Hiya vs SHMA at Comic Con | WHICH IS BETTER? 

Let's hear some details folks! What SPECIFICALLY do you like about the figures you prefer?? Excited to chat about it.

I guess what I prefer from Hiya is the following: low price, detailed screen-accurate sculpt, great paint apps, (and just some general stuff about the line) focusing on everything rather than sticking to one era (Heisei, millennium, Monsterverse) and their willingness to listen to feedback and apply it to their figures!

Crying. Not because I’m sad, but because I know I’m gonna be BROKE😫 Hiya has the perfect balance of affordability and quality, their figures are so accurate and articulated enough for me to make cool animations with them without having to sell another organ.

Dangerville made a good point in their most recent vid that I would like to bring up. Ever since NECA stopped making their Godzilla figures, Bandai has stopped trying as much as they haven’t had much competition….buuuttt then Hiya came along and put all their effort into these sculpts and the figure as a whole at that. Hopefully Bandai will learn that they aren’t on top anymore, and that they have really intense competition and actually put effort into their figures.

The fact shmas godzilla was the only thing that was better looking getting topped in actual person plus hiya will once more update sculpt considering dorsal plates still have some issues while their own statue doesnt have that same issue

Is it just me or did hiya tweak the evolved g a bit

I'm a Hiya guy, but I hope this situation motivates SH to make their figures better for the sake of their own good. They have potential and still got time. HOPEFULLY those displayed ones wouldn't end up being the final version...right..?

HIYA COOKED!! I like the dirtier look on hiya evolved because it feels more accurate to the movie. Also like Shimo more because you can get that variation of color, rather than SHMA’s bland white. And finally, the prices are just so worth it for these figures (personally I think only hiya has a good price point)

Shma Shimo looks like a playmates custom

Honestly I like the less vibrant spines on Hiya's Evo Goji more(They're also more screen accurate). But with Hiya Shimo, the old purple and blue spines were better(Adds a third color and is more screen accurate to Shimo while not using her frostbite blast), In my opinion the paint from the SDCC version should be on her frostbite blast figure.

Hiya is tweaking their figures before it's even released. W for Hiya🗿

Hiya definitely improved since the promo pictures and I think it’s now a bit better than sh.

My condolences for those who will get a more Green SHMA Evo Godzilla fig like what happened to 2014. Cause sometimes, those in the Painting team just downright overdo it 💀💀

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The Hiya paint on the spines are actually more accurate than Bandai. Based on the Hiya statue that’s 1 to 1 with the movie CGI model, we can see that when Godzilla isn’t powering up his spines are a mix of white and pink. Hiya did the same thing on their figure. Bandai just left there’s a plain pink. Negative points for accuracy but that’s Bandai for you 🤷🏻‍♂️

I can’t wait to buy this and the S.H. Monsterarts Godzilla Kong and scar king and Shimo and Suko And mothra I will buy them all

crazy that shma shimo will cost almost more than the whole set for hiya im assuming which is gonna be around $250 for every character

The Hiya Evolved Godzilla first promotional pics on Amazon look like he would be top heavy because of his chest but now with that side picture of him he looks really good

I will be picking up a new hyia kong if it goes well I will be buying the GXK kong and the Godzilla evolved

I love Hiya’s head sculpt for the majority of their figures, they wait her look really accurate or close to be accurate enough to where you believe they just took the cgi off screen and made it into a figure

I personally like the design for the shma evolved but hiya definitely nails screen accuracy for their figure imo

I think what is fairly exciting for me is that the Godzilla 2014 heat ray version is the translucent one. To me, that looks like Hiya is now going to skip over the painted heat ray/whatever figures and jump straight to the translucent version instead (most likely due to far more people buying the translucent versions). I hope that when they do reveal an inevitable frostbite blast Shimo, Heat Ray Godzilla Evolved, etc. they are translucent as well

8:20 I choked on my cereal LMFAO 😭

That Suko is nightmare fuel

Yoooo u gotta look at their kong, its pretty cool. And the gap u talked about from the torso isnt really a problem

I still think the monster arts evolved goji is going to come out better, an underrated feature to me are the hands. Hiya still has the basic hands we’ve seen on every figure for the past decade. The Shimos I’m going to have wait on reviews, the monsterarts head sculpt is unfortunate but I like the scaling and curious about articulation. The hiya shimo sculpt looks great just hate its undersized and there’s some cuts I wish they did better with it. Might just have to go with the spiral statue until further notice.

The hiya evolved's paint looks a lot better in these new pictures, while the shma got worse lol hiya looks a lot less stiff now to. Old promos looked awkward.

The shma goji lower jaw looks real rough, and it looks like the spines arent translucent

My only thing I really would like from Hiyas Evolved Godzilla is more splayed clawed hands :)

The hiya shimo looks like she has different proportions than the original images

I always struggling to pay for most of SHMA figures to the point I skipped most of their figures for being overpriced, but not with Hiya. Even when Hiya's does get a bit pricey (Ghidorah), it is still worth it because of the quality of their figures. It's crazy how SHMA got away with overcharging their customers while doing bare minimum for their products. Insane.

