Show Us Your Troops (Sideshow/Marmit/Medicom/etc.)!

[jkno]

If you want real accuracy go for Marmit.

 

[The Chaver]

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[jedijim3002]

I think someone is selling a Marmit/SS mix up here if anyone is interested.

 

[jedijim3002]

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124484

 

[jedijim3002]

It looks like the chest piece is cast out of resin. That would explain the divets in the chest.

 

[jkno]

One of the things that I don't like too much in Marmits is the rubbery like suits/armors. SS making them of ABS was a great choice (too bad they lacked accuracy LOL), but Marmits were designed as kits after all.

 

[Balboa]

Does anyone has a comparsion pic between a medicom and sideshow trooper ?
If possible a shock trooper or 501st.
Very hard to find a SS this days, think on going with the Medis, but the scale bothers me a little.
thanks !

 

[RavenEye]

Sideshow Vs. Marmit

Sideshow Vs. Medicom

Full review by Toy Haven here:
https://toyhaven.blogspot.com/2009/04/sideshow-vs-marmit-vs-medicom.html

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

The SSC one looks like a cosplayer next to the Marmit Stormie.

I'm not really a fan of the Medi either..

 

[Niltusk]

The SSC one looks like a cosplayer next to the Marmit Stormie.

I'm not really a fan of the Medi either..

If that was a fill in the blank test, I would have picked the medi as a Hasbro, it does look pretty shoddy.

 

[canadaclone]

WOW...and Medicom charges how much for its hobbit stormtroopers...that looks really bad.

 

[jkno]

Full review by Toy Haven here:
https://toyhaven.blogspot.com/2009/04/sideshow-vs-marmit-vs-medicom.html

I wouldn't take for granted the review above. That guy really needs to learn more about Stormtroopers.

As I already posted on the Sandtrooper thread the armor on the Medi Stormie is a bit more accurate than the SS version. Not by much but still. Better cod piece, better chest plate, and even better helmet. Though the Medi seems a combo of ANH and ROTJ (thin/slim helmet with lower brow reminds it of ROTJ lids a lot, but the mouth is gray, also no trim on the armor margins like on ROTJ armors), thus not perfect, the SS misses too much to be accurate too (see below a couple details about SS helmet). The fact that they are small is well known, but overall it has a better armor/helmet shape than SS.

Look at the SS Stormie oddly shaped helmet (bad looking face plate, sagging tubes, huge mic tips) - the helmet/face is the most important element for any character - SS is a big miss here. Of course it looks like a Stormtrooper, but so does the old 1:1 F/X helmet, and when compared to a screen used one (or a helmet molded from a screen used one) it looks like crap. Then look at the small cod piece, this would work well for female Stormtrooper customs.

I sold one of my 2 SS Stormtroopers last year. I kept one just because I'm a Stormtrooper freak. I also have the 3 Sandtroopers from SS and they are a bit better than Stormies maybe because the weathering (which is far from perfect either) is covering some of the issues.

The Marmit even has the accurate thumb print on the bicep, how many of you noticed that? To have a Marmit with solid white ABS armor (instead of PVC), SS belt and SS E-11 would make the best scaled Stormtrooper hands down. I'm not a SS hater nor a Medi lover. I like all my Stormies, accurate or not, but since Marmit managed to do it so well many years ago, I'm wondering what is SS waiting for.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

The sooner HT release a Stormtrooper, the better - as far as I'm concerned.

I doubt I'll find a MIB Marmit Stormie for a price I won't laugh at, & the other choices out there don't cut it.

Happy to wait basically.

 

[Pixelpiper]

Ok, if someone is talking about any kind of Stormtrooper and mentions Medicom even once in a positive light I'm from now on going to stop reading and won't finish the rest of the post.

JKNO, unless you are saying "Medi" by accident instead of "Marmit" I will have to discount everything else. The Medi figure is a cruel joke of mis-proportions in every part of the armor and body, including the helmet. Honestly, it looks, with few exceptions, almost as basic as the Hasbro trooper, except the Hasbro has better proportions and higher build quality.

Referring back to the Sandy thread, who cares about the thumb print? That's no part of the costume design, it was a mistake. You also mentioned that Marmit's yellowing plastics are ok because original costumes also discolor. Come on. This is just a poor production process because they didn't use UV stabilizers in their PVC mix.

