I just opened mine this morning, and, umm... yup, it certainly is a chair. A nice chair, to be fair, but did such a simple design really call for such an expensive material? I guess if Sideshow Star Wars was the only thing I collected it would be a little easier to swallow. Maybe. But I have to say I'm finding myself passing on more and more environments these days due to needless cost/brittle materials used. I'd love the cantina tables/chairs, for instance, but the rational side of me has to wonder why Sideshow treats accessories for their dolls like fragile/high end statues?
This one, like the Jabba throne and Carbonite Han before, won out due to pure nostalgia and associations with the characters. But I winced even more than usual this time. I don't care that the Emperor isn't here yet (I have the EP3 figure as a nice stand-in), but I am almost embarrassed that I'm staring at a very basic design molded in $140 worth of polystone. It's getting harder and harder to justify this stuff. And that sucks, because this is the line that got me into 1/6 collecting and made me fall in love with Sideshow/Hot Toys/etc. in the first place.
