1/6 Luke Skywalker: Red Five X-Wing Pilot Sixth Scale Figure

[TonTon]

Because the gap between the prototype and the production piece is so vast that it seems dishonest.

And this is at all new with this particular SS figure? Really don't think it's much different than the difference with Hoth Han, for example. Completely different style of fur, pro paint job on the head sculpt, no separate eye system. Just seems par for the course with Sideshow, unfortunately.

 

[RIDDICK]

HOT freaking TOYS / 2015 / $230:

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Side-of-the-show Collectibles / 2015 / $240:

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My message to Sideshow: https://youtu.be/cPR1a8B9YtU?t=4s

 

[Rudimus]

I wonder if pixel is still going to use the SS sculpt on the HT Luke. Probably

 

[DarthAlias]

I wonder if pixel is still going to use the SS sculpt on the HT Luke. Probably

 

[Invictus Sol]

And this is at all new with this particular SS figure? Really don't think it's much different than the difference with Hoth Han, for example. Completely different style of fur, pro paint job on the head sculpt, no separate eye system. Just seems par for the course with Sideshow, unfortunately.

Yeah, maybe. With the SSC stuff I've bought, it seemed close enough but it has been limited to robots, gear and aliens. Hoth Han/Luke didn't even seem this stark but maybe I'm wrong on that.

 

[Mike86]

Usually when I read the "false advertising/bait and switch" comments it feels like hyperbole but in this case I'd wholeheartedly agree. The difference between the two is staggering.

I generally don't make comments like that and usually feel the same as you about people who say things like I did but honestly with Sideshow recently it seems true. They show something that looks great and then when the final product arrives it's crap. Of course they can get away with it because on every product page they have the message about how what's up for pre-order is a prototype and subject to change.

 

[hokietwo]

Sideshow sculpt is a tad soft around the chin, the butt chin is gone, but the sculpt isnt terrible. If they would just do some little things with gloss like with the eyes and maybe do some glossing on the hair with more definition it would not be nearly as bad.

These macro shots are always going to make things look way more pronounced than when you are 5 feet away viewing, but the detail here just shows how much quality HT makes when it is applied to good sculpts.

 

[Iggyrox]

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Side-of-the-show Collectibles / 2015 / $240:

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My message to Sideshow: https://youtu.be/cPR1a8B9YtU?t=3s

 

[kl241]

HOT freaking TOYS / 2015 / $230:

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Side-of-the-show Collectibles / 2015 / $240:

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My message to Sideshow: https://youtu.be/cPR1a8B9YtU?t=3s

The moles look great on the Hot Toys sculpt because they are subtle and blend in naturally with the freckles/pores on the skin. The SS sculpt has no skin tone texturing and shows the brutally harsh contrast between the moles and the pallid skin tone. Sideshow is certainly not known for their subtlety.

 

[Mike86]

Yep. The moles on the Sideshow sculpt look weird because they're pretty much the only paint detail on it.

 

[AIR]

That is a joke.

 

[Rorywan]

I wonder if pixel is still going to use the SS sculpt on the HT Luke. Probably

 

[Cixx]

Damn SS has balls to charge that much and come out with that. BIG BALLS.! Don't feel sorry for them for the backlash either it's LONG overdue.

 

[AIR]

I always thought the idea was to improve on the prototype.

 

[Asta]

Damn SS has balls to charge that much and come out with that. BIG BALLS.! Don't feel sorry for them for the backlash either it's LONG overdue.

Great big shiny balls!

Not knowing what they put in the paint in China, I wouldn't do this to the sculpt though...

 

[jedijim3002]

"He's got black eyes lifeless eyes like a dolls eyes!"

 

[Creighton]

Glass is half full approach.

Its not that the SS sculpt is bad, its because the HT sculpt is so GOOD!

 

[Asta]

If it's a problem in hand, I have a back-up plan...

 

[Creighton]

This would be my cost in CA... $274.67 total

Tax: $18
Shipping: $16.68 -- ships 17 miles





Remember this picture of the proto -- TWO heads -- over a year ago?


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Maybe the 2nd head that they dropped was the one that looked like the proto?

Not only that but who's the genius that thought it would be cool to package Luke with out either of the two aforementioned heads attached?

 

[TaliBane]

Nope. They always $!@# up the human figures. Sideshow should stick with what they do best, non-human aliens and droids. They are going to milk the droid repaints now like they did the clones.

They do those best, but honestly, who's going to pay $240 for the upcoming Dengar or something like a Gamorrean? And 3PO has a small amount of reuse, but a one-off droid like IG-88 was $180 3 1/2 years ago. That would be a $270 figure today. With the surge of HT releases, I just think the demand for these types of SSC releases is lower and the price much higher.

And not sure there's much mileage in protocol/astromech droid repaints for Sideshow. Once you get beyond a black R2 and white 3PO, the pool kind of dries up. It's not like Hasbro where you only pay another $5-10 for a different color.

The upper body of the flight suit looks kinda puffy to me. Really liked how simple and clean the tailoring looked on the prototype. Lots of bunched up spots in the photos we've seen so far. Still curious if other bodies will suit the tailoring better but I can't imagine too many or gonna drop the chunk of change it'll take to get all the parts or the actual figure. Be curious what the parted out pieces go for on TA, but it seems like you'd need everything.

Well, if we have to pay $240 for this, Toy Anxiety isn't paying too much less. And what is there to part out on this figure really? A jumpsuit with a few bits, a helmet and a head that everyone may be mocking as another Drake? So it's going to be $$$ on every piece of this fig unfortunately - if they even do (for them, it's a huge amount of money for a potentially shunned head and not many parts.)

Like everything, it does... until it doesn't.

This could be the beginning of the 'doesn't'. I know this figure is a tipping point for a lot of people here. Me included.

This month is the 10 year anniversary of the beginning of the Sideshow SW line - which started with a Luke. Ironically, the beginning of the end of the line may also a Luke.