Hot Toys Star Wars?

[OSCORP]

Someone needs to make a decent 1/6 Leia first.

 

[hunnipot85]

I think a Bespin or Bespin escape Leia would be awesome.

Sideshow hasn't tried that one have they?

 

[metaphorge]

That depends though. I firmly believe that one of the reasons Sideshow's SW license has been profitable, even in these times, is because they aren't charging HT prices. Really, I just think it's more of the same collaborative efforts like the Armored Bods and Hobbit bods.

I mostly agree, though I would not be at all surprised to see PERS crop up on a super-pricey Luke or Han sometime before 2012 arrives.

Sorta OT: Oh yeah, almost forgot: a collaboration gives sideshow access to one of the better female bodies in the industry. Maybe HT will end up collaborating on the Joe line after all, as I imagine we would have seen Scarlet by now if Sideshow had a tolerable female body; how the Iron Man 2 Black Widow turned out makes me optimistic for what a Sideshow/HT Baroness would look like. Getting ahead of myself though....

 

[thenammagazine]

I hope they make a Padme from Attack of the Clones. There's no good Padme collectibles out there.

I agree. The TPM portrait editions weren't bad though.

 

[metaphorge]

I agree. The TPM portrait editions weren't bad though.

I've been sitting on a spare head from the ill-conceived Snow Bunny Padme to get painted up, thrown on a truetype and put into one of those swank gowns. The bodies are Barbie-style dreck and the headsculpt left something to be desired, but the costuming was pretty amazing for a Hasbro product on all of those.

 

[Rook]

I'm still a fan of the Padmé vs. Nexu dio. And yes, I've been drinking.

Also, I'm just going to mail my debit card to Hot Toys tomorrow. Might as well get that plastic middle man out of the way.

 

[thenammagazine]

I've been sitting on a spare head from the ill-conceived Snow Bunny Padme to get painted up, thrown on a truetype and put into one of those swank gowns. The bodies are Barbie-style dreck and the headsculpt left something to be desired, but the costuming was pretty amazing for a Hasbro product on all of those.

That's mainly what I'm talking about. I'd love to see what Sideshow's costuming dept. could do with Padme. Sadly, we'll probably never know.

 

[Khev]

Really, I just think it's more of the same collaborative efforts like the Armored Bods and Hobbit bods.

If its just "more of the same" then why shout "THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH US" in the context of "new" licenses they'll soon be announcing? They didn't do that when collaborating on the Star Wars clones, why start now?

 

[metaphorge]

That's mainly what I'm talking about. I'd love to see what Sideshow's costuming dept. could do with Padme. Sadly, we'll probably never know.

Yeah, I would expect we'll see an AOTC Padme before anything else, and probably not as a sole-Sideshow effort (once again, those damned female bodies). I do hope we get at least one or two of Padme's outrageous TPM gowns with modern manufacturing and costuming out of someone eventually. (To be fair, I'm the kind of sucker they could sell Padme and her damned throne, but I have a thing for overpriced polystone chairs.)

Maybe Hot Toys can cure Sideshow of their polystone fetish? Nah, never happen....

 

[MaulFan]

I hope they make a Padme from Attack of the Clones. There's no good Padme collectibles out there.

That would be nice. Trev's sculpt rocks, but the female Buck is one UGLY base body, and her AOTC costume would show that off like the snowbunny figure. Padme's overdue, we haven't a single movie figure of her.

 

[JosephCPR]

I hope they make a Padme from Attack of the Clones. There's no good Padme collectibles out there.

The good thing about Padme or Leia is that Hot Toys wouldn't have to go for rooted hair, but sculpted as the male figures, which means 100% awesomeness

 

[JosephCPR]

Can you imagine a 1/6 Darth Talon by HT

 

[thenammagazine]

If its just "more of the same" then why shout "THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH US" in the context of "new" licenses they'll soon be announcing? They didn't do that when collaborating on the Star Wars clones, why start now?

Because they knew they could hook the feeble minded into believing they have the license? I think WorGar said it best when he talked about the spoon and how people ran with it and assumed it meant they had the Matrix license. I don't see how this is really any different. Again, if it were, they would've ran with WE HAVE STAR WARS and done a smaller plug for Indy.

Can you imagine a 1/6 Darth Talon by HT

Yeah, it'd last about a month or two, until the rubber started leaking and the thinner aspects started snapping off.

 

[Khev]

I think WorGar said it best when he talked about the spoon and how people ran with it and assumed it meant they had the Matrix license. I don't see how this is really any different.

When they teased the spoon they also teased a Batman symbol and Michael Jackson's Beat It shirt. Only the spoon was guessed incorrectly (and likely only by Western users.) The fact that some people guessed wrong once out of three teases doesn't exactly make Hot Toys' hints indecipherable.

In the interest of not getting my hopes disappointed I'm going to remain as skeptical as possible, but the evidence certainly points to them having acquired the SW 1/6 scale license to some degree (that is, a higher degree than simple collaboration on another base body.)

 

[JosephCPR]

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Yeah, it'd last about a month or two, until the rubber started leaking and the thinner aspects started snapping off.

 

[BuddyGus]

Well, guess I will be giving up 1/6 star wars. No way I can keep up at Hot Toys prices. I am barely staying in the game on SiseShows prices.

 

[Khev]

Well, guess I will be giving up 1/6 star wars. No way I can keep up at Hot Toys prices.

Well its not like they'd be releasing one a month or anything. What's their most frequent timeframe for any given figure license? Two or three a year?

 

[thenammagazine]

When they teased the spoon they also teased a Batman symbol and Michael Jackson's Beat It shirt. Only the spoon was guessed incorrectly (and likely only by Western users.) The fact that some people guessed wrong once out of three teases doesn't exactly make Hot Toys' hints indecipherable.

In the interest of not getting my hopes disappointed I'm going to remain as skeptical as possible, but the evidence certainly points to them having acquired the SW 1/6 scale license to some degree (that is, a higher degree than simple collaboration on another base body.)

I hear ya. Again though, if they had it, HT'd be screaming like a little girl that they did. What else can "Force" stand for? How many licenses have "force" in them? It could be that they're doing 1:4 busts for SW.

 

[EVILFACE]

Yeah, it'd last about a month or two, until the rubber started leaking and the thinner aspects started snapping off.

Naw, the figure itself would rot in store warehouses from not selling. Other than fap material for fans, it's a lame character.

 

[karamazov80]

Looking back at that announcement, they do seem to associate the potential Star Wars comment with the talk about next year's big announcements:

"In 2011, we will have even more breathtaking, overwhelming and unexpected licenses to be announced! Stay tuned!

THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH US!!!"

Meaning, it is very possible that they won't make this announcement, whatever it is, at their fair. But rather at some point in the next year. That could account for why they didn't spend more effort promoting the Star Wars acquirement in lieu of Indy.

Well its not like they'd be releasing one a month or anything. What's their most frequent timeframe for any given figure license? Two or three a year?

They did 5 Terminator figures this year, and I think they did 6 Iron Men (BD Mark III, Mech Test Tony, Whiplash, Black Widow, War Machine, Mark IV). BD Mark III may have been last year, though.