DISNEY Stormtrooper

 

you know the Disney corp bought lucasfilm  for $4.05Bn !!! on top of the $3 Bn lucas is already worth ,so EVERYTHING that LFL owns passes over to Disney including movie and merchandising rights for both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones brands.oh  $2 billion of that will be in stock so more Disney makes more he makes ! The man is a damned genius and as no one had shares or anything in Lucas film its ALL his every penny ! he was truly the man with a plan

well those billions have to be found and made up for ,so Disney store, like the Warner store before it ,are making exclusive merchandise as well as Disney has also announced Star Wars Episode VII will be released 2015 with Episode VIII and IX following on in 2-3 year intervals.
George Lucas will stay on as Consultant for the movies

current selection

well this is a line of 14″ Figures exclusive to them as well as children dress-up, apparel, stationery and plush. and mugs etc ,with more to come
Each figure was engineered in-house at the Disney Store’s headquarters, sculpted digitally,

Brian Ewing at work on the next round of Star Wars toys.

 

the figure has a  high quality sound box activated by small, unobtrusive buttons on the front of the figures. Weapons are non-removable , with red LEDs that activate when the sounds play.the weapons activated by a separate button for three different sounds and the speech is around 15 phrases
I’m looking forward to the small PVC as well to see what we get the detail looks superb
So seeing about these online here there’s a video here

I saw the Stormtrooper in store a week ago  ( one figure in large i do not have),  Hasbro made a truly awful one in the 90’s there was a 12-inch vynal kit and then the über sideshow quality pieces of every trooper variant at a 200 pound a piece price mark, but i needed a trooper for my Return of the Jedi (I think looks more like the Star Wars version)electronic DARTH VADER which i got cheap in about 1999 ,so this was an answer at £20 , the black series 6 inch range are same price and this is twice the size and fx and for a disney store exclusive where things are usually overpriced a good deal

Now the main issue with these figures is their plastic look cheap shiny gloss but are actually well made tight joints hefty some weight a kid will love it and find it hard to break
As a collector it looks the part i did look up storm trooper Armour and this id say is 95% Accurate and im picky, see the buttons on the stomach there should be 4 not 3 and also ridges on helmet side should be blue not grey and the black mouth section is not right ,that’s it only faults
It sounds great and a nice piece on the shelf and boy is it big i did not realize until i got home he dwarfs my luke and han and is same size as my Vader so he is the BIG trooper 14 inch

The box is nice  painting of Vader on one side the Death Star on the other space inside and the prototype pictured with the features listed

speech button

with Vader size comparison

There is a button on the shoulder on the left shoulder for 3x Gun fx with lights  and a stomach button for the over 15 movie accurate phrases (Vader figure only one in the line to use someone else voice and not James earl Jones which is weird) all cool
Being critical its plastic its shiny and as you can see where the button is it’s a square showing box,yes all exactly like the real life suits the matte black under-suit the detail all as per the film,it would appear for now  there concentrating on the first film

I like it looks good in the cabinet and Body Guard to Lord Vader only took 16 years to get a Trooper
Also as part of the promotion Disney store is giving away some nice cards that on rear form the second movie poster while on front

So head down to a disney store have a look

not got a vader they have one

storm trooper helmet comparison more info on star wars helmet

 

EDIT new video

The sequal

Hello and on to a much fun friendly post
the sequal, Although movie sequels do not always do as well at the box office as the original, they tend to do much better …and sometimes have a longer lasting legacy
you know the one, theres a film its a franchise it sparks a interest deemed success, and pop out comes another
but are they any good ?
well im going to take a look at what i think are some of the greatest sequels EVER
In no specific order

what can you say about this that hasn’t been said before ?
I prefer Phantom Menace. I’M JOKING!!! PUT THAT KNIFE DOWN!!
the fact it is in more experienced Irvin Kershner directors hands it has a more fleshed out story and some of the greatest battles ever The 1980 film was a smash then and now
, also introducing us to more icons like Yoda Lando and Boba and shock revelations (“I am your father”).,as Great as Star Wars was new hope was it was left standing in what has to be the best film of the original holy trinity
 Plot Driven, great Character development and interesting characters (even the new ones ) breath taking imaginative scenes style and substance,oh how it all went so wrong after this

“Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” They kept making sequels after this one, but they never came close to equalling “Judgement Day.” this film defined what it means to be a sequel it took the dark film noire cult 85 hit and in 91 made a monster sequel a stand alone movie you could see without knowing the first ,redefined special effects for a whole new generation and technological push that other films hadn’t thought of ,great film all round and movie thats a instant classic, and Put the icon of Arnie in the stratosphere on form in a role he was born to play add Cameron and Stan Winston movie gold

superman 2 ahhhhhhhh tricky one well the original was great family fun after donner we got dick lester and his light comedy flavour but using 70 % of donners already shot material

“Superman”, directed by Richard Donner, was released in 1978. Donner had planned to release a sequel soon after the original. To do so both films were filmed at the same time. However, Donner struggled stay on budget, and fought with the producers over the tone of the film. Donner was removed from the project after the original film was finished. Director Richard Lester then took charge of the sequel, piecing together footage shot by Donner while re-shooting scenes and re-writing others

then we have the recent Dick Donner cut that used unused screen tests and unseen footage to  fill the gaps and here is the movie as intended , stunning a comic book come to life the malevolent the icy Terrence stamp as Zod and the beautiful character driven story of the boy from Kansas and lois

The biggest compliment you can pay the film is that, for all the superhero films out there, this is still one of the best examples of the genre. 

a must own must see this is a perfect follow on to the iconic original and easily matches it in renown 

 

There’s a rule of thumb everyone should remember when it comes to the “Star Trek” series.
The even numbered films are good, the odd numbered films are bad (some very bad).
If you don’t believe me just look at the best “Star Trek” movies – “The Wrath of Khan” (number two), “The Voyage Home” (number four), “The Undiscovered Country” (number six), “Nemesis” (number eight) and the much misunderstood but yet visually entertaining Nemesis ( number 10 ). Now look at the lesser “Star Trek” efforts – “The Motion Picture” (number one), “The Search For Spock” (number three), “Generations” (number seven), and the truly awful “Final Frontier” (number five) and “Insurrection” (number 9) .

It’s to be expected that with so many sequels there will be hits and misses. The second “Star Trek” film to appear in theatres is one of the best film’s of the franchise (second only to ST 6 really), and perhaps should have been the first edition of the television show in feature-film form. It’s a terrific story of good battling evil. Ricardo Montalban reprises his cult bad-guy character from the television series, rekindling his hatred for Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and displaying it on the big-screen with a frightening cold, hearted malice.
One of the few examples of a sequel being better than the original.it has all you can want no one does spaceships as well as Star Trek this is battleships submarines in space the close closeted feeling you get watching these is truly brilliant and atmospheric and Kirk n co doing what they do best being the crew of the Enterprise even the Starfleet Uniforms are the best theres ever been, naval formal military uniforms design with sense and purpose right down to functional away jackets coloured under shirts to pips on the cuffs, its all so real and been copied,  this realistic look has been tried since to varying degrees of success (no one mention boiler suits ok……)
dark gritty trek realistic trek and good story trek is as good as it can get in deep space entertainment
a formula attempted  for DS9 TV series but suffered from the lack of budget (cough boiler suits cough )

Some may say a sequel to Ridley Scott’s “Alien” was detrimental to cinema since it has influenced some poor imitations and several awful sequels. However, both “Aliens” and “Alien 3” are terrific films in their own right and deserve to viewed as such. “Aliens”, writer-director James Cameron’s faithful continuation of the story, is a heart-pumping, lost-in-space horror that allowed Sigourney Weaver to reprise her role as Ripley and examine her character more deeply. Much of the film’s success comes because Weaver has never been as good, seemingly born to play this feminine hero figure who is perennially fighting for her life. Cameron’s bleak, futuristic world is brilliantly realised, from the weapons and spacecraft, to the colony buildings and interiors, there is a sense of frightening authenticity to the horror that is prevailing. And that’s not mentioning the aliens themselves, which put simply, are the most gloriously conceived and designed monsters of horror cinema. HR Giger (Alien creature design for which he received the Oscar in 1980)  is a genius in Art and Design  there is no doubt, and here ably backed by the Genius that is Stan Winston true movie magic,