The thread at Rebelscum officially ruined this Taun-Taun for me when someone pointed out the arm placement is based on the maquette not the life sized puppet. :P
Nice to see that Hasbro is thinking ahead on this. This is a clear indication that this must be Luke's tauntaun, since this one doesn't feature the opening belly. And I think it's pretty obvious that we'll get a new Hoth Luke Skywalker with this release, and a Hoth Han Solo with the opening belly release. I'm just wondering how far Hasbro will space the two releases apart.
Blue Coat for the WIN!!
Blue Coat for the WIN!!
:-\ :-X
Compare that to the image we've seen and it looks like the head might be a little underscaled.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/DiddlySquat/557px-Luketauntaun.jpg)
Compare that to the image we've seen and it looks like the head might be a little underscaled.
I am wondering if the BlueRay release might provide an answer for the Blue, Brown, Brue debate.
I think most people hanging onto blue recognize it's probably brown but simply don't care and prefer the blue because of what they had as a kid. I think (though I shouldn't speak for him) the boss here feels that way. I can't argue with people on that then.
Seriously this is one of the things that wound up making me come hang out more at Jedi Defender, much less working here, so it's a pretty old and deep debate, but Scott's put up scads of proof to the brown argument... I'm not even sure where it is, but I'm sure someone can drag it to the surface for this thread now.
Odd this wasn't shown at all...no?
Picked this up yesterday. The $24.99 price seems about right... and helps even out some of the overpriced mark they have on the vintage Tauntaun and Landspeeder.
Hey guys- here are several comparison pics and a couple other ones:
(http://forum.rebelscum.com/photogallery/data/1451/tauncomp5.jpg)
FYI, a local collector called Target so much about this set that they finally told him it's scheduled to be put out on November 6th with the other exclusives. That's a Sunday, which I think is normally when this stuff is released, and I'd assume there will be an endcap or so.
Hmm, now that's a pretty slick idea. But I don't feel like plunking down another $25, haha.
Other than the colors, the Han is great. Such a shame this isn't brown coated, and includes both head/hat options (hood up/down). Though, it leaves the obvious re-release available, so I hope they're planning on it because I'll buy it for certain. The pistol is a little lame too (lacks paint it seems).
I had originally intended to sell off the Han when I first got the set, but I just really like the way he fits on the saddle- so I put a drybrushing of brown across all of the blue, and wet-painted some brown onto the soft goods. Really can't see much blue now, and he looks much better! As for the Tauntaun, the sculpt just grows on you. I have the POTF2 Luke version one shelf over, and after a week of visually comparing, the older sculpt is definitely starting to show its age. I wasn't going to buy the new Luke tauntaun, but I just may now.