Darth Dennie
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Got her! Also pre-ordered two of those stormtrooper helmets.
K2 looks pretty cool. Seems like he would be a fun work desk toy to accompany your HT one at home.
I agree with you that the Deathtrooper looks oddly lanky compared to the normal ones. Does he have the green tinted lenses?
Yeah, was just thinking how skinny the deathtrooper looks. Looking at how small the helmet looks compared to the stormie, almost looks like the entire deathtrooper figure came out maybe a bit underscaled. There's been a few BS figs that have come out wrongly sized (R2 too small most obviously.)
The tallness and skinniness is intentional. According to Rogue One guides, the Death Troopers were all chosen from taller, skinnier troops. I don't recall the actual article this was in but it's out there.
Skinny? I heard tall, but "skinny" sounds kind of funny as a requirement for troops, but based on some cops I've seen over the years, it may not be a bad idea.
I just mean that it looks like the figure was "outputted" at about 10-15% underscale (based on the first pic above, in comparison to the stormie,) so everything from helmet to height to shoulder width to thickness of limbs is all underscale. BS R2 had a similar problem, though that was more like 15-20%.
EDIT: Just found this making-of pic that supposedly shows a deathtrooper on break on Scarif (aka Floridaan)...
Local Walmart had all of the Rogue one Black Series, plus the Kylo unmasked etc.. Go to check out and they came up as "Recalled" and they wouldnt sell them to me.
That happened to me too yesterday. I was arguing with the stor manager who would not let me buy any either. They had a whole case out, but when I tried to buy them it rang up "see associate"
They have a street date that doesn't allow them to ring out. They shouldn't have been put out in the first place as they're for Force Friday. I remember that happened to me with some Luke figure from the Vintage Collection.
Didn't make any sense to me at the time but looking back it was part of the deleted scene wave from the blu ray set so they were probably supposed to wait until the release of the blu ray itself.
I don't know why they had them out..TRU advertised the Rogue launch too for 30th at Midnight
What did the manager tell you exactly
The manager said that they could not be rung up because the sku number was set for the 30th. If he over rode it bot he and the store would get in trouble.
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