I just made it up on the spur of the moment, lol.
But that's what i will imagine happened from now on(It has always bothered me too, but carbonite arm restraints never occurred to me before now).
1/6 Han Solo In Carbonite New Figure by Sideshow.
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I just made it up on the spur of the moment, lol.
But that's what i will imagine happened from now on(It has always bothered me too, but carbonite arm restraints never occurred to me before now).
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Awesome custom, Tali!
I would like to have Han in Carbonite but I just can't justify the price. And that base/floating system seems so awkward. I'm hoping HT eventually makes one as part of an exclusive for Bespin Han or something.
Thanks. The current (and older polystone one as well) SSC carbonite is actually a ROTJ style block, which has square corners/edges. I'm hoping (planning...) that if HT does a Han Carbonite, it will be the angled corners/edges ESB version to match up with Han Bespin and ESB Fett. I sort of figured if HT were going to do the squared ROTJ style block, they would have released it alongside their ROTJ Fett.
Not sure why SSC included a ESB-style base with a ROTJ-style block, as well as the ability to display it horizontally (you never see the ROTJ version horizontal) but I kind of put it down to SSC"s general lack of interest in finer details of their $220-270 collectibles, and that whole "get it kinda-sorta right and move on" attitude they've always had.
Thanks, he's unpainted currently and I'm building his suitcase thingie. He got bumped due to my custom Zuckuss - I scored the SSC Zuckuss coat and hands on TA so I figured I'd make a really screen accurate Zuckuss, but the SSC coat sleeves are too short and no where near wide/baggy enough at the wrist area to be screen accurate.
I'll post some Ugnaught pics when the block arrives. "Block" sounds funny... still can't believe I paid $230 shipped for a 12" by 5" by 1 1/2" block of hollow plastic. But hey - it does a have a single light-up panel.
Thanks. The current (and older polystone one as well) SSC carbonite is actually a ROTJ style block, which has square corners/edges. I'm hoping (planning...) that if HT does a Han Carbonite, it will be the angled corners/edges ESB version to match up with Han Bespin and ESB Fett. I sort of figured if HT were going to do the squared ROTJ style block, they would have released it alongside their ROTJ Fett.
Not sure why SSC included a ESB-style base with a ROTJ-style block, as well as the ability to display it horizontally (you never see the ROTJ version horizontal) but I kind of put it down to SSC"s general lack of interest in finer details of their $220-270 collectibles, and that whole "get it kinda-sorta right and move on" attitude they've always had.
I built a block a while back with the angles of the Black Series bloc(But scaled up to 1/6).
Was the Black Series one accurate?
So I just picked this up
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Thanks for those pics.
I'm really torn on this one. Between the price and the admittedly impressive but ultimately useless stand as it can't be displayed with other figures to make a scene, I just don't know what to do. I love the horizontal mount and would love to display it with Boba and some stormies escorting it through cloud city, but that stand just doesn't allow it. I guess I could get Jazz's diorama but $$$ and space and then I want a second ESB Vader and all the assorted figs to make that scene. Damn this expensive hobby.
I'm really torn on this one. Between the price and the admittedly impressive but ultimately useless stand as it can't be displayed with other figures to make a scene, I just don't know what to do. I love the horizontal mount and would love to display it with Boba and some stormies escorting it through cloud city, but that stand just doesn't allow it. I guess I could get Jazz's diorama but $$$ and space and then I want a second ESB Vader and all the assorted figs to make that scene. Damn this expensive hobby.
Yeah, nice pics nocternus - what are your thoughts? Mine gets here in 2 days.
And yeah, it's more funky design process from SSC - how there's no way to display the block with figs with it using the too-tall, too-small included light-up stand. They are still capable of near-greatness from time to time, but there is such a culture of mediocrity in design and accuracy at SSC. It's infuriating, especially at the price.
Why this didn't come with a roughly 1' by 1' regular-height (1/2" or whatever their current stand height is) stand that was light-up carbon freeze chamber on one side, Bespin hallway on the other, is beyond me. You could have even done a sandy floor overlay for it with cardboard backdrop of Jabba's wall like what HT does. Esp for the silly price...
