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Title: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Scott on December 5, 2010, 11:30 AM
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(http://www.jedidefender.com/collect92/lando esb.jpg)

(http://www.jedidefender.com/collect92/lando comparison.jpg)

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(http://www.jedidefender.com/collect92/lando carded.jpg)
(http://www.jedidefender.com/collect92/lando vintage.jpg)

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(http://www.jedidefender.com/collect92/lando carded2.jpg)
(http://www.jedidefender.com/collect92/lando modern.jpg)
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: CloneF13Y35 on December 5, 2010, 12:35 PM
"Hello, who do have we here?"
that was the sexist line in the entire series, imho!
I don't have any modern versions and really need to get a couple.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Matt_Fury on December 5, 2010, 01:05 PM
Lando was one of the fun characters in my collection.  I always had him infiltrating with the bounty hunters because of what he did on Cloud City made him a great duble agent.

I like the latest version of him (which resides atop my Carbon Freeze Chamber as well as in the "escape pod" in the BMF Falcon), although I would buy another if they fixed the elbows and got rid of those stupid swivel joints.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Scott on December 5, 2010, 01:51 PM
They need to fix the head sculpt too...it sucks, is too small and needs less fly away hair.

The ESB smuggler outfit head is a smidge better but isn't quite there either

I'd like to see a new Lando but he isn't high on my wishlist
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Diddly on December 5, 2010, 02:51 PM
Ah, the horrors of seeing 3 pegs full of VOTC Landos at TRU until the middle of the 30AC Vintage run, never being discounted at all in that 3 year run. :)

Apart from new arms, I'd also like to see a removable soft goods cape on a new Lando. Maybe an alternate smilin' headsculpt to match the awesome Vintage one.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: EpicGon on December 5, 2010, 03:57 PM
During vintage time paintjob and sculpt could have been naif, but Kenner got the expression of the character.

I think a new vtc Lando could be a bit taller than the repack of the bespin alliance and perhaps include his comunnicator and wristwatch.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Jesse James on December 6, 2010, 02:35 AM
Speak of the devil...

I just bought a non-teeth vintage figure this weekend at the local Steel City Con toy show...  $5, you can't beat with a stick.

I'm with Scott on not clamoring hard for a new Lando, but I'd take it too.  If the arms were fixed (I wasn't opposed to the old headsculpt, I liked it ok), and a new cape that actually came off, I'd be fairly happy.  A clip-on wrist watch calculator would be kind of neat too though...  something you could remove if you wanted to, somehow.  To me though, the cape has to be removable at this stage.  I want Lando dashing around with and without it.  I'd buy two to display differently even.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Brian on December 7, 2010, 12:44 PM
I had the smilin' version in the vintage days, and always liked it pretty well.  I'm with Scott and Jesse, in that although I could see improvements made to Lando, I'm not necessary clamoring for one either.  Plus, for some reason, most Landos have seemed to be death at retail.  At the time, I thought the VOTC version was pretty nice (although missing ball/socket elbows).  If we saw those improvements in articulation, and an improve head sculpt, I'd be pretty happy.  The removable cape would be a nice plus too.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: 501ST on December 8, 2010, 02:21 AM
The original vintage I could only see as useful as substitute for candles but the more recent renditions are so so.

Also not a character high up on my want to see redone list.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Scott on December 8, 2010, 05:58 PM
If they had tweaked Lando for the 9 Pack, I would have probably bought it (and FuManChu Vinty Bespin Guard)
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Matt on December 8, 2010, 06:26 PM
They need to fix the head sculpt too...it sucks, is too small and needs less fly away hair.

Yeah, that head sculpt sucks.  Head's too small, and the features are too small, too.  It's like he's got Woll Smoth Syndrome.

(http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/6641/1230803777603.jpg)

I guess that makes him Londo Colrosson.

Billy Dee deserves better.  Who knows how long it'll be before Hasbro's honkies get around to it, though.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Carpeteria3000 on December 8, 2010, 08:38 PM
(http://www.megatoothpastemammals.com/londo.jpg)
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Jesse James on December 8, 2010, 09:25 PM
See, that screen grap shows that Hasbro's figure is accurate.   ::)
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Scockery on December 8, 2010, 09:31 PM
LOL.

My brother and I both got Kenner Lando just before seeing ESB, so he must've been cool to us at the time.

I only have the comic pack version of VOTC Lando.

POTF Disco Lando can never be topped. Ha! Muscle bound, cartoony faced and wearing bell bottoms.

Seems like they've never gotten his shirt color right.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Matt on December 9, 2010, 01:17 PM
Londo

Ever had any of your work submitted to Know Your Meme before?  Well, you have now. (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/woll-smoth)  Nice job.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Carpeteria3000 on December 9, 2010, 01:29 PM
Thank you kindly, sir! I always knew the Internet would make me famous someday, even if it took slogging around with you freaks for awhile.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Matt on January 28, 2011, 05:19 PM
To me though, the cape has to be removable at this stage.  I want Lando dashing around with and without it.  I'd buy two to display differently even.

Everybody wants a removable cape Lando but nobody has any suggestions on how this could best be accomplished.  Is there a way to do it that wouldn't look too funky in either mode?  Like without having a peg or that ridiculous rope chain that the Vaders have?  Maybe a discreet piece of Velcro on the back of the collar or something?

(Pardon the bump--was just wondering about this for some reason.)
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Nicklab on January 28, 2011, 06:11 PM
Everybody wants a removable cape Lando but nobody has any suggestions on how this could best be accomplished.  Is there a way to do it that wouldn't look too funky in either mode?  Like without having a peg or that ridiculous rope chain that the Vaders have?  Maybe a discrete piece of Velcro on the back of the collar or something?

(Pardon the bump--was just wondering about this for some reason.)

The figures in the Super Powers line actually had removable softgoods capes.  The collars of those capes were held in place by compression fitting them to the neck of the figure, and there was no loop around the neck.  Granted, that's something that worked in the 80's for a now defunct toy line.  But it did work on a number of figures.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Matt on January 28, 2011, 06:45 PM
Compression--I don't get quite what this means.  (Wasn't into Super Powers at all.)  Is it kind of like a little wire embedded in the cape's collar or something?  That could work.
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Scott on January 28, 2011, 09:21 PM
That is exactly what that means, they were removable but had a wire in them to hold them around the neck.  

(http://pleasedontstare.com/PDS/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lando2-1.jpg)
(http://goremaster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/billydee_lando.jpg)

Problem is that his cape really isn't a "cape" more of a draping...I think they could make the cape collar removable instead of sculpted into the figure like the VOTC one was...so it sort of wraps around the neck peg and is tight enough not to fall off and allows the soft goods drape around the base figure

(http://www.jedidefender.com/collect92/lando%20modern.jpg)
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Jesse James on January 29, 2011, 01:09 AM
I like Scott's idea...  Removable cape collar (plastic) acting as an anchor, of sorts, for the cape.  That'd be interesting.

Ultimately I'd be fine with a string holding it together though too.  *shrugs*  Just so long as it was removable.

Though General Lando's cape is looking a little goofy at the "tie" part.  Was a nice thick thread really not available for that?  Seriously?
Title: Re: Lando Calrissian
Post by: Darby on January 29, 2011, 11:59 AM
I had so many Lando's as a kid - my dog kept eating him and Vader.  It was like a weekly thing.  I like the cape idea discussed below, though I'm still partial to the POTJ one.  I think that looks better than the OTC one.