Rose - Resistance Tech

Lance_Quazar said:
The thigh cuts are indeed pointless and harm aesthetics. Don't really see the point. If you have ball-jointed hips and fully-articulated knees, what possible advantage to cut hips provide? It's baffling.

And, I continue to feel, as I always have, that waist joints are far, far superior to torso joints for a variety of reasons. Aesthetics first, customizing potential second, but also freedom of movement. The waist joint provides much more poseability.

All that said, this is a very spiffy figure, though it's debatable if this version or the basic figure has the better head sculpt. Hard to say.

However, I'm delighted that this was one of the first Black Series figures. New is always preferable to old.
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The thigh cuts are unfortunately necessitated because of the ball-joint hips. With the hips on their own the figures can't sit properly and the legs have a very wide stance. The thigh cuts fix that problem. I would compare trying to get Poe sitting in a chair versus Jyn sitting a chair, the Jyn figure will be sitting more naturally. I think they're both unnecessary because they should have just stuck with swivel hips.
 
That why they need to go back to the simply swivel hips, or whatever they're called. With BH knees and ankles, BH hips are overkill IMO. I don't need my figures to do the splits. Swivel waists are must too! I used to love boil and pop, and i could swap out torsos and bottoms like crazy. Now you can't.
 
wedgeswingman said:
The thigh cuts are unfortunately necessitated because of the ball-joint hips. With the hips on their own the figures can't sit properly and the legs have a very wide stance. The thigh cuts fix that problem. I would compare trying to get Poe sitting in a chair versus Jyn sitting a chair, the Jyn figure will be sitting more naturally. I think they're both unnecessary because they should have just stuck with swivel hips.
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Your'e right about that. I misspoke. I'd be happy to go back to swivel hips for most figures. Maybe for acrobatic figures like, I dunno, Darth Maul who you'd want to have in some dynamic action poses, you could break out the ball jointed hips.
 
Masterfett said:
Swivel waists are must too! I used to love boil and pop, and i could swap out torsos and bottoms like crazy. Now you can't.
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This more than anything. Every time I see a great new figure, I think, "Wow, that Jyn torso will be excellent for customizing...oh crap." "Wow, Doctor Aphra. Finally, a woman in that kind of shirt, customs here I come....oh, nevermind."

I have to keep going back to the Vintage Collection as the last wave of custom fodder and it's infuriating. And highly limiting.
 
IMO, this subject should be brought up in a Q&A. Not whether Luke will get released for TLJ or not.
 
Lance_Quazar said:
This more than anything. Every time I see a great new figure, I think, "Wow, that Jyn torso will be excellent for customizing...oh crap." "Wow, Doctor Aphra. Finally, a woman in that kind of shirt, customs here I come....oh, nevermind."

I have to keep going back to the Vintage Collection as the last wave of custom fodder and it's infuriating. And highly limiting.
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I am totally with you and would very much prefer waist articulation to mid-torso for this very reason. That said, a Dremel is an amazing investment for this sort of customizing problem. Pretty easy to cut apart figures at the waist and create your own swivel joint which leaves you with the aesthetics and the extra articulation for just a little extra work. I suppose the best thing in the line would be waist *and* torso articulation but I definitely prefer the waist if we can only have one type.
 
Yeah, but it will never be as strong. I've cut a torso once and tried super gluing a piece to it that would accommodate the plug/hole from the waist. I broke off 6 months later due to the glue getting brittle/cold I guess. If I could I'd get into casting my own parts, would cut down on some dilemmas. But I'm not into customizing as I once was, so the energy drive is gone.
 
Just in case this hasn't been addressed, the 5POA's superior (IMO) head will not fit on the SA version. The SA version's neck stump is way larger.
 
Agen_Kolar said:
Just in case this hasn't been addressed, the 5POA's superior (IMO) head will not fit on the SA version. The SA version's neck stump is way larger.
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Yeah, it does.

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That pic is funny. The way it's set up, Paige's look on her face is like B**** this ain't a Taxi!
 
Agen_Kolar said:
You're right, I played around with it more last night, but she has giraffe neck. I might have to shave the neck peg down some.
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Cool, good luck. Keep in mind, the regular Black Series rose has a fairly prominent neck already. (much more so than the FivePOA.)
 
I was able to switch heads without too much effort. Her neck post is spongy enough to to accept the smaller head socket. Funny that the 5poa version has the better paint/sculpt.
 
Nerfherder said:
I was able to switch heads without too much effort. Her neck post is spongy enough to to accept the smaller head socket. Funny that the 5poa version has the better paint/sculpt.
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Yeah, I am torn. The 5POA version is a much stronger sculpt, which is mostly due to the lack of articulation. However the color of her outfit appears to be incorrect, as the figure is on the orangey side of things. The SA version got the outfit closer to the color of photos we've seen thus far, where it appears to have more of a yellow-green tone.

