tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post1454904464900170169..comments2024-03-23T02:08:20.971-07:00Comments on theswca blog: Do-Overs: Repurposed Action Figure Sculptstheswcahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01390114486366697665noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-12772039902821538152018-03-02T08:19:46.101-08:002018-03-02T08:19:46.101-08:00Sorry, what does "RL" mean?Sorry, what does "RL" mean?Aledownloadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16921871187165445521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-56560939164395309962016-03-17T17:47:32.103-07:002016-03-17T17:47:32.103-07:00Very interesting! I like the commentary on dating...Very interesting! I like the commentary on dating too.<br />Dave Brotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17975351090475955604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-23768357628281950102016-03-03T00:10:38.879-08:002016-03-03T00:10:38.879-08:00Great food for thought Ron - I always thought the ...Great food for thought Ron - I always thought the 4 LOM sculpt was an odd one once his/her coat was removed. The puffy sleeves are very reminiscent of original Leia's - do you think original Leia could be a reused sculpt for 4 LOM?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901772062301169305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-65046275001770311922016-03-01T18:18:19.481-08:002016-03-01T18:18:19.481-08:00The RL C-3PO (and Droids C-3PO) weren't rescul...The RL C-3PO (and Droids C-3PO) weren't resculpted. They just retooled those things to change the joints. Same source sculpt. Same with all the versions of R2 (the R2 figure was patterned in wood -- I believe there's a photo on the Archive). As Ben mentions below, Zuckuss and C-3PO, while being similar in a broad sense, are actually quite different when you get right down to it. As to why they didn't reuse C-3PO for Zuckuss...who knows. I think that by the time the '80s rolled around, the folks at Kenner were probably too hip to the historical importance of these things to do that. Ben could be right that the DSD was made from a cast of C-3PO. But that's somewhat different from the topic of this post. Kenner often made casts of sculpts, then reworked them. The topic I'm addressing here concerns cases in which Kenner sculptors actually SCULPTED OVER (or may have sculpted over) an existing sculpt.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01177866048830930670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-18692826688395826772016-03-01T16:21:49.265-08:002016-03-01T16:21:49.265-08:00Kenner sculptors had such ready access to mold mak...Kenner sculptors had such ready access to mold making gear to create wax casts of final sculpts, you wonder why they were so keen to go down the 'do-over' path? I believe that the DSD was likely created from a cast of 3PO that was done this way, along with the likes of the A-Wing Pilot (B-Wing) and Imperial Gunner (At-St driver).<br /><br />Ron is likely bang-on with Luke Bespin being done over the top of the Original Luke Skywalker wax though (placing it firmly in the 'go figure' basket of toy creation history). <br /><br />I'd owned the Luke Bespin sculpt for quite a few years, and my strongest memory of it was that it had an identical head, the same 'puffy' looking hands Luke Original had, and other similarities with form. The head didn't look like a cast either - even at the time I got it I was pretty much resigned to it being a do-over.<br /><br />On a more positive note... that comparison pic of Bossk and Blue Snag shows how clever Kenner were at hiding similarities with paint apps/colour, I'd never even considered the two were similar, let alone near identical in many ways. <br /><br />To the previous poster, there were acetate sculpts used in each series that Kenner did - from SW right through to Droids (Zuckuss is a very different sculpt to 3PO, really stiff in comparison, though there are similarities in the superficial detailing).<br /><br />Really great read Ron :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05715926577364342886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-71500369095638191942016-03-01T10:52:10.953-08:002016-03-01T10:52:10.953-08:00Hey Ron, thanks for that info. Just curious about ...Hey Ron, thanks for that info. Just curious about the removable limbs C-3P0. With acetate sculpts coming into the mix with the ESB wave, do you think it's conceivable a sculpt was recast from a hardcopy? I'm just trying to wrap my head around the way the Zuckuss, and C-3P0 especially are carbon copies in detail, and whether producing a version with production pins to remove the arms and legs warranted making one from scratch.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08920899738423349675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-7800622542546220672016-03-01T05:53:53.865-08:002016-03-01T05:53:53.865-08:00Good guess, but the C-3PO wax sculpt still exists,...Good guess, but the C-3PO wax sculpt still exists, so they definitely didn't redo that one. Also, Zuckuss was sculpted in acetate, not wax, meaning it was made from scratch.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01177866048830930670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-56039102900510198242016-02-29T16:23:54.947-08:002016-02-29T16:23:54.947-08:00Zuckuss from C-3P0Zuckuss from C-3P0Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08920899738423349675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-73876070196282403262016-02-29T15:12:50.768-08:002016-02-29T15:12:50.768-08:00It's hard to say how often it happened. The sc...It's hard to say how often it happened. The sculpts for a lot of figures appear to no longer exist. The only ones I'm aware of that are documented as having been redone are Hoth Stormtrooper and Bossk. DSD seems to be a natural rework of C-3PO, but we know that didn't happen, because the C-3PO sculpt is still around. I wouldn't bet against original Leia having been reworked into another figure. Perhaps Leia Bespin. Same goes for Luke. Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01177866048830930670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348707835191843632.post-32582628040993979522016-02-29T13:43:32.886-08:002016-02-29T13:43:32.886-08:00Boom! Mind blown again. Now when you say the wax...Boom! Mind blown again. Now when you say the wax sculpts are reused do you mean all of them, or some of them? As in, no more Stormtrooper sculpts exist? I was talking to Tommy about this same issue on a recent episode of our show - to see if perhaps some of the Leia sculpts were used on Kea Moll, or any of the Droids or Ewok lines to keep costs down. The most logical comparisons would be droids, C3PO and DSD. Some of the Ewoks?Rich Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14558911089425113811noreply@blogger.com