I will give you that Marmit has a wider and more accurate looking helmet, but almost everything else is just being pedantic. SS trooper have a lot of advantages over the others and that's why they always command the highest aftermarket prices. You can sometimes get two Marmits for the price of one SS.

I'll have both in my collection, but I don't plan to mix and match parts to try and make a frankenstein trooper.

 

[OSCORP]

The SS trooper is a travesty. And the reason why i don't have a trooper in my collection. (Marmits are HTF, And so are medi's for a good price.)

I would rather have either of those than the SS trooper.

 

[Pixelpiper]

I feel like I just woke up in Bizarro World.

If someone has a new (or like new) in box SSC Stormtrooper, I'll gladly trade you a new in box Marmit Stormtrooper for it.

 

[sithlord13]

I sold my Ssc stormie and bought a second medicom one.

I think they're great.

 

[Pixelpiper]

Oh wait, my mistake. Obviously I was looking at the wrong Medicom Stormtrooper. You guys must be talking about this one, which I agree is a lot better than the RAH version - even though the body proportions (legs vs. torso) are about the same.

Ok, I'm going to town based on comments in here as I think these are the only tools that will save this guy.

 

[Niltusk]

I feel like I just woke up in Bizarro World.If someone has a new (or like new) in box SSC Stormtrooper, I'll gladly trade you a new in box Marmit Stormtrooper for it.

Its OSCORP dude, my cat forms better opinion by spilling alphabet soup.

 

[jkno]

Ok, if someone is talking about any kind of Stormtrooper and mentions Medicom even once in a positive light I'm from now on going to stop reading and won't finish the rest of the post.

JKNO, unless you are saying "Medi" by accident instead of "Marmit" I will have to discount everything else. The Medi figure is a cruel joke of mis-proportions in every part of the armor and body, including the helmet. Honestly, it looks, with few exceptions, almost as basic as the Hasbro trooper, except the Hasbro has better proportions and higher build quality.

Referring back to the Sandy thread, who cares about the thumb print? That's no part of the costume design, it was a mistake. You also mentioned that Marmit's yellowing plastics are ok because original costumes also discolor. Come on. This is just a poor production process because they didn't use UV stabilizers in their PVC mix.

I will give you that Marmit has a wider and more accurate looking helmet, but almost everything else is just being pedantic. SS trooper have a lot of advantages over the others and that's why they always command the highest aftermarket prices. You can sometimes get two Marmits for the price of one SS.

I'll have both in my collection, but I don't plan to mix and match parts to try and make a frankenstein trooper.

I meant what I meant when I talked about the Medicom, I will not try to explain to you what I mean, once again, since it seems you don't listen, but instead you understand only what you want to. Marmit is MORE accurate than both Sideshow and Medicom, no discussion about it, no matter if you like it or not.

And it is not just about the thumb print (though that attention to details proves A LOT of things already), it is about all other 95% of the armor and helmet of the Marmit figure. I'd simply advise you to read a bit more about Stormtroopers please, before saying something you don't know too much about.

Besides no one here said you personally should mix Marmit with SS. I said - quote: "... to have a Marmit with solid white ABS armor (instead of PVC), SS belt and SS E-11 would make the best scaled Stormtrooper hands down." That is different, because I meant that SS ABS armor is the better medium for armor, compared to the very accurate but not so good PVC medium used by Marmit (Marmit being kits needed PVC thus to assemble with heat, with ABS you couldn't do that). The SS fabric belt and Stormie E-11 blaster are the only things that are better and more accurate than Marmit.

Prices for a collectible don't always reflect its true value - will not discuss this further since a couple posts won't be enough and don't want to derail about prices now, but my collecting experience showed me this many times.

People don't know too much about Marmits, these are old figures that still prove what can be done if a serious company wants to. Floppy body of a SS Stormtrooper doesn't make it better. Neither the ugly helmet or the poor elastic connectors of the shoulder armor, which I already had to replace because they extended on their own due to the "high" quality" rubber and bad glue.

Don't even start me on the Marmit AT-AT Driver which seems to be the only known rendition of this character coming with accurate gray armor (I'll give you that the helmet is still white, but still...), half disks under the tusks and so on. Or the unreleased/prototype Marmit Vader... People who have held Marmits in their hands and then compared them to SS Stormies, and/or even with screen shots of Stormtroopers, can agree with me on this.