hey everybody adam savage in my cave um
ap here stands for artist proof and that is what today's show and tell is um here's another hint
this is the base it looks like uh if that looks like a pair of feet that's because it is oh
now it's probably already been listed in the description so you know that
i'm unpacking a rancor from my amazing friends the talented team at regal robots this is a oh
they've sent a rancor and we're about to crack it open
this is a very limited edition that they've done it's sold out in a matter of hours oh my goodness
i have been excited about seeing this thing for months
okay here we go oh yeah yeah yeah
i recognize this chewbacca mask because it's the self-same one that i own oh
it's not exactly the same mask but regal robot made my chewbacca mask
80 83 pieces they only made 83 of these and every single one was hand painted finished and
washed at regal robots facility in new york um oh that's the ape oh the signature plate
oh signed by my friend phil tippett look at this oh how beautiful there we go
i have to say it's one thing to like design and decide to sell a piece like this it's
holy another to pack it up for shipment that is an entirely different engineering problem
oh okay
i think you can rest there this one other box of pieces
i'm wondering if i'm wondering if this is a miniature gamorean guard or some oh
yeah oh my gosh
oh my gosh look at how pretty that is uh so yeah i get it now okay here we go
all right i think the best and safest way for me to do this
is to actually register this on its base and then pull the packaging off the top
there we go
phil tippett famously described the design of the rancor as a cross between a bear
and a potato um this was made by digitally scanning
the rancor that they had at the archives gordon tarpley who you may remember as a friend of mine
who's an expert in all things c3po but also a very accomplished digital artist
he did all the finishing work on the digital scan oh my gosh holy cow
oh
okay so now i see how this works this is the yep so
um is there a registration yep that looks like the way so we'll do oh dude
hold on i'm gonna pull up a chair this has always been one of my favorite monsters in fact
when frankie polito dressed up as a rancor a few years ago for san diego comic-con
he was fulfilling a childhood dream of mine which was to make that costume
i love the look of this thing it is so weird and so perfectly alien
and regal robot has just done an incredible job this is one of my favorite bits is the
spittle uh in the movie this was done with a piece of monofilament and some viscous fluid on it
regal robot hung a piece of monofilament and let some silicone on it and dried it as it
was dripping out of the mouth yeah man there's nothing like saliva to complete the grossness of a
of a of a character job uh i'm gonna spin him around so you can see his whole magnificence
i did not realize that the rancor had a carapace
but apparently his coccyx is protected by this uh hard fused shell sort of like a turtle
i mean phil was thinking about uh planet in which turtles advanced way far beyond they have on earth
i really i it just is so pretty it's so pretty and frankly i've been looking at pictures
of lucasfilm maquettes since i was a pre-teenager and just seeing this thing in front of me
it's like a fulfillment of a childhood dream these claws are
brutal you know now i want to get a scale gamorian guard take his head off and have him like
spread out on the ground you know they could just chewed on him
also um the eyes are silver because apparently the eyes of the real rancor maquette were
ball bearings that's that's attention to detail i love this little earring there too
yep you didn't know this but the rank is an urban primitive yeah apparently the uh the ranker that
is in the archives had a just the maquette had a slightly weird pose so they actually altered
the pose in the digital model before 3d printing this uh it one of the questions i get all the time
is where do i draw the line and the fidelity of the reproductions that i
tackle uh and it took me a long time to realize that i'm not just looking for an aesthetic
fidelity i'm also looking for an experience when i am in the presence of that object i'm looking
for something an authentic experience and the attention to detail that regal brings to a prop
like this taking a digital scan modifying it until it feels right for the character working
with the original creator in this case phil tippet to realize this thing into a perfect
digital file that they can 3d print working again to apply the same kinds of washes that phil did 30
40 years ago to get this thing to have that film maquette look i'm here to say the experience is
one-to-one this feels i've seen models like this up at the archives and this doesn't feel
any different they're bringing the same level of detail to their degeneric chess set which i am
currently drooling over this kind of drool yeah that level uh but everything they do
they bring this level of care and attention to it's just it's one of the reasons i love
regal robot and i know that this is already sold out uh and you're just gonna have to drool over
this one from afar if you haven't gotten on the list but if you uh follow some of
the links below you can see some of the products that regal robot has coming up and i just i can't
compliment their beautiful work enough all right i think it's lunch time this guy's hungry you