And yeah, it's more funky design process from SSC - how there's no way to display the block with figs with it using the too-tall, too-small included light-up stand. They are still capable of near-greatness from time to time, but there is such a culture of mediocrity in design and accuracy at SSC. It's infuriating, especially at the price.
Why this didn't come with a roughly 1' by 1' regular-height (1/2" or whatever their current stand height is) stand that was light-up carbon freeze chamber on one side, Bespin hallway on the other, is beyond me. You could have even done a sandy floor overlay for it with cardboard backdrop of Jabba's wall like what HT does. Esp for the silly price...
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Thanks buddy.
Checking the batteries is a very good idea I wouldn't have thought of. I would have just pressed the button and off it goes... Thanks!!
Anyway, I am surprised batteries are included and even already put in their socket. Is it like that, really??
I was wondering... Do you think the carbonite block could be somehow dissassembled? Can it be unscrewed or cracked open without major damage?
I'd like to pull off some cool stuff using something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwQ980ycYY
EDIT: hey... you don't need to crack the carbonite coffin open. Just find the right, thin, circular magnet what will levitate in your electromagnetic levitation pad, put the damn coffin on it, have some 1/6 Bespin guard grab it so that it won't turn and... bang... you are in some Cloud City corridor, running for dear life! Right?!?!?!
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m.
Checking the batteries is a very good idea I wouldn't have thought of. I would have just pressed the button and off it goes... Thanks!!
Anyway, I am surprised batteries are included and even already put in their socket. Is it like that, really??
I was wondering... Do you think the carbonite block could be somehow dissassembled? Can it be unscrewed or cracked open without major damage?
I'd like to pull off some cool stuff using something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwQ980ycYY
EDIT: hey... you don't need to crack the carbonite coffin open. Just find the right, thin, circular magnet what will levitate in your electromagnetic levitation pad, put the damn coffin on it, have some 1/6 Bespin guard grab it so that it won't turn and... bang... you are in some Cloud City corridor, running for dear life! Right?!?!?!
Regards,
m.
I like it if honest and I had no plans on buying but it was going cheap( it was the promo sent by SS) the horizontal pic its tilted as I was just showing the side lights its level when positioned properly, I really like the small touches like changing the base lights from white to orange with a thin strip of plastic that's inserted,, for those that are concerned about displaying it horizontal I feel it will be an easy matter to use the existing base and build around it
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So I've just watched a couple of reviews of this piece and I'm curious about the light-up display. Sideshow's seems to display actual numerals - "+/- 82" and "2.0" (or these numerals upside down) whereas in both ESB and ROTJ, the prop's display shows something more abstract - arrangements of lines and a "+/-".
Does anyone know why on earth Sideshow would have gone to enormous trouble to create a light-up display and yet get what is displayed wrong? I mean it's shown in extreme close up in both movies.
Both screens of Sideshow's display:
Both screens as seen in ESB and ROTJ (ROTJ top two, ESB bottom two):
Does anyone know why on earth Sideshow would have gone to enormous trouble to create a light-up display and yet get what is displayed wrong? I mean it's shown in extreme close up in both movies.
Both screens of Sideshow's display:
Both screens as seen in ESB and ROTJ (ROTJ top two, ESB bottom two):
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Well how would they sell it to us again unless there was something to improve on? SSC, always thinking ahead.
Sideshow's huge (and presumably costly) efforts at detailing combined with little interest in actually getting those details screen accurate is always a bizarre thing to see.
In most of these cases it doesn't cost any more (in both time and money) to get it screen accurate.
In most of these cases it doesn't cost any more (in both time and money) to get it screen accurate.
Don’t know enough about electronics, but maybe ones that display numbers are readily available for cheap vs having to customize them to what’s on screen.
I don't have mine yet, but I'd doubt they used actual digital number displays. My guess is it's just a small photographic transparency of the numbers with LEDs backlighting it almost like an old fashioned photo slide.
