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Anovos - Rogue One
Imperial Deathtrooper Helmet
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| One of the first leaked images from the set of Rogue One was a shot
of the Deathtrooper helmet - and wow it looked cool! Following release
of the film at the end of 2016 Anovos announced they'd be producing a
replica of it- and the best part of a year later they started to drop.
Was it worth the wait (spoiler - yes!) |
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| The Death Trooper helmet is from Anovos' "Premier" Line, so a
quality fiberglass replica likely destined to occupy the desks and glass
cabinets of collectors rather than costumers - more down to the $615
price tag than anything else. However, unlike similar collectors helmets
from other Licensed vendors - the Anovos range doesn't come with
additional niceties like a plaque and stand. Bit of a shame, although
these can fairly easily be picked up from 3rd parties/eBay etc. |
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| It certainly is a quality piece and from our perspective we feel
that Anovos' best efforts coming in the top-end Premium helmets based
around the new Disney/LFL films. Over the years the market for OT (and
even PT) props has become somewhat saturated with many, often better
fan-made helmets and costumes - so its great when Anovos can concentrate
of giving us collectors something we may not have had access to before. |
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| So it's made of Fiberglass and therefore has a very solid, weighty
feel about it. On top of the main fiberglass core helmet are additional
plastic sections which have been glued on and painted, including the
nose sections, bridge, jawline, tubes, front "pulse emitters" and that
Scout Trooper like nose piece. So a fairly complex design to replicate -
but one that Anovos has delivered well on. |
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| A close up shot of the nose and jaw area reveals a really nice level
of detailing. The side grills have an almost rusty look about them and
the silver-painted centre nose bridge and nose section itself have that
"used" look that's very pleasing on the eye. Note that there will
also be a second "Specialist Death Trooper" version of this, retailing
for $700 - and available some time in 2018. This version is essentially
the same although also includes the Macromotion Monitor to the side of
the left eye and light-up pulse emitters. |
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| Above, a shot of the rear which from a design perspective fits in
well with the other OT helmets like Stormtroopers and TIE's, its even
got the side trapezoid's . Looking inside there's some fairly thin
padding (its lined in a matt black material) - though in the case of the
one we received there was no additional padding bag as is included with
other helmets (like Captain Phasma and the First Order TIE's) - we can
only presume someone forgot to include them for this particular helmet! |
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| A close-up of the nose bridge section. The eye lens is a single
piece of green-tinted acrylic which curves behind the top of the
protruding upper nose bridge. We're not sure how the green pulse
emitters are fixed to the main body - but certainly something you'd want
to protect from impact. However given the >$600 price tag we very much
doubt there are many people using this for costuming. Note that on the
standard version they don't light up (and in the movie they didn't
either!) |
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| So in summary - Anovos has produced an extremely nice replica of one
of the best Imperial designs since the original trilogy. |
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Comparison - Anovos Death Trooper vs RS
Stormtrooper
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| We thought it would be interesting to compare the size of the Death
Trooper against its Imperial "brother", the standard Stormtrooper
helmet. The one we've chosen is the RP Prop Masters - chosen but its
undoubtedly the most accurate out there |
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| What you notice straight away is how much smaller and sleeker the
Death Trooper helmet is - but that design choice reflects the role these
elite troops occupy in the Imperial arsenal. Created to defend the most
important imperial operations and operatives - and specially in Rogue
One as Krennic's vicious bodyguards. |
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| So this size issue could be a problem for some of you who may have
an oversize noggin - though of course that's not the fault of Anovos -
you're going to have to blame the Rogue One design them for that. As you
can see from the slightly fuzzy shot below (sorry) the opening is not
huge and unlike a typical Stormtrooper helmet - there's no benefit from
the the "twist and turn" approach of pulling on a standard trooper lid.
So if you are looking at one for costuming - best try before you buy! |
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