Soom Idealian 75cm Discussion Part 10

Kahn was in last year's free choice, as were Albany and Calais. There was some rumour I heard about Xian and him not being released again, but I don't have any data to back it up so I will assume it is naysaying and to take it with a grain of salt.

David and ID68s in general are not very popular compared to other sculpts, so I can understand their lack of wanting to re-release those. However, I've seen a good handful of people ask for Sabik. I wonder if it's something to do with the mold, as his face from The Gem to ID changed a lot.

 

Yeah, when they resculpted him from Mecha Angel to Idealian, they did a great job. I really loved the changes. Sabik is the one I would have thought they’d have brought back already.

 

Just picked up a double head artist version Phonolus in Bronze! I love this dude so much. My 5th Phonolus, waiting for a pretty Vampire one to show up and also an OG Mega Gem version with the beast body to buy in the future too.

So much $$$ but also so happy

 

I know there are a lot of Hyperon stans out there but Phonolus really is (to me) the most beautiful Soom boy.

I was wondering though Setsura; is the actual posture of the face/overall proportions of the features of the Tiger Ear (believe it is Rauco of fear) Phonolus actually slightly different than the human version ones? The Rauco one always strikes me as having particularly large eyes and an overall more diminuative/shorter/slimmer nose...

 

At a glance it looks basically the same to me, except one has giant ears and one does not. I do have both versions at home though, so I'll take a picture later when I get around to it. The faceup can make a big difference, and for some reason, soom always in the past had a habit of putting terribly ill fitting 14/7mms in his eyes which made him look like a giant bug lmfao.

 

Lol, now that is true, though it does give them quite the look; 14/5 seems to look the most realistic. Yeah and those ears are something else, I really love them – it's as though the junior designers put elf ears on him and management said "Nah, too pedestrian, he needs to look like he's about to take flight or no dice".

Well, I'm here for it.

I would absolutely love pics between the two, if at all possible.

 

Found an older pic of my dudes chilling (one of the tiger heads got yeeted as I didn't want another WS one, will replace it with a tawny MG version with all beast parts if possible at a later date). They look basically the same to me eye wise in the picture and in real life to be honest.





The R version has different ears to the OE version. The original sculptor of Phonolus is Yurick (the owner of Illusion Garden), who made the tiger head and the original 'human' head was an R head along with the OE Tiger. OE human only appeared later afterwards, along with MPhonolus. I believe what happened is that OE Human was revised later on by another sculptor (you can see this on the soom website where several sculptors were listed as contributing to Phonolus), and the M version stems off the R since they have the same eyes.

 

Maybe I missed something in an announcement somewhere, but I'm pretty upset that PayPal is back but only for non layaway. They're charging me the fee anyway, so why can't I do the installments? I'm happy my credit card works for the layaway system, but this is still pretty annoying.

Either way, I snagged some of the parts last night. The WS Phonolus is really gorgeous, but I told myself no more than 2 Idealians and I currently have 4 and am struggling to part with two of them so xD Looks like it'll just be clothes and parts for me for a while. I have Hwa-in, Xian, Ender and Garion and it seems like so many. I'm really hoping they release Xian again so I can maybe get mine in a different skin tone. And honestly Ender too. I got mine from the last release but I'd love him in a fantasy tone tbh. I wish they'd do that purple more often

 

I'm thinking non-layaway paypal is because then people are paying all at once and less likely to file disputes if they suddenly cant complete the layaway but want all their money back still. A way to mitigate that issue.

I also snagged parts. Got the head wing parts for my Austaras since I am revamping his character into a version of a biblically correct angel. Thought about getting the other horns but they looked massive lol

Speaking of purple I really do like their pictures of it but I am noticing in owner photos the resin tone is a alot more grey. Even the Glati I got in purple is more dark greyish purple. The purple for the limited Garion looks a bit better, like a lighter grey purple which lets the purple come out more but I wish the purple tone was as vibrant in person as it is online in promo pics.

 

The Comienzo horns are huge and totally over the top, but it vibes with what I'm going for so I got them haha. But I agree it's a giant chunk and it's also a giant chunk of $$$ for just horns. The Aleron wings have been released several times in other colours with various other dolls and they work great in all sorts of situations and make cute MSD sized back wings too. I've got like 5 pairs of them at home and I'm still not bored haha.

Re colours:
Pale Violet is super light and any owners who had this colour from the gem line basically suffered from it turning to a super light grey and losing all purple.

Light Violet shows up very purple in certain lighting, it's more of a blue based purple and can be flashed as looking grey in certain light, but if you put it next to a grey doll, it's most definitely purple and not grey. My LE8 Light Violet Hyperon has definitely faded a little over time to be less vibrant.

Viola Purple is a muted purple with heavy grey tones, the recent LEs that were in this colour received some minor flak in China for leaning too heavy on the grey side and not enough on the purple tones, but I believe this is the most stable purple colour that soom offers.

 

Thank you so much for this, it made everything a lot more clear. It seems the nose projection, mouth posture and width were the things that struck me. I think its the 1st pictured (pic 1) tiger eared one, on the far left in pic 2 that really speaks to me the most. Someone was selling one on Instagram and it was gone within an hour so I think a lot of people really love him (in general) too. I also really dig Shoshon aswell; I'm a tremendous sucker for big doe eyes.

 

@Setsura Thanks for the info about the purples! Hopefully they can formulate a more stable vibrant purple someday.

Also I’d be very interested to see the end result of what you do with those horns. They do look super cool!

 

It's nice to see more Phonolus sculpts!
Here my two (who are original releases and are not on an Idealian body) are flanking an Idealian Photon...so I can show them here.

V'lane, Noe, Valerian by luluna33, on Flickr

 

Do you have photos? I'd love to see him

That Benito looks like Benedict Cumberbatch, there's no doubt, but if Mason was trying to looks like Mads Mikkelsen... Poor thing!

 

@RavennaGarcia I don't have the default faceup on him, it was a great R.dean face up but I made my Edgar into Aizen from Bleach. Here is a pic of him:





If you do want to see owner pics of the default faceup a moot of mine on IG has one marsmell0w_bjd

 

Jumping in to ask a question - I need to wire my boys, does anyone know what thickness I need? I'm tired of the collapse/buckle and hug lmao. It's time for some wire and suede

 

OMG!!! He's sooooo handsome. Thank you for sharing his pic

 

I know Soom resin colors can vary wildly from batch to batch, but on average would you say Soom normal is more pink or yellow toned?

 

Pink for sure!

 

These days especially, it leans very heavily on the red side.