I also really like what I'm seeing and hearing here. I've always liked, not just with the original Kong design but also with many old and classic movie monsters, creatures and dinosaurs, how they often had that great "inaccurate" quality to them in terms of how they look when compared to their real-world counterparts (in cases where they might have them). It wasn't even necessarily so much a case of taking liberties with reality or the design as just that that was often what peoples' ideas of those creatures' appearances were at the time, so you get things like Kong standing upright a lot, or T-Rex' dragging their tails on the ground and also having a pretty upright posture etc.
Some people might look at that and say "well that's just what they thought they looked like before we knew better, so we need to update the look and make it more accurate to reality", but to me it's often those very features that give those creatures their unique appearances and personalities. So I love that they're going for the 1933-style 'upright' Kong and retaining that "movie monster" look, rather than the giant silverback gorilla of Peter Jackson's version. Because at the end of the day, he
is a movie monster, so you shouldn't try to shy away from that.
I also just like the look of that pic. His face looks like a combination of the two original Kong figures (especially the brow), and he definitely has that iconic Kong appearance, rather than just being a big gorilla. So yeah, me likey!
