Also motorizing means a lot more to go wrong and lots more returns for broken or non working lenses. Anything plastic geared would strip out in no time and anything metal would cost. Motorizing the lenses would cost quite a bit if you want something that would work more than a handful of times. Both look like they will go in or out by manually twisting the housing. The lenses themselves are easy to figure out. Unless you are a die hard 'lover of prop buggers' like us most people would probably bitch if they paid $450 and got something as 'rigged' as the original props. Putting an ugly ring on a mass produced piece just makes no sense. I agree the ledge around the lenses got sacrificed a bit but you can see its because the original goggles had a poorly made LED ring that half the LED was ground down so it makes sense to open the hole a bit so a nicer LED ring could be used.
If I may ask, how much did Rylos goggles cost? Add licensing fees and boxes and overhead, are we in the same ballpark of $450? Rylos are very nice but the ribs around the sides always looked a bit thin and tall to me.
