1/6 Hot Toys MMS291 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope 1/6th scale Spacetrooper

[Asta]

Ugh...this exclusive is not available to my country. Who/what decides where these ex from HT is available to anyway.

Well, that's not fair.

Maybe that's an error in the system? Sideshow is supposed to cater for European orders.

 

[Slacker292]

Well i do see that the countries who are not a part of EU, is not on the shipping calculator list on SS`site, by ordering those ex.
Pretty big downer this one....

 

[Lejuan]

I'd call or write to them. When the stormtrooper figure was first released Australia was excluded. Then one day it wasn't. Not sure if it had to do with quotas or just a clerical mistake.

 

[Slacker292]

I'd call or write to them. When the stormtrooper figure was first released Australia was excluded. Then one day it wasn't. Not sure if it had to do with quotas or just a clerical mistake.

Yeah I should try to contact them. I got the Evil supes Ex from HT last year so...

 

[Aliaz]

The Swedes.

If that is the case then we are going about it the wrong way, obiously it would be availible in Swedish shops then

 

[marisinacc]

I got my order in, with a $33 discount from reward points

 

[Slacker292]

The Swedes.

Didn`t see that one.

 

[screamingmetal]

I was saving my reward points for a HT Stormie, and since this is different than any of my Sideshow Stormies, I preordered one.

At $140, this is a bargain.

 

[tjdavis1138]

Its weird, I thought this was an easy pass for me but I am oddly drawn to the obscure nature of the characters. I may keep my order.

One of the reasons I ordered. I don't have any stormtroopers and I don't believe anyone has made a spacetrooper before. I've never seen one if their out there.

 

[Invictus Sol]

Yep, this is the first Spacetrooper in 1:6.

 

[jkno]

Yep, this is the first Spacetrooper in 1:6.

Marmit made one, a bit more accurate than HT, but never released to the public alas. The proto might be in private hands and if ever for sale will fetch a small fortune, like Marmit Vaders

 

[marisinacc]

Ah Marmit, their ANH Vader is still to be surpassed. For me, the definitive figure, and heck, that was made in the late 90's with no internet. Same thing goes for their 1/6 stormtrooper helmets, still the most accurate.

 

[jkno]

Marmit is a true legend. With their sculpts and HT's quality, we could have had the best troopers out there in 1:6

 

[TaliBane]

Marmit made one, a bit more accurate than HT, but never released to the public alas. The proto might be in private hands and if ever for sale will fetch a small fortune, like Marmit Vaders

I remembered that the Marmit spacetrooper was supposedly really accurate. Why are HT's different? I wasn't able to find a good ref pic of the backpack, only pics of the Marmit and the backpack is totally different to the HT.

 

[ZE_501]

Marmit is a true legend. With their sculpts and HT's quality, we could have had the best troopers out there in 1:6

Working on it!

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[jkno]

Very cool!!

 

[ZE_501]

Very cool!!

Details on the WIP over in the stormtrooper thread. That reminds me, I wanted to ask your opinion on something that I noticed when I first got the HT stormtroopers...the HT E-11 almost looks over-scaled. It's slightly bigger than the SSC E-11, but that doesn't mean it's wrong...it's just that in screen captures it looks smaller in the stormtrooper's hands.

What do you think? I'll see if I can find the dimensions online, at least for the Sterling...and do the 1/6 math to see...


***EDIT: The Hot Toys is over-scaled; I can't find my digital callipers but using a measuring tape, it looks like:

via RPF: ...length (not including stock or sling loop thingies): 18 1/32".

Converted for 1/6 should be 7.63cm.

I haven't measured the SSC as I don't have one to hand right now, but HT comes in at about 7.8cm or a hair under.

SSC may have got it right.

 

[TonTon]

^^SS is about 7.9cm

 

[screamingmetal]

I remembered that the Marmit spacetrooper was supposedly really accurate. Why are HT's different? I wasn't able to find a good ref pic of the backpack, only pics of the Marmit and the backpack is totally different to the HT.

Other than the pics of the Spacetrooper in the film, the only other known pics of the Space Trooper are the behind the scenes pics of Joe Johnston before filming:



Possibly Lucasfilm has more detailed pictures they've shared with Hot Toys?

From what I've read, a lot of Star Wars custom costume makers base the look of the upper tanks on the tanks seen on the Deathstar surface scenes, matching the few details seen on the tanks in the scene from the movie, thinking they recycled the parts to make the backpack.


The Marmit Spacetrooper backpack looks very similar so the people at Marmit might've based their backpack on the same evidence.

 

[ZE_501]

^^SS is about 7.9cm

Went back and found my digital measurements. SSC is indeed 7.9 and HT is actually 8.21.

The SSC has a touch less bulk, as well.


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