Sideshow 1/6 R2-D2

[DeadLeaves]

Count me out of your entirety, this one's a keeper.

Enjoy the wait.

 

[momaw]

If it's $75 to Australia, I'm cancelling my order.
For shipping that's just cruel.

Just noticed that after seeing your post. That's just criminal. Makes me wonder if they are abusing postage to claw some extra $$$ from us after the price jump on all the new figures.

 

[Asta]

Will wait for Hot Toys.

/Said the entire 1/6 community.

Count me out of your entirety, this one's a keeper.

Enjoy the wait.

 

[momaw]

Just got back from Hong Kong were they had R2D2 at Secret Base and Toy Hunters. Took these snaps.

 

[Tee-Kay]

Just got back from Hong Kong were they had R2D2 at Secret Base and Toy Hunters. Took these snaps.

Great shots even though it looks like HT secret base employees intentionally put a massive lighting on the dome to hide that seem.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

I don't know.. looks thin there, where's the girth that R2 has?

Also, looks kinda Hasbro-ish.

 

[Invictus Sol]

Great shots even though it looks like HT secret base employees intentionally put a massive lighting on the dome to hide that seem.

Lol... pretty sure it's just an LED spotlight that they're directing at R2, same as they'd do with any other figure in the display.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I used to play 'hide the seam' with my girlfriend. But she stopped because I always found it.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

 

[OutLander]

I used to play 'hide the seam' with my girlfriend. But she stopped because I always found it.

So you started playing "hide the crack" instead?

 

[devilof76]

Will wait for Hot Toys.

/Said the insufferable bores of the 1/6 community.

Don't make fun of them. They can't help it.

 

[Bo Shrek]

I used to play 'hide the seam' with my girlfriend. But she stopped because I always found it.

 

[Bo Shrek]

Just got back from Hong Kong were they had R2D2 at Secret Base and Toy Hunters. Took these snaps.

Great pictures. Be honest now...what were your thoughts?

 

[galactiboy]

Sideshow used to share its production samples with us here many, many years ago.

Yes, of course they get production samples way in advance. Based on that, the decision is made internally whether to continue or make changes depending on what the cost of making changes is.

So they either said "hell with it" and let Drake be Drake'd.... OR the uneven nature of the Drake-age means a faulty issue happening at time of mass production. But this hobby doesn't do recalls.

And he was an uneven release... none of the heads I've seen in person were good, but some were much worse than others in terms of the eye placement and distorted cheeks. You could fix much of that sculpt, but what you couldn't was the half-assed alterations they made in order to create the separate hair... they actually had ruin the subtle sculping Trevor achieved to get this blunt and unnatural looking edge for the hair.

I get it, probably cheaper to paint the eyes, hair and skin tone on their own... but where's the integrity or concern for the final product. Drake looked like ****, not quite Pam Vorhees or Faramir bad... but totally unacceptable.

It's interesting what I saw in looking up that HT John Connor. That fig is from 2009, and even then HT was 3/4's of the way toward where they are now in head sculpt and paint apps, yet you look at Sideshow's AOTC Ben from the same year...

Versus the HT John Connor...

Yes, the HT fig was DOUBLE the cost, but Sideshow caught up price-wise within a couple of years. These figs are before my time in 1/6, but you can sort of see the HT/SSC headsculpt "gap" problem was brewing years ago - Sideshow's sculpts should have been as good as Luke X-Wing's at least 2-3 years ago.

Sorry, off topic...

I think it's valid... makes no sense that we have never seen a Sideshow head with paint apps as good as a figure from 2009

More irritating is that virtually every other company: DiD, Solider Story, DAM and the unlicensed knock off companies are all producing near HT paint apps and have been for some time. Sideshow seems to be the only company incapable of doing the same. I think its a conscious decision to cut costs.

While other companies are using paint factories of A or B quality, Sideshow seems happy to stay with their D level paint factory.

Totally agree... when I can buy a $35 knock-off company head with better paint apps than my $135-$150 Sideshow figure you know something is amiss. There is no reasonable explanation why Sideshow would not have access to the same factories as other companies... hell, they should be setting the standard with the licenses at their disposal. But, to this day I have yet to see even a PF, 1/2 scale or 1:1 item from sideshow with better paint than a 1/6 HT figure.

It's mind boggling how we still have no idea what the final product will look like from one of the biggest collectible companies in the business

 

[SolidLiquidFox]

that R2 looks very light weight...something on the tones of the plastic body is giving me that cheap vibe

 

[Lejuan]

that R2 looks very light weight...something on the tones of the plastic body is giving me that cheap vibe

Looks to me like a lazy paint app. Take a pristine white figure and slap some brown spatter on it. There should be places in the panels where you'd expect soil/sand/dust to build up more than in other places, and I'm not seeing it. Medicom's paint appears better than what's shown in these pics.

 

[Rudimus]

I cancelled R2 last week. As cool as all the extra accessories and features are, all of those would remain in the box anyways. I already have the Medicom and will wait it out for the Hot toys version instead.

 

[Wor-Gar]

That's patience!

I've heard of it before... but I have never seen it 'round these parts.

 

[Rudimus]

That's patience!

I've heard of it before... but I have never seen it 'round these parts.

It's the way of the Jedi lol. Actually it may have been a result of impatience, if it had come out this month I probably would've kept it. But with Rex, Starlord and now the Shadow trooper coming out next month R2 had to wait.

 

[momaw]

Great pictures. Be honest now...what were your thoughts?

Honestly. He looks a bit plastic (which he obviously is). I think it had more to do with the open hatches which highlighted the plasticness (please excuse my pretend words) as you could see inside him. I think when he's standing there with the lights on and the hatches closed he will look great. Especially with another figure next to him. Displayed on his own he looks more like a toy though.