Of course any Sideshow piece demands you be careful in handling. Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised to find Salacious constructed from fiberglass and polystone. My Jabba has several marks where things have bumped into it. The thing I don’t like about vinyl is that it is really easy to spoil the finish and even the paint off of a product. I had thought this figure would be made out of vinyl and that the cost was in the sculpt and hair application. There wasn’t a mark anywhere on this thing. The thought of this guy perched next to me as I worked and greeting visitors to my office was just too much. When I found out Sideshow was doing a life-size replica it wasn’t a question of if I could afford it but how. Crumb, the nasty little hanger-on whose cackling laugh and beady eyes were offset by a melted Chihuahua physique and bird beak nose. In short it offers, in my opinion, the most fully realized world of the series in spite of George Lucas’ empty efforts to recreate the magic by tinkering with CGI.Īnd, Yoda excepted, my favorite muppety creation in the SW universe has always been Salacious D. It utilizes just enough muppetry in its practical effects and clunky creature makeup to embody the playful atmosphere that people associate with space oaters but resists using such things to the point where they become ludicrous. Empire is my favorite film of the series by a long shot. Now I own an oversize Jabba with Throne Room, and a few other Empire Strikes back characters. I saw the movies a bunch and loved the characters but it wasn’t until I was an adult that I started caring about them as collectibles. I didn’t have Star Wars toys as a kid, at least not any I can remember. affordable may be in the eye of the beholder but I actually sold off a collectible to get this- something I never ever do. But nothing affordable has ever grabbed hard enough to demand my attention, until now. Life-size Star Wars? Maybe a bust, or weapon replica. I can't afford much of life-size anything when it comes to collectibles.
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