Well.
I've had to take an emergency time-out from the hobby/vocation/obsession recently, but I've kept my eye on things and saw these up at GianToy this morning, and of course I thought of you guys.
My thoughts:
1: FINALLY.
2: I imagine a lot of people are going to be cancelling their 'Hatshepsut' pre-orders now.
3: Looks like TBL are admitting defeat with regard to being capable of producing authentic ethnically-diverse head sculpts for these, and so not even bothering to offer any. Their Hatshepsut and Radiant Crown Divinity sculpts are quite honestly insulting at best (not surprising, as whoever is cut 'n' pasting their sculpt designs at the moment clearly has either no knowledge of ethnic diversity or no intent to accurately depict it - even their Generic Nordic Blondes are looking decidedly Sino-Asian recently).
We'll just have to hope that some of the other companies step up. As it is I have a Spiderman MJ sculpt and a Tessa Thompson sculpt that will hopefully match the lighter of these options. The darker bodies may prove more problematic (I can only think of ThreeZero's Michonne that might match those, off the top of my, uh, head).
4: Shame that while it's very nice that they're offering every body type in these colours, they still haven't upgraded the earlier bodies with a detachable feet option. I'd like a couple of these equivalent to an S07/S09, but
not until they fix those feet.
5: Hopefully these will sell and become a fixture, because I won't be able to afford any until probably next year, now.
First purchase of 2024, fingers crossed.