The good news about that is it's possible you could go in and cover up parts of those slides to make the screen accurate pattern - but what a pain to have to do (you'd need a jeweler's loupe to work on something that tiny.) My guess is you just live with the inaccuracy because it's only turned on and seen every so often anyway.
It's the other problem with the electronics on this - you have to remove the light-up unit from the block, switch it on and then reinsert it. And when you're done, you have to do that over again to switch it off. Would have been great if the base light switch turned on both the base and the block somehow, or a hidden switch in one of the block's recesses.
That makes more sense regarding the numbers. As far as having the base be the battery source for the light up part though, then you’re really tied to a display nobody is that crazy about.
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That's just so wrong...
Those real-life traits totally disrupt the suspension of disbelief. And it is just so inaccurate...
So lame on SSC's side....
m.
Those real-life traits totally disrupt the suspension of disbelief. And it is just so inaccurate...
So lame on SSC's side....
m.
So I've just watched a couple of reviews of this piece and I'm curious about the light-up display. Sideshow's seems to display actual numerals - "+/- 82" and "2.0" (or these numerals upside down) whereas in both ESB and ROTJ, the prop's display shows something more abstract - arrangements of lines and a "+/-".
Does anyone know why on earth Sideshow would have gone to enormous trouble to create a light-up display and yet get what is displayed wrong? I mean it's shown in extreme close up in both movies.
Both screens of Sideshow's display:
Both screens as seen in ESB and ROTJ (ROTJ top two, ESB bottom two):
Just got this piece and it's a solid release - in-hand it actually does "feel" like a $200 item. Not $250, but not $150 either.
Mine was pretty grimy - covered in almost a graphite powder that required a lot of wiping. After wiping it does have a nicer metallic sheen. I'm amazed at how many of Sideshow's non-figure items arrive as if they've come from a really dirty factory.
The key issues for me:
- how you do the horizontal display option so that figs can stand alongside it. I'm thinking about doing a plexi pole with metal top (to link to the magnet inside the block) set into a wide plexi base
- the size is a bit off. It's about 3/8" (1cm) too short lengthwise, which in of itself wouldn't have been a huge deal, but the width IS close to correct, so the overall proportions of the block are a bit off. From the front, it reads visually as not quite narrow enough. It's not by much, but I noticed it immediately upon setting it up and then confirmed it with ref pics/measurements. It's this kind of lack of attention to detail that infuriates me about Sideshow (the lights pattern above is another example) - again, no more time or cost to just make it accurate.
There's also the more minor errors - the Carbonite block is supposed to be tapered in front view (top width slightly less than bottom width, the ESB version more so than the ROTJ version) and the side "control panels" are supposed to be equally spaced.
Sideshow's block has top and bottom widths the same, and they made the two middle control panels noticeably closer together than the others. Why they do these things - when they've clearly done pretty detailed research to get things like the panel details themselves pretty close to accurate - is always such a mystery.
Mine was pretty grimy - covered in almost a graphite powder that required a lot of wiping. After wiping it does have a nicer metallic sheen. I'm amazed at how many of Sideshow's non-figure items arrive as if they've come from a really dirty factory.
The key issues for me:
- how you do the horizontal display option so that figs can stand alongside it. I'm thinking about doing a plexi pole with metal top (to link to the magnet inside the block) set into a wide plexi base
- the size is a bit off. It's about 3/8" (1cm) too short lengthwise, which in of itself wouldn't have been a huge deal, but the width IS close to correct, so the overall proportions of the block are a bit off. From the front, it reads visually as not quite narrow enough. It's not by much, but I noticed it immediately upon setting it up and then confirmed it with ref pics/measurements. It's this kind of lack of attention to detail that infuriates me about Sideshow (the lights pattern above is another example) - again, no more time or cost to just make it accurate.
There's also the more minor errors - the Carbonite block is supposed to be tapered in front view (top width slightly less than bottom width, the ESB version more so than the ROTJ version) and the side "control panels" are supposed to be equally spaced.
