1/6 Hot Toys 1/6 Boba Fett ESB Version

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Marmit has made a nicely shaped Helmet as well. Just needs a nice repaint. This one is modified with the Medicom rangefinder and custom earpiece.
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Absolute. Perfection.

Bravo.
 
Why can't we all have a Fett that nice?

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For the Hot Toys price point we should. Same with SS. This figure kicks the **** out of the Premium Format Fetts.
 
Marmit has made a nicely shaped Helmet as well. Just needs a nice repaint. This one is modified with the Medicom rangefinder and custom earpiece.
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Hot Toys and Sideshow, this is how it's done. The armor fits his chest. The shape of the helmet. More square shaped at the jawline. Flat at the front. The top part of the visor doesn't curve upwards. The rangefinder isn't super long. Look at the body proportions. It looks like a human being in there. No bulky thighs. No fat suit period. The paint makes the armor look metallic. Hot Toys' armor looks plastic.

At $267 and $549.99 this should be the standard Fett.
 
Hot Toys and Sideshow, this is how it's done. The armor fits his chest. The shape of the helmet. More square shaped at the jawline. Flat at the front. The top part of the visor doesn't curve upwards. The rangefinder isn't super long. Look at the body proportions. It looks like a human being in there. No bulky thighs. No fat suit period. The paint makes the armor look metallic. Hot Toys' armor looks plastic.

At $267 and $549.99 this should be the standard Fett.

I won't deny that it looks accurate, but that Marmet has obviously been heavily modified other than the rangefinder and ear piece modifications McHaleyArt mentioned. I can tell you right now without doing a search, that he changed the body and modified the plastic vest/armor piece.

Aaaaaand... doing a quick google search brought up this:
https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/...es-and-dioramas/69954-boba-fett-medi-mod.html


The Marmit Fett does look much more accurate than either Sideshow's or Hot Toys' Fetts prior to modifications, but I wish my Marmit Fett looked as good as McHaleyArt's figure.
 
I won't deny that it looks accurate, but that Marmet has obviously been heavily modified other than the rangefinder and ear piece modifications McHaleyArt mentioned. I can tell you right now without doing a search, that he changed the body and modified the plastic vest/armor piece.

Aaaaaand... doing a quick google search brought up this:
https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/...es-and-dioramas/69954-boba-fett-medi-mod.html


The Marmit Fett does look much more accurate than either Sideshow's or Hot Toys' Fetts prior to modifications, but I wish my Marmit Fett looked as good as McHaleyArt's figure.

Of course. It's obvious.
 
Doing a quick search on both Ebay and Amazon, they have Marmit Fetts for only $140, about $60 above what I paid for mine back in 2001. Not a bad deal if you're willing to do some modifications.
 
Nice! Thank you for posting that pic of the hero helmet in hand. That's one of the best straight-on pics I've seen of the actual movie helmet, and it helps quite a bit as a reference point for scrutinizing the various 1/6 helmets. I had to photograph my HT, SS, and Medicom helmets individually because lens distortion gets bad when they're all lined up together. Here they are side-by-side with the hero helmet.

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I did the same thing from the profile perspective. Since the EFX helmet was cast from a mold of that original hero helmet, I'm using a profile shot of the EFX one for these side-by-side comparisons. I'll say it again: the front/face of the helmet is supposed to be flatter than HT and SS have made them. It affects how they look from the front by distorting the proportions of the visor, which is a key reason why people are generally disappointed with these 1/6 helmets.

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I can't understand how Medicom seems to have essentially figured it out (years ago), but not the others since. It might not be a big enough deal to most, but it probably matters enough to quite a few when it comes to a purchase decision. There's enough time before the actual release for Hot Toys to notice this and make corrections, but that likely won't happen since they already went to the effort of making a new one instead of just repainting their ROTJ one. They'd still have a lot of work to do with the armor and body anyway if total screen accuracy was the goal, so it's probably not even worth it to them to address the helmet at this point. Still going to be the best 1/6 Boba (all things considered) out there when it's released.

Nice comparison....hard to believe medicom's version is over 10 years old....and still in that time SS and HT fail to improve upon it and get the damn dome right...
 
I think there are two main things that cause a Fett visor (and entire helmet, actually) to look more inaccurate than it really is: camera angles and head tilt. The EFX helmet in the post I'm quoting is not being framed by a straight-ahead camera angle. I'll try to demonstrate what I mean. Here's an image I put together of the movie helmet from ESB so that I can have a solid reference for when I start customizing my own ESB Boba helmet. The yellow lines are there to line up the vertical part of the T-visor, the horizontal part, and the top & bottom of the entire helmet.

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Now here's the EFX helmet from the post quoted above (slightly tilted in order to line up more accurately) using the same reference lines. You can see that the "squint" of the visor looks too narrow because of the camera angle. If you compare it to the movie shots, you'd think it's completely wrong.

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Now here's the Hot Toys ESB helmet (both straight-ahead and profile) using the same reference lines. The squint isn't as inaccurate as when you compare it to the EFX helmet. The camera angle is still too high on the HT shot, thus keeping it from looking even closer to the movie helmet that's next to it. The actual problem with the HT helmet is that the ridge above the visor should be thicker, so as to drop a bit further down. This would make the "squint" perfect.

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And, finally, here's the same pic, but without the grid lines. I'm still waiting for a straight-ahead camera angle of the HT helmet. Every promo image is from too high, or has the head tilted down too much.

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There is a very significant structural problem with the HT helmets (including ROTJ), but IMO, it's not the "squint" of the visor (or even the ridge that is too thin). I won't get into that all that here, though, because this post is probably already confusing enough.

Hi Folks,

I'm just a novice :monkey3 but looking at the HT helmet and TESB pic. The top of the T visor is straight, the HT has a slight curve.

Also as mentioned b/f the bottom of the HT helmet isn't wide or as flared compared to TESB photo. From the previous post by McHaleyArt regarding his custom; yeah the Marmit Fett helmet is the most accurate.:clap
 
I'd prefer the HT ESB paintjob and poor helmet shape a thousand times over than a perfectly shaped marmit helmet... with that paint job.
 
Nice comparison....hard to believe medicom's version is over 10 years old....and still in that time SS and HT fail to improve upon it and get the damn dome right...

Even harder to believe that the Marmit Fett is 18 years old now and both SSC and HT have failed to match the accuracy of that helmet! :lol
 
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