1/6 Hot Toys - MMS - Star Wars: Episode V ESB - Yoda Collectible Figure

[barryo]

After earthdog posted his find at pet smart I dropped by one this morning and picked these up. Very cool for a compact dio. The larger one is probably too large but it was so damn neat looking I couldn't pass it up. I'll find a place for it. Well here's a few pics with ssc Yoda for scale til HT yoda gets here.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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V.2 is on the left in most pics. The robe is yellower and the stitching somehow finer; the green is lighter; the holes in the robe are much smaller, and the hair is thinner and somehow frizzier straight out of the box, also a little yellower.

On V.1 the robe is much paler - no yellow - and the weathering is darker, like it's been rubbed on newsprint.

Brilliant reveal of the TRUTH: v2 is superior in almost every way.

Simplest way to tell what you have: frizzy vs straight hair.

Jesus, guys. My wife caught me taking these.

 

[Darth Fok]

Updated pose in the display. Really digging this figure.

 

[SilverStar17]

V2 I recall is where they started doing the lighter green paint apps on the nose; V1 is the one that had the darker nose. Can't recall if it was V2 or V3 where they started adding more hair over the sculpted hair (want to say it was V2). V1 definitely didn't have as much hair though. V3 I believe is where they started making the hair a bit more frizzy as opposed to straight. V3 is also where they started reducing the size of the hole in the sleeve on the elbow I think. Now it seems the V4 has the bottom edge of the robe a bit weathered, which was a nit on the previous versions.

Moral of the story is: don't end up with a V1. You get the short end of the stick on everything. :Lol

Pretty certain I have a V2 though. The nose isn't as green and the real hair on both sculpts seems to be relatively full; a little more so on the open eyes sculpt though. However, the hair wasn't frizzed out of the box and the tear on the sleeve on mine is a bit large, although it's all covered by threads so there isn't a gaping hole.

Definitely a V2.

 

[FullMetalHippie]

After earthdog posted his find at pet smart I dropped by one this morning and picked these up. Very cool for a compact dio. The larger one is probably too large but it was so damn neat looking I couldn't pass it up. I'll find a place for it. Well here's a few pics with ssc Yoda for scale til HT yoda gets here.


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Nice find. That larger piece would make a cool "remember the cave" dio.

 

[FlyAndFight]

It took five days for me to finally release my Yoda figure from his shipping hibernation box but I definitely got a V2 as well...

Already ordered a base from Cocoloboboy to take the display to a higher level.

My only two minor gripes are that the little screw for the power supply is so dang small, that I can't open it with my tiny screwdrivers. The other nit to pick is with the tear in the right sleeve of the over-shirt, which could have used less tearing. You can't really see it unless from behind, so not a big deal.

A must-have Yoda for one's display. I do have a spare SS R2 which I'm considering going to town on weathering and displaying it with Yoda and clean HT Bespin (Degobah) Luke.

 

[SilverStar17]

Those items from PetSmart to accent the figure are awesome, but that would take up way too much space on the shelf just to accent such a small figure.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

Love those dio pieces! I can see them making an awesome Detolf shelf with Luke and Yoda.

 

[earthdog]

After earthdog posted his find at pet smart I dropped by one this morning and picked these up. Very cool for a compact dio. The larger one is probably too large but it was so damn neat looking I couldn't pass it up. I'll find a place for it. Well here's a few pics with ssc Yoda for scale til HT yoda gets here.


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Glad to see these work as well as I thought! I didn't get Yoda so I'm now collecting and displaying vicariously through you!

 

[darthkush]

I actually took those pics at 6.30 in the morning because it was an unbelievably humid night and I couldn't sleep. I left my wife in bed. While I was taking them my wife, who can move very quietly, walked in, said 'what the hell are you doing?' and then walked out before I had a chance to answer.

I've had similar incidents with my wife like that numerous times. It...is the way of this hobby when you're married to a non-geek woman lol. When people ask them why are you okay with this, they talk about how this is the only major con and there are far worse ones I can have, so they adjust. My wife figures I don't smoke, I don't drink(much. Just on occasion), I don't party and I'm very warm and compassionate to her and our son so...the toy thing is...workable.

My Yoda just shipped. Says he'll be here Friday but I doubt I'll catch the UPS guy that day so I'm looking forward to the more probable following Monday on getting him.

 

[SilverStar17]

Why wouldn't a wife be ok with it? I presume if you marry someone, that means you've accepted them, "cons" and all. As you presumably would with your wife. Nobody is perfect.

 

[DCFett]

Yes but woman don't necessarily BELIEVE they aren't perfect!

 

[SilverStar17]

Yes but woman don't necessarily BELIEVE they aren't perfect!

That would be called narcissism. Much more of a red flag/flaw in my opinion than collecting dolls.

 

[darthkush]

She's "ok" with it, she just doesn't understand it. Collecting figures was an totally alien thing to her when she met me.

 

[ShadowX81]

I just don't like how something someone might not understand is a con to some people. I lived with a girl for a year who hated my collection. Told me everytime she saw me doing something related to it. I asked her once why this hobby seemed to offend her so much and she said that she "didn't get it".

But I don't see a problem here. She had about 30 stuffed animals on the chair next to the bed. I didn't "get" that. Doesn't mean I was in any way offended by it. Just that it was a hobby she had that I didn't share.

 

[TonTon]

Sounds like the same hobby. Hers was probably less expensive.

 

[SilverStar17]

I just don't like how something someone might not understand is a con to some people. I lived with a girl for a year who hated my collection. Told me everytime she saw me doing something related to it. I asked her once why this hobby seemed to offend her so much and she said that she "didn't get it".

But I don't see a problem here. She had about 30 stuffed animals on the chair next to the bed. I didn't "get" that. Doesn't mean I was in any way offended by it. Just that it was a hobby she had that I didn't share.

Sounds like the same hobby. Hers was probably less expensive.

Until it comes to purses and shoes.

I think it's been mentioned before, but really in the grand scheme of things, this is actually a relatively inexpensive hobby if you have restraint and pick and choose what you get, and/or sell one off in order to fund another one so you're not going in the hole and essentially just trading one for something new. RC planes, RC cars, purses, shoes, firearms, art, guitars, etc can all get pretty pricey; much more pricier than this.

 

[chalor]

...in my defense, what I use to tell my mom when I was much younger and now tell my wife:
I have a pricey, interactive hobby that brings me great joy to collect and tinker with 'frivolous' pieces of plastic; but at least I'm not spending my money on drugs, prostitutes, gambling and so forth like a lot of other guys do.

 

[chalor]

Before discovering this forum and Youtube reviewers many years ago, I thought I was the only figure collector that was extremely OCD, neurotic, an_al retentive, perfectionist that will act like a 5 year old on Christmas morning when I get something awesome..but have a damn heart attack if there's some QC issues. I sometimes still buy 2, 3, 4 or more of the same figure before I feel content with getting one I can live with. It's not with everything, but damn it sucks having this disease. But I always sell off the extras and I'm always selling things I never planed to sell just to make sure my hobby money doesn't effect the money I need to support me, my wife and daughter.

 

[Kamandi]

My wife is totally cool with my collecting as long as it doesn't cut into the budget. She digs my figures and has favorites. She's bought me a couple as gifts. She especially likes my PF statues. I have shelves full of comics, GNs, TPs, and hardbound editions. I have original anime cell art and comic book pages framed and hung. She encouraged me to put together a home theater room to showcase the stuff, so that's what I'm doing in our new house.

She likes Yoda but didn't believe he was that small at first. "Yeah, he was in a backpack when Luke was training."