hey everyone norm from tested here and i could not be more thrilled to be out of our studio and
into someone else's amazing production paul from sideshow you guys are running sideshow con this
week and this has blown my mind how an amazing production you guys have set up thank you so
much yeah we uh you know i've seen it a couple of times and it never ceases honestly to blow my
mind there's so much here which we'll get into yes but there is so much here that i think everyone's
really gonna love and i know you you personally are gonna love i mean it's live streams every day
of the week multiple times a day a rotating set of what's being on display it really feels like that
comic-con experience yeah sure that you and i both love but you guys are setting it up in your house
so we're in-house today with sideshow take a look at some of their products
and i really want to talk about this guy first because last year i saw
the big rancor oh yeah the big healthy raincore and that sold out so incredibly detailed i was
also blown away when you guys announced then that there's now a more manageable the travel size yes
you know maybe the one that fits in my home more reasonably but this is of course uh based off of
that same sculpt is that right yes and so the good news is right up front almost the entire
team came back to work on this one i think really to challenge themselves to see if they could make
the travel size rancor i mean they they nailed it they knocked it out of the park
i love i mean my favorite thing is like the moisture that you can kind of see that's one of
my favorite parts of paint application in any sort of collectible um and i know there was like some
particular details that you would really liked on here uh specifically like the skin texture yeah
i mean you mentioned paint right and it's not just matte paint there's like a nice you know
it's supposed to look you know like a hide right yeah like a rhinoceros hide but you also have
gloss right gloss in the eyes gloss around that where would be the wet spots but also you know
the rancor has accessories he has the earrings oh yeah so you have like a little bit of that
like that brushed metal look especially like the uh the the gauntlets the the brakes the bracelets
it's handcuffs right or handcuffs yeah you know nice crack and sculptural detail here it really
feels like you know this as a as a sculpt at that full size when you shrink it down it's retaining
oh every level of detail every level uh and every piece of love that went into
all of these i i know that the entire team that had worked on this are huge star wars fans so
not only did they nail it when they had the uh did the larger version but when they brought it
down to about 16 inches they wanted to make sure that that same collectible felt as imposing and
menacing as the you know the pit beast that you get in full scale in full uh size there
i love it yeah he's incredible i mean he should be shipping pretty soon we're thinking
hopefully you know maybe around in october or so it's really hard to handcuff them so
there's quite a few of them and i believe this one is limited to only 2 000 okay only 2 000 um
i mean they're they're wonderful and again they are they're great for anyone who like you said
like for yourself or myself like i don't have a ton of room for these huge pieces this is
perfect for your collection yeah and i'm not sure exactly what scale this is obviously the rancor is
massive uh but in terms of scale you guys do have premium format you guys have sixth scale
i see a whole line of star wars stuff can we step off of this podium and take
a look down at that stuff i thought you'd never ask let's let's get going all right
so paul at my heart i'm a sixth scale guy of course and uh when i saw you guys had planned
to put out some clone wars sixth scale but in your own unique design i think the community just
erupted in oh yeah so we're finally getting to see these in person of course anakin and
general obi-wan talk about the kind of design inspiration for this and how it differs than
the other interpretations of these characters yeah i i would say right up top i mean the team
absolutely nailed it specifically with all the different elements of course we can start with the
animated sculpt specifically um i do remember you know when talking to some of the project managers
that we did get some of the animation files from lewis to make sure that it was as accurate as
possible everything down to the hilt and of course i mean the first thing you've got to
nail is this sculpt and i mean just every particular element that is in here with you
know his tunic and this jedi knight attire that he has i think was beautifully brought uh you know to
its full scale by the folks at luke's really really helping us out here and again as far as it
differs i think again bringing it back up to that sculpt it feels like it's right out of the show
it's an interesting creative choice right because we've seen a lot of interpretations of these
specific characters brought into this scale how photo real do you want to look how you know how
close to the animated series and with things like the cut and so you know you can absolutely make
sure clothing looks like clothing right like you have the leather like here you have you know the
little pilling of the the soft fabrics but even like we're talking about the boots and the gloves
the paint finish here evokes not necessarily a like a clothing armor that i would a cosplayer or
someone write but right out of the show same with like the hair like everything looks painted like
it's out of the animated series yeah it's like a next level of version of sculpting and that you
have to sculpt and then go past that it's like 4d chests almost in that you have to sculpt and
then also sculpt in a way that it looks uh more animated than an animated sculpt normally there's
a hyper real aspect too yes exactly and again you know it is the collector community is so great in
that there are various versions and preferences of these two characters in the long history that we
have but specifically within the clone wars show um and so i know that what situa wanted to do is
bring a animated version of these two collectors who have been asking for it yeah and obi-wan of
course the classic obi-wan pose these are of course sixth scale posable oh yeah completely
and what's the state of these in terms of yeah the readiness for getting two collectors so they're
still you know they're still early in production we are um working on them right now i don't have
an exact date as to when these can uh be expected that is to be determined but uh you know just
wanting everyone to know that we absolutely do not want to rush these because we know how much people
are clamoring for these and how i mean how great they look specific again going back to the hair
and everything and all these details we want to make sure that the ones that people are seeing
here are the ones that are going to be in their collection as well they look fantastic and in
front of them of course you have general grievous now this is going to be familiar to collectors
because you guys put this out as like one of the the kind of an achievement yeah in engineering
and toy design years ago but it's a not a straight up reissue but it's a chance for collectors to get
this again what's what's kind of different so yeah so a lot you know the um the team that worked on
the original and the team that worked on this one really sort of wanted to make sure that the