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Agen_Kolar said:
Yeah, I am torn. The 5POA version is a much stronger sculpt, which is mostly due to the lack of articulation. However the color of her outfit appears to be incorrect, as the figure is on the orangey side of things. The SA version got the outfit closer to the color of photos we've seen thus far, where it appears to have more of a yellow-green tone.

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So how does Finn still have that jacket when he clearly got sliced up the back in the last movie? What, does Poe have a closet full of spares to hand out like Han?
 
Lighting strikes again, how many figures look nothing like they do on screen now?

Poe probably told the seamstress to fix it up because he knows how much Finn love tat jacket!
 
Oh man, i don't know whether to laugh or cry. They actually made a conscious effort to do that, so that people knew it was the same jacket?
When it could have very well been sewn up? How would this be explained, Finn's last words were "save the jacket"? Or maybe Poe stapled it himself, thinking that Finn really liked his jacket?

I honestly don't get the point. As often as the OT characters changes clothes, why not just move on? They seem to be putting a lot of thought and efort into a simple jacket. Hopefully they put as much into the story line.
 
I like that Finn kept the jacket. It was his first gift as a human (not Stormtrooper) given by the man who named him. The rough sewing of it offers an opening to tell a really cool story (or might be explained in the movie as "no time to fix this now, gotta go!". Much like Crusaders kept their slashed robes to show off their bravery, or Wookies are proud of their scars, Finn might want it as a reminder.

Or he could have it to passive-aggressively remind Rey what he did for her so, "Why the friend one? Why? Why?"


I like Rose's head for the little Jedha girl Jyn rescues.
 
Utinniii said:
I like that Finn kept the jacket. It was his first gift as a human (not Stormtrooper) given by the man who named him. The rough sewing of it offers an opening to tell a really cool story (or might be explained in the movie as "no time to fix this now, gotta go!". Much like Crusaders kept their slashed robes to show off their bravery, or Wookies are proud of their scars, Finn might want it as a reminder.

Or he could have it to passive-aggressively remind Rey what he did for her so, "Why the friend one? Why? Why?"




I like Rose's head for the little Jedha girl Jyn rescues.
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Easy stomach easy,,,,,,,,,,,,
 
Highly unlikely. Rose is, what, in her 20s? There is a 33+ year span of time between Rogue One and The Last Jedi.
 
You're right, I forgot what the timeline was. Unless she's of a species ta ages very well. It's Star Wars after all!
 
People were saying how TLJ Rose looked like she was wearing a Ghostbusters outfit, so I gave her some Ghostbusters playmobile gear. Needs some modifying, but scales pretty well for 1/18 figures.


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lol She does look like a Ghostbuster.

I bought 2 of her to customize. Her outfit has potential IMO and her height and unnoticeable chest make her a perfect start for a custom alien character.

I also really like how her hair is a separate piece. :{
 
wps72 said:
People were saying how TLJ Rose looked like she was wearing a Ghostbusters outfit, so I gave her some Ghostbusters playmobile gear. Needs some modifying, but scales pretty well for 1/18 figures.


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And I was just hit with the customizing bug again.

Wonder how the 6” Rose would look with either one of the removable packs from the last Mattel waves, or from one of the recent Playmates Ninja Turtle GBs.
 
KypDurron420 said:
lol She does look like a Ghostbuster.

I bought 2 of her to customize. Her outfit has potential IMO and her height and unnoticeable chest make her a perfect start for a custom alien character.

I also really like how her hair is a separate piece. :{
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I agree. Her being so short does limit the possibilities. Though one could add to the height with adding longer boots from someone else, only need about 1/4-1/2 inch.

I like the separate hair too, and with Paige's cap. I've got a coupe hair pieces from Joes I've been holding onto. When this and Paige goes on Clearance, I'll get a couple more.
 
Yeah it limits you to shorter species or females of their species.

I think it will be neat to get a sullustan or a bith tech from her. Male for the sullustan female for the bith.

I think Agent Helix(GI JOE) has the hair as a separate piece. I'm going to see how that looks. And I think the movie version of Cover Girl has a hair piece too. :{J
 
Finally was able to see this Rose and the 5POA one side by side. I didn't understand why people were saying the 5 POA one was better but after having them side by side, I can see why you guys say that head is better. However, don't know if it's worth getting it just to get a slightly better head to put on this one.
 
I agree. it's a very minor difference, that I didn't even bother getting it to use. just settled for the SA one. I've got too many multiple purchase as it is.
I'm really starting to tire of needing to buy more than one figure to get one good figure...
 
Nighthawk said:
Finally was able to see this Rose and the 5POA one side by side. I didn't understand why people were saying the 5 POA one was better but after having them side by side, I can see why you guys say that head is better. However, don't know if it's worth getting it just to get a slightly better head to put on this one.
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The Black Series figure is angrier. I put the 5POA on the SA body....it (mostly) fits.
 
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