SilverStar17
Super Freak
I'm going with $299 as well. Same price as ANH Vader, basically.
There is NO WAY that the price in Japan is going to be less than in the United States. Every Hot Toys release in Japan exceeds the price offered in the USA between $20-60. Why is that the case? Probably higher tariffs.
The Rogue One Vader was ¥35,000 here. ESB Vader is ¥29,000. That’s probably the difference you’ll see Stateside when it comes to pricing.
What was the RO Vader price? Can't recall.
I think it's fully appropriate that they didn't include a full unmasked portrait with this. Beyond the fact that it wouldn't be in keeping with the film this is from, the actual reveal I found to be one of the biggest letdowns of my young movie going life at that time. The hint of a reveal in ESB was epic and fueled the imagination. Like some much else in Jedi, the full reveal just kind of peeed all over it. I don't want to look at Vader and think of a fat, pasty faced egghead under there whining about how much suddenly cares about his son.
Unfortunately, while I approve of the way they handle that, It doesn't look like there is going to be a good hand selection for him if he were put into a meditation chamber pose. You would need hands that either cup his knees or cup the end of the armrests of his seat. None of these here look like they will work for that.
Looks like Hot Toys is going with a dome for this ESB Vader that has similar (if not exact) proportions to their ANH helmet dome. The dome proportionality has consistently been my biggest gripe with the HT Vader helmet. It seems oversized - and enough so to be distracting. I tried to find a screen shot from ESB to match the angle of the main HT promo pic (and also a similar angle from the Sideshow ESB figure). Didn't find an exact match (and don't have the patience to take my own screens from the BluRay), but I found something close. In order to match it up as much as possible, I had to invert the HT image horizontally and slightly rotate the SS image. I lined up the faces as best as I could (eye, nose plug, & tusk levels). Maybe it's all in the angles, but the size/flare/proportions of the HT dome seems like too much. Not quite Dark Helmet from Spaceballs . . . but still. I have both the HT ANH and SS ROTJ helmets, and the difference in hand strikes me the same way when comparing to movie stills. The HT figure here seems superior in every other way, but the dome continues to bug me. Is it just me, or has this been a gripe that others have had as well? Sorry if it's a topic that's been discussed ad nauseam, but I haven't come across it.
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Looks like Hot Toys is going with a dome for this ESB Vader that has similar (if not exact) proportions to their ANH helmet dome. The dome proportionality has consistently been my biggest gripe with the HT Vader helmet. It seems oversized - and enough so to be distracting. I tried to find a screen shot from ESB to match the angle of the main HT promo pic (and also a similar angle from the Sideshow ESB figure). Didn't find an exact match (and don't have the patience to take my own screens from the BluRay), but I found something close. In order to match it up as much as possible, I had to invert the HT image horizontally and slightly rotate the SS image. I lined up the faces as best as I could (eye, nose plug, & tusk levels). Maybe it's all in the angles, but the size/flare/proportions of the HT dome seems like too much. Not quite Dark Helmet from Spaceballs . . . but still. I have both the HT ANH and SS ROTJ helmets, and the difference in hand strikes me the same way when comparing to movie stills. The HT figure here seems superior in every other way, but the dome continues to bug me. Is it just me, or has this been a gripe that others have had as well? Sorry if it's a topic that's been discussed ad nauseam, but I haven't come across it.
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Looks like Hot Toys is going with a dome for this ESB Vader that has similar (if not exact) proportions to their ANH helmet dome. The dome proportionality has consistently been my biggest gripe with the HT Vader helmet. It seems oversized - and enough so to be distracting. I tried to find a screen shot from ESB to match the angle of the main HT promo pic (and also a similar angle from the Sideshow ESB figure). Didn't find an exact match (and don't have the patience to take my own screens from the BluRay), but I found something close. In order to match it up as much as possible, I had to invert the HT image horizontally and slightly rotate the SS image. I lined up the faces as best as I could (eye, nose plug, & tusk levels). Maybe it's all in the angles, but the size/flare/proportions of the HT dome seems like too much. Not quite Dark Helmet from Spaceballs . . . but still. I have both the HT ANH and SS ROTJ helmets, and the difference in hand strikes me the same way when comparing to movie stills. The HT figure here seems superior in every other way, but the dome continues to bug me. Is it just me, or has this been a gripe that others have had as well? Sorry if it's a topic that's been discussed ad nauseam, but I haven't come across it.
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