Hot Toys's -MMS134 Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

[usswanker]

Re: Hot Toys's - Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

Oh yeah this is gonna look great with my Aldo! !

 

[Star Puffs]

Re: Hot Toys's - Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

That's a bingo!

Wow. I hope Hot Toys does two versions like Dragon.

 

[tigerknight]

Re: Hot Toys's - Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

I don't know guys something seems off on that figure to me, but I can't put my finger on it yet.

 

[Calcifer]

Re: Hot Toys's - Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

It WILL! be mine..

 

[HollandX]

Re: Hot Toys's - Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

Beautiful. Day one purchase for me.

As incredibly awkward as it feels to say it, I'm glad they put on the Nazi symbol. I'm all for on screen accuracy with my figures, and I'm against hiding/misrepresenting the past with historical products.

I know some may think it's awkward and uncomfortable and there's absolutely no way I could argue with you. Personally, I'm very pleased it's there.

If they tweak anything, I hope they add a second head with a different mouth (a la Leonidas) in a smiling pose. He was at his most evil behind his charm.

 

[Biojex]

Specs posted on first page now.

 

[Star Puffs]

Re: Hot Toys's - Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

Looks great, but I wish they would include a second sculpt. Something more cheeful and/or goofy. This is serious Jew-killing Landa, not "Thats a Bingo!" Landa.

Yeah, he is definitely a sardonic man , not a serious one. His Jew-hunting is driven by his egotistical desire to demonstrate how clever he is rather than any actual prejudice or political conviction. A hateful expression like a real-life monster like Amon Göth (Ralph Fiennes portrayed him in Schindler's List) just does not sit right with me.

I was taken away in my first post by the fact he does look like Waltz.

 

[naria]

This figure will look awesome being displayed next to Aldo.

 

[macapaolo]

Been waiting for Hot Toys to release him since Aldo came out.

 

[Buttmunch]

Re: Hot Toys's - Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

Beautiful. Day one purchase for me.

As incredibly awkward as it feels to say it, I'm glad they put on the Nazi symbol. I'm all for on screen accuracy with my figures, and I'm against hiding/misrepresenting the past with historical products.

I know some may think it's awkward and uncomfortable and there's absolutely no way I could argue with you. Personally, I'm very pleased it's there.

If they tweak anything, I hope they add a second head with a different mouth (a la Leonidas) in a smiling pose. He was at his most evil behind his charm.

To me, it would just be awkward not to have it. I know some companies try to be 'politically correct' and leave off the swastika, but in fact they are doing the exact opposite. They are being politically incorrect. The nazis were a political party afterall. To me, it only draws attention to that fact if they leave something obvious like a swastika off. I mean its no secret the movie took place during WWII and he was a German Officer. I mean, it doesn't take a lot to figure it out that he is a nazi. I mean even the posters had a lot of swastikas (doesn't even the title font use one?).

Yes Nazis were bad dues, but little things like swastikas shouldn't be left off because of that. Its apart of history and removing swastikas won't erase what the nazis did.

 

[YoNoSe]

Specs posted on first page now.

Release date: Q4 2010

 

[HollandX]

Release date: Q4 2010

Is that enough time to sculpt and add a second head?

 

[Biojex]

Release date: Q4 2010

Second that

Oh my poor poor wallet. He will not know what hit him.

 

[Kohun]

compared some pics of waltz and the the hot toys figure, and now i can totally see waltz in the sculpt.

It's just not the expression i'm used to seeing hm with.

 

[naria]

Release date: Q4 2010

Q4 is going to be a bit rough this year...

 

[vareika]

F you HT. Thats all I am going to say.

Oh, and also that this looks good, and I want it bad lol.

 

[YoNoSe]

Is that enough time to sculpt and add a second head?

I prefer the serious sculpt. I consider him a calculating character first and foremost. But I'll take whatever they want to throw in.

 

[DarthTrafford]

I can't wait to get this. Looks awesome! I was hoping for a sculpt with a carved Swastika in his forehead though.

 

[HollandX]

heh they even make reference to his happiness in his description:

the brilliant, cheerful yet evil and cunning multilingual German army – Col. Hans Landa

so i ask... why so serious?

 

[Star Puffs]

Re: Hot Toys's - Inglourious Basterds: Col. Hans Landa

As incredibly awkward as it feels to say it, I'm glad they put on the Nazi symbol. I'm all for on screen accuracy with my figures, and I'm against hiding/misrepresenting the past with historical products.

Consider it this way: Landa is a fictional character, merely being represented as he actually appeared on screen. Modern German and Jewish history are among my major personal interests and generally I find people in favour of censorship of Nazi symbols in a non-political context like this one have a shallow sense of intellectual or artistic integrity at best.

On the other hand I do get really disgusted when real life mass murders like Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich start to show up in figure form. Generic NS soldier, even SS men, do not bother me, but making actual war criminals seems as distasteful as having figures of Charles Manson or the Columbine shooters.