do so even when I'm not happy with the result lol thanks for watching 😊
The quality of this line has been sus from the beginning, even as their pricing has reached Hot Toys range. I have three of these figs, but I'm way over it. Hopefully a better company gets this license soon.
Thay would be wild! Maybe!! What 3 do you have? Thanks for watching and supporting the show!
Careful Ben, you’ll be a member of the blocked club with me if you carry on with these opinions.
😅 I'm sure I am already good sir :) thanks for watching though and supporting the show!
totally agree! personally I am waiting for the release of kirk, spock and mcoy start trek and then I will no longer order if they continue I ordered hoshi even though I found the HS mediocre because I can do things and hoshie is very long time I have it too
Love Trek!! So it's a hard take sometimes! But still overall happy to have any of the characters!! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
@@TheBenThomasShow thank you luckily there are people like you! in France they have a virtual devil which is cool too mabe you now !
She looks more like la’an than Hoshi TBH
Great observation!!! Totally!! Thanks for watching and commenting! 🖖
Even as a huge EXO-6 fan, this is the weakest since Paris. Which didn't bother me as I was a fan of Paris. However I really like Hoshi & this isn't a good likeness. One angle from the left side looks OK, but all the other angles don't look good. I hope like with some past releases that the production piece looks better
I hope so too good sir! Thanks for tuning in as always 🖖
Such a shame. Hoshi is waay off. There are also outfit inaccuracies (collar/buttons/zipper positions etc). I hope Exo-6 gets it together.
If they don't, they will lose people even faster!
I remember as a young guy watching Enterprise I thought Linda Park was beautiful!! She still is but sorry to say the EXO figure makes me cringe. If this was 90% Linda Park I would consider picking it up. But then my wife would question my purchase lol 😂
Haha great comment!! Thanks for watching bud 💪🥜
How long until Mafia comes in running, defending this scultp as only being a prototype…yet expect people to shell out good money on it. Their sculpts are very week imo.
Happy to see you stuck around despite your distaste for the short. I haven't seen mafia run to any defense. When I spoke with him he agreed it needed work. It's still proto, so things could improve especially if we are vocal enough about it with the people who can make changes. But unfortunately not being naive, most turn out exactly like the proto looked. For better or for worse. But I'd love to be wrong! Thanks for watching 🖖
It’s not too late for Exo to switch to Empress Sato…
Hah 1000%
Once again the hair is really throwing me off. Also the jawline/cheeks are not quite right. Even the tailoring is not great: The layering of the fabric on the shoulders and zippers don’t scale, and the suit is too baggy especially in the midsection. I’m still going to get her, though. She was a favorite character of mine.
It's so tough when she's the only option in 1/6 scale and yet we aren't super happy with it. Tough position! She was great though in the show. Definitely a highlight for me! Thanks for watching and supporting the show!
Yeah let's just all start being honest. EXO-6 head sculpts are just absolutely awful.
They've never ever been decent quality or accurate and certainly not worth spending the amount of money we are charged for them.
I'll wait for the next company, hopefully Hot Toys, to start making Star Trek figures.
I'd even take three zero or SooSoo toys lol. But yes they seem to be trending in the wrong way. I can see why you'd feel that way. I love my locutus, geordii and data, but I'm also wildly blinded by nostalgia for them :)
I do not think Hot Toys will get in Star Trek.
Maybe Exo-6 pushes the figures out to fast. But Overall i love this company...an hope they will put more effort in their figures.
I really feel sorry for Enterprise collectors 🥲
The folks who want the full line 100% I did love shran and tpol isn't horrible lol thanks for watching and supporting the show!