Hot Toys DX Bespin Luke Skywalker

[kl241]

Cruise is gay. Called it.

 

[Red Metal]

Obviously, the custom sample is made on the cheap because HT doesn't want to put the full effort into something they're not making money on. Why give customs a full production Luke, when customs is just going to man-handle it, drop it on the floor, or otherwise damage it. It's not like the materials used really have to be used in the same way - paint is paint, plastic is plastic - customs doesn't care how much or how little is slopped on.

Hell, HT probably had an apprentice level painter (read: five year old) paint that one to learn the ropes. While the production version gets painted by a journeyman painter (read: seven year old)

 

[Adrosi]

Anciently gay. Called it.....hundreds of years ago.

 

[OSCORP]

Obviously, the custom sample is made on the cheap because HT doesn't want to put the full effort into something they're not making money on. Why give customs a full production Luke, when customs is just going to man-handle it, drop it on the floor, or otherwise damage it. It's not like the materials used really have to be used in the same way - paint is paint, plastic is plastic - customs doesn't care how much or how little is slopped on.

Hell, HT probably had an apprentice level painter (read: five year old) paint that one to learn the ropes. While the production version gets painted by a journeyman painter (read: seven year old)

 

[Solarsailor]

Whatever the deal is with the pics. Somebody obviously thought is was good enough to put up on display. So that could be a good thing, or it could just be someone showing off.

I don't think there is a spare shoe box that the HT's reps put all the really bad items in, build them up then get the label maker out and stamp on "Customs Sample" then send them out it brown paper boxes and say "you see this POS, this is nothing like what your getting, but we thought we'd send it to you anyway to put it in your window"

Even if this was the case, it would still be similar to what we receive in the end.

I really need a gif with a small kid and a paint brush that says "I make custom samples"

 

[Rorywan]

Uhh... more like "Where's the license?" You can thank Bud Yorkin and Jerry Perenchio for that.

Who needs HT.....

 

[spindrift]

Who needs HT.....

WHERE is that figure from??..and no, I don't wanna know the price!

 

[Adrosi]

I think Luke looks good...

I didn't know Hot Toys had The Goonies license.

 

[Rorywan]

Obviously, the custom sample is made on the cheap because HT doesn't want to put the full effort into something they're not making money on. Why give customs a full production Luke, when customs is just going to man-handle it, drop it on the floor, or otherwise damage it. It's not like the materials used really have to be used in the same way - paint is paint, plastic is plastic - customs doesn't care how much or how little is slopped on.

Hell, HT probably had an apprentice level painter (read: five year old) paint that one to learn the ropes. While the production version gets painted by a journeyman painter (read: seven year old)

Extreme wishful unrealistic thinking I fear.
To make an individual customs sample that doesn't look like the rest of the run would be pointless and costly, to send a QC failed model is another matter and feasible I suppose. But some of the major issues with the Luke seen in those pics wasn't QC based.

 

[Rorywan]

WHERE is that figure from??..and no, I don't wanna know the price!

Check out my thread for details and pics..link in sig.

 

[Mr.Tanker]

A quick color correction. Not perfect, but possibly a better representation of what it actually is.

 

[kl241]

A quick color correction. Not perfect, but possibly a better representation of what it actually is.

Nope.

 

[spindrift]

Nope.

Yeah- just awful with better contrast........................

 

[spindrift]

Check out my thread for details and pics..link in sig.

Great stuff- brilliant pics.............I had no idea you did this kind of stuff. Take a bow!

 

[Wor-Gar]

Got to be a proto -- look at that terrible stitching. Looks rushed, perhaps a figure for fabric testing for color and the way it hangs.

 

[devilof76]

It's so weird walking into a thread where everyone's sitting around with the lights off.

Am I the only person bothered by how dim it is in here?

 

[OSCORP]

Got to be a proto -- look at that terrible stitching. Looks rushed, perhaps a figure for fabric testing for color and the way it hangs.

There's no way i can see HT releasing that for production.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Great stuff- brilliant pics.............I had no idea you did this kind of stuff. Take a bow!

If you bow, Rory, I'm telling.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Am I the only person bothered by how dim it is in here?

Who's more dim, the dim or the dim who follows them.

 

[devilof76]

Good question. If we can figure out who changed all the nice, shiny incandescent bulbs to crappy CFL's, we might be able to get to the bottom of it.

Wait, no. I mean....I knew you were gonna say that.