1/6 Hot Toys - TMS116 - Ahsoka series: Grand Admiral Thrawn

The Buffinator said:

It's probably that stowaway Ezra Bridger causing all of this trouble for.....oh wait, I forgot that HT couldn't be bothered to make ALL the key characters from the show. Nevermind...

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They’ve made far more than any other show outside of Mandalorian. Those Andor and Acolyte shows have yet to see a single figure. And who’s to say they’re done with Ahsoka?

Buttmunch said:

They’ve made far more than any other show outside of Mandalorian. Those Andor and Acolyte shows have yet to see a single figure. And who’s to say they’re done with Ahsoka?

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As Ahsoka is getting a 2nd season eventually we probably will get more figures from it including an Ezra, but it likely won’t be his S1 bearded nomad look. Hopefully I’m proven wrong but it’ll likely be a yet to be seen S2 clean shaven Ezra in an outfit similar to his animated one.

From a week ago (in Spanish)

He eventually completed his arduous journey home, taking twelve days instead of the average seven.

Quite a striking figure, and surprisingly tall...



I didn't measure him standing fully upright but he's far taller than I expected.

Measuring him in his current pose, and eliminating his boot heels, he appears to be 12 1/2" tall, i.e., 6' 3" which is actually Lars Mikkelsen's height according to Celebheights.

Putting him in his assigned Detolf place revealed that Imperial Grand Admirals have whiter uniforms than Directors within the Imperial Intelligence Services.

Out of the box his eyes were perfectly aligned, but having to take his head off to remove the protective wrap from his neck left the shaped socket attached to the ball joint, and trying to seat the sculpt back onto his neck the socket messed with his vision...




The eyes are so mobile, with little friction to hold them in place, adjusting them is a very sensitive operation. It took a while to get them realigned.

Before replacing the sculpt I made sure this time to detach the socket and snap it into place first:




When I referred back to the promo photos to double check the orientation of the datapad, I noticed that both the sculpt and paintwork had changed for the production version, so I guess HT found better images.






I'd seen and heard in one of the video reviews that the hologram diorama was a bit naff due to the flimsy nature of the disc. It's true, Hot Toys did opt to use an insubstantial sliver of plastic. Maybe once the hologram's taped it'll do its job. I couldn't test it because the disc drops straight down the pole, and would have to be stuck to keep it in place at the top, but I'm not sure I would really want to have it on display anyway.

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I'd seen and heard in one of the video reviews that the hologram diorama was a bit naff due to the flimsy nature of the disc. It's true, Hot Toys did opt to use an insubstantial sliver of plastic. Maybe once the hologram's taped it'll do its job. I couldn't test it because the disc drops straight down the pole, and would have to be stuck to keep it in place at the top, but I'm not sure I would really want to have it on display anyway.

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What diameter is that flimsy disc? I have a package of blank CDs left over from my CD burning days and included in that is a clear "spacer" disc at the bottom. If the diameters a close putting that under the map could be a cheap & dirty way to fix the problem.

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The Buffinator said:

What diameter is that flimsy disc? I have a package of blank CDs left over from my CD burning days and included in that is a clear "spacer" disc at the bottom. If the diameters a close putting that under the map could be a cheap & dirty way to fix the problem.

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The disc is 16 cm in diameter.

I have some of them as well. Tested one and held it in place, and it looks like it'll work to keep the disc rigid, though the spacer would have to be stuck to the underside.

The spacer is only 12 cm so you can see the outline of the edge through the disc.

Asta said:

The disc is 16 cm in diameter.

I have some of them as well. Tested one and held it in place, and it looks like it'll work to keep the disc rigid, though the spacer would have to be stuck to the underside.

The spacer is only 12 cm so you can see the outline of the edge through the disc.

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Oh wow, I was expecting the CD spacer to be the larger one, not vice-versa. Does seeing the outline of its edge through the disc kill the illusion?

