Re: 1/6th Scale Sideshow TaunTaun (in development)
Wait, what? Are you trying to re-write history? The Bluray has already been color corrected. The coat is very clearly some form of brown in every scene. Are you sure you TV and monitors are calibrated?
There are tons of other points of reference. Your taking about film lighting/ exposure changing the color on screen from blue to brown.
I've never (not ever) heard of anyone claiming that the movie made the coat look brown when it was in fact blue - only the opposite. And then only with the original releases.
Case in point.....for years people were positive that At At Driver armor was white.
I wouldn't say the AT-AT drivers are wearing armor at all, but that's just me. Anyway, are you talking about their chest and shoulder pads? Because there's most definitely a ton of grey on that character, the entire flight suit for starters.
They based this opinion on the few photos on set of the character, he VHS/ DVD, and the figure.
There's a lot more wrong with the figures than simple shades, including moulding of the helmet. Anyway, on-screen the helmet appears like it's grey and white. And these characters have barely any screen time and then only in really tight quarters. I'm not sure it's a good example for the Han coat unless you were arguing the opposite of your claims.
When a screen used helmet surfaced in England it clearly showed that the on set photos were over exposed altering the color of the armor. The armor was not white, but infact gray.
The helmet however doesn't appear the same shade as the chest and shoulder pads in the movies. Both of those look decidedly more white than the helmet, which only parts of look white.
Again the gray color was supported when the bluray was released thus again showing the gray coloring.
Only on parts of the helmet. The rest of those pad and armored accessories looks white. But the next time you go to a paint store, ask to see a sample of white paint - when you're done looking at the 1000th different sample, you can leave.
You have to see the item in person to fully gauge coloring.
Apparently that's also meaningless because you've already mentioned that the color on these fabrics keeps changing like a chameleon.
You really can not base the details of a prop or costume you see on a film. As in most cases there are degrees of those details that in person are completely different than you had thought.
It also doesn't help when there are multiple different props used and further difference in models of different scales, etc. For instance, the miniature Taun Tauns really look absolutely nothing like the large scale pieces used for close-ups. Different head proportions/shape, different body shape, etc.
It should be blue just like Han's Bespin jacket. Why would it be brown? Makes no sense.
Because every single other person on Hoth wore brown items? Now unless Han went to a private tailor to get that coat custom made, it's probably the same coat that someone else at the base also had.
Anyway, I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here because I always thought the blue of the Kenner figure was extremely odd and didn't match the movie at all. Also that a blue coat would have been very strange considering no one else wears blue anything on that base, dark light or anything in-between.
