NEXT SW 12" IS KIT FISTO!!!!

[MicroJow]

How's about this for the exclusive? Take a page from Marvel Legends: A Battle Droid head. Then the next "secondary" Jedi can come with an arm. The next, with a leg, etc...

Hmmm. Know what? I'm not sure I like my own idea. If this was the Exclusive piece, then it would mean HAVING to get ALL the Exclusive versions to build the Battle Droid.

- Jow!

 

[Winged Shadows]

Cheers, i'll pass.

 

[Protozaius]

I didn't become a Kit Fisto fan until the Clone Wars animated series. I thought his make-up job in AOTC wasn't great. It smacked more of a background alien than any thing else. During filming, they probably didn't plan on the character taking off like he did with one simple smile. I'm glad they refined his look for ROTS. Unfortunately he wasn't given a moment to shine in that film. Maybe he could have been another Jedi lost in "The Purge" scenes, fighting on some far flung planet like Ki-Adi Mundi and Plo Koon instead of being part of Mace's doomed posse.

I think it would have been a mistake if Sideshow tooled him to look like he did in AOTC... with a smile or not. It would have looked like something Hasbro would churned out. There isn't enough detail in the source make-up to provide a basis for a great sculpt. That's why I think the figure looks great tooled as the Kit Fisto in ROTS. A another dead-on likeness in my book. I wonder who sculpted him?

Unfortunately, people are going to complain that he doesn't look like the crude version of Kit Fisto with that stupid smile of his. I, for one can smile that he isn't.

 

[Darth Rage]

Unfortunately, people are going to complain that he doesn't look like the crude version of Kit Fisto with that stupid smile of his. I, for one can smile that he isn't.

I always thought that smile of his at Geonosis was a touch cheesy. Bring him on as is.

 

[Seretur]

Count me in for the smile-free brigade. Kit is scary and squishy in the preview pic, just the way I like him.

And I'm quite sure Dusty isn't yanking our chain when she says how cool he is in person. He might surprise us all in the end. Nevertheless, I do hope his ES gets to be significantly smaller than the main characters' -- at least for the exclusive version. We Fistofans are a smaller, yet very rabid bunch!

 

[Darth Madden]

I'll decide next week if I want him or not. I'm not sure right now. He didn't have much screen time in the movies and he died like a bitch,

And the "die like a bitch" Boba Fett is so much better.

 

[chamildav]

"And the "die like a bitch" Boba Fett is so much better."
Nope. I think people dig his costume and turned him into a way cooler character than he was in the movies. Boba Fett REALLY went out like bitch. Screamed like a little girl and everything. The most ridiculous and over rated character in Star Wars. His one interesting moment was in "A Star Wars Christmas" special. Good cartoon.
I think Boba is about as cool as Jar Jar. I'll probably be buying both when SSC announces them. No sales resistance.

 

[EVILFACE]

"And the "die like a bitch" Boba Fett is so much better."
Nope. I think people dig his costume and turned him into a way cooler character than he was in the movies. Boba Fett REALLY went out like bitch. Screamed like a little girl and everything. The most ridiculous and over rated character in Star Wars. His one interesting moment was in "A Star Wars Christmas" special. Good cartoon.
I think Boba is about as cool as Jar Jar. I'll probably be buying both when SSC announces them. No sales resistance.

All the more ironic. The big bad ass bounty hunter going out like a screaming panzie His daddy died a more honorable death!

 

[Buttmunch]

How's about this for the exclusive? Take a page from Marvel Legends: A Battle Droid head. Then the next "secondary" Jedi can come with an arm. The next, with a leg, etc...

Hmmm. Know what? I'm not sure I like my own idea. If this was the Exclusive piece, then it would mean HAVING to get ALL the Exclusive versions to build the Battle Droid.

- Jow!

I already beat you to it Jow. In the "Possible way to make Grevious" thread, I suggested they do that with Grevious. Except he wouldn't be an exclusive piece. I'm not sure there is enough of a demand to EVER make a battle droid this way or not.