essence of what people originally saw was what they're getting now and parts of the the body
have been redone the cape has also been redone and basically the whole thing just got a tune-up to
make sure that it lasts in your collection for as long as possible because there are a lot of
moving parts on here of course we've got the four arms we've got the four sabers and the four arms
do actually connect two b2 arms um that has been i believe redesigned as well to make it easier for
collectors to pose grievous in any you know menacing way that they can imagine him
i i find that part of sixth scale collecting is understanding you know the mechanics of the figure
and the body design and this is no ordinary body design so to get it so you can have it and
not just a fix pose like this but also then tune your poses and have it stay that's something you
always want in in sixth scale and yeah grievous is yeah you don't see anyone else attempting
opposable grievous no no and uh i mean the team did an incredible job with basically creating
a body type that allows for so many poses that really you're only limited by your imagination you
can pose them in any way that you've seen them in again the clone wars or in um in any other version
of grievous that you've seen well looking around you know not only you have grievous here in sixth
scale but let's uh let's step up and talk about premium format because i see a grievous back there
in that size let's do it so you guys also have a bunch of new premium format this is a larger
scale almost we do quarter scale size uh statues mixed media somebody something you guys always do
oh yes so i'm noticing the wired cape already in this grievous uh tell me about the design and then
the artist that worked on this yeah so this is the uh this is the first result uh first reveal i'm
sorry this is a prototype you know again right you know right from in-house now uh the design
uh was also inspired by matt black who's worked on the rancor piece as well as a lot of the star
wars pieces that our fans have come to know and love um i mean and it's absolutely incredible
everything down from all of the texturing and the weathering we see on the base here
all the way up to the very deep sunken eyes of general grievous here uh i mean it's absolutely
beautiful and as as you mentioned there we've got a mixed media piece again i know that the team
just loves to challenge itself and the different departments like to collaborate separately and
then come together and bring you a piece like this with this incredible cape that just has a just an
awesome feel on it i mean you got the mix of the cape the the many lightsabers of course and the
way they're all kind of intersecting and the way that grievous comes right at you oh yeah
looking right in his eyes i see the depth even like all that wiring it is neck right
oh yeah something you can achieve at this scale and the pose um it's not off balance but
it's in a attack pose oh yeah he is very much uh you know ready to go into battle here and i love
again every single piece of this you've got the same weathering and texturing that you see on
every single part it's very mirrored on that end and on this end and again very similarly to that
sixth scale that we had seen you almost can feel the energy that uh grievous normally has he's a
very busy character and you kind of get that with this yeah you mentioned this is you know
pre-production prototype done with the artists the sculptors in the house and i've been watching
some of the videos that your production team is putting out right spotlighting those artists and
like they're so talented i'm looking at like the it's it's not a flat texture but like that almost
marbling that weathering right here along his plates right it's almost like a bone-like texture
it is almost like a bone like which is very representative i think of grievous this character
that's sort of in this in between constantly and you feel that you feel sort of the mechanics that
you can see in his arms but like you said the bone and the depth in the sort of organic feel that his
eyes have he's a very interesting character which is perfectly brought to life by the statue i think
really well done really beautiful pieces awesome what other premium formats you guys
announcing here so for the very first time we have two new premium formats we have a kylo ren
and ray from uh scott oh rise of skywalker thank you i was so excited um and of course we have our
newly announced darth vader uh premium format as well uh that we had showed at our star wars event
earlier in the year and we are so excited for all of them seriously they're great vader is a
character that's interpreted so many times right so it's another chance for an artist to come in
and do how vader appears in in their their vision right yeah i mean it's it's he's such an iconic
character that i think it really allows everyone to be able to put their own spin on it and again
team knocked it out of the park with this one again i really can't wait for fans to get it in
their house so as long as we're moving up in scale can we go to something that's a one-to-one scale
let's do it this is both terrifying and adorable paul so my understanding is this is from a partner
of yours it's a friend of ours regal robot thomas venus company uh i didn't even know tom and his
team were working on this tell me about this salacious chrome yeah so this is the one for one
uh prop replica again by regal robot and uh what's really i mean right up top again only 150 of these
are gonna be made because they are so intricately done uh tom was kind enough to let us know
that the uh the final version people are going to get will have glass eyes and this faux hair
that you're seeing so what everyone is seeing now is going to be pretty darn close to what they're
going to get at home and what's really great is tom got tony mcveigh to come back who did
the original sculpt for salacious chrome to come back and help with this sculpt and it's what's
really great is it's gonna have two it's gonna have a plaque a dual plaque it's gonna have two
names on it one is gonna be tony mcvay who did the original sculpt and the other is tim rose
who was the actor who had controlled him so you know it's great a regal robot to give
that credit to such an iconic character and two iconic people who helped you know really
really just to shape this character it's awesome yeah they have so much experience working with the
original props and restoring them and working with pulling from the original artists yeah and their
relationships with the artists allow for then a perfect replication for fans uh and they do some
great work with the the mixed medias oh yeah the hair punching mm-hmm i love the the bass as well
yeah i mean the themed bass and what's great is uh tom again was kind enough to let us know that
it will be able to be displayed with or without the bass so uh when you see it here if you've
got a particular you know if you've got your one for one job of the hut he will sit kindly there
oh salacious yeah he's he's great my one of my favorite names in all of star wars also i mean
awesome thank you so much paul for giving us a glimpse into some of the star wars stuff
we have lined up here thank you for stopping by again you'll have scishow con running all
week oh yeah monday to sunday all sorts of things collectibles uh from the pop culture world oh yeah
and i can't wait i'll rest it out yeah thank you for stopping by we can't wait to show everyone