The proportions on Hiya and the head sculpt look way more accurate

For me the jaw on the sh monsterarts Godzilla evolved is not a problem because normally the sh monsterarts haves a type of weird articulation on the jaw that make it look weird like the Godzilla vs kong Godzilla jaw but depending on the position of the articulation makes it look much better , however we didn’t see yet reviews in hand

Just love hiya there are the best

i like the detail on the hiya.

Hiya Toys made Shimo SHMA made "sHiMU"

i will say hiya looks better, as of right now how their figure looks in the pic it reminds me how Godzilla look when he was about to do his Olympic dive which it has that coloring sort of speak.

I think they just need to fix the lower jaw of shma goji, it looks kinda weird. Other than that I like it way more than hiya. Even with that pink mouth.

I think Monsterarts did a good job on Godzilla evolved i do like how it looks on my opinion the dorsal plates look good and the the arms, hands, feet, legs and tail look pretty amazing but shimo oh boy the mouth looks a crocodiles mouth so i would say monsterarts lost some points on the mouth of shimo

The HIYA for sure had some touching up because it looks really good compared to what it used to. It used to be really bulky and odd looking in some areas (of course the promo images didn’t help) but now they look comparable. They nailed the face sculpt and at this point I think they’ve matched or exceeded SHMA’s which is still insane in its own right. The articulation and vibrancy of the dorsals of the SHMA really draw me in, and now I REALLY don’t know which one to pick 😭

Hiya is easily better, lower price and more accurate.

I’m gonna be honest. I like Hiya shimo’s spines more. I never liked how dark they were on the playmates and even shma cause it’s supposed to look like ice not dark sapphire clear spines. I like the more icy look of Hiya shimo’s spines but that’s just me

I hope hiya shimo doesn’t look like that because of the spine color and like he said the color of the body I think the one we should have is the images of the hiya shimo seen at the Godzilla s Kong premiere.

I’m pretty sure hyia changed the dorsal plates a tad tad tad tad tad tad tad bit bit

SHMA please for the love of Godzilla make these better.I still hope they pull through with evolved but I know that Shimo is almost cause

I feel like if hiya evolved had better dorsal fins it would be perfect

I like the hiya godzilla figure more but the sucked in stomach is getting on my mind But something about shimo being skinny is really cool when you start to look at it but other than that hiya shimo is way better

I already preordered the shma evolved then i saw this video, safe to say im pretty cooked

I don't know if this counts, but I specifically like how the Hiya Toys Godzilla has the more muted pink for the dorsal plates. The color may not pop as much as the SHM, but I'm pretty sure this is more movie accurate when Godzilla isn't powering up. The Hiya Toys Godzilla looks more accurate in general to me. A very cool figure!

will still buy shma (only godzilla) for no apparent reason

My only problem with hiya is that they have dementia or something. When was the last time they even restocked a figure man

Hiya one because of the movie accuracy.

the godzillas look the same imo, hardly any differences. obviously got hiya cuz the sh monsterarts price is craazy

The Hiya figure looks good, if not better, but undeniably good, for a decent price. The SHMA figure looks good but questionable in some aspects and is nearly TRIPLE THE PRICE of its comparison. That should really be the end of the debate right there. I’m not paying hundreds of dollars for a figure that isn’t short of excellent and modern SHMA is not that regardless of Hiya’s quality.

Hiya cooked s.h monsterarts🗿

honestly I like both of them, anyways for me it comes down to availability and QC and how fast it can get in my hands, not price because at the end of the day im still gonna buy either way. I love the accuracy of the hiya but I love the colours on the SHMA and articulation

Hiya shimo is movie accurate, the official height of her on 4 legs is 375 making her tallee then kong but shorter then godzilla

Tho its obv which is the better figure i kinda wanted for shimo's spines to be bigger

Hiyas Shimo has a really nice head sculpt, and I am a fan of the spikes

Hiya’s price is almost good to be true

Bro your comments/memes on the figs are hilarious!

I change my mind Im buying hiya's gman

Evolved goji comes out a month or two before my birthday, heat ray goji and shimo come out after (i’m gonna be asking for some late birthday presents)

Personally i like the Hiya a little more because it seems to be slightly more accurate, also cuz its bigger which scales with my Hiya pre evolved. (I feel like my english is terrible atm)

I thinkninstill like the monsterarts evogoji better, hiya looks better now than the promo version but the dorsal plates I think look better on shma and that's important to me for a godzilla, plus the greenish hue doesn't bug me a ton. Maybe it's cope since i bought the figure, but I still like it, but hiya is definitely enough to secondguess

With the mouth of the Evolved Godzilla… I’m not sure of buy it anymore, and the Hiya looks a bit better, but I prefer to wait a review and then think what figure is better for me.

Tbh, I think HIYA could become a SHMA Killer. Just hear me out: For the last while, HIYA has been listening to their fans, and giving us content we actually want, and has magnificent sculpts. SHMA usually makes half-assed figures that are almost double, to triple the price of HIYA, and don’t usually listen to their fans. I rest my case.

