Finally put out my Gentle Giant bust that I pre-ordered from their Comic Con exclusives. Thankfully they allowed their club members to pre-order and not have to buy, pick-up and cart around at SDCC. And they shipped it as soon as the con ended.
It’s rather annoying but a LOT of the collectibles nowadays made are of stormtroopers, Clone troopers and other armored figures (Vader, Boba Fett, etc.) I get that it’s a) easier than real people and b) there are so many variations of them that they can make (pretty sure that was Lucas’ evil plan) but I don’t really collect most of them. I buy a few of them like the Clone Trooper that was on Kashyyyk with Yoda (and wookiees!), the Shadow trooper because he is cool looking and I bought the zombie trooper just because it was funny. And I have a few more different ones. But tend to stay away from them because I don’t care about them much AND they just make too many of them.
BUT – this one was different for 2 reasons:
a. It was the McQuarrie version which means it was the original art version so different from the finished film version.
And more importantly b) It’s Stormy’s full name!!
I liked the name Storm due to it being my 2nd favorite female superhero character and 2nd favorite X-Men character (Ororo/Storm.) But then when we got a 2nd male dog, I wanted to keep the name since I liked it. And registered the full name “Hoth Stormtrooper” with the AKC.
So when I saw they made the snowtrooper, I had to get it :)
Come on - he's pretty cool looking!
He comes with 2 interchangeable heads. I like the one in the pic best. The other has a longer/slightly different helmet.
Seriously….I need more shelves…..
