1/6 Hot Toys - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Chewbacca

[The Buffinator]

He looks good to me.

What hurts is that $430 feels like the new normal. Ooof.

Not really. Aside from Artisan releases and select other releases most don’t get quite that high. $300-ish is about the norm now days. Chewie is still a lot though.

With the wool hair on his head this is effectively an Artisan release and none of them have gone for less than $400, so between that and the disassembled C-3PO the price isn't surprising. Once I saw the word wool I knew it was going to be $400+.

 

[SWFAN1000]

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They look great but poor 3-PO is missing a few pieces

 

[Adam1138]

Yeah, the face is still off from an ideal reference point, but it’s more than fine, imo.

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It's the long bridge of the nose and the small teeth which is throwing the sculpt off. If they amended those issues, this thing would be damn near perfect!

 

[HyperDrive]

It's the long bridge of the nose and the small teeth which is throwing the sculpt off. If they amended those issues, this thing would be damn near perfect!

Yeah! If they can also make his mouth not line up so perfectly too, that’d be good too.

 

[matrix69]

Aside from the mouth it looks pretty good. But will the production piece look as good.

 

[Bo Shrek]

Don't like the smile and horrible, horrible base. Please HT discontinue this style base!

 

[Mike86]

The base is whatever. I wish they would just use the rectangular style bases personally but at least they’re pretty easy to find.

 

[Rogerbee]

It's a decent prototype. Can they now mass produce it to that standard......

 

[Wor-Gar]

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Although it doesn't come with much, at least I will use everything in the box. That's rare.

 

[BoosterGold06]

This is awesome, but Hot Toys changing the bases so they no longer match the original ones is just stupid

 

[davejames]

Agree and the problem this will present is that I don’t think Chewie will fit in a standard Detolf shelf with it. My ANH Chewie barely fits and those bases are lower profile than this. Doesn’t matter, day one PO for me!

Yeah I have to have my ANH Chewie slightly hunched over even with that older base he came with. No way will I be able to use this new one.

 

[davejames]

With the wool hair on his head this is effectively an Artisan release and none of them have gone for less than $400, so between that and the disassembled C-3PO the price isn't surprising. Once I saw the word wool I knew it was going to be $400+.

Yeah with the hair, articulated eyes and jaw, and 3PO the $430 feels pretty justified to me. Even though it's still a big chunk of money for something that isn't a diecast Iron Man.

 

[Bo Shrek]

I may be in the minority but many of my HT purchase decisions are based on the base. Yes the base can make or break it for me. I like my figures to be consistent with the rectangle or diamond base with silver plaque. If I recall I passed on ESB Snowspeeder Luke, Battle Droid, all the R2’s for example. I also believe that if offerings like Kit Fisto had included the horrible elevated base I would not have preordered. One of the reasons I have him on preorder is because of his rectangle base which is consistent to other SW HT in my display! Just the way I roll folks!

 

[Brokenhandpuppet]

I may be in the minority but many of my HT purchase decisions are based on the base. Yes the base can make or break it for me. I like my figures to be consistent with the rectangle or diamond base with silver plaque. If I recall I passed on ESB Snowspeeder Luke, Battle Droid, all the R2’s for example. I also believe that if offerings like Kit Fisto had included the horrible elevated base I would not have preordered. One of the reasons I have him on preorder is because of his rectangle base which is consistent to other SW HT in my display! Just the way I roll folks!

I canceled my ROTJ Vader because he would end up not fitting in any of my displays. Kept OWK Vader Deluxe that came with the death star floor base, not matching everything else but he at least could fit in my display!

 

[Bo Shrek]

My ANH Chewie barely fits and those bases are lower profile than this. Doesn’t matter, day one PO for me!

The ESB will benefit for those who may have a 360 display area. But will see very little of C-3P0 details in a standard display scenario like my ANH above. And agree no chance of ESB Chewie in your detolf or other displays with similar height!

 

[Raleig.h]

I'm still unsure If I want to upgrade or not. I'm getting out of the SW collecting game for the most part and this isn't an insane jump in quality to the original.

 

[adamdoom89]

I was never a fan of the old rectangular base for Chewy or the Diamond Base with Stairs prototype. At least with this new one it'll match the new ROTJ Han base and keep them leveled.

 

[jedijim3002]

Can’t use the base at all. Shame but I’ve got others I can use. Didn’t use the new 3PO base either and won’t use any of these pedestal bases moving forward. Figure and accessories look great though. Wish he came with an oxygen mask, welding goggles, welder, and a hydrospanner but I’ll live.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Its a strange base design. The character name is so recessed that its constantly in shadows.

 

[Mr. Awesome]

It's almost like they're purposely choosing particular figures that they think can command a $400+ price.

Like they're being slick in getting people comfortable with the price creep that is very clearly in effect.

They want $400 to be the average/base price for their stuff going forward. Meaning everything else shy of a "Artisan Wookie" is gonna be just slightly under that price point.

This price creep needs to end. These things aren't worth nearly half a grand. They're pricing a vast majority of their customer base out with grate haste.