My guy when I saw the evolved goji from shma I was like this is way better than hiya but when I saw the picture and I looked at the sh monster arts face his jaw is goofy I’m sorry and then I went back to hiya

Should’ve given credit to Rubi Gaming X for the photo shop of Shimo and Godzilla Anyways Hiya is cooking but Shma is getting cooked 💀 My Big four would be: 1. Hiya Godzilla / Shma Godzilla 2. Hiya Shimo 3. Hiya Kong 4. Shma Skar King

Shma evolved Is the best and hiya shimo is the best

Even dangerville rant about how bad shma shimu 😂

One of the things I like better about hiya is the colors, the face and the price

I still like the sh monsterarts evolved

Hiya is better. Next question

The saygames on the back of his tail

8:39 (this is very long and probably some typos) I like the hiya one better not because just if the price mostly the accuracy and how it looked like it came from the movies when Kong and Godzilla were fighting in Egypt it got accurate texure unlike shma and the chest joint is not very visible and the proportions look way better then it looked like in the stocking pictures also with shimo to its crazy how much shma screwed up with there new model the old version looked amazing and how if you put both of the companies figures together it really shows how much hiya put into it made it affordable and made it way more accurate model jump paint job and more hiya takes win easily no diff Shimo from shma shimo looks like they glued a skin flap and a ninja turtle shell on the back and you can basically literally see basically inside her arm the joints are 100% visible neck and head looks like a giraffe and fun fact if you look at where the tail starts/ lower body it’s a very tall shard on the start of her tail and that’s the same shard that was in the official concept art for shimo then her nails for her toes are black but hiya seen that they are blue and made them blue then shimos paint job sucks there roaring faces for each of the kaiju’s looks like they think mayonnaise is a instrument but suko looks amazing probably the most accurate figure but guess what THE ROARING FACE IS WORST THEN SKAR KINGS and the Kong figure don’t look like he has no muscles at all in gxk he was more buff and healthy since he was in hollow earth and getting enough nutrients while gvk is not that buff weaker and gets tired easier the hiya one in my opinion looks 10x better you can find it on another yt vid someone showed it and it looks very good but the only thing that’s not that good is the gap between his chest/visable chest joint but both companies are good but i think shma is way better in making toho figures

The specific thing I love about Hiya as of now.... Is that they don't paywall their customers to complete one figure 💀💀

Me before seeing this: ashamed I got HIYA Me after seeing this: pays HIYA more

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Looks like hiya fixed the neck cuz in the promo pics for their evolved g his neck legit looked smushed and off but it looks 100x better in person. SHMA kinda looks like they did worse than in their promo pics imo it looks a bit more wonky now

Any Godzilla character Bandai does, Hiya can do better. They have so far and will continue to do so.

Remember 140usd fig vs 51 usd fig

for the jaw, i think it wouldnt be that bad on itself but the mix of white pink paint bleeding on the outside of the mouth and the gap that makes it look disjointed really throws you off, and the base of the tail is weird asf and for shimo why the hell are sh limbs so long dayum and if you look and the dorsal crystals and compare it to a shot pf the movie they look nothing alike, while the hiya gets it 100%

The hiya design is better

I’m going with hiya until they fix the teeth

I think Hiya’s tail articulation is just improving more and more and I feel it’s better than SHMA at this point. Heisei Godzilla looks to have amazing tail articulation, same with GMK, and you can even see these improvements on Evolved Godzilla as well.

I honestly and truly believe the HIYA evolved Godzilla is going to surpass SHMA's in terms of sculpt and paint. When Bandai's evolved Godzilla was first revealed I full well expected it to fall short of the promotional images, based on what happened with Godzilla minus one. And I think I was right.

Is it just me or hiya godzilla 2024 look better in person

Ok for me if hiyas bigger than shm evoled Godzilla I’ll have to skip shm shimo

I’m honestly fine with shimo looking like she’s rolled around in mud because she was trapped in the hollow earth cave for 1 million years or something so it would make sense that she is dirty

My lineup is Hiya toys Kong Shm ev g Shm skar king if hiyas the same size maybe or shm

Hiya heatray evolved?

I like shmas Godzilla more, anyways it seems hiyas top left spike is broken or something? 5:30

I like hiya More because there is more colour veryation

Shma elvolved is better imo it looks has more sharper details 😮

6:40 i would argue that they should stay as they are, the shma spike colours are absolute trash, they're just one blue colour with some transparency and that's it. It's basically an articulated playmates figure. I believe that HIYA shimo's spikes are way more movie accurate. If you're saying that the bottom of hiya shimo's spines should be a darker blue, okay, that's fair enough. but i can let the colours slide as they are because it's almost like they just brought the cgi model into the real world.

The complaint about the jaw on the SHMA Evolved Godzilla is nonsensical. The jaw is on a balljoint like every other SHMA figure other than Showa Gigan and the Mechagodzillas. It looking funny is obviously because not aligned properly. I can do the same thing with any of my Godzillas and post an unflatering picture.

4 Mins ago?!

Hiya for meee

Sh monsterarts forgot how to cook