Hot Toys Savage Opress

[Pose Mastery]

The head looks better than what was shown at wonder festival.

 

[Pose Mastery]

Sideshow isn’t an alternative for me, unfortunately.

And I guess I’ll always care about it lol, cause I’m “passionate” about the Clone Wars and it bothers me more than I’d care to admit how they get these figures in this line wrong for x reason. What really gets to me is when HT fails to realize how certain things are supposed to look like in live-action like the clone trooper pauldrons, kamas, etc., and they insist on giving them the animated style vs the ROTS live-action style. I remember when they announced Rex, I was so let down lol

There’s no consistency on the designs even through the movies surely you don’t expect SW to keep design continuity between different mediums

 

[HyperDrive]

There’s no consistency on the designs even through the movies surely you don’t expect SW to keep design continuity between different mediums

I personally can haha, cause I’m solely referring to Lucas’s prime Prequels characters/designs.. not referring to OT or Disney Lucasfilm era designs or even BF (2015+), etc.

 

[DarkChocobi]

Only Ventress remains, which is bound to happen inevitably at some point from here.

 

[Pose Mastery]

I personally can haha, cause I’m solely referring to Lucas’s prime Prequels characters/designs.. not referring to OT or Disney Lucasfilm era designs or even BF (2015+), etc.

Prequel designs aren’t all consistent either, Kit Fisto’s face, battledroid voices etc are all different from film to film with no explanation.

Rex’s pauldron is canon, it just looks like that in live action. So other clones can just switch into it

 

[BoosterGold06]

Only Ventress remains, which is bound to happen inevitably at some point from here.

I’d like to have Hondo too, but that probably won’t happen

 

[HyperDrive]

Prequel designs aren’t all consistent either, Kit Fisto’s face, battledroid voices etc are all different from film to film with no explanation.

Rex’s pauldron is canon, it just looks like that in live action. So other clones can just switch into it

While Fisto has a different design between AOTC and ROTS (I prefer ROTS design myself), the clones have a certain set design we saw for Phase I and II armours. Primarily, I’m referring to ROTS when it comes to certain things we saw in that film like the clone trooper pauldrons, kamas, other minute details, etc which are the live-action style for them. But even clones have a set design for their P1 visors as seen in AOTC, which is how Rex’s visor should have looked like in his own unique helmet. Even D Woon and other customizers got it right and not Hot Toys as they gave him the animated P1 visor style. Just like them getting the forearm armor wrong for CW Obi-Wan, another case where they failed to realize there’s a live action look for the forearm gauntlet armor. Etc etc, list goes on and on. Rex’s pauldron should’ve looked like the live-action style as seen in ROTS worn by the clone commanders, Disney and Hot Toys fitted him with the animated style. Rex’s outsole color is wrong too lol, should’ve been light grey just like EVERY clone trooper in live action. Guess why they went with white? Cause in the show, they all have white outsoles. 501st and Coruscant Guard figures have grey ones cause they’re basically based on the ROTS models, well more so the CG as that’s a carbon copy of the ROTS Shock Trooper cg model (Thire). Cody is a ROTS MMS figure. There’s all kinds of things I’ve picked up on that are wrong with Hot Toys clone figures, don’t get me started on why I’m not a fan of the other figures in the line like Ahsoka, Maul, etc.

Edit: HT 501st phase 1 bucket/inclusion in the set is wrong, the 501st had different markings in the show.

Echo and Fives helmets should’ve been P1.5 but they went with a made up “P1.75” style for them mix matching elements from their P1.5 and P2 helmets.

Kamas should be longer as in live action.

Hot Toys decided to give all clone figures the animated style for the DC-15S and DC-15A (I don’t know about the other weapons just the main ones).

501st is a weird blend. It’s more live action based but without the blue on the back like in the show and has the darker blue shade which personally doesn’t bother me but it should’ve been lighter teal blue like in the ROTS CG model or BF original game. Also missing the chest detail.

That’s all I got top of my head for now.

I’ll have to dig everything up, but I’ve got references and source images if you’d like to see.

And yeah.. I won’t budge on this lol.

 

[Jedi_Col]

I've been dying for this figure. For me, it looks incredible. Everything I could've wanted from a Savage figure. He's massive and intimidating, got the mech arm, damaged spikes, his axe/spear. I love everything about this figure personally and I ordered it the moment it went up. The fact that I had $230 reward points had nothing to do with it I did think they would try and use Ray Park as a starting point for the likeness to maybe give it more of a live-action feel and the relationship to Maul (since obviously we have no live action Savage), but I'm loving the way it turned out.