Have you found many others that share your views on this? I guess if you break the toy into component parts, then the torso itself is relatively boring (I assume you also count his head as a stand-alone toy, since that does have cool interactive lighting). But to my view the flail and shield also seem like part of him since they're physically attached to his arms, and are obviously intended to be his weapons.

As you say this is all subjective, but I was kind of surprised to read that anyone would view BK as anything other than the most impressive toy Stern has put out in the past decade.

Just think of it as a steel fleshlight.

I can’t help but notice that half the posts is this thread are in response to one dude.

Dwight did a great job with SW and it was finalized within a reasonable time frame. Who knows what goes on internally at Stern but it's hard to believe that Stern has given Dwight time and direction to do another pass on GB and he has simply refused. Seems more likely that they just keep putting him on other assignments.

He's contributed dozens of pictures worth of words to Pinside -- doesn't that get him off the hook?