DiFabio
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Half of these pics arent accurate 77 Vaders. The tunic is under the shoulder armor. And dome has no widows peak.Now that is a '77 Darth. Great looking figure.
That and these (modded and owned by fellow freaks on here) is how it's done.
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Exactly. It's more worrying in this instance too because I bet my bollocks to a barn dance HT have been told to do this stylized version.
That one with the tunic under the shoulder armor was the user forgetting to put it over the armor when they took the picture. Still looks great, look at the head and pose.
https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/...how-1-6-anh-darth-vader-photo-thread-182.html
You can go throughout that entire thread and find a bunch of Darth Vaders that were out together with passion and look better because of it.
As soon as I have pictures of HIM, I will
Dude, I'm a little misty eyed, this thing is incredible, EVERY bit worth everyone's wait, and he has the tightest joints of any new Sideshow body, Hot Toys TT quality tightness. The dome looks great, those few photos where it was a question mark are a false perception. This thing is every bit worth the wait we've all endured since the start of the line. Another big thing that was a point of worry for many, myself included, the cape very nicely drapes over the fronts of his shoulders leaving just a gap to show the middle of his chest armor and his breathing box.
I can't even bring myself to photo him just yet, I need a few moments to savor this.
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Gosh Darn dats beautiful. (G rated per mods instruction)
Hummm..... new years code works for Deluxe Vader.... $20 less. That might just seal the deal for me.
This is the helmet the line drawings were drawn from. It came from the same mold that later made the eFX helmets. Are you still saying you wouldn't want that?
So what has been the best thing about this Hot Toys/Star Wars juncture for people so far?
I'd say other than the ambitious fur on Chewbacca and the Stormtroopers it's been pretty disappointing. I guess 1/4 Boba looks alright, but that seems like a pretty ho-hum release, mostly because of ROTJ and the scale. I REALLY want to see Farmboy/Death Star Luke but after seeing the likeness on Han, Ben and Chewie, I'm not too optimistic. Bespin Luke turned out alright I guess and the Sideshow Pilot Like (prototype) is amazing so I guess I should be a little confident about him.
So far,I'm not seeing anything to make me turn in my modded SSC Ep.4 Vader or my Custom...PS
So, when you watch the movie, do you like Vader's appearance or do you wish the helmet wasn't crooked and the mask symetrical? (And in regards to your dome example, I'm sure it would be molded to only fit one way, so there wouldn't be any room for interpretation on part of the person assembling them.) I don't understand how you can think the critiques are complaining for complaining's sake. Fans liked the ANH look and want fidelity to that look from the figure. What's difficult to comprehend about that?I would prefer a dome that wasn't crooked. . . that looks like an assembly error to me.
I look at people complain that their Superman logo is slightly off center or their 66 Batman logo is crooked, and talk about how HT has poor QC because of these issues, and then I come into this thread and people are saying "It's not crooked, HT sucks." It feels like complaining just to keep the conversation going. Like I said before, it feels obvious to me that it wasn't supposed to be crooked, it was only because of the cobbled-together nature of the production that the mask ended up looking like this.
I mean, on the assembly line, I can't imagine trying to communicate to the factory workers that you're supposed to glue the dome on slightly crooked. In a situation like that, you're going to get variances in either direction, some are going to be too far off, and look too crooked, or some will be glued on straight. It just seems like a safer proposition overall, to make sure the dome is on straight.
But this eFX helmet I think is a different beast altogether, you're paying for an $1000 prop replica, so you expect it to be a replica of the actual prop. This figure is not a prop replica, so I don't want or need it to have those idiosyncrasies in the helmet
I think Hot Toys achieved the right look for this,
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Just not this,
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So, when you watch the movie, do you like Vader's appearance or do you wish the helmet wasn't crooked and the mask symetrical? (And in regards to your dome example, I'm sure it would be molded to only fit one way, so there wouldn't be any room for interpretation on part of the person assembling them.) I don't understand how you can think the critiques are complaining for complaining's sake. Fans liked the ANH look and want fidelity to that look from the figure. What's difficult to comprehend about that?
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