PROMETHEUS: The future !!!!

[Sachiel]

They are taller than the should be, but it shouldn't be too bad.

Yoda definitely will need a new body. No question.

 

[The Craw]

if they did make the hobbits as small as they should be you'd get almost no facial detail. the damn heads would be too small. how they hell would they sculpt them. i think they will look great. the body just isnt shorter, its smaller all around.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

if they did make the hobbits as small as they should be you'd get almost no facial detail. the damn heads would be too small. how they hell would they sculpt them. i think they will look great. the body just isnt shorter, its smaller all around.

Not only that, but at that scale the clothing would start to look like the cloth bits that come on those Hasbro 4" Star Wars figures.

 

[screamingmetal]

I do think the Hobbits will end up being a bit tall, but in the one picture showing the silhouettes of all the characters Sam and Frodo look pretty good.

I agree I'm just happy with how they look overall and I really can't wait to get them. If they turn out over 7" tall, I'll just display them on ledge that's in front and lower then the human sized characters so you wouldn't be able to tell that they are too tall. Slight size discrepancies are not a huge gripe with me with the Hobbits and Dwarves.

I have the Medicom ESB Yoda which is perfect so I don't need another ESB version. But the PT Yodas have to be super poseable. SSC needs to figure this one out, I don't want a unposeable PT Yoda.

 

[galactiboy]

Here's the picture I was talking about... a tad tall but still looks great.

 

[Sachiel]

if they did make the hobbits as small as they should be you'd get almost no facial detail. the damn heads would be too small. how they hell would they sculpt them. i think they will look great. the body just isnt shorter, its smaller all around.

Well they could just make the heads bigger, like they already did.

 

[The Craw]

Well they could just make the heads bigger, like they already did.

i saw that one coming a mile away. i was just wondering who would say it.

 

[The Josh]

Here's the picture I was talking about... a tad tall but still looks great.

In person I didnt think they looked really any taller than I thought but they where right beside each other. I'm just glad they have a bodie for them that really pretty much fits and can give us characters like Gimli, Yoda, and Short round.

 

[Darklord Dave]

The hobbits are between 8 -9 inches tall with the head. The picture of the Fellowship in Rivendell is what a lot of people have posted to show the scale of the characters, but as we know the hobbit sizes in the films varied depending on whether the actors were acting with tall stand ins or whether the little people stand-ins were working with the standard size actors. I think it's a good compromise with what they've come up with, not so small that detail would be lost or impossible, yet still will look like hobbits next to the other figures.

But the hobbit bodies are based on the old HT bodies, not the Pro.

 

[creecher]

Anyone else have a problem with modularity? Just looking at a couple of figures with extended legs on a normal body and it looks wrong. e.g. Bond Jaws.
It may not be noticeable on certain figures because of their costume, like the Kanamit. I guess it is a compromise, just as it was before.

 

[JustinLuck]

Anyone else have a problem with modularity? Just looking at a couple of figures with extended legs on a normal body and it looks wrong. e.g. Bond Jaws.
It may not be noticeable on certain figures because of their costume, like the Kanamit. I guess it is a compromise, just as it was before.

I agree that modularity sucks because all they do is shorten or lengthen the legs. So then you get monkey arms or super long torsos. Or they shorten the upper arm and leave a really long forearm.

I would much rather have a portioned body for each height. I don't understand why Sideshow needs to be so stingy when you can walk into any Dollar Store or Big Lots and find hundreds of toys from no name companies that have all sorts of custom molded parts.

 

[The Josh]

I agree that modularity sucks because all they do is shorten or lengthen the legs. So then you get monkey arms or super long torsos. Or they shorten the upper arm and leave a really long forearm.

I would much rather have a portioned body for each height. I don't understand why Sideshow needs to be so stingy when you can walk into any Dollar Store or Big Lots and find hundreds of toys from no name companies that have all sorts of custom molded parts.

I believe they've said they can take the bodies apart and make them ok overall. Unless I totally didn't get what was said.

You where one of the main people griping about a new body and when they make one you still gripe. I don't get why you can't just be happy. Jeez

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

They can't tool a new body to specifically suit each individual character's height and proportions. That would cost a fortune.

 

[galactiboy]

I believe they've said they can take the bodies apart and make them ok overall. Unless I totally didn't get what was said.

You where one of the main people griping about a new body and when they make one you still gripe. I don't get why you can't just be happy. Jeez

I think you are right about that Josh, I know certain things like add-on chest pieces can be used with the Prometheus, and I think the same is true for this one.

Now the figure does start out with a smaller torso, so I also think that any adjustments they do to upscale and downscale the figure would be w/in a range that would not be too disproportionate to the figure. So my gess would be the moddular short body will have a range of heights it will accomdate much like the Prometheus and Armor body.

And when it comes to very tiny figures, they will have to come up with an alternative method of either a 4th body, or going the VCD route.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

I can't imagine them doing Yoda any other way than VCD style. He's just too small for a hyper articulated body.

 

[Darklord Dave]

When using ABS plastic (which the bodies are made from) you have to produce steel molds. These molds are far, far, far more expensive than the stand molds used for the heads, accessories, etc. and only by producing 100s of thousands of parts would they ever justify the costs. This is why you see generic toys really cheap - they make over 100,000 units. That's not going to happen with the Sideshow bodies.

 

[screamingmetal]

I can't imagine them doing Yoda any other way than VCD style. He's just too small for a hyper articulated body.

It's not impossible, some 4" Star Wars figures like the new Hasbro Commander Gree have as much articulation as 1:6 scale figures.
I hope they don't go VCD or solid molded figures with a few points of articulation like Salacious Crumb or Jabba.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

Even if they could come up with an articulated body that small, it would be useless for anybody but Yoda. Even the Jawas are bigger than him. I just don't see them putting that much effort and cost into one figure.

 

[Darklord Dave]

When they do Yoda I expect it will be fully molded like Crumb.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

I can't imagine they wouldn't do an articulated AOTC Yoda. He's GOT to be able to duel with Dooku.