Hot Toys Star Wars?

[Wanderer]

I suspect the long rumoured ESB or ROTJ Vader will be Hot Toys one and only venture into this licence in DX form. As it's a calaborative efforts with Sideshow (I assume like Indy)
Hot Toys doing Star Wars as a full time effort would be good n' bad. Good coz of their unrivalled skill in 1/6. Bad coz they're track record for completing licenses is abysmal

 

[karamazov80]

How many lines has Sideshow "completed," out of curiosity? Buffy seems close, though I don't follow that franchise at all. X-Files? Did Planet of the Apes get all the characters everyone wanted? I know GI Joe and Starwars are ongoing and wouldn't be expected to be "completed," but I'm trying to figure out what criteria we're using where Sideshow has done what Hot Toys has not.

 

[MaulFan]

I don't care who does it, I do want ROTJ Vader real soon, my most wanted Vader they could make.

 

[Darkseed]

I suspect the long rumoured ESB or ROTJ Vader will be Hot Toys one and only venture into this licence in DX form. As it's a calaborative efforts with Sideshow (I assume like Indy)
Hot Toys doing Star Wars as a full time effort would be good n' bad. Good coz of their unrivalled skill in 1/6. Bad coz they're track record for completing licenses is abysmal

I am fine with SW Dlx.... Actually I'd prefer something like it.

However a lot of IFs starting from Hasbro to SS ending at HT. IF they get 1:6 license could be exclusive to a segment. Only OT or only PT or only EU or only Clone Wars etc. It may not be all inclusive. It depends on what is given and what will sale in Asian market.

 

[MaulFan]

How many lines has Sideshow "completed," out of curiosity? Buffy seems close, though I don't follow that franchise at all. X-Files? Did Planet of the Apes get all the characters everyone wanted? I know GI Joe and Starwars are ongoing and wouldn't be expected to be "completed," but I'm trying to figure out what criteria we're using where Sideshow has done what Hot Toys has not.

It seems like even if a Sideshow line isn't completed, the most core characters are at least accounted for, where HT lines have been known to lack more vital characters and include meaningless ones. The LOTR is the only Sideshow line I can think of where the most important characters weren't all covered and it wasn't a licensing/likeness conflict.

 

[Darkseed]

IMO HT gets a license it will be to cover human characters. SS hit the main core from both OT (Luke, Han, Leia, Ben and Emperor) and PT (Anakin, Obi, Palpatine, Padme, Mace (maybe) in some fashion. Making armored or creatures would conflict with SS current direction.

 

[superdoug]

It might just be a partnership with Sideshow to do the stuff Sideshow needs help on like the females, any of the muscle bodies and and light up features.

 

[devilof76]

How many lines has Sideshow "completed," out of curiosity?...what criteria we're using where Sideshow has done what Hot Toys has not.

Technically, The Dead is complete.

 

[Wanderer]

I think the DX Bruce Lee vs Enterbay is proof that there is room in the Asian markets for two companies to bring out rival figures of the same franchise. Shouldn't be a problem having Hot Toys vs Medicom SW figures going head to head.
As I said earlier and someone else touched on, this is quite obviously a collaboration with SS rather than a Hot Toys winning the golden ticket licence announcement. DX Vader would therefore be the logical choice IMO as the figure for HT to tackle as he is the icon of the SW universe. Just imagine: Anakin reveal head, PERS, light up functions, battle damaged right arm...oh yesh
I just don't see it going beyond this, just like Indy...

 

[Cap'n Cook]

I don't care who does it, I do want ROTJ Vader real soon, my most wanted Vader they could make.

Why would that be your most wanted, out of interest?

 

[Smudger9]

I'm really excited about this. Sideshow have done fantastic aliens and their armoured figures are superb, however, I have found their humans to be sub par. I'd love to see HT do Jedi Luke, Bespin Han and Hoth Leia. Oh, and don't forget Chewie.

 

[KBA]

I have a growing suspicion we will only see Chewie and the Droids from HT. If we see any re-do's of what Sideshow has covered, it will only be in DX form. Really frothing at the mouth for an official announcement on this one..

 

[Rook]

I'm thinking Chewbacca, as well any females that we haven't seen yet.

 

[YoNoSe]

Technically, The Dead is complete.

Also, The Mummy Premium Format line was carried out to perfection.

 

[MaulFan]

Why would that be your most wanted, out of interest?

ROTJ is my favorite OT film, and the reveal of Anakin Skywalkwer is one of my most cherished moments in all of Star Wars, it created a fixation with me over merchandise capturing it. I remember being so excited by the first Hasbor 4" figure to have the feature, then the 14" one that had the 3 piece helmet like the movie. There's just something about that scene that I just love.

 

[karamazov80]

I can't tell one Vader from the other

 

[MaulFan]

I can't tell one Vader from the other

Other than the blatant stuff, neither can I. To me, ESB and ROTJ are pretty much the same, I only spot those 2 from ANH because of the change of how his inner robe is worn under the armor after ANH, and also the gloss of his helmet and armor. My draw to ROTJ Vader as a figure is for the reveal feature. They could do the fine details true to the ESB suit and I wouldn't really notice or care as long as the reveal function was there, and if possible, option for a severed right hand.

 

[The Josh]

If HT has anything to do with a ROTJ I hope the reveal sculpt is a seperate head piece. Kind of like they've done with the Iron Man stuff.

 

[SwedishHeat]

How many lines has Sideshow "completed," out of curiosity?

I hate all this sniping that Hot Toys can't finish lines. I think Sideshow's most complete line is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, they've got pretty much everybody covered there. There's more figures than there were actors in the film.

Buffy/Angel is incomplete, Highlander is incomplete, LOTR is incomplete, Indy is incomplete. Hell, even old stuff like Get Smart (needs Agent 99) and Hellboy (Professor Broom, Liz Sherman) still weren't finished. It's just not possible to do EVERYBODY. If Sideshow would've put out Wesley, I probably would've jumped into Buffy/Angel right at the last minute.

It's a lose-lose for Hot Toys, people say "Hot Toys are so expensive, I couldn't manage a full line-up" and then it's "Hot Toys never finishes a line". The fact is, at the prices Hot Toys charges, and at the rate they release figures, it's just not realistic for them to release a "complete line".

 

[MaulFan]

Well, a lot of the aggrivation with HT is often, it's only one more figure from being complete. If it were a few left out, I think it'd be easier to swallow. Like POTC, as many characters as they could do from those films, they really only needed to make a Barbossa figure to feel that the most pivotal characters were covered. Aliens, Bishop and Newt were all it'd take to feel that the most crucial characters were covered. TDK, all that really needed to be done to make that feel more complete would be Gordon.

While some may feel that "complete" extends to even certain secondary characters, I think most people would agree that a license has certain, really key characters in it and that at minimum a line should represent all of those characters.