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Hot Toys Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter
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jkno
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Jazzinc makes amazing stuff, but is not licensed.
There DC stuff is licensed.
Centrocal
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Ok everyone take out your Boba Fetts. If we assume Boba Fett on the base is 13" tall, then therefore (using science) the wingspan would be roughly 3 Boba Fetts across, or 39". As the diagram bellow demonstrates: (This could also be applied to the life size N-1)It's almost 5ft6 long and 4ft6 wide, it's slightly under scaled as N-1 Starfighters are 36ft long so at 1/6 it'd be 6ft.
Mando isn't underscaled, Jawa just has a big baggy hood.
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Ok everyone take out your Boba Fetts. If we assume Boba Fett on the base is 13" tall, then therefore (using science) the wingspan would be roughly 3 Boba Fetts across, or 39". As the diagram bellow demonstrates: (This could also be applied to the life size N-1)
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Ummm there is this......a bit more accurate than "number of Boba's" wide.
jkno
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Not sure what your talking about
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I don't know, I kind of like approaching measures in units of "Boba"
Centrocal
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Well I was only off by 3/4ths of a Boba Fett 
Smudger9
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This has to be the worst ever SDCC for Star Wars. Hot Toys seems to have completely forgotten about the OT.
I was just thinking the same thing - who would have thought that R5D4 would alone hold the flame of 1/6 OT amidst several dozen SW figs at SDCC?
And that R5 would be a BOBF version anyway?Great for clone fans, but it blows me away that HT would produce so many Bad Batch characters and sooooo much AOTC clone-related stuff when Han Bespin sits in limbo. Or that pit droids would be shown when they haven't PO'ed missing-in-action OT 3PO.
We are right now seeing the "category killer" aspect of that dozen or more Disney+ series arriving in the 1/6 space, taking all the oxygen from OT releases. Combined with AOTC as a massive focus (bizarre - no OT movie got this staggering number of anniversary releases) there really doesn't look like much room for 1/6 OT for many years to come.
With HT moving out of the OT 1/6 game, it makes it doubly sad that Sideshow lost their license to do realistic SW 1/6 (and yes, that is 100% what quietly happened about 2-3 years ago.)
A few OT releases here and there is all we'll get from now on, and some of those will just be tweaked sculpts from Disney+ redesigns like Scout Trooper + bike, "or take it or leave it for OT use" like D+ styled Tusken.
This year is sort of "end of an era" in terms of OT 1/6 collectibles. There are just far too many shiny new distractions for HT for the next decade - countless numbers of D+ series then a new movie series (or two) within that period to take up 90% or more of the available 1/6 slots.
jkno
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I'm getting the Sideshow Snow Commander in a deal with a friend. And that is a bad thing in my books, because I finally realized Hot Toys will never-ever make that figure.
Hot Toys is forgetting more and more about OT alas.
Marine Boy
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I doubt it's entirely HT's fault. I'm sure they are contractually obliged to by Disney to keep pushing out "new" Star Wars characters.
jkno
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For sure Disney has a word to say in all this.
chrisstbh
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To some extent yes, but Howard said he’s never making any more Sequel Trilogy era figures; so he has some say.
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I bet Kennedy and her henchmen loved reading that translated interview.
jkno
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He made enough of the Sequel figs already. And they didn't sell too well either. But with the new Disney series and films, OT will definitely remain in the back burner, with minor exceptions.
ObiGlennKenobi
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This is a sad day considering the Anniversary of HT acquisition of the Star wars license.
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I'm not a person who dresses up as a storm trooper but I think the sideshow troops are more than serviceable for a toy collection. I kind of regret not picking up that commander figure now but at the time I was under the impression hot toys were going to start cranking out OT figs which they really didnt IMO.I'm getting the Sideshow Snow Commander in a deal with a friend. And that is a bad thing in my books, because I finally realized Hot Toys will never-ever make that figure.
Hot Toys is forgetting more and more about OT alas.
Now they seem to be going down the same hole that medicom and sideshow did with clone trooper variants. As an OT collector I dont care about those at all, but I feel those 2 companies took that as loss of interest in star wars generally and then moved away from star wars altigether.
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