Would you have spent $450 for Fett if he was polystone or metal?

[kierbaudy]

I am very close to cancelling this piece. Gosh, I just don't collect 1/4 sized figures. 100% injection plastic, ABS plastic, plastic just doesn't measure up to the price of this thing. Sorry. If only the armour was plastic, then I could live with it, but the helmet, body AND gear... I don't think so. I feel badly for big fans of Boba Fett who were looking forward to this piece. I think I would have gone on a homicidal rampage. I'm pretty sure sideshow has made a great piece and will look great, but I think GG with that wierd finger waving Boba will get my money afterall.

 

[outlikealight]

I am very close to cancelling this piece. Gosh, I just don't collect 1/4 sized figures. 100% injection plastic, ABS plastic, plastic just doesn't measure up to the price of this thing. Sorry. If only the armour was plastic, then I could live with it, but the helmet, body AND gear... I don't think so. I feel badly for big fans of Boba Fett who were looking forward to this piece. I think I would have gone on a homicidal rampage. I'm pretty sure sideshow has made a great piece and will look great, but I think GG with that wierd finger waving Boba will get my money afterall.

I have proctology BOBA and I love him.

Out

 

[Brent72]

You really think so Brent? How so?

If you examine the helmets closely, you will see that the bottom of Sideshow's PF design is flawed compared to that of Medicom's. Sideshow's doesn't flare out properly at the bottom like it should and ends up looking a little "off" when compared to the production Fett helmets. I could go through a lot of trouble to post pics of this inaccuracy, but I'm just too lazy to do it.

 

[nash]

$449.99 would have been the max that i'd spend for poly/metal fett

 

[Mini-Rock]

If you examine the helmets closely, you will see that the bottom of Sideshow's PF design is flawed compared to that of Medicom's. Sideshow's doesn't flare out properly at the bottom like it should and ends up looking a little "off" when compared to the production Fett helmets. I could go through a lot of trouble to post pics of this inaccuracy, but I'm just too lazy to do it.

No need to post comparison pics. I trust the word of the one of the few proud owners of the best Boba Fett ever made. Thanks for the insight.

 

[Rook]

I'm coming onto this poll a little late.

I would not have paid $450 for a polystone Boba Fett with a swiveling head, just as I did not pay that much for Grievous. Rather, I would have waited for a better aftermarket deal, much as I did with my Grievous statue.

What I would have willingly paid between $350-450 for would be an all-polystone Fett without the ball-joint head which apparently provoked the issue in the first place. It's a neat gimmick, sure. But I don't have any need whatsoever to be able to pose my premium formats. If I want to pose something, I'll buy an action figure.

Having said that, I'm standing by my commitment to this PF, and will await its arrival for final judgement.

 

[PosterBoyKelly]

$449.99 would have been the max that i'd spend for poly/metal fett

No way. There's not a PF I'd spend that money on. Not 1. Not yet...............

 

[Eli26]

I wished he was made of paper meshe (sp?) then he would be really cheap!

 

[woodsy]

Why doesn't everyone out there cancel their order and buy them on Ebay or from internet websites other than SS once they hit the market? I very seriously doubt they are going to hold their retail value with the high edition size and this plastic issue.....

 

[Mini-Rock]

I have my order through a secondary dealer. Even with shipping, it'll be much less than what SS is charging on their site w/o shipping.

Also, I notice that the description (off the SS website) of the PF Maul also doesn't say anything about polystone being used just like Fett. I checked all the other SW PF's, and they all say that they are cast in polystone. I have bad feeling about this.

 

[tomandshell]

I very seriously doubt they are going to hold their retail value with the high edition size and this plastic issue.....

Every other regular version SW PF has gone down in value on the secondary market. I thought that Fett was going to be popular enough to change that trend, but the controversy over the plastic probably sealed his fate. A PF Luke sold for $76 last week on eBay. Fett will be had for a good price as well if you want the regular version.

As for exclusives--the Luke/Yoda piece is made of polystone and has a much smaller edition size and a much better exclusive, and it still hasn't sold out. Even with the free t-shirt offer the low quantity alert hasn't gone up. So with all of those things working in its favor, it still has about 10% or so of the total pieces remaining unsold. I think that considering the larger edition size, less popular exclusive and controversial materials used in the final product, there will be some second chance Fetts available.