 

[Protozaius]

You don't die like a "bitch" if the Dark Lord himself gets the jump on you. I can't believe that people would go as far as disliking him outright because of that one scene.

My take on that scene was that Lucas HAD to get rid of Mace's posse in that room where they all first confront Palpatine. Lucas had dispose of both Kit and Agen quickly and move the saber action to the next room so Anakin wouldn't see the dead bodies when he arrived on the scene. Seeing them might have given Anakin pause to side with the defenseless Palpatine at the critical moment.

Unfortunately, the result is that Kit Fitso's and Agen Kolar's demise seem a bit rushed dramatically. Of course, the sound effects don't help either. Thanks, Ben!

I also remember seeing a part of the documentary on the ROTS DVD about that whole Mace/Palpatine confrontation scene being rushed in terms of staging it during filming. Initially, the stunt work wasn't worked out to Lucas's liking. That would also add to the awkwardnesss of the scene overall.

 

[elwood49]

If only a Kit 1/4 could be released simultaneously with the 12". I hope SS has a few interesting and inspired choices like this for the 1/4 line.

As I said before, with every company offering Vader, Maul, Fett, and Yoda, it gets old fast.

There aren't many Kit products out there at all, which has really peaked my interest in seeing this piece.

 

[Seretur]

My take on that scene was that Lucas HAD to get rid of Mace's posse in that room where they all first confront Palpatine. Lucas had dispose of both Kit and Agen quickly and move the saber action to the next room so Anakin wouldn't see the dead bodies when he arrived on the scene. Seeing them might have given Anakin pause to side with the defenseless Palpatine at the critical moment.

Unfortunately, the result is that Kit Fitso's and Agen Kolar's demise seem a bit rushed dramatically. Of course, the sound effects don't help either. Thanks, Ben!

I also remember seeing a part of the documentary on the ROTS DVD about that whole Mace/Palpatine confrontation scene being rushed in terms of staging it during filming. Initially, the stunt work wasn't worked out to Lucas's liking. That would also add to the awkwardnesss of the scene overall.

Very much agree on all points. If we only had Palpatine visibly stunning the three Jedi with some sort of a Dark Side trick, and then moving in for a kill, we'd have had no complaints about this scene.

But it's a time-honored SW tradition. Can you imagine the outcry of "LAAAAME" that would greet the Vader/Obi-Wan duel if ANH came out right now?

...yeah. Like anything, really, we like SW because it's almost perfect; we love it because of its imperfections.

 

[Customikey]

I'm not sure I agree about Vader, etc. getting "old fast." They've been rehashing Vader for the past 20+ years, and people still clamor for more. The madness over the Medicom Vader and the bated breath most of us are holding for SSC's 14" version sort of proves that.

Looking forward to my Darths, personally.

 

[Darth Madden]

"And the "die like a bitch" Boba Fett is so much better."
Nope. I think people dig his costume and turned him into a way cooler character than he was in the movies. Boba Fett REALLY went out like bitch. Screamed like a little girl and everything. The most ridiculous and over rated character in Star Wars. His one interesting moment was in "A Star Wars Christmas" special. Good cartoon.
I think Boba is about as cool as Jar Jar. I'll probably be buying both when SSC announces them. No sales resistance.

Boba was my favorite character but after seeing him as a kid and having his awsome voice changed in the OT I really don't care for him much anymore... But like you I will probably still buy him if/when he comes out.

 

[Seretur]

Agree on the voice. Increases continuity, destroys the coolness.

 

[Buttmunch]

They should have had Jango talk like the orignial Boba voice when he had his helmet on. His voice would change, like Vader.

 

[JustinLuck]

What do you guys think of a Kit Fisto with closed mouth like the one shown in the side pic?

 

[The Josh]

I would prefer him that way.

He needs a cleft chin too. LOL

 

[Darth Madden]

He probably looks a little better that way but the open mouth is ok too. Not like it matters to me anyway since I'm not getting him.

 

[Agent23]

Side Note: I love your avatar madden. My daughter loves Toy Story...

"To infinity...and beyond!"



I think this Kit Fisto is going to be a sleeper piece...