The Buffinator said:

Oh wow, I was expecting the CD spacer to be the larger one, not vice-versa. Does seeing the outline of its edge through the disc kill the illusion?

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I find it hard to sustain the illusion with or without the spacer.

Some screencaps from the last episode:

I managed to catch the disc at an angle where it'd stay at the top of the poll unaided, though the double sided tape would have to be used to keep it flush to the star destroyer piece:



This is using a thicker plastic DVD pack spacer, which stays in place on its own as I pushed the pole through a piece of tape that was covering the spindle hole. You can just make out the circumference and strengthening bars, though if lit from below they're prominent:



This is holding a thin plastic DVD spacer under the disc. Again, as long as there isn't a light source from below the circumference is just visible:




As a diorama piece it doesn't grab me. It's not in the same class as the figure, and if scaled down would look more appropriate with the 3 3/4" range.

Asta said:

I managed to catch the disc at an angle where it'd stay at the top of the poll unaided, though the double sided tape would have to be used to keep it flush to the star destroyer piece:

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This is using a thicker plastic DVD pack spacer, which stays in place on its own as I pushed the pole through a piece of tape that was covering the spindle hole. You can just make out the circumference and strengthening bars, though if lit from below they're prominent:

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This is holding a thin plastic DVD spacer under the disc. Again, as long as there isn't a light source from below the circumference is just visible:

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As a diorama piece it doesn't grab me. It's not in the same class as the figure, and if scaled down would look more appropriate with the 3 3/4" range.

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If I display this piece it definitely won't be lit from below so that spacer should do the trick (I can barely see it in your pics). But this all could be moot as I currently don't have the space for it.

The Buffinator said:

If I display this piece it definitely won't be lit from below so that spacer should do the trick (I can barely see it in your pics). But this all could be moot as I currently don't have the space for it.

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I'll probably display it without the disc:



Either way it's very specific to Thrawn being trapped on Peridea.

Excited to get this one in

I got a shipping soon notice from SS. Super pumped to finally get some of these Ashoka characters.

Turtle882 said:

I got a shipping soon notice from SS. Super pumped to finally get some of these Ashoka Rebels characters.

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Me too! Rebels didn’t get a lot of love merch wise so its nice to finally see some of these characters get some really good treatment now.

The Buffinator said:

What diameter is that flimsy disc? I have a package of blank CDs left over from my CD burning days and included in that is a clear "spacer" disc at the bottom. If the diameters a close putting that under the map could be a cheap & dirty way to fix the problem.

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Genius idea, I should have some somewhere, will try that. Or maybe I could cut a disc drom clear plastic you find on certain toy packaging. IIRC the clear plastic windows on Disney store collector dolls is pretty thick and I have a pile of it somewhere. Would need to figure out how to cut a neat disc from it though.

Sigh...... i won't have mine until mid-October. My local guy here in the Toronto area just informed me. Oh well, I suppose good things are worth waiting for!!

Figures like this are why I wish I was more into Star Wars - the character design is great.

Buttmunch said:

Yeah, Thrawn is a surprisingly hard character to display right. He’s such a cerebral character. Even live action/animation struggles to really capture him. He’s very well suited to literature where his intelligence and thought process can be more naturally conveyed. Displaying a thinking character isn’t as straightforward as it may seem.

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No idea if this is a pose he does - but a good pose to immediately denote an intellectual/thinking character with a rigid/militaristic/imperial mindset is to have one arm folded behind his back and the other up to the chin.
Denotes contemplation without the dreamy/laissez-faire connotations.

The Grand Admiral shipped from Sideshow last night and should arrive tomorrow. This has been a dream figure of mine for several years now. Once he was re-canonized in Rebels I’ve been wanting a good 1/6 figure of him. When Ahsoka mentioned him by name in Mando season 2 my jaw dropped because I was not expecting that but then quickly realized that more than likely met we’d be seeing him in live action soon. So I’m very excited he got the fast tracked over several other figures that preordered ahead of him!