At one point I thought that it would be tough to get one on the secondary market because those who wanted a price break and could live without the exclusive would all be fighting over the other 2000 pieces. But after this weekend, it's anybody's guess as to what will happen. I know that I sat there and stared at it at SDCC and I had no idea what it was made of or how much it weighed. I only knew it looked terrific and I wanted one. I want to believe that after people start to see them in person that they will appreciate how nice it looks and want to have it in their collection.

 

[speedracer]

I would not pay $450 for a poly fett..but i would pay $325 for a poly fett..which is what i "assumed" i was getting.

Tom are you sure the one you saw at the sdcc was plastic..that was almost a year ago and it could have been a proto made of metal or poly..Just a thought..=)

 

[Alice Adrenochrome]

I wouldn't pay $450.00 for Fett. Hell I wouldn't even pay $350.00 which is why I cancelled in the first place. It has nothing to do with plastic or polystone. It has to do with the fact that there are going to be 4000 Fetts out there, which means there will be deals to be had.

That's exactly the way I see it. And since I was going to cancel anyway, I didn't care about the switch to ABS, and thus missed the entire discussion. Looks like I have some catching up to do.

But to stay in the spirit of this thread (paying more for an item that is not necessarily superior): I payed a $100 extra for the grey Hulk exclusive, and I can virtually smell, taste and feel where every cent of these extra $100 went.... NOT!
What I'm trying to say, is when they use more expensive materials on a PF (like was the case for General Grievous), at least you know where the extra cash went. In the case of the Grey Hulk I still don't see why grey paint and blue jeans have to cost an extra $100. I don't buy that 'limited run' nonsense, since there are other PF's that have undergone far more changes, and are even more limited than the Grey Hulk, yet they do not cost $100 more than the regular version.

Using plastic for the Boba Fett PF may have been a wise decision, from a technical point of view. But using 'cheaper' materials, (or should I say 'more common' materials?) somehow takes away a bit of the 'magic' of the item. I don't know how much it costs to produce a figure like this PF Boba Fett, so I don't know if it's a good thing that the retail price didn't change after SSC decided to go with the ABS. But in general I'd say that using cheaper materials should result in a lower price, as using more expensive materials will most certainly make items more expensive.

We haven't seen the end of this yet! I belive that this PF Boba Fett exclusive, currently listed as 'sold out', will return as a 'Second Chance' opportunity.

 

[EVILFACE]

If I would have bought one, I would cancell it for the price they are charging.

 

[tomandshell]

Tom are you sure the one you saw at the sdcc was plastic..that was almost a year ago and it could have been a proto made of metal or poly..Just a thought..=)

Oh, I have no idea. It very likely could have been a polystone/metal prototype. But if they had walked up to me while I was staring at it and told me that it was made of plastic, I would have ordered one anyway because it looked awesome.

 

[Agent0028]

Oh, I have no idea. It very likely could have been a polystone/metal prototype.

That's what I'm wondering if it was possible to do that with the prototype then what made it impossible with the production pieces. Presumably something with it being mass produced instead of only one...but what exactly? Unless I misunderstood (always possible) the problem with the production was getting it all to fit together right, so why wasn't that a problem with the prototype? Well I'm sure I will like it when I get it, but I am thinking about cancelling and getting it via a dealer if any have some left for order.

 

[tomandshell]

From their response, I think that the issue is that mass producing 4000 polystone bodies with a silicon mold and then mass producing 4000 sets of plastic armor with steel tools would not give accurate and matching results every single time. They could probably have enough success to put together a prototype, but when the assembly line started cranking there would have been too many issues with disproportionate and non-fitting pieces to have an acceptable success rate. They needed to make one good looking Fett to show at SDCC. They need to make 4000 to sell to customers.

How many times have we seen perfect paint jobs on a figure only to be let down by the end result? The true test is not what they can accomplish on a stand alone prototype--it's what can be effectively and reliably mass produced. This would certainly not be the first time that we question why they can do something excellent with the prototype that doesn't translate 100% into the final product.

 

[Agent0028]

Thanks Tom, I dunno why, but it finally made sense to me that time. Thanks for breaking it down for me. Although I will say it still seems to me that there would have been enough variation during the production of the prototype to realize it was going to be a problem, but I guess if the problem developed after the mold did a few hundred that would explain that.

 

[NASEDO]

I canceled my Fett only because the edition is too high and the exclusive is lame. However, plastic or poly I will still get the statue reguardless, it looks great and I'm sure it will be. Fett is a must.

 

[Darth Rage]

How many times have we seen perfect paint jobs on a figure only to be let down by the end result?

Too many times.