1/6th Scale Sideshow Tauntaun

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Re: 1/6th Scale Sideshow TaunTaun

The problem is that it's $400 and at that price it should be near perfect. That's a lot of money for a statue with a glaring seam on it. They should have released two different Taun Tauns each with a different head attached and no seam.
 
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Those complaining that they won't buy it because it's a statue and the seam is horrible, if it had more articulation there'd be more seams and you'd hate it even more.:lol
 
Re: 1/6th Scale Sideshow TaunTaun

Those complaining that they won't buy it because it's a statue and the seam is horrible, if it had more articulation there'd be more seams and you'd hate it even more.:lol

Who wants articulation in a statue?? But if I pay $400 for a statue I certainly don't want a glaring seam around the neck.
 
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Who wants articulation in a statue?? But if I pay $400 for a statue I certainly don't want a glaring seam around the neck.

Well if it had any more articulation it wouldn't be a statue, it'd be more a toy/figure which is what you want, then it would have more seams and hence more complaints.

Also, how would you do a swappable head on a statue? There's got to be a seam.
 
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Well if it had any more articulation it wouldn't be a statue, it'd be more a toy/figure which is what you want, then it would have more seams and hence more complaints.

Also, how would you do a swappable head on a statue? There's got to be a seam.

4" Chewy had articulation all over the place that was hidden by sculpted fur. It is do-able, but yeah, not that practical I guess. More the domain of toy companies than collectible companies.

When I heard SSC were doing a Tauntaun, I was thinking a more finely detailed version of the Hasbro 12" Tauntaun - movable legs, arm and head, not a statue. I understand why they went that statue way though because people don't like lightweight "toy" feeling things at these prices and a statue feels more high-end, less toy.

Though probably double the $$, I do still think this could have been done as faux-fur over a jointed armature (no seams at all!) because the Taun fur is messy, clotted with snow and uneven and doesn't need to "hang" the way Chewy's does (and has less gluing around face,) so it doesn't really need to look even at all. It would have suited the low run numbers Sideshow does of this type of thing (pieces like this way below the normal 1/6 edition sizes.) But yeah, I get that it's easier to do a statue because it's been done before, and the body would have been stupid expensive to engineer and have little reuse.

Visually, the statue thing sorta worked with the reptile skin of the Dewback, but I'm not sure I like it for the Taun as much.

I think if this Black Series Taun was double the size and had a more detailed fur sculpt to match the jump in scale, I would have been pretty happy. Seams and all.:lol

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Re: 1/6th Scale Sideshow TaunTaun

the seam on this could have easily been hidden if they put more thought into it.

count me in the came that prefers no switch out...they should have just released 2 versions and let people pick...sort of like Han.
 
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Has anyone ever customised a Hasbro Tauntaun to produce something a little more high end?

Two different Tauntauns would have been the way to go for this, no one will ever be able to look at their Tauntaun without seeing the seam.
 
Re: 1/6th Scale Sideshow TaunTaun

Hiding the seam on the Sideshow Tauntaun can take as little as a few minutes. Making the Hasbro Tauntaun look like it's anything other than a $20 toy will take days, maybe weeks. It's been done, and it's still nowhere comparable to SSC's statue. I've had one for years and I wouldn't dream of trying to make it look like something it's not.

There would be a lot more complaints with 2 statue releases than there are about the seam. It would also cost Sideshow twice the amount of money to produce two versions. The more sensible thing would have been a single Tauntaun while maintaining the swap out horns. I see the market for purchasing two $350 Tauntaun statues as very very small.

Old adage applies here: If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
 
Re: 1/6th Scale Sideshow TaunTaun

Maybe the risk of damage was too high ( is it polystone ) and the figured rather then replacing a thousand heads after you do a head swap it was better to not extend the hair down
 
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Maybe the risk of damage was too high ( is it polystone ) and the figured rather then replacing a thousand heads after you do a head swap it was better to not extend the hair down

Yep, this is probably the reason why the seam is there. The extended hair sculpt would have looked way better though imo
 
Re: 1/6th Scale Sideshow TaunTaun

Well if it had any more articulation it wouldn't be a statue, it'd be more a toy/figure which is what you want, then it would have more seams and hence more complaints.

Also, how would you do a swappable head on a statue? There's got to be a seam.

I never said I wanted an articulated figure. I want a statue with no seam. They should have made two different Taun Taun statues with no swap-out head and the collector could choose which version they wanted.
 
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Anyone else going to cover their statue in rat fur?

These were fan made (not sure how many were made/sold) and designed to look like the stop motion puppet Taun, but you get an idea of what a Sideshow furred statue would have been like.

With the lower numbers SSC produces of these types of figures (Dewy, Taun) this approach might have worked, but would obviously have been more $$, so I guess it's self-defeating.

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Has anyone ever customised a Hasbro Tauntaun to produce something a little more high end?

I'm probably going to give it shot at some point. You couldn't take hobby fur and just glue it on as it already has sculpted fur - the final product would look too "fat." It's possible you could sand/dremel the sculpted fur down to thin it overall, but as pixelpiper mentions, it would be a lot of work to really reboot the Hasbro Taun into something high end. Doing a somewhat heavy "snow-on-fur" look might work to cover the lackluster fur sculpt.
 
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