hey everybody adam savage here in my cave and i got a show and tell today that is uh some
fun toys that i have not seen yet um our our wonderful friends at gentle giant have sent
over some beautiful things and i am excited about opening them and seeing them in person
uh the two things i'm opening are mandalorian-based today and uh
careful watchers of this channel might be aware that i'm working on my own
uh full set of mando armor um specifically the best car i know everyone imagines
that the predecessor to the best guard the early season one armor is more my like bailiwick because
it's weathered and there's like all sorts of the wonderful metal textures and stuff
but i gotta say i am i am captured i am captured by the swagger of uh pascal and his
best gar armor and i wanted the same swagger so i'm working on that gentle giant has sent a 1
7 scale mando in best car armor figure and dude let's open it up let's see what we got here
all right um first off uh yeah the box is lovely uh
high gloss high quality printing on uh corrugated uh thin corrugated cardboard
the artwork on the box is lovely including uh uh what looks like you know one of doug chang's
production drawings or one of the art department's production drawings of mando walking around
this is part of their premier collection
and uh yeah we've got the uh got a little information packet
it shows us the various busts that they have oh very exciting
okay um there's that plus this is number 563 of 3000 it is limited edition series
put these back in there
we'll crack this open
there it is okay i've got here a right gauntlet with mando's sidearm
all ready right away up close and personal i can see the detail is excellent we've got the base
which is cast in a very heavy polystone or some type of equivalent lovely same edition number here
now it's time for the money
all right yup yup yup i see we put his boots
wow i'd like to one little thing i'd like to point out is his boot hits the ground and sits inside
this little hole and they've gone so far as at this hole where his heel goes there's a boot print
whoever whoever's idea this was to bring that to execution chef's kiss that's a fantastic
little detail uh the two pins in the foot are two different sizes so there's no question about which
orientation the piece goes in and yeah clearly the hand goes there and dude he's beautiful um
it's really really lovely the cape is worn and weathered and has some texturing on it
all the pieces of mando that you would expect from the knife in his boot
to the cylinders around his right leg to the pouch on the left his belt uh it
would seem in his belt he has already used one of his grab charges um this is great
this is just lovely um if i had one one one small issue it might be that the armor the best scar
armor itself isn't shiny enough but you know when i see something like that all that tells me is
that i've got a fun day of painting ahead of me at some point in the future however for gesture
yeah they'll they've really nailed it it's just gorgeous the gesture is beautiful um you know
i love the way john favreau and dave filoni have referenced the full panoply of westerns american
westerns italian westerns uh japanese westerns otherwise known as kurosawa samurai flicks
they've built all of that into this character and if you grew up loving those movies like i
do you can just see you can see sergio leone you can see clint eastwood you can see lee van cleef
and kurosawa and toshiro mafuni you can see all of these things in this character and how they move
yeah that's a beautiful piece gentle giant thank you so much and it is not the only thing oh no i'm
opening another one now so uh oh let me get some b-roll of this so you guys have some close-ups
a no gentle giant they sent us these as gifts uh they did not ask for anything in return
i found them beautiful so i'm shooting a video about them oh wow this is heavy this is not
a quid pro quo it's just my admiration of some lovely work and this one i'm super excited about
the mando figure here is in 1 7 scale uh this box is in one half scale half scale
what we've got this is this is just great we've got a grogu in the pilot seat
in the pilot's seat look at that uh picture from the set with grogu
reaching towards the little the little uh knob on the handle on on mando's dashboard
uh this is limited edition to 5 000 pieces it is the chair and the grogu let's get it open
again we've got the reading this is 1968 of 5000.
almost the year i was born
uh
nice
i love the smell the off-gassing polystyrene and the all the other
chemicals of manufacturing that you can smell they're all wow this is heavy this
this is a heavy piece okay little one oh look his hand is peeking through that is super cute
oh it is all of a piece did i say this is half scale wait a second
just want to make sure i got my numbers right
one one one two scale
i think they might have a scale written wrong on the box because i think half scale let's say
this chair was like um you know four feet tall off the ground that would mean that it would be
two feet tall so while i got excited about the scale i think this is more like quarter scale
that being said this is awesome
dude um wow wow the texture on the fabric is really pretty shocking as well as on
the seat and the weathering on the seat the painting on the seat is lovely this is gorgeous
before we do close-ups i've determined this is one third scale uh the uh gentle giant grogu
figure is about 15 inches tall and this guy if i extrapolated him out to be standing yeah he'd
be just about five inches tall so not one three sketch one not one one colon two scale one colon
three scale that's that's what that means um among the things that stand out on this
are the eyes grogu's eyes his facial expression is wonderful it's um his expression is very
dewy like the eyes feel quite wet and alive it also feels um those of us who've had children
recognize a very toddler kind of moment in grogu reaching out here it feels very authentic whoever
sculpted this i'm gonna guess they had kids it's not a prerequisite but it's just like as a
parent it's something i recognize um yeah let's get you some close-ups now look at those feet
such cute feet look at the texture on the fabric right and this that that yeah i'm
holding out the ball for you don't you want the ball i like to play with this
yeah oh he's a cutie and this chair it's a great great piece i mean it feels authentically
like the mandalorian it sort of reads like he caught
star-lord and then turned his coat into a chair it's almost the exact same color of burgundy oh
he's pretty all this um color variance in the top of the head here
the lights and the darks that's really nicely done very subtle it's a lot of
attention to detail going on there again i just wish this was a little bit shinier
but that's all right i really like this gesture of the hand clutching the uh the robe that just like
it's a great little moment
oh yeah look i've got a whole theme going on here it's very exciting you can do forced perspective
do you want a ball stay right there
you might wonder why people collect action figures it's certainly a
reasonable question if it's not something that's interesting to you uh i i am not in
the past generally someone who collected collected action figures unless the quality of the figure
really spoke to me and captured me so a lot of todd mcfarlane's earliest figures in the
uh in the 90s um were some of the first things i collected because they they were so evocative the
scopes were amazing the painting was amazing the mcfarland figures changed the whole landscape as
far as i remember they changed the whole landscape of what kind of painting was possible um however
like this isn't the kind of thing i might go to the store to purchase but i am obsessed with
mando right now and i'm working on the costume and frankly this the gesture and the the the
artfulness of the sculpt i find it inspiring i like i this is going to be here in the shop
while i complete this build because it it actually galvanizes my brain to think about mando and to
piece it together and make sure it feels homogenous and natural yeah and the same
thing with grogu i i like can't stop collecting grogoos i've got five or six over in the corner um
i bought a silicone one that was made as part of an rpf run i got the hasbro one that animates i
got the gentle giant the big full-size one i got this guy you can't have too many baby baby yodas
i i'm gonna have to make his lightsaber soon i'm i'm just gonna have to and i guess
i'm gonna have to make him fit the little guy yeah that'll come up soon gentle giant
thank you guys so much for the bountiful gifts you have sent us here at tested
uh they are gorgeous chef's kiss really well done thank you guys for joining me
for this show and tell and as always i will see you next time cheers adam out