Star Wars - Han Solo - Rebel Captain: Bespin

Series Star Wars
Title Han Solo - Rebel Captain: Bespin
Release Date September 2006
Manufacturer Sideshow
Suggested Price (USD) 49.90
Sculpted by Mat Falls
Scale 1/6
Height (cm) 12 inches
No.  of Parts 1 figure + 4 accessories + 1 doll stand
My Rating Average

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This item is release by a company call Sideshow and they are releasing a range of Star Wars action figures with realistic face sculpt. Sideshow have some quite talented sculptor who can produce sculpting that are at least 80% close to the real person. It is the face sculpting that attract me to buy.

This figure bought at Berjaya Timesquare.

Packaging
The 12-inch Bespin Han Solo figure includes:
  • Authentic likeness of Harrison Ford as Han Solo from Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  • Fully articulated male body with 30+ points of articulation
  • Authentic costume including:
    • Undershirt
    • Jacket
    • Pants w/ yellow Corellian Bloodstripe
    • Belt
    • Boots
  • Accessories including:
    • Detailed gun belt w/ pouch, boxes, and working blaster holster
    • Blaster Pistol w/ sight
    • Breathing Mask w/ filter
  • 12-Inch Figure Display Base with Star Wars logo
   
Front Box Art Rear Box Art
The contents. No Velcro is use. Box is close via magnet.

Figure and Articulation
I got no complain on the articulations and the body comes with very solid joints. Some might complain that the small hand peg might easily break off. However, I am use to Japanese toys and I have handled smaller peg so I am quite comfortable with it. In overall, the body gives a very durable feel comparing to a Japanese toys.

12 inches figure with over 30 point of articulations.

I manage to strip the doll naked but I could not find a way to safely remove the head.

The 'Thinking Man' test on articulations. Right hand cannot touch forehead in this pose. The head look extremely big when naked. Photo of the figure with clothes on. The articulation on lower body is almost unhindered by the clothing whereas his jacket slightly limit the arm movement by a bit.

Face Sculpt
The face sculpt for this Han Solo is only so and so. The lower jaw area is too fat for the young Harrison Ford. Sideshow has another premium format statue figure and the face sculpting look much better than this. It will be nice if they can incorporate that head sculpt here.

The head sculpt is all the way down to the neck so the neck hinder the head up and down movement.

   
   
   

Action Pose
Han Solo with some action pose. Note that the head is slightly big for his body. This item comes with very few accessories and there are no spare hand to swap. I have to bear with his trigger-finger hand in a relax pose.

The figure is quite stable even when in a pose and a doll stand is not required for photos.

I am trying to pose him as seen in Star Wars Episode 3 where he is negotiating with another alien in Mos Eisley's Cantina. Sorry, wrong costume. :P

What is Han Solo without a cool babe? Hehehe.

   
Solo with Gas Mask hunting some Mynock.

Story from the Box Art
Fleeing before a wrathful Darth Vader, the Rebel Alliance scatters, abandoning its secret base on the planet Hoth. With a malfunctioning hyper drive and the Sith Lord's fleet on his tail, brash pilot-turned-freedom-fighter, Han Solo throws his ship, the Millennium Falcon, into a series of jinks and maneuvers in a vain effort to loose his pursuers. After hiding in an asteroid field and staging an audacious disappearing act right on the stern of an Imperial Star Destroyer, Solo opts to bet everything on the trust of an old acquaintance and speeds the Falcon to Cloud City on Bespin for repairs.

Onboard the fleeing ship, Princess Leia performs her own evasive maneuvers. Deftly fending the Corellian's roguish advances, she entrusts her fate to him nonetheless, knowing Solo's plan is their best chance for escape.

Han Solo is a man with two lives- his past, as a rogue and a scoundrel, and his present, a man with a reason to live and fight, beyond his own selfish needs. In seeking refuge on Cloud City, Solo risks everything on the character of his former associate, Lando Calrissian, the facility's dashing Baron Administrator. In Lando, Princess Leia sees much of the man Han Solo used to be, but the degree to which he has changed and the truth of her own love for him only becomes clear to the Princess when Calrissian betrays them all to Lord Vader.

Prisoners of the Empire, and standing at the edge of the pit into which Han Solo will be lowered and likely die, an understanding passes between Leia and Solo- a promise for the future, and a reason to stay alive.


Document Date : 2006-09-11



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