Okay, just one more reply.
This is a good representation of what you wanted, thank you. If Hot Toys were to see this and use your design, would they owe you money? Would they be opening themselves and Lucasfilm to a lawsuit for manufacturing and selling your design?
If this illustration does not exist in the Lucasfilm archives, created by a Lucasfilm employee under a legal agreement with Lucasfilm, are they legally allowed to use it as the basis for a figure?
Just wondering.
No problem.
But hmm, I don’t think I ever disputed as to the “why” the stock figure looks the way it does. I do understand why it’s the way it is, and it’s because they, as in Hot Toys and Disney Lucasfilm, simply don’t understand OG Lucasfilm Prequels designs, especially when not apparently or readily shown, like you mentioned earlier.
I was merely pointing out this is what the helmet should’ve looked like IF both Hot Toys and Disney Lucasfilm done their research.
For the most part, if a clone trooper has additional accessories beyond their standard armor, most of these TMS TCW based figures are interpreted wrong, but it’s due to them not understanding the translation. There’s no such thing as variance here. And both Hot Toys and Disney Lucasfilm should’ve known that. That’s why I keep saying that if Hot Toys ends up diving into the ROTS line and make clone commanders with pauldrons and kamas or Neyo himself, they’ll be correctly live-action based (already seeing that with the “Legends” Appo figure) but you’d have inconsistency. I harp on this because most collectors think what Hot Toys are producing are meant for live-action. Nah, they’re animated based.
I also keep reiterating that they ‘pick and choose’, taking certain things that they know from the live-action, but they don’t with others just cause they weren’t shown? If they thought about it a little longer, they would have realized certain designs were intended to be the same. Sure, some things would’ve been left to creative liberty but not the entire thing!
I know you solely wanted to talk about Wolffe, but like I said before, it’s the same concept here with other clones that are seen in ROTS.
I’ve even heard the argument that there’s different pauldron types. Erm, no… case in point below:
Here we have Aayla Secura and Commander Bly during their Felucia campaign in both animation (TCW S7) and live-action (ROTS). If the Hot Toys clones figures are “realistic” and using live-action armor (MMS Cody), then everything else should also match, like the pauldron in this instance.
I’m all over the place now, but just wanna drive the point home.
We saw both Wolffe and Neyo together in TCW. Looks like they were good buds, and sharing the same base helmet.
What I’m trying to say is that Hot Toys and Disney Lucasfilm should’ve done their due diligence. Ideally, yes, they should’ve designed an official model for what these clone characters would’ve looked like to house in their archives. At this point in time, I understand it’s most likely a lost cause. It’s completely f*cked now given the fact how they botch designs all over their licensed and official media like Battlefront games, the Ahsoka show, even Hasbro merchandise, etc.
I guess I’d appreciate if these things were at least acknowledged and not berated upon. or making excuses for erroneous designs and design intent.
In conclusion lol, back to your remark if I should expect any royalties.. no, I wouldn’t. I just hoped Hot Toys and Disney Lucasfilm put some respect on the OG prequels designs and cared to properly translate them. Would’ve been a win-win for all, IMO. And imo, fans and collectors would’ve been like: ohhhh, that’s how Fox/Wolffe/etc, would’ve looked like if they were in Revenge of the Sith, in the “real life movies”! “That’s how Wolffe would’ve liked like battling alongside Plo as we see him in the Prequels.” And so on. Would’ve been a sweet lightbulb aha moment. A small epiphany (lol) I personally experienced when I was like 10.
I’m out.
