hey everyone norm from tested here at sideshow con sideshow has been so generous to invite me
to check out some of the figures they have on display throughout this whole week and this whole
back wall is devoted to hot toys i'm taking a deep breath because i'm seeing some amazing stuff for
the first time here now these figures are going to be cycled out throughout the week as they bring in
new stuff to show but what they have set up here are their new star wars figures so we're just
gonna go down the line and give you some close-ups and i'm gonna tell you why i'm so excited about
all this stuff let's start right down there okay big surprise matt i didn't expect this at all
but from of course the prequel trilogy you got the battle droid with a vehicle yeah this is
their stap the single uh what is this single transporter aerial platform is that what it is
but they're now doing a lot of these amazing vehicles um you saw that with the mandalorian
series they had a speeder bike you've seen all sorts of you know ways to pose their six scale
characters with new vehicles and this the way they have it posed it's awesome it's so dynamic i mean
the battle droid this is like the most memorable way i can imagine a battle droid being imposed and
that's super cool now not only to have vehicles are also new display platforms and boba fett
as we're now anticipating a boba fett tv show we saw this at the end of the mandalorian season two
but boba fett in his new refurbished armor is also with the option to come with a throne room
this is him taking over the essentially jobless throne that we saw in return of the jedi and hot
toys has recreated the phone room including all the little details here look at the sides
like that's an incredible display there is going to be a version of boba fett that you're going
to get the head sculpt as well but the one with the throme room with his just the armament again
refurbished the way that you can see the under layering right the black um the black fabric the
way that meshes with the armor i love how they've married that the classic boba fett armor that we
saw in the original trilogy now with just new cut and so fabric and to see in sixth scale
it looks super super badass can't wait for this to come out hot toys also has quarter
scale figures and they announced this earlier uh i guess earlier this year or late last year but
the mandalorian in quarter scale this is the deluxe stand that comes with it does come with
a grow grew in pram but the impressive part is this from season one this is
he's holding that blaster um when he's engaged with the troops and at quarter scale like
we've seen recreations of the costume at full scale the the the belt the the the amblam rifle
in the back like the way that's married to the costume again the layering of that fabric here
the stitch work at quarter scale it looks so good oh and the deluxe bases at quarter scale
are really something to behold i mean you have you know the ig droid down here another helmet
down here oh that's just that's gorgeous and this is quarter scale opposable of course it's not just
a static figure from the mandalorian series ton of figures also some announced some new uh we heard
announced earlier this month the armorer that's um again this one comes with a display background
a fan's been wanting this for a long time but also we have bogutan and
newly shown costco reeves and ex-wove the likeness of boca tan i'm telling you looks incredible
i want to give a special shout out to this ahsoka figure because if i had to give like my personal
favorite the one i'm most excited for it might be this one i think you know the performance in
amanda season 2 was so memorable the fact that we're going to get in the soca show but there
are things that we can see in this prototype that you might not notice you know just looking at you
know the product page for this one it's a seamless body but extremely posable so something i always
think about like how do i pose with lightsabers shoulders back here arms can be stretched out or
bent but nice that you know there's part of the costume it covers up the elbow so you can you
don't see any any bends in there uh especially with you know her her head tails right when you
think of the equivalent of this character's hair there's always that debate over sculpted hair
or or or punched hair or you know and how what's what's best at this scale personally i love
sculpted hair but one of the things i notice with sculpted hair is that you can occasionally
limit or determine how you pose a figure turns out these head tails are going to be posable
they're basically the same type of seamless structure as well and it looks like there will be
some wiring on the inside so you can pose her and have her looking around and specifically looking
around because there's also going to be the purse system which hot toys has had for a long time and
for individual moving the eyes left or right so you can really have the personality and the right
the right attitude and the right moment that you're capturing
with the pose uh the deluxe version of ahsoka will come with the base will come with the lantern
will come with the grogu and it's you know for the live action interpretation of this fan favorite
character i don't think that they could have done a better job on the show representing in bringing
that character to physical life and also here now in sixth scale it really really is
gorgeous um hot toys there are sculptors their painters are just second to none when it comes
to recreating likeness of these the actors in these characters uh and if you're a fan
of the characters that were shown in season two of mandalorian cobb vance also newly announced here
and also they finally have a mandalorian with pedro pascal's likeness with likeness of mando
helmet off and this is with the chrome armor and so it's a different finish and that chrome yeah
it's real shiny i think it's appropriate for best car no big fan favorites of course grogu
we called them colloquially baby yoda but grogu and uh hot toys announced previously that you
could get like a grogu set of grogu as he appears in mando this one i think is new this is a new
set of grogu figures so you have grogu toward the end of season two as well as earlier on including
the eggs from frog lady it's a lovely cute little accessory set to to deck out and to pose and stage
the characters super battle droid here something i've never seen as well that would go very
well with the battle droid and speaking of vehicles there's of course the speeder bike
that mando is on here again they've posed it with the chrome armor and yeah that's a really really
shiny finish it still has the weathering on top of the chrome so right into the different insignias
still into the nooks and crannies there but yeah you look at this this thigh plate here
and it looks shiny but also you know with the dirt and grime that's built up and a delightful little
grogo in the back as well ears back cutest grogu when the ears are back um now this makes me feel
like i'm back at comic con because i love going to comic con when saijo has a chance to show like an
experiment or something that hot toys is tinkering with that we hope that collectors will get and
this is a diorama piece right so hot toys looks like they're stepping into doing some type of
building work that you can place the sixth scale figures in and as someone who loves to
take photos and pose and create scenes with these these figures having the building here
you know whether it's on tatooine or or wherever mando gets to visit with the remnant troopers i'm
looking at this and i see like different angles different ways i could pose manual around the
corner with the blaster up or engage or even on top of here it just allows for a lot of fun which
is what you want to have with with these figures so i hope personally i really hope this becomes
a real product and something that i can pick up and set up it becomes a real centerpiece to the
collection and then finally didn't expect this as well but also from original trilogy uh we
know that sideshow did a great interpretation of their speeder bike of the speeder bike in
um on the force move endor and hot toys is doing their interpretation as well so you have the
the white colored speeder bike from mando but you also now have the more traditionally
painted one from the original trilogy with the scout trooper a little bit of foliage
and yeah that's gonna be really cool too for those uh who want to build out so book ended by classic
characters on vehicles and of course a whole new universe of characters from the mandalorian
um hot toys also has characters from the disney plus shows and so i'm really excited to check
those out you know new captain america winter soldier i hear even more familiar faces as well
as from one division so you have scarlet witch vision white vision um and other surprises as
well and things from dc universe 2 there's the nightmare batman and the nightmare superman from
zack snyder's justice league i think it's a pretty great time to be a collector so i'm gonna catch my
breath take some photos get some close-ups and let you enjoy these characters these prototypes of hot
toys