Hot Toys The Clone Wars ARF Clone Trooper & AT-RT - Figure Preview Episode 198

foreigner and welcome back to my channel for another

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video of the Hot Toys secret base

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now before we get started as always I have to give a huge shout out to Ryan Kirkwood for coming out in person and taking these great images of high resolution to show Ryan some Love it in the comments below because without it this series literally wouldn't be possible if you head over to the description why don't you hit the subscribe bell notification icon and join button to Get notified as soon as a new video is posted? on the channel too, if you are looking to pre-order Evirion Atrt, either alone or with an external soldier, I have included the link for that in the description below with Toys Wonderland.com, they have installment plans and a points based reward . system now, this is an interesting preorder and it's going to be an interesting video.

Hot Toys, for some strange reason, never displayed the heavy weapons

clone

trooper

and bark speeder, but only placed the heavy weapons

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in front of the atrt, so we might as well take this opportunity and look at it first. What makes this even more peculiar is that you can't even buy the Clone Trooper heavy weapons on your own, you have to get it with the barking speed they have. I did the same thing with the atrt2, but I know more than a few people collect these

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s to build in the Army and when you literally saddle them up in a two pack with a vehicle, the idea of ​​building your clone arises.

The army on a sixth scale is a little more difficult now. I hope that in the future, when hot

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have this vehicle and the Clone Trooper Pack set, maybe they can consider it, depending on the trooper not having to be with everyone, but for the popular variants, maybe they will allow it. Buying the Troopers separately is always a good option. I love the look of this guy. He has that Commander Cody style helmet with the visor, but he doesn't have the antenna on the side, so he's a little different. The armor, of course, is the 50 First Armor, a fan favorite.

I also love it for those of you who don't know that blue is my favorite color and like I said I like clone troopers so it's practically a match made in heaven, now it's got some embellishments, it's got this shoulder pad, this piece leather over his chest plate and the strap with the small grenades, so he's not just a standard first 50 clone trooper by any means, he also has a holster with a small DC-17 Blaster Pistol, a nice touch and like I said , something a little different. I would have loved to have three, four, five of these guys and added them to the collection even though my clone shelf is relatively full, but let me know what you want.

By the way, think about this guy below, if Hot Toys ever ends up showing off this guy with the bark slider, you can bet I'll make a

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video of his

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again, don't worry. I don't have any of the pieces on display here, no extra hands, no display base, no extra weapons, so there's definitely some meat on the bone for another preview video, now the armor is well worn, so Of course, they are these clones. It's not new, otherwise they would call it brilliant, talking about what hot

toys

, what's taking so long? We need some shiny, some bright, shiny white clone troopers for the collection.

He's also pictured here with this kind of rock-like thing on his foot, no. The display base comes without anyone freaking out, it's just a little glued to the foot to keep it standing on this display overall, although very happy with the heavy weapons. Clone Trooper, he looks fantastic, he will appear in the display because he is a variant, he is not just another ordinary 501st soldier, he is something different. I love the variants hot toys please make more variant clone troopers in the future because this is what's here now there's just one complaint that people have been having with the clone trooper armor and we'll get to that in just a second, moving on to the atrt and the ARF Trooper, although you correctly put it on r F, not ARC Trooper, that's a completely different thing.

I've been waiting for a stern Trooper in a 6th scale forever and hot toys have finally made one 100 perfect, although well that will be up to you but for me, at least as with the heavy weapons Trooper, yes, I'm very happy. I love that helmet. super different, it's another variant, you can build your 501st army, but as I said in the introduction, you will have to get multiple atrts if you want to get multiple Troopers, but the strangest thing is that you can buy the atrt separately, we will discuss that. My thoughts on that, though a little later because we have to focus on this aft trooper, he's pretty much just a standard 501 clone.

Hot Toys have gotten into the habit of making clones at this point, they've iterated, changed some things they experimented with . with ratchets and also experimented with friction joints, in the end they came up with what I like to see as the perfect 16 scale clone body. They've got it down to a science, so I have the utmost confidence that this guy is going to be fantastic for those who don't know why this guy looks like a hybrid between a clone trooper and a scout trooper. He is a scout soldier. ARF stands for advanced reconnaissance force and then scout trooper or just soldier, so it's kind of the precursor to the Scout Troopers that we got in

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6.

I love the little glasses and I love the visor, plus the ones that play with the flaps on the side of his helmet, they're faux fur, they're sculpted, I don't know, fingers crossed, they're completely sculpted as far as the armor goes, I'm speechless. I do not know what else to say. I've gone through a bunch of these guys, Eisen, to try to think of new things to say each time to describe. the armor is still getting a little complicated this is the same armor as 50 First it's battle damaged it's scratched from wear and tear hot toys have been getting better and better when it comes to their battle damage paint applications and this guy is no exception, I wouldn't be surprised if for the Prototype they literally took a production copy of a soldier from the 501st, put on a new helmet and Bob is your uncle, that