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Sideshow Imperial AT-AT Driver Sixth Scale Figure
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jkno
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Very nice. I think I'll have to do that.
Just got this in. Let me start off by saying that I have always supported Sideshow no matter all the negative reviews on this board. I think the figure looks great, but SS decided to use a different type of torso on this figure. Seems like it's a rubber torso. There is no ab crunch, and the neck articulation is hindered by this terrible choice of body. I will definitely switch out body, but this shouldn't need to be done with the $ that we all shell out for these collectibles. Again, I have continued to buy SS figures, but this makes me wonder, what other figures are going to have this rubber torso. Will probably no longer preorder until I read others reviews first.
Pixelpiper
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Has anyone done a complete tear-down of this figure yet? Getting really tired of people talking about the body without taking the clothes off to look at it.
The neck in that photo looks like a bone-standard neck found on hundreds of other figures from a dozen producers.
The neck in that photo looks like a bone-standard neck found on hundreds of other figures from a dozen producers.
So after undressing, I do see it does indeed have ab crunch. The rubber torso is a layer over the hard body. Wonder if they did this to extend the neck. Again, because of the rubber neck, it doesn't hold a firm pose for the helmet. The neck peg hovers within the rubber. In the last pic, I pinched to show location of where the peg is located.
Pixelpiper
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This is the kind of body you'd find on a figure with low neckline clothing, like ANH Han Solo. No idea why they'd have gone this route for this figure when their Pro 1.0/1.1 would have worked. Also not sure why they'd bother casting them in grey - waste of a separate production run.
Regarding the no neck, TIE Pilot was the same IIRC.
GeneralZodLives
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I got a code with mine as well.
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I like the figure too but the body does suck hard again. Like jjosdom said the head kinda feels like it floats. Perhaps even more annoying is that the body is again using a tie pilot type body. Meaning a ratchet like system is used for the legs where hips meet the torso. Makes it pretty much impossible to achieve certain poses, the stance is either too narrow or too wide. I should expect this by now, but if ssc can't make a proper body they should pay hot toys to do it for them.
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All in all, I'm not bothered by lack of ab crunch. I actually like that it feels more sturdy this way. This figure makes me want to buy a 1:1 bust of the helmet and armor now
More initial shots in the link below.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.465528756904497.1073741842.416679991789374&type=1&l=a59b5268d8
All in all, I'm not bothered by lack of ab crunch. I actually like that it feels more sturdy this way. This figure makes me want to buy a 1:1 bust of the helmet and armor now
More initial shots in the link below.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.465528756904497.1073741842.416679991789374&type=1&l=a59b5268d8
Very nice pics, Jaycepiticon - what camera do you use?
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GREAT shots!!!!
They look like a man in a suit!
Can't wait for mine to arrive
They look like a man in a suit!
Can't wait for mine to arrive
All in all, I'm not bothered by lack of ab crunch. I actually like that it feels more sturdy this way. This figure makes me want to buy a 1:1 bust of the helmet and armor now
More initial shots in the link below.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.465528756904497.1073741842.416679991789374&type=1&l=a59b5268d8
jkno
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Great photos Jay.
As for the figure body, I don't care if it cannot have Spider-man stances, this is a character that had o little action on screen, and still so cool after all this time
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As for the figure body, I don't care if it cannot have Spider-man stances, this is a character that had o little action on screen, and still so cool after all this time
All in all, I'm not bothered by lack of ab crunch. I actually like that it feels more sturdy this way. This figure makes me want to buy a 1:1 bust of the helmet and armor now
You need this
Jonnyc1988
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Love the look of this, how does the height compare to hot toys, I know a lot of sideshows are taller. The body is off putting, do we think hot toys will ever get around to making one of these?
Somebody posted that this fig is 12 1/4" versus 11 3/4" for the HT sandie. He's pretty tall, I think because they used a similar body to the SSC TIE pilot, which was quite tall too.
The one thing I don't love about the height issue is that the ref pics of the ATAT driver and TIE pilot show fairly small framed people in the costune, making the helmets seem slightly overiszed (which I like- that's how they were) whereas these 12 1/4" tall figures shift that balance to where the helmet looks smaller in comparison to the body.
Pixelpiper
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These helmeted figures are of characters that were off screen - you didn't see them in the movie. They're 100% accurate in body size/form down to the last mm. Incredible when you think about it. They even got the head under the helmet bang-on. True story.
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