Sideshow 1/6 R2-D2

[TaliBane]

I have Taito and it's perfect scale wise but expensive or extremely difficult to get.

The finish is indeed a small notch below Hasbro's (if you don't like seams, you won't like Taito,) but Hasbro's was pretty damn good. Taito's still not perfect - the feet aren't correct, dome has errors in detail - but it's nice. The silver on the dome is like something from a McDonalds happy meal toy.

It's a nicely detailed character clock that happens to be perfectly 1/6 scale.

 

[Captain Britain]

I have Taito and it's perfect scale wise but expensive or extremely difficult to get.

The finish is indeed a small notch below Hasbro's (if you don't like seams, you won't like Taito,) but Hasbro's was pretty damn good. Taito's still not perfect - the feet aren't correct, dome has errors in detail - but it's nice. The silver on the dome is like something from a McDonalds happy meal toy.

It's a nicely detailed character clock that happens to be perfectly 1/6 scale.

Thanks. I'll probably wait for the inevitable HT Artoo to go alongside my custom Jedi Luke although I will look at in hand Sideshow photos (wonder if it'll have a floppy third leg?)

 

[TonTon]

I'm just worried the HT R2 might like too handsome or Asian.

 

[Asta]

I'm just worried the HT R2 might like too handsome or Asian.

Another Asian Tom Cruise?

Looks like they got the scale right anyway...

 

[TonTon]

Man, a 1/1 Cruise would look great next to a baby Groot figure.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

I'm just worried the HT R2 might like too handsome or Asian.

I can't wait for the 'looks like' debate on that one.

 

[Prime Clone]

Jesus didn't **** up my collectible delivery

Except when Sideshow and the freight carriers close for Christmas... and Easter.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

Except when Sideshow and the freight carriers close for Christmas... and Easter.

That's true--stupid holidays.

 

[Pixelpiper]

People have mentioned it about Vader, but I wonder if R2's height isn't being mandated by LFL. Not like "you need to make R2 exactly this many mm tall" but providing a 1:1 measurement that is clearly not based on what we saw on screen, but some prescribed astromech height. Maybe they consider the screen-used costume oversized and that it was simply that large to fit a human inside it. Maybe we'll see them digitally shrink R2 for the next set of movies.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

That's certainly a plausible theory.

Even after uncle George steps aside, the jerry rigging continues.

 

[OutLander]

People have mentioned it about Vader, but I wonder if R2's height isn't being mandated by LFL. Not like "you need to make R2 exactly this many mm tall" but providing a 1:1 measurement that is clearly not based on what we saw on screen, but some prescribed astromech height. Maybe they consider the screen-used costume oversized and that it was simply that large to fit a human inside it. Maybe we'll see them digitally shrink R2 for the next set of movies.

This sounds like the best explanation, can't be that hard to make one to screen proportions.

 

[user 1190]

The poblem is there is no "correct" height. The props vary in height, even withing R2 builders there is "official" heights of .96m to 1.08m. Even if you take the tallest r2 he is less then a cm to short.

 

[Pixelpiper]

Differing spec would definitely be a big problem in isolation, but when you're producing an entire line of product, you need to establish a baseline and work off that. It's then possible to do at least a decent job using the movies themselves for relative scale. The bottom line when it comes to R2 is that at the very least he should stand accurately next to 3PO.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

^ Exactly.

How many now - dare I say, iconic photos exist of the two posed together; film stills, promotional material, as well as the films themselves.

It should be beyond easy to match those at the very least.. but no.

These companies get the simplest things wrong ALL THE TIME.

 

[user 1190]

If you guys want to continue to keep to chase perfectly correct scaling across all the figures your in for a rough life. HT Luke is the same height as Han. Chewy and Han aren't right. They are toys, not perfect lil scaled figures.

 

[Pixelpiper]

Scale is a huge part of this hobby, sorry. I don't necessarily expect better from Hot Toys, they have no eye for accuracy and scale, never have - poor project management and art direction, IMO. But we're talking about R2 here, from a company producing 3PO the same year. Getting at least those two correctly scaled to each other should be a cake walk. I suggested one possible reason why they're not, only because it's hard to stomach that they're just hapless at their craft.

 

[OutLander]

Scale is a huge part of this hobby, sorry. I don't necessarily expect better from Hot Toys, they have no eye for accuracy and scale, never have - poor project management and art direction, IMO. But we're talking about R2 here, from a company producing 3PO the same year. Getting at least those two correctly scaled to each other should be a cake walk. I suggested one possible reason why they're not, only because it's hard to stomach that they're just hapless at their craft.

Pixel, what do you expect for $480 + s/h perfection???



Hot Toys motto: A fool and his money are soon parted.

 

[Lejuan]

If you guys want to continue to keep to chase perfectly correct scaling across all the figures your in for a rough life. HT Luke is the same height as Han. Chewy and Han aren't right. They are toys, not perfect lil scaled figures.

Yes, but mmmnoo. Kinda different when comparing human figures with one another than 'special' characters. The relatively slight difference in size and proportion between Luke and Han makes it more cost effective to use a single body for the two characters. But with Vader, R2, Chewbacca, all of that involves brand new tooling. In which case it's just as easy to get right as it is to get wrong... so why not make it right? I keep saying it doesn't bother me so much, but... unless there are license-holder decisions at work, it seems amateurish to get these details so consistently out of whack with customer expectations.

 

[devilof76]

How far off is this, again?

For contrast, this is Medicom.

 

[Lejuan]

How far off is this, again?

Close enough for me