Looking froward to see what you come up with how much do you think a full out fit will cost to produce?
If I did a replica of the jacket, pants, and holster for baton and mabee the belt, I would have to sort out something for belt buckles. I would estimate $25. The part of the jacket that is a bit harder to get right is the folded part on each side on the back from the shoulders to the waist that you can see in the picture below, because a screw up there will result in another piece in the failure bag.
An interesting thing happened today though, My wife reminded me I have a jacket that is exactly the same as the ones used in the film, It was my riding jacket from when i was in high school, so its been stashed somewhere in a box for the last 15 years which is the last time I owned a motor cycle, or a car for that matter
, but I am gonna try and dig it out.
Also I found a 1/6th Hong Kong Traffic headquarters figure that has a perfect helmet I think. I was tempted to pick one up because it looked exactly like the cop that pulled over Sammo Hung in SPL: Sha Po Lang (One of the best martial arts movies ever BTW!) that was about to get beat down until Yen showed up, and I thought he would be a good punching bag for Sammo's character, since Yens character would be busy with Jacky Woo.
Hers a link to the figure
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260574967553&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
It would need some black paint applied to parts of it, but it seems good, and the figure itself and other accessories seem like they could be useful for other things or just to resell.
Did your wife say where you can buy silver leaf in bottles from?
She said she picked it up at Joann Fabrics, so it shouldn't be hard to find if you have some local craft stores that haven't decided to focus almost exclusively on the useless art of scrap booking....even jokingly refering to scrapbooking as an art made me die a little inside.
THX 1138 is visually appealing but actual action figures might be a bit weak. If it was in a brick and mortar it would be a peg warmer for sure. 1:6 or not. If they did it as a limited run or con exclusive and had some superb packaging I can see the collectors getting all hot and bothered for it. I'd rather see affordable, well done Blade Runner figures first.
Why do people keep bringing up Blade Runner, its completely unrelated, not to mention that its not going to happen, sideshow has mentioned they have looked into getting the rights and it was pretty much a lost cause. There are dozens movies I would like to see figures in 1/6th scale for that probably wont happen either.
The Road Warrior
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly......Ones that don't cost $500-$1000+
Escape from New York
Once Upon a Time in China 1-3
Iron Monkey
Prodigal Son
Ong Bak
Mr. Vampire
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
House of Flying Daggers
Curse of the Golden Flower
SPL
Come Drink With Me
Evil Dead 2
Idiocracy
Office Space
Barbarella.....Ok, that was a joke
Not to mention Blade Runner
To be honest If more than just Enterbay and the few other companies that do smaller runs of expensive figures based on Asian martial arts films and they were more accessible, theres a good chance I would off load my Star Wars collection and collect those instead as my main focus.
Also the fact that THX1138 was a low budget and technically a flop of a film has little to do with merchandise sales, once a film has gained a cult status you never can tell what can happen, just look at the Evil Dead movies.
Also as an example Big Trouble in Little China was a complete flop, but gained a cult status and has had 7" licensed figures made for it recently and someone has plans to release larger scale figures in the near future, which I really hope happens because I am lucky enough to be involved with it .
So apparently there must be enough of an interest in them, hell I just did an outfit job recently for a side character from the 70's Buck Rogers TV series for a licensed figure collection, who would have thought there would be enough interest in that, but there is apparently.
I'll have to give your idea a try.
