Hot Toys Royal Guard

The KO outfit sets are shipping from OSK tomorrow.

Their Emperor kit was quite underwhelming so I don’t have high hopes for these.
If they just manage to get the folds in the robe correct, the rest of the figure should fall into place. If they botch the folds, it’s gonna look pitiful.

Settled my bill so just waiting for mine. I’m sure the quality won’t be as good as hot toys but it’s a pretty static figure. I’m sure I have a narrow body somewhere……

Keen to see pics of how it turned out.

The KO praetorian guards were cancelled so if the quality of the Royal guard is bad I will have dodged the bullet with them

Depending on reviews I might grab one of the sets. I have one Guard but would like a second.

Eddie Edul​

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Thanks for the fast shipping Onesixthkit!
Loving this “Red Guard” figure kit.

Think I’ll be ordering one.

This set turned out way better than in expected.

And now I am sad the praetorian guard KO's were cancelled. Guess this one slipped through before Disneys C&D went through.

The sets look great! What bodies did y'all end up using? Also did the onesixthkit listing for these get taken down? I was gonna jump on these once I saw y'alls pics but I cant seem to find the page...

Mr_RunningMan said:

The sets look great! What bodies did y'all end up using? Also did the onesixthkit listing for these get taken down? I was gonna jump on these once I saw y'alls pics but I cant seem to find the page...

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mine using 4.0 Narrow Shoulder Body from Kit.

Looks great! I was bummed to have missed out on the HT one but the price kept me away. Grabbed two of these guys to flank my custom SSC Emperor. Now his display will be complete.

That looks great. I'm pleasantly surprised, they look so close to the Hot Toy on display.

Customikey said:

Looks great! I was bummed to have missed out on the HT one but the price kept me away. Grabbed two of these guys to flank my custom SSC Emperor. Now his display will be complete.

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Did you already have them ordered or did you just do it? I really wanted to get a pair for my display but I can't find them on OSK anymore

Somewhat noticeably inferior to the HT original pretty much across the board (weapon might be quite close) but very decent for the price. I'll be happy to have my two in the background as army builders behind my couple of HT versions.

One issue is I can't tell from the video how well the colors match the HT original - they seem slightly different (the inner purple color seems quite a bit lighter and the outer red not as rich) so hopefully they can indeed stand next to my HT originals without too much of a disconnect.

In the video both fabrics - the inner purple and outer red - appear noticeably thicker/stiffer and less "drapey" than the HT original (he even mentions the inner fabric thickness in the video review,) but at least they did do those three V creases in the front so that's probably all they'll need to approx match the HT.

Great these came along but unfortunate HT didn't just re-release the original at/close-to the original price of $200 for the ROTJ 40th anniversary last year. Ironically it's possible this bootleg fig was one of the reasons they didn't.

I skipped the HT versions because the cost was too high for a bunch of guys that just stand there. But I did PO 2 of these. They’ll work just fine for my liking.

I do have one of my HT versions posed in "attack mode" like in that cut ROTJ scene where they use their pikes but these guys are definitely "the more the merrier."

At around $130-140 including body and shipping these knock-offs fulfil that aspect pretty nicely.

Would have been great if at the time the original came out HT had done a two-pack for around $300 though - they are a nice and simple army builder.

My ERG was contender for the most static figure that I've ever owned, and was mostly there as an expensive accessory for my Palpatine.

Standing in that classic stock pose, after I have ironed and smoothed that robe, it would be difficult to distinguish this figure from the Hot Toy.

Getting the helmet right, and the outer robe close enough visually, was key, and they have achieved that.

Mr_RunningMan said:

Did you already have them ordered or did you just do it? I really wanted to get a pair for my display but I can't find them on OSK anymore

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It’s back up for a quick pre-order looking to ship around the end of the month. Sounds like Kit was able to order more stock.

https://onesixthkit.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=4288&search=FHD02

Both of my sets arrived today. Now to find some junk bodies to hide under these.