It's releases like this that will kill so many of SSC's 1/6 figs going forward. People jump on the SSC version, only to see HT do the same character a year or so later. You can see that thinking is already hurting figs like the Snowtrooper Commander - a very solid figure that nonetheless could (and possibly will) be topped when HT presuambly releases their proto seen a couple of years ago.
The SSC Maul was really well done, but this one seems - at least in proto - to be another notch better though. The sculpt detail, robes, the paint, all seem a bit better. And then there's the price - Sideshow's figures should aim for a sub-HT level, not at or above, especially for figures that are often second best. People don't like paying more for something that's second best.
Not sure if this has been covered, but I wonder if this will come with the hooded robe if it's DX.
