Hmmm... Also looks to be a drinking glass set, and a sushi set with light saber chop sticks! (Photo stolen from Toybot.)

off the hookage

I am officially excited about toys again!!

sorry to be boring but any idea on the shipping to blighty on this puppy?

Great set. Love the r2d2 and 3po glasses.

More UK slang. (I had to look this one up)

"Blighty is an English slang term for Britain..."

I would have never guessed.

light saber chopsticks rule!

Will ZZ weapons fit?

Looking at the proportions of this Trooper is so amazingly apt for a Machinder body. Genius.

This is so badass! I keep posting on this thread saying the same shit, but i have to show my love. Expect a big sale from me to make funds for this bad boy because I need this.
What a great center piece of any kaiju or star wars collection! I wish I had a fireplace because this would be front center on the mantle!

Totally awesome, I really love it. It will be mine. Takara should have been making these bad boys during the 70's.

I would even settle for XX weapons. Hope the fists launch.

will an S7 exclusive light saber with orange lights be in the works??

I hope so. I have a pair of mint launching fists in the box I will have to paint white.

No avoiding Star Wars for me now, curse you Flynn. As revenge I will now have to create a meat dish so fantastic that even you will not be able to resist.

Thanks for the response guys, I really hope people like it, this ain't cheap to make, and I have other plans!

To answer a few direct questions:
1. There will be no rocket firing fists, as that does not make sense with the character. That said we will be trying to make the gun fire instead, so we still get some collateral damage. It will be tricky though, as we have not yet entered the final engineering stage. No promises.
2. It is being made at one of the original jumbo factories in Japan. Not an easy task.
3. The body will be blow molded polyethelene, the head vinyl, and it will have hidden wheels under the feet just like every true Jumbo.
4. You are correct, this is a toy Popy SHOULD have made but did not. In response, we are making it to prove to them that they were wrong.
5. As much as I would love it to be ready by Nov./Dec., it will probably be early 2009 before it really hits the stands.
5. Yes, it is 24" tall, and it rocks.
6. No wallpaper yet. Maybe later, but not yet.

-brian

If these are offered up to S7 people first (i think i read that in a thread here somewhere), would it be in-store only or on the web store also. shipping costs would be a I FART A LOT for this, but in the end, well worth it!

i actually hate star wars but this is awesome. i'd hate to see the postage cost to australia though.

Can't wait to get a look at SDCC.

Brian, I have a question: is there a reason the proto isn't made of wood? AFAIK, the last round of Uni-Five Jumbo Machinders were prototyped in wood, and I (perhaps mistakenly) got the notion that the material was necessary for the prototyping process.

"There will be no rocket firing fists, as that does not make sense with the character."

Oh, and the firing fists on the Goji Machinder made all sorts of sense....didn't mean it still wasn't cool as hell!

Seriously though, congrats on this.

Ha ha! I was thinking along the same lines. As well as - wheels on the feet of a Storm Trooper make sense? I don't remember them roller skating around the Death Star...
Firing fists or not, I still got 5...er $350...on it. (A firing blaster would be almost as awesome though!)

Let's not forget that Lucas doing SW episodes 1-3 made absolutely no sense whatsoever... it's a toy! Toys don't need to make sense! Stormtroopers don't have wheels on their feet in the movies... the Machinder can have rocket fists!

sweet!! plans for vader and fett!

Killer news but there's plenty of time ... let the Stormtrooper land first!

Flynn: "Originally we had planned on making just the gun missile firing, but so many have been really wanting the fist…I’ve been second guessing it…only because the only reason I objected to it first, was because it wasn’t true to the character. A stormtrooper doesn’t fire its fist. But we’re putting wheels on its feet and we’re making it true to the jumbo that way. So we’re already taking it away one step from true…so maybe it’s ok for it to have missile firing fists."