"This is what the toy looked like in my head" - not what we got on the shelf, but what we imagined the toys could be if we were the kid of some billionaire and the toy builders spared no expense.
A collector piece that has the state of the art engineering, quality and detail. A toy scale hyper-detailed representation of what that comic/animated character would look like in the real world based on the ideas that the animators took a detailed real robot and drew it on a cartoon budget, not toy makers taking a detail abstracted cartoon robot and translating it into physical form.
2023-11-25 23:09:56 +0000 UTC
To me, It used to mean high end, premium figures but now with the addition of third party I mainly use it as a classification of scale.