Dr. Wu DW-P04 Roaring Face Plate for TFC Toys Hercules

I don't know why Dr. Wu gets so much flak, this is AWESOME.

This might just be my first Dr. Wu purchase. I like it!

Fistful of Energon wrote:didn't someone else make this independently? did Dr. Wu rip them off?

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/items-sal ... cules.html

Yup. These guys make garbage and apparently rip off the work of others too now. What a joke.

Great minds think alike? It's possible that he simply had the same idea.

While it's nice, I'd have preferred it if he made the head from the cartoon. Of course he'd probably skip the red transparent plastic found throughout the figure, so maybe it's a good thing he didn't try at it...

ok... enough with the hercules

El Duque wrote:According to the Dr. Wu facebook page: "The design of this product is somewhat inspired by the work of TFW2005 member G.I.EDDIE"

G.I.EDDIE says he doesn't really care if they used his design.

G.I.EDDIE wrote:

i genuinely could care less...in fact i'm glad they did it...apparently its difficult for folks in China to get stuff from the states?

and like the old saying goes, immitation is the sincerest form of flattery

and really, we're all, (TFC, me, Wu) ripping off IDW Devy...

gotta say, it looks pretty nice, much better than the CC faces thats for sure

WOW.. That's magnanimous... props to him

I like it ,i havnt got herc but its showing more emotion than those magnus faces.

dr wu am not sure what type of direction there going in with ther stuff been that random, metroplex eyes? and how many figures have face plates? the best thing so far is the hound and ravage set but thats still nothing to give major credit to.

they need to think a bit bigger imo , make some new heads to start with theres plenty to do a bet they would get plenty more interest in them.

Its cool that the original designer is cool about it...but it doesn't change the fact that they did it without permission and this is the best they can come up with.

Im sorry but everything this company has produced is lackluster at best.

This is a no for me. He looks more "Surprised" than roaring.

Gearslide wrote:So they make unnecessary mediocre add-ons that don't sell, and in an attempt to make money, blatantly steal another person's work?

Nice.

This. THe line between actual and perceived intellectual property is getting very blurred. One of these days soon, the line is going to break and then we'll all be up to our headmasters in lawyers. My bet is still on the "Herbie-bot"...Disney is truly and horrifyingly anal about their properties and profits.