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Sideshow Collectibles
Darth Vader Reveal Bust
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| Well here's an interesting development. Its
been at least a decade since Illusive Concepts produced a Darth Vader reveal
bust so its good to see a current Licensee approaching this subject. Shown
off at the recent San Diego Comic Con in July 09, SSC's Vader does
look promising... |
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| The helmet likeness looks good - clearly cast
off some kind of original source, although comments we received from people
at the show suggested a potential helmet placement issue. This is clearly
their prototype so there's time to put this right but we'll be keen to get
our hands on a production version to give a thorough review. |
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| Its a full 1:1 bust and like other Sideshow
life-size's it uses the same design of stand used across the whole range.
The chest armor looks good and the leather trimming on the cape looks about
right, as does the chain. |
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| Removing the dome and the top half of the face
reveals a likeness of Sebastian Shaw, who played him in RotJ. We have yo say
that we were slightly relieved that this wasn't an aged Hayden Christiansen! |
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| ..and when you see this menacing pose it does
look very impressive. We're similarly impressed with the detailing on the
upper face - again to caveat this with the fact that this is the prototype -
but hopefully everything will be present on the full production versions. |
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| The whole thing is a mix-and-match s can be
assembled with or without Dome, Face or Head so I imagine buyers are going
to have a lot of fun testing different combinations out. Note that as a bust
its NOT wearable - but the to have made it so would not only have cut across
other Licensees, it would also have compromised what Sideshow has achieved.
Even the neck brace looks good! |
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| Here's a final shot courtesy of Art Andrews,
taken at Comic Con. Looking at it as a whole it looks like an extremely nice
collectible that fans are really going to like. Its price tag is a fairly
steep $1,200 - which in these challenging times will be a tough figure for
many people. A run of 1000 is expected. |
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| Sure there are going to be people who are
going to like certain parts of it, and from our perspective we hope they
sort out the dome placement issue. However all the separate elements are of
a high enough quality to produce a single entity that will be the centre
point of many fans' collections. For production two "versions" were produced
with the only difference being the addition of a separate plastic stand to
display the face and dome if the Anakin head was in place. The total run was
around 1,500 (not finally confirmed) so picking one up from eBay shouldn't
be a chore. |
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Return to the Main Darth
Vader Page here
or More Sideshow
Collectible 1:1's here
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