Sideshow's block has top and bottom widths the same, and they made the two middle control panels noticeably closer together than the others. Why they do these things - when they've clearly done pretty detailed research to get things like the panel details themselves pretty close to accurate - is always such a mystery.
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Very weird that of the powder... You sure it was MISB?
Man... they hadn't saved a single buck if they had got the damn lights and proportions right... What is happening to those guys...? They are only good at raising prices...?
BTW, do you have any picture that shows the tapering? Found none myself. Pictures I've found show everything is square, and separation between control panels seems OK to me, too. You sure of all that?
Incidentally: there should be 8 control panels. In the picture of the unboxing a few posts ago, I have counted 7, and something that might or might not be a control panel. So... there are 8, right????? :-((
You also say there is a magnet in the carbonite block. I must be missing something: what for...?
Now, the magnet thing is very important to me at the moment: I am looking into the possibility amb mag-levitating this thing when exposing it with my other Bespin figs, Sadly enough I don't seem to find a levitator base that will keep this thing (or any thing) high enough (15 cm I guess). I am still working on this.
I will also need to know just how big/heavy the block is, so, while you are at testing this thing, would you mind measuring and weighing the carbo block, then letting us know? My unit es still at the freight service in HK, waiting for consolidation, so can't do this myself... Thank you in advance mate.
Regards,
m.
Man... they hadn't saved a single buck if they had got the damn lights and proportions right... What is happening to those guys...? They are only good at raising prices...?
BTW, do you have any picture that shows the tapering? Found none myself. Pictures I've found show everything is square, and separation between control panels seems OK to me, too. You sure of all that?
Incidentally: there should be 8 control panels. In the picture of the unboxing a few posts ago, I have counted 7, and something that might or might not be a control panel. So... there are 8, right????? :-((
You also say there is a magnet in the carbonite block. I must be missing something: what for...?
Now, the magnet thing is very important to me at the moment: I am looking into the possibility amb mag-levitating this thing when exposing it with my other Bespin figs, Sadly enough I don't seem to find a levitator base that will keep this thing (or any thing) high enough (15 cm I guess). I am still working on this.
I will also need to know just how big/heavy the block is, so, while you are at testing this thing, would you mind measuring and weighing the carbo block, then letting us know? My unit es still at the freight service in HK, waiting for consolidation, so can't do this myself... Thank you in advance mate.
Regards,
m.
Just got this piece and it's a solid release - in-hand it actually does "feel" like a $200 item. Not $250, but not $150 either.
Mine was pretty grimy - covered in almost a graphite powder that required a lot of wiping. After wiping it does have a nicer metallic sheen. I'm amazed at how many of Sideshow's non-figure items arrive as if they've come from a really dirty factory.
The key issues for me:
- how you do the horizontal display option so that figs can stand alongside it. I'm thinking about doing a plexi pole with metal top (to link to the magnet inside the block) set into a wide plexi base
- the size is a bit off. It's about 3/8" (1cm) too short lengthwise, which in of itself wouldn't have been a huge deal, but the width IS close to correct, so the overall proportions of the block are a bit off. From the front, it reads visually as not quite narrow enough. It's not by much, but I noticed it immediately upon setting it up and then confirmed it with ref pics/measurements. It's this kind of lack of attention to detail that infuriates me about Sideshow (the lights pattern above is another example) - again, no more time or cost to just make it accurate.
There's also the more minor errors - the Carbonite block is supposed to be tapered in front view (top width slightly less than bottom width, the ESB version more so than the ROTJ version) and the side "control panels" are supposed to be equally spaced.
Sideshow's block has top and bottom widths the same, and they made the two middle control panels noticeably closer together than the others. Why they do these things - when they've clearly done pretty detailed research to get things like the panel details themselves pretty close to accurate - is always such a mystery.
slikkerias
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Mine is just a custom, but I got a really great metallic effect in it. So if anyone needs to give their version a bit more I can very much recommend this type of paint to and overall feel and highlights.
