Hot Toys: Cad Bane - Book of Boba Fett 1/6 Scale Collectible Figure

FlyAndFight said:

You're right, I know. It just sounds nuts when we start saying that close to $300 bucks for a figure is reasonable.

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I'm gonna sound old, but I remember buying my original Sideshow Jedi Luke for around $50 and Aragorn for about $60 or whatever it was back in the day and feeling like "wow this is a lot for a figure, but it looks so good!"

Now, here we are at $300 base HT figure and thinking "yea that seems pretty good for what you get"

I remember when Sideshow figures were $20! Picked up their first 1:6 Frankenstein from ToysRUs even. $50 was crazy talk when Jedi Luke first happened. But they introduced swappable hands with him so it felt like the first real advancement. Things like the water treatment began to develop and we got to $100 with clone trooper variants. It’s amazing to look back, really not that long ago, and really not proportionally with other ‘toys,’ to see how quickly prices have risen. It’s all relative though since figures today are in a whole different realm than figures from the 2000’s. I’ve seen countless Hot Toys items mistaken for promo pics in several news articles by now.

Buttmunch said:

I remember when Sideshow figures were $20! Picked up their first 1:6 Frankenstein from ToysRUs even. $50 was crazy talk when Jedi Luke first happened. But they introduced swappable hands with him so it felt like the first real advancement. Things like the water treatment began to develop and we got to $100 with clone trooper variants. It’s amazing to look back, really not that long ago, and really not proportionally with other ‘toys,’ to see how quickly prices have risen. It’s all relative though since figures today are in a whole different realm than figures from the 2000’s. I’ve seen countless Hot Toys items mistaken for promo pics in several news articles by now.

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Very true. Speaking on the news articles, I see that in other similar media as well. Ppl post HT pics in the their YouTube thumbnail when talking about news on a character or have them in a photoshopped edit for an IG post, etc. It's interesting as we're in it so we know what may be accurate/inaccurate, etc., but yet ppl on the outside just see a photo realistic imagine of the character (not even knowing it's a figure at times). Sometimes I wish I had those "blinders" on. It would make this a lot less frustrating at times

I never got into Clone Wars, so I have no idea how significant his story arc is, but this figure, this character, doesn't really do it for me. I get that a lot of the OT was steeped in westerns, but IMO this guy's character design simply does not align with the rest of his surroundings, much less the rest of the Star Wars universe. Oh, and yeah, I saved 300 bucks by passing on him

I gotta say the figures look solid and Todo looks great but I’m amused - and irritated - that both of them are struggling to stand naturally on those stupid sand bases.

FlyAndFight said:

You're right, I know. It just sounds nuts when we start saying that close to $300 bucks for a figure is reasonable.

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300 USD for you guys is now $430 AUD and up for us Aussies.
It is nuts!
But I love this stuff!!

Khev said:

Hopefully this means they'll make a 1/6 BOBF Fett with Gaffi to pose with Bane though I have a feeling that Howard will be distancing himself from this show and at best will just release the already previewed Cobb Vanth for collectors to pose opposite Bane instead.

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Woo-hoo, so glad to see that my fears were unfounded!

I order and paid for the deluxe can’t wait to add Todo 360 to my droid collection.

Paint apps look insane on this guy and his accessories.

Both Cad Bane and Fett look phenomenal!

BACON! said:

I never got into Clone Wars, so I have no idea how significant his story arc is, but this figure, this character, doesn't really do it for me. I get that a lot of the OT was steeped in westerns, but IMO this guy's character design simply does not align with the rest of his surroundings, much less the rest of the Star Wars universe. Oh, and yeah, I saved 300 bucks by passing on him

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Always felt this character design was way too on-the-nose, but people love him. Great looking figure, though.

Hat is too small. Pls update,

Darth Meda said:

Can someone please try and convince me not to buy this, I NEED TO SAVE MONEY!!!! Arghhhhhh

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“BUY MY FIGURE.”

Buttmunch said:

I remember when Sideshow figures were $20! Picked up their first 1:6 Frankenstein from ToysRUs even. $50 was crazy talk when Jedi Luke first happened. But they introduced swappable hands with him so it felt like the first real advancement. Things like the water treatment began to develop and we got to $100 with clone trooper variants. It’s amazing to look back, really not that long ago, and really not proportionally with other ‘toys,’ to see how quickly prices have risen. It’s all relative though since figures today are in a whole different realm than figures from the 2000’s. I’ve seen countless Hot Toys items mistaken for promo pics in several news articles by now.

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Yeah, I remember having all my Hasbro 12 inch figures on display, seeing Sideshow Luke and wondering "Do I really need to start spending 50 whole dollars for a slight upgrade?". I think it was 60 bucks and I think the upgrade was far more than slight, but here we are looking at a 6X increase in cost from that Luke figure to the current "base" offerings. I'm glad that most of the first wave of AOTC were not of interest to me as that saves a great chunk of money and spaces the must-have purchases out a bit more. Crazy, crazy hobby...

BACON! said:

I never got into Clone Wars, so I have no idea how significant his story arc is, but this figure, this character, doesn't really do it for me. I get that a lot of the OT was steeped in westerns, but IMO this guy's character design simply does not align with the rest of his surroundings, much less the rest of the Star Wars universe. Oh, and yeah, I saved 300 bucks by passing on him

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ZE_501 said:

Always felt this character design was way too on-the-nose, but people love him. Great looking figure, though.

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That was my problem with him. He was literally a cartoon spoof of Lee Van Cleef's characters.

If it wasn't for Todo 360 I'd have passed, but the little droid made me want to like Cad. Seeing how tall he was hasn't helped, but he's an alien, and Hot Toys don't make many. (Even the Tuskens and Jawa didn't have discernible alien faces).

He's the first Duros too, which was a classic 1977 cantina species known then simply as "Goggle-Eyes".




While he was inspired by Lee Van Cleef, his live action appearance at 6' 4" is more in-keeping with Clint Eastwood. His blasters are even based on the pair of Colt revolvers in The Outlaw Josey Wales (both in the movie and the original novel, The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales), which this fan art spoofed:








The Colt 1851 Navy was actually used as the basis for his LL-30 blasters, and even retained the distinctive loading lever.






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Josey Wales had a pair 1847 Colt Walker's, but the Navy was likely an easier revolver to get hold of for customising into Cad's blasters.

Gipetto0812 said:

I'm gonna sound old, but I remember buying my original Sideshow Jedi Luke for around $50 and Aragorn for about $60 or whatever it was back in the day and feeling like "wow this is a lot for a figure, but it looks so good!"

Now, here we are at $300 base HT figure and thinking "yea that seems pretty good for what you get"

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I remember paying either $250 or $300 for the first Vader PF. Told myself I would never sell it because it couldn't possibly be topped - we all know how that works out.

Seeing the Cad Bane slander is straight up bizarre. Probably amongst one of the best designed characters in all of Star Wars.

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Those portraits look fantastically good!! I know this is only the prototype, but it seems like HT decided to catch us all off guard and deliver something spectacular instead of a bare-bone Bane.