hey everybody norm from tested here at comic-con 2019 and this year our friend
Tom speed is here as well tell him are you doing no Homer it's so great to see
you man yeah it's great the guys have a booth to show off some of the stuff from
Regal robot your company and you have some of the pieces here what do you have
showing off so we've got a nice space in the Lucasfilm pavilion where we're
showing off things like our custom characters we're showing off bus we're
showing off decor a little tchotchke things for your desk and and just you
know all the crazy cool Star Wars stuff that we dream up so I saw at celebration
this year you guys had the Chewie head on sale and something that you know
you've worked on for Lucasfilm Adam has that one as well he loves one
of his favorite things but it was also available now to consumers yeah it was
super exciting like we had the chance to say like you know we've done all this
work onto all this research all this information that we've absorbed I mean
you know how Adam is when he goes into a project we're the same way it's like I
want to soak up everything about this and it's just a million little details
that you can figure out and once we figured it out we said like you know no
one's ever done a Chewbacca bust proper for folks to buy you know there have
been some things here and there but you know certainly not in the last 20 plus
years so we said let's do you know just the ultimate Chewie one to one bust and
we've brought one here but the edition sold out in a week
so we only made fifty of them we're making them in the New York studio right
where you guys have been shooting yeah all the same crew we're working on them
and I'm just I'm really thrilled that you know 50 people are now gonna be
bringing this into their homes and it's a little piece of art that we made
absolutely and not only are you doing busts but also sounds like full
characters as well so tell me about this piece and what it represents in the
Regal robot collection so for us it's not just product it's also the idea of
the custom studio as really a service so we give folks the chance to come to us
and say well my favorite character is muff tak from the cantina and no one's
ever gonna do a statue of that and try and sell a hundred or a thousand or ten
thousand of and we're at a small enough shop that we
can say hey you know what you want one of that as long as you can you know come
in discuss with us pay the development like we'll create a single piece for you
or we'll we'll look at it and say you know what that's something maybe other
people might want to I want as well so maybe we'll do a small run of something
like that and we're nimble we're this little shop
that can kind of turn on a dime and we love all of it
yeah there's no character from Star Wars someone's gonna come up and ask for old
doc ah really that like no where no matter what you say like yes please
and it's boutique it's made to order you're working with collectors who
wanted to side on the pose or the way you're working with the fur so for
chibok oh we did a life-sized Chewie that we had at celebration and that was
made for one of our clients we've since done another one that was delivered and
we have four more that are in the works but each one is a little bit unique they
have a different some have the mouth open some closed some have the bow
caster some are in a different pose and it gives us a chance to talk to people
and learn about their space learn what they're into learn their favorite scenes
you know maybe they want its hair to look more like the first movie than the
second movie maybe the one that floppy hair from Return of the Jedi and I love
that part I love getting on the phone with these these guys that want and
girls that want custom piece and just figuring out like what is it about Star
Wars that ignites their passion what are the elements that speak to them because
like I said we love it also it sparks us and we then start brainstorming with the
customer and then on our own and at the end we won't end up making something
nobody would have ever thought to make because you know these people hadn't
come together yet and it's really it's it's a cool process not only is there
the authenticity because you have a Lucasfilm license to make this so these
are official Star Wars products that's why you're here in the booth as well but
also you get access to some of the originals because you're doing
restoration oftentimes on these originals so muff Tech may actually come
through your shop the original and muff tech did come
through our shop so we restored muff tack for Bob and Cathy burns a few years
back and we had done a muff tacks costume for
a Superbowl commercial we did years ago and it was neat to see our costumes
side-by-side with the real one and to figure out like oh okay this is what we
didn't get a hundred percent right and that's the stuff we dialed in for this
one and it's just so cool to be able to draw from that experience we have it's
not you know the license comes with access to things like the archives and
photos that no one else gets to see and you know sometimes even 3d assets and
stuff like that but we've been restoring for collectors for decades now so we
have this huge network of people that have props that no one even knows are
out there so you know when we did the Chewie we had access to teeth that were
used on the real masks and a scan of one of the skins that we could use and then
rework and in clay and I actually did the sculpt on that bus you know to take
all of this stuff that we built over all of these years and now be able to offer
it to people it's just it's really cool I just feel lucky I have the chance to
do it with awesome to see here at comic-con are there hints that so what
other things you guys are working on the future in the furniture space and the
display space in the creature space yeah so we've got our little gargoyle magnet
I'm gonna grab one so this is our little convention exclusive we had this at
celebration and at this show that is based on the the gargoyles that are on
the bottom of Jabba the Hutt's dais well we thought if we made this bigger this
would actually be a really nice towel ring so we're making a towel ring out of
this little holder and we're also working on a door knocker that's real
metal that you can put on your front door and like no one's gonna know this
is Star Wars when they look at it on your front door but you know and it's
and then on the character side of it we have a couple of busts in the works we
have cz 3 which is one of the droids which someone requested as a custom
piece and that was a perfect example of one of those ones where it made sense to
say you know what I think there will be another 10 or 15 people that'll want
this so instead of charging one person all the money they would take to develop
a single piece let's bill it as like a regular inline item and so we're gonna
do a run of those and then we just announced today just a few hours
ago we're gonna do a bronze bust either bronze look like we do with this where
we hand paint it or even real bronze might be an option of Peter Cushing as
grand moff tarkin i he is my favorite actor of all time I'm a huge fan of all
the old Hammer horror movies the man elevates every movies in no
matter how bad it is and I thought I've wanted to do a bronze for a while and I
thought here's a character in the universe that it actually his status
makes sense that he would even have a bronze so we said let's let's start
there let's see where this goes and I think that's gonna be a lot of fun I
can't wait to sculpt I love your enthusiasm love your on your team's
contributions to the maker and Star Wars community it's great to see you here Tom
you so much it's always a pleasure seeing you and just yeah thanks for
helping