I think I need to see how Luke Skywalker turns out before I commit to this line.

How does that Darth Vader figure compare to this one that I own? Should I spend the extra money on the Hyper Real figure or just be happy with the one I have?

I've not handled that but from what I've seen in stores, Hyper Real is well beyond that in materials and articulation.

It's hard because from even a medium distance, Vader is Vader. When you handle, pose, and look close is where the difference is, any scale.

First off, Tony, amazing gallery. In particular, I love the use of the lighting shots from under the base.

You know, you never really see Darth Vader as this imposing character of pure rage and evil until you start getting into larger scales. Thats when the real detail of the pressure suit, and the armor layered on top, with the controls to his life support directly on his chest really hit home. Thats a person who is this constantly burning, embodiment of hatred and fury underneath, in a suit, with the constant danger of being exposed, already in pain, but armored, and wearing the robes of a Sith Lord.

The skeleton seems...I don't know, something is off with it. Maybe it's the fact that Phicen, and other companies seem to really have advanced the anatomy factor of the endoskeleton to the point that this version just doesn't give the look of being this thing that is able to pose well. And as mentioned, the limitations are there. Should Vader do the splits? No, but should you perhaps have the ability for the cost? Hard to say. The ab lack is also throwing me off. Like....that's kind of a offput in a world where a lot of the collector figures on market have some form of articulation in that area. I'm sure it was for stability of the spine to the heft of the body or preventing tears because that is always the curse of silicone bodies. But Prowse for his height is a stocky guy, and this is that Vader. Big and imposing.

He's also almost as tall as MP-10. That's mindblowing. You really have to be a Star Wars collector to really want this. It's not the scale so much as the overall space in a collection.

I wouldn't even pretend to call this against a Hot Toys or SHF offering. It's a licensed product in it's own sort of created class of eight inch figures. Future releases like Luke should be interesting to see in interaction. Plus then I have more galleries to drool over.

do we 100% know the material is silicone?
Did Hasbro confirm this?
i get that it might definitely feel like silicone,
but theres also PVC that can be manufactured that way as well.

for what it's worth fingers crossed it is silicon,
I have PVC and it kills me that PVC is 75% of my figures

Has anyone that ordered from Amazon received a shipping notice (or the actual figure) yet? My Vader will supposedly arrive tomorrow but has not actually shipped yet. I’m going to be really annoyed if they end up canceling my order at the last minute. It’s happened once before.

I just messed around with the demo version of this during my most recent stop at Megalopolis. This is amazing, especially for the price. Really like it. I'm not a Star Wars collector, so it's not really in my ballpark, but I really hope the line is expanded to Marvel movie characters as well.