9490 Droid Escape: eyes in front of the holes ... or not

We had already had a vague intuition on this subject: The new version of C-3PO suffers from some serigraphy problems. On the different visuals of this minifigure that we have seen so far, we had the weird impression that C-3PO, just crashed on Tatooine with R2-D2, was looking elsewhere ...

This is due to the new serigraphy of the eyes of this minifigure, which on some copies is very far from being centered unlike the one presented above by Huw Millington on Brickset (with beautiful photos to see in his flickr gallery). And this variation in impressions is not an isolated case. Many AFOLs already report burrs and other offsets on the serigraphs of minifigs in the Super Heroes range.

In the past, screen prints were not always perfect, but it seems that these problems are more and more present. We have all had in our hands a minifigure that is poorly screened or whose printing is slightly offset with an overlap of colors. Nothing serious in itself. But on C-3PO, this shift induces a completely different facial expression than the minifig. And I find it all of a sudden becomes much more awkward ....

I put below an example of a minifigure whose gaze is completely distorted by this shift, admit that it is very average ...