1/6 Hot Toys - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back: Lando Calrissian (Bespin version)

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Thanks for posting that Asta. The Sideshow pants look too baggy throughout to me. I think the ideal would be the Sideshow color with the HT fit down to the ankle area, then billowing out into the bell bottom look.

 

[Asta]

@Asta - Awesome. I like it. They look a tad small with the wider SS pants to me but with the HT pants I bet they’d work really well.

The trouble with the HT trousers is that they're completely straight legged.

There's no perfect solution. I think I'll put the HT boots back on as these look too small to me.

 

[Asta]

Thanks for posting that Asta. The Sideshow pants look too baggy throughout to me. I think the ideal would be the Sideshow color with the HT fit down to the ankle area, then billowing out into the bell bottom look.

Yes, which ever way you jump there's an issue.


Just had another look at him. The trousers are tight to the leg down as far as the knees, due to the padding he has on. Then they flare below the knee, and further still at the ankle.

I think it helped when he had the HT boots because they're tall, and fill out the lower leg.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Ironing those pants would help.

 

[Asta]

Ironing those pants would help.

They got worse when I changed the boots.


I put the HT boots back on, and think they're the best balance with the SS trousers.

The point at which the two different pairs of boots plug into the ankles must be different. The SS were making him too short, so the trousers were bunching against them.

With the HT boots the trousers hang at the right length.

 

[Sixth Scale Man]

My Lando shipped from SS. Should arrive next Monday.

I have to say that it feels good to be close to completing my OT Star Wars collection, aliens being the exception, which I'll always be picking up, if released.

Yeah, after Bespin Lando I'm really only needing Boushh Leia and Bespin Han to feel like my OT is complete. I'm resisting most of the Mando releases so far (2xMandos for now), but who knows...I might get withdrawal symptoms and order something in a quiet spot. And with BOBF ramping up, there might be a figure or two that will be too hard to pass up.

 

[FlyAndFight]

Bespin Han, Bespin Escape Leia, a pair of Chewies and that elusive Death Star Trooper are my key OT wants, at the moment. But would definitely pick up Greedo, Lobot and a few other aliens, if offered.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Bespin Han, Bespin Escape Leia, a pair of Chewies and that elusive Death Star Trooper are my key OT wants, at the moment. But would definitely pick up Greedo, Lobot and a few other aliens, if offered.

Don't forget Veers

 

[FlyAndFight]

Don't forget Veers

Oh yeah! I can't believe I forgot Veers. You might as well lump in Admiral Piett, as well. Love those Imperial uniforms...

 

[fantasticfrog]

Rebel. Fleet.troopers.

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

 

[Asta]

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How did you manage to get the collar down?

Until I used the double sided tape it would pop straight back up like Ming's cape...

I tried working with the wire, which moves loosely inside the collar, but couldn't get any help from it.

 

[Sixth Scale Man]

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Smoooov!

 

[Wor-Gar]

Only a mere 15 years ago, this was State of the Art...

Remember....

 

[Lordscum]

Only a mere 15 years ago, this was State of the Art...


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Remember....

Trying to forget the fat faced caterpillered eyebrowed ford.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Hairysen Fawrd

 

[Cocoboloboy]

We crashed servers every time a figure like that Han went up for preorder at SS. Had to have the Exclusive versions.
Ah, the good ole days when a $55, bobble headed Star Wars figure with paint work by a 3 year old got us excited.

Long live the Dot!

 

[TaliBane]

One interesting thing I noticed about this fig versus the old Sideshow version is that SSC consciously made the cape a shade darker blue than the shirt (a little too much difference actually,) whereas HT made the cape and shirt the same blue.

To my eye the HT blue looks a touch too pale overall, but I went to have a look at the various sources to see if the cape and shirt are indeed the same color. In many pics it appears the same (in the costumes book for example, though the costume looks faded there,) and in the movie it seems maybe 50/50. In some scenes there does seem to be a subtle difference between the cape blue and shirt blue, with the cape darker.

Some lighting seems to make them look the same, others show a pretty clear difference. Significantly, the shirt never looks darker than the cape (where there is a difference, cape is always darker) which I think proves it is indeed lighter than the cape. Probably came down to the fabric that works for a shirt doesn't work for a cape, so same blue dye but applied to two different fabric types.

The recent Black Series Lando 6" has a slightly darker blue cape.

I like the difference in blues versus both being the same, the slightly darker blue cape just looks sharper framing a slightly lighter blue shirt.