Hot Toys The Last Jedi Luke Skywalker 1/6 Figure

[thxr1088]

Is that on the normal TFA Luke body? Right arm looks a bit short.

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[Mike86]

Is it me or does the hair on the TLJ sculpt seem too dark?

 

[SilverStar17]

Too dark compared to TFA sculpt, I’d agree. But TFA sculpt still kind of has a copper tint to it, and he isn’t blonde at all in the ST. While it may be slightly too dark, TLJ hair color I think still looks more accurate.

 

[Darth Fok]

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Side by side comparison

Painting TFA > TLJ

Likeness TLJ > TFA





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Thanks for the comparison. TFA head sculpt doesn’t look too bad in comparison actually

 

[mattinglymint23]

Figure looks great. Glad I pre-ordered.

This must be from a legacy book? Don’t remember this look from E7... is this maybe a preview of e8?

Hopefully we get a real powerful Luke in next two films and close out this Skywalker saga with a real bang. Can’t wait to find out about how the lightsaber was found and all the connections with Rey and Snoke. Super excited for E8!


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[RPM716]

Is that on the normal TFA Luke body? Right arm looks a bit short.

If I remember correctly, the right arm is cut about halfway down the forearm for the mechanical hand so I think that’s why it looks so short with a different hand.


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[ajp4mgs]

You'd kind of think a "I'm heading out to burn a tree" outfit would be more like his normal dirty outfit plus gas can.

It's hard to understand what that even means though as because - as I understand it - the tree itself is nothing but a hollowed out old tree, ie the tree itself is not significant (ie this tree was not some kind of "Jedi library" of the distant past). And the books in it were books that Luke himself assembled over time - I assume in his travels - and then put into the tree when he arrived, he didn't find them there. Why he chose to store them in an old tree instead of in his hut is unclear.

So I guess this "I'm burning the tree down" thing is kind of odd given that it's simply an old tree (albeit on a historically significant island) and he could just take the books out and do whatever he wants with them. It's a bit like storing the Magna Carta in a garden shed and then dramatically saying "I'm going to burn down the garden shed".

The tree's significance is actually made explicitly clear in the movie. When Rey tells Luke that she'd seen that place before in dreams, Luke tells her that it was built a thousand generations earlier in order to house the first Jedi texts. It's not just a random tree that was hollowed out. It had a very specific (and sacred) design/purpose. Not only was the library built during the origins of the Jedi for that sacred purpose, but it was significant enough for Rey to have seen it in her dreams. Here's the bit of dialogue as presented in the TLJ novelization:



Luke's reason for being on that island, and how it relates to the tree library, is made even more explicitly clear on the next page. Here's part of that page, still from the scene with Rey and Luke in the tree library (I underlined the relevant section):



Luke intended to end the Jedi where their earliest roots had been, and where the sacred texts were meant to be. He seems to still have enough reverence for the Jedi to want to do it all with respect and ceremonial dignity. That's what I take away from him wearing the Jedi outfit, and from wanting to burn the books in their sacred holding place (as opposed to taking them somewhere random). I think the movie (and novelization) gives the tree library a clearly symbolic, as well as practical, significance to both Luke's intentions and the Jedi Order itself.

 

[Khev]

Yeah he did state that outright in the film didn't he. Good point ajp.

 

[chemicals]

“They’re just movies” I completely agree. TFA and TLJ are just movies, and there’s my issue with these films in a nutshell. We deserved better. I waited 39 years to see a sequel worthy of the original Star Wars legendary films. I’m still waiting.

Dude, they’re all just movies. No sequel is gonna live up to your imaginary version caked in nostalgia filters

 

[TaliBane]

Yeah, nice work ajp.

Any word on why books though? There's not a single other book, pen or piece of paper in the whole saga to my recollection.

 

[Khev]

I believe that those glowing spines lining the shelves of AOTC's Jedi library are considered "books" but I'm guessing they don't have paper pages.

 

[Sachiel]

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Luke intended to end the Jedi where their earliest roots had been, and where the sacred texts were meant to be. He seems to still have enough reverence for the Jedi to want to do it all with respect and ceremonial dignity. That's what I take away from him wearing the Jedi outfit, and from wanting to burn the books in their sacred holding place (as opposed to taking them somewhere random). I think the movie (and novelization) gives the tree library a clearly symbolic, as well as practical, significance to both Luke's intentions and the Jedi Order itself.

Luke was going to self-immolate by fire inside the tree.

Dude, they’re all just movies. No sequel is gonna live up to your imaginary version caked in nostalgia filters

They could have atleast tried.

 

[thxr1088]

Switching the head sculpt back and forth between TFA and TLJ in this few days, just don’t know why, I still think this is the best combination. TFA head on TLJ body is way better than stock version.

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[LinktheJedi]

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With brown glove on

Side by side comparison

Painting TFA > TLJ

Likeness TLJ > TFA





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Do you know where we can purchase a wrist joint extender for the gloves ? Would the ankle extender joints work from OSK ?

 

[davejames]

Is it me or does the hair on the TLJ sculpt seem too dark?

Yeah it looks way too dark to me as well. Unless you're going for his look in one of the rainy island scenes. Lol

 

[ajp4mgs]

Yeah, nice work ajp.

Any word on why books though? There's not a single other book, pen or piece of paper in the whole saga to my recollection.

Not only does TLJ have the only book(s) that I can recall being in the cinematic saga, it doubled down by having the only pen too. The pen is in the flashback scenes next to Ben's lightsaber. Outside of being a visual metaphor for "the pen is mightier than the sword" (even a laser sword), I have no idea why it was shown in Ben Solo's hut. It was prominent enough to likely have some purpose, though.

Coincidentally, the only other handwriting reference in any SW story that I can remember is a recent one as well. In the "Bloodline" novel (set 6 years prior to TFA), Leia discovers a handwritten note telling her to run. Because of it, she managed to escape from a bomb that went off in the Senate. I doubt that the note has any connection at all to Ben's pen in TLJ, but handwriting seems to be a novelty now in these new SW stories.

As for why books were chosen, I can only speculate. My best guess has to do with the PT Jedi library that Khev referenced. Once Lucas established that the PT-era Jedi Temple had a library, Johnson may have wanted to root that concept to the very first Jedi Temple. Seeing as how the Ahch-To one predated the Coruscant one by thousands of years, perhaps books seemed like an appropriate way to represent a more archaic form of the digital data files seen on the shelves in the PT.

Either way, I was glad to see a Jedi library in the prequels (and also used a handful of times in the Clone Wars series) because it attaches a scholarly component to being a Jedi. It's not just about acquiring skills like levitating and sword fighting, it's just as much about acquiring knowledge. I like that! The TLJ library is more spiritual than scholastic, but I appreciate the foundation of knowledge being key to the Jedi religion/way.

Switching the head sculpt back and forth between TFA and TLJ in this few days, just don’t know why, I still think this is the best combination. TFA head on TLJ body is way better than stock version.

Maybe the more stern expression on the TFA sculpt is a better fit for TLJ Luke. I'll probably end up making the same switch.

Yeah it looks way too dark to me as well. Unless you're going for his look in one of the rainy island scenes. Lol

I was actually thinking that the flat hair of the TFA hs would work well on TLJ Luke to recreate the rain-soaked pose with hand outstretched when he blew up Rey's hut at the end.

 

[Mike86]

Switching the head sculpt back and forth between TFA and TLJ in this few days, just don’t know why, I still think this is the best combination. TFA head on TLJ body is way better than stock version.

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That actually looks better to me too. It’s weird as the TFA sculpt looks off on the TFA figure, but looks good on the TLJ figure. I think the TLJ sculpt is technically better, but the hair is too dark.

 

[Darth Fok]

Switching the head sculpt back and forth between TFA and TLJ in this few days, just don’t know why, I still think this is the best combination. TFA head on TLJ body is way better than stock version.

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I agree. I think the expressions on the head sculpt suit the bodies better

 

[TaliBane]

That actually looks better to me too. It’s weird as the TFA sculpt looks off on the TFA figure, but looks good on the TLJ figure. I think the TLJ sculpt is technically better, but the hair is too dark.

It is a really weird thing about how certain heads work better in combination with certain bodies. I was recently swapping some OT Luke heads around and it was weird how a certain head would "click" in combination with an outfit that it didn't come with.

Not only does TLJ have the only book(s) that I can recall being in the cinematic saga, it doubled down by having the only pen too. The pen is in the flashback scenes next to Ben's lightsaber. Outside of being a visual metaphor for "the pen is mightier than the sword" (even a laser sword), I have no idea why it was shown in Ben Solo's hut. It was prominent enough to likely have some purpose, though.

Coincidentally, the only other handwriting reference in any SW story that I can remember is a recent one as well. In the "Bloodline" novel (set 6 years prior to TFA), Leia discovers a handwritten note telling her to run. Because of it, she managed to escape from a bomb that went off in the Senate. I doubt that the note has any connection at all to Ben's pen in TLJ, but handwriting seems to be a novelty now in these new SW stories.

As for why books were chosen, I can only speculate. My best guess has to do with the PT Jedi library that Khev referenced. Once Lucas established that the PT-era Jedi Temple had a library, Johnson may have wanted to root that concept to the very first Jedi Temple. Seeing as how the Ahch-To one predated the Coruscant one by thousands of years, perhaps books seemed like an appropriate way to represent a more archaic form of the digital data files seen on the shelves in the PT.

Either way, I was glad to see a Jedi library in the prequels (and also used a handful of times in the Clone Wars series) because it attaches a scholarly component to being a Jedi. It's not just about acquiring skills like levitating and sword fighting, it's just as much about acquiring knowledge. I like that! The TLJ library is more spiritual than scholastic, but I appreciate the foundation of knowledge being key to the Jedi religion/way.

Some solid logic (seriously, you're better than Leland Chee with weaving this together - I'm consistently underwhelmed with what that guy comes up with) and we are certainly increasingly going more paper/penless today vs 1000 years ago.

I would probably have rather seen scrolls or something (like the Dead Sea ones) because it's more timeless or maybe just more books - what's in the movie is a non-bookworm's reading shelf and seems almost silly for Luke to go to the trouble of putting so few in there rather than keeping them in his hut.

It also might have been cooler if the library was already there to some degree, though in ruins, when Luke arrived - like scattered/rotting leatherbound volumes that hadn't been cracked open in 1500 years or whatever. Rather than Luke hob-nobbing through antique shops throughout the galaxy buying rare first editions during his search for Ahch-to.

Re the PT library, I see darker plans afoot...

 

[fantasticfrog]

The tree's significance is actually made explicitly clear in the movie. When Rey tells Luke that she'd seen that place before in dreams, Luke tells her that it was built a thousand generations earlier in order to house the first Jedi texts. It's not just a random tree that was hollowed out. It had a very specific (and sacred) design/purpose. Not only was the library built during the origins of the Jedi for that sacred purpose, but it was significant enough for Rey to have seen it in her dreams. Here's the bit of dialogue as presented in the TLJ novelization:

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Luke's reason for being on that island, and how it relates to the tree library, is made even more explicitly clear on the next page. Here's part of that page, still from the scene with Rey and Luke in the tree library (I underlined the relevant section):

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Luke intended to end the Jedi where their earliest roots had been, and where the sacred texts were meant to be. He seems to still have enough reverence for the Jedi to want to do it all with respect and ceremonial dignity. That's what I take away from him wearing the Jedi outfit, and from wanting to burn the books in their sacred holding place (as opposed to taking them somewhere random). I think the movie (and novelization) gives the tree library a clearly symbolic, as well as practical, significance to both Luke's intentions and the Jedi Order itself.

I’m so glad I waited 30 years to see Luke onscreen as a suicidal hermit who wants to start a forest fire.