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

[MyenShi]

You'd have to assume statues and 1/6 articulated would be totally separate licenses.

They are. Hasbro has a degree over the Star Wars action figure license and they prevent other companies from making "competing" products, which is why LEGO is not allowed to have a collectible minifigure line for Star Wars. But Hasbro does not have a license for replicas (which is why everything 1:1 is a role play item) and probably not statues, either. I imagine most things are a la carte based on a variety of factors.

I think it's a fair assessment to posit that Sideshow may have some kind of limited 1/6 license. The only other theories I can think of is either some kind of gentleman's agreement with Hot Toys, or a belief in business terms that realistic 1/6 figures would not be a profitable or sustainable line for them.

It's easier and lower risk for them to be a distributor for someone else than put the money into their own line of realistic figures. They probably saw the animated figures as a niche they could potentially fill without stepping on Hot Toys's toes or eating into their Hot Toys distributor money.

 

[MyenShi]

15% off at Sideshow with $5 shipping.

SWC15

 

[stingermck]

Been putting him off and finally picked him up yesterday. Great figure with a lot of pose options.

 

[jimbean]

Surprised the demand for Lando has been so low.

Yeah is cheap as its gets on eBay

 

[TheClient]

Lando has always been a pegwarmer, at least since the 90s. For the last 30 years, every time I wander into a toy store or aisle, PLENTY of Landos up for grabs. It’s a shame.

 

[Warthog81]

I would love a General Lando for the collection but no idea if they will ever make one. Amazing how cheap this one is on eBay. He is a nice figure and my collection needs a Lando.

 

[Chopper Face]

I certainly took my time opening this one- definitely could have waited and bought at the massive discount rate he’s going for now but how was I ever meant to predict that a main OT character would become a shelf warmer?!
People will pay an arm and a leg for a Gonk Droid or Wicket but no one gaf about Billy Big Dee Williams… Very well.

Anyways, I never believed the cloak could possibly be as problematic as I’d been reading about for so long- but it was. It’s very pretty but what a hassle.
Even with double sided tape on the collar, that thing doesn’t want to stay down. The folds are all held with paper clips at the back.

 

[Lordscum]

I certainly took my time opening this one- definitely could have waited and bought at the massive discount rate he’s going for now but how was I ever meant to predict that a main OT character would become a shelf warmer?!
People will pay an arm and a leg for a Gonk Droid or Wicket but no one gaf about Billy Big Dee Williams… Very well.

Anyways, I never believed the cloak could possibly be as problematic as I’d been reading about for so long- but it was. It’s very pretty but what a hassle.
Even with double sided tape on the collar, that thing doesn’t want to stay down. The folds are all held with paper clips at the back.
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Overall great pose , but is he doing an incognito butt scratch there?

 

[RavenAsh]

Overall great pose , but is he doing an incognito butt scratch there?

 

[ArtDamage]

Lando 25% off and $5 shipping. Not bad.

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

Skiff Guard and General for the 40th Hot Toys!!!
Make it so!!

 

[fantasticfrog]

Sadly, with these discounts and lando sticking around for so long, this may our last Lando. Howard may see this as no demand, as except for the cape, it’s a great figure. I actually ordered a second to do the no cape bespin escape look. I used to think we would get bespin escape leia and Chewbacca, but that dream died a long time ago. RIP ot hot toys.

 

[ArtDamage]

Yeah I can't see them making another Lando anytime soon. Lando is a big time shelf warmer in pretty much every scale so what we got is probably it.

I used to think we would get bespin escape leia and Chewbacca, but that dream died a long time ago. RIP ot hot toys.

Yeah unfortunately that's the Chewbacca I've been holding out for. I thought "surely it will release with Bespin Han."

 

[fantasticfrog]

We all thought that. Then hot toys decided they only make Disney plus figures and repainted troopers and here we are.

 

[ArtDamage]

Even when they make other stuff they always skip the full set.

Feel like I should pose darth maul and qui gon in the detolf shrugging and looking for where Padawan Kenobi is

 

[SilverStar17]

Bummer he’s not selling well, but at the same time not a huge surprise to me. He’d never be as in demand as much as characters like Vader, Luke, Han, etc. However for me, ESB is my favorite SW film so an OT trilogy collection, particularly the ESB area, would have felt empty without a Lando representation. Glad I picked him up.

 

[DCFett]

Probably gonna seal the fate for ever getting a HT Skiffguard Lando and General Lando is piss in the wind. Really too bad for all the reasons said and unsaid.

 

[Universal Key]

I agree with @SilverStar17. To me this feels like a must have for OT collectors.

 

[shull24]

I switched out a HT body and headsculpt with the sideshow skiff guard parts and am happy enough with the results. Maybe someone will do a custom clothing run for the ROTJ general look

 

[S. Griffin]

I switched out a HT body and headsculpt with the sideshow skiff guard parts and am happy enough with the results. Maybe someone will do a custom clothing run for the ROTJ general look

GeeWhiz has done at least a one-off