Medicom Jango Fett with SSC generic girl body

[jediburrick]

I've recently bought a Medi Jango. As soon as I've started to play with it, the left hip and right shoulder broke in a matter of seconds. I've read that I'm not the only one who suffer this problem. Is this really worth $150 ??? What kind of lazy, sloppy and unprofessional production team would give a go and commercialize such a crappy piece of plastic (the body, not the suit)? I have a Medi Boba coming and a Medi Henry Jones Sr in a box. Both were obvioulsy bought before I realized about their cheap bodies. I've thus bought 2 clearanced BBTVS Willow and I'm ready to use them as body replacements. I will take no risk with Medi bodies and will never buy another figure from them again. For $150 a figure, I consider Medicom as a joke, not a toy company.

Anyway, after a couple of weeks and some forum readings (SSF, rebelscum and such) I've been able to calm down. I've first try to find a TTM10 slim body, but it's sold out everywhere I've looked for it. Then, I've stumbled upon a "cheap" loose Leia Boussh at Legends (a hobby shop in Montreal). The idea had already grown on me, but wasn't sure at all. I knew that the Boba Medi body type was shorter than its SSC male counterparts, so I've thought that maybe a female SSC body could be close enough in terms of height and shape. That's why I've decided to give Leia a try...and it worked (almost) like a charm!

Ok, so I've had to :

- use the empty Leia cylindric head and some foam for the head that wears the helmet

- drill a slightly bigger hole in Jango's head to sit confortably on the Leia's neck peg (for displaying Jango without helmet)

- force just a little at the hips to put the holster/belt combo (Leia's a girl and it shows at this figure's hips level). Gave me some shivers, but it passed just fine. At worse I would have re-glued the small parts if some would have snapped away, but it worked

- Used the Boushh "velcro-string-body-belt-brown-thingy" and some foam around the belly to counteract the "boob effect"

- Had to cut the "male" hand joints and drill the Jango's hands


Her feet are smaller than the original Medicom's, but it fits the boots ok and really doesn't show.

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Here are the (rather crappy, I apologize) pics showing the results of Jango using the standard girl body from sideshow (Leia Boussh here) :

 

[unsung hero]

Looks good! If it was mine, the only thing I would do different is replace the Medi Jango headsculpt since you're not using it for the helmet anyway. I always thought that Hasbro did a fantastic job sculpting that head, just not painting it. But again, that is my preference. It looks fantastic!

 

[jediburrick]

Thanks! gotta take a look at Hasbro's head. I've never really paid attention to their 12" heads before.

I'll post some better pics down the road. I'm currently quitting smoking so I lack some concentration and the pics are clearly suffering from it. One can clearly see the fake Leia's chin pointing in a different direction relatively to the helmet's in the 1rst shot. Most importantly, I think that some of the poses are irrelevant and the background really left to be desired. I'll re-think and re-post later

 

[galactiboy]

great idea... never would have known you were using a female body.

I used a HT Slim and was very happy with the result, but honestly yours looks great and I'm sure was a cheaper alternative.

 

[automaton]

the Medicom body that both the original Jango and Boba were on wasn't already a girl body?

 

[jediburrick]

No, this is the body Medicom used :

This is the one I've used. It's a lot narrower at the waist and wider at the hips, while the shoulder are about the same as the Medi. And it have boobs :

 

[lerath666]

No, this is the body Medicom used :

This is the one I've used. It's a lot narrower at the waist and wider at the hips, while the shoulder are about the same as the Medi. And it have boobs :