Hot Toys Star Wars Stormtrooper

[Adam1138]

Maybe it's the floor of the bunker on Endor? Or the DSII floor.

Why can't they get the helmet sculpts right on these I know it's the ROTJ version but come on hot toys, it's way off again! Ever heard of 3D scanning

 

[LoveMinusZero]

The Rogue One troopers don't look like that at all. The first giveaway is the black grill on this guy, the RO troopers are grey.

 

[Adam1138]

Have to say I'm on the Anti-ROTJ-trooper bandwagon as well...

BUT... I do love that HT made a figure of the design differences. I think if you want a few stormtroopers, it would be nice to have one for each of the OT episodes.

That said, where's the ESB-trooper?

Yeah come on HT let's have a ESB Stormtrooper, with accurate helmet sculpt this time please!

 

[loki2371]

The grill looks grey to me... Grey with black stripes. And as for the Death Star stand and backdrop, I'm sure many many scenes of this movie will take place on the Death Star. As well as the other 2 figures...Death Star Trooper, and Death Star Gunner. All in Rogue One. A little bit of a coincidence. And the Gonk droid is also seen in Rogue One trailer.

 

[LoveMinusZero]

This is the RO Stormtrooper, if that figure is supposed to be this, HT is getting worse at Stormtroopers not better.

https://data.techtimes.com/data/images/full/126924/donnie-yen-helmets-big-jpg.jpg

 

[loki2371]

Just differences in lighting. A prop pic taken in full light, vs screen grabs or on set pics with natural or altered lighting.

 

[LoveMinusZero]

Yeah, okay then.

 

[Adam1138]

The grill looks grey to me... Grey with black stripes. And as for the Death Star stand and backdrop, I'm sure many many scenes of this movie will take place on the Death Star. As well as the other 2 figures...Death Star Trooper, and Death Star Gunner. All in Rogue One. A little bit of a coincidence. And the Gonk droid is also seen in Rogue One trailer.

Nope this is defo a ROTJ stormie. Hand guards and helmet are way different one the RO troopers. Also this has the tell tale trim around the chest plate, again only seen on the ROTJ armour.

 

[loki2371]

I guess we'll find out soon enough. It's just the movie comes out in 5 months, It was said there would be Rogue One figures shown at SDCC, and 4 off the new figures shown are in Rogue One. There's the TFA R2 & 3PO, & old Luke. So far no ROTJ figures. Seems odd they'd start with a Stormtrooper. If anything it'd be an ESB Stormtrooper since they showed a Snowtrooper figure.

 

[LoveMinusZero]

I don't believe the Death Star Trooper or Gunner are from Rogue One either, Hot Toys was just happy to pick ANH troopers that are also maybe in RO. If Hot Toys was going to make a big Rogue One reveal I hardly think they'd go for a Death Star Gunner. They may just be holding the RO figs back for another day in the show. I'm positive they would have a separate Rogue One section for those figs and not just have them sprinkled in with OT. I may be wrong on that, but I'm not wrong on that Stormtrooper. There's no way that's the RO version, it's just too different.

 

[Matt S]

The fact they made a new Stormtrooper instead of just endlessly using the first version is so weird and awesome to me. They absolutely didn't need to, but there it is.

I agree completely.

 

[Darth Skywalker]

Not a fan of the helmet or the weathering on the legs and feet. Takes away the versatility. The backdrop looks like it was whipped together too quickly. Meh.

 

[Bmacattack]

the weird thing, to me, is that they used their original stormtrooper molds for the Battlefront figures, but the game designs are based on ROTJ, meaning this mold would be much more suited.

 

[Mmmmm Napalm]

the weird thing, to me, is that they used their original stormtrooper molds for the Battlefront figures, but the game designs are based on ROTJ, meaning this mold would be much more suited.

Glad someone else noticed this too.

Honestly I prefer the Battlefront figures using the old HT helmet. RoTJ helmets look bad in my opinion.

 

[jkno]

I'm at work, and barely can see the pics, but this seems ROTJ not ESB. Black frown (mouth) is present on both ESB and ROTJ helmets, but there are tells showing this to be ROTJ. It has the cod piece with a U type trim, I would like to see the armor too, if it has the same trim, and the abdomen buttons. Blaster is MGC type (look at the scope, full scope rail, and flat muzzle), so that is definitely ROTJ.

 

[JonEl]

The hand looks like ESB to me.

Edit: just looked it up, I thought rotj went back to anh style hand plates- I was wrong.

 

[TaliBane]

Yeah, very cool to see the ROTJ stormie variant - with a new helmet sculpt.

Seems to be named "Classic" on the plate, maybe meaning it'll be sold beside the RO stormie?

 

[jkno]

Yeah, very cool to see the ROTJ stormie variant - with a new helmet sculpt.

Seems to be named "Classic" on the plate, maybe meaning it'll be sold beside the RO stormie?

RO Stormie is different from OT Stormies. I have a hunch we'll see RO ones released too some day after the movie is out.

 

[TaliBane]

RO Stormie is different from OT Stormies. I have a hunch we'll see RO ones released too some day after the movie is out.

Oh, I know, but I'm guessing the "classic" thing will differentiate them to the "untrained eye" when they're alongside the RO stormie (which to most people looks much the same as OT stormies)

 

[JonEl]

I'm thinking the term "Classic" might mean this isn't specific to any film and just Hot Toys' idealized version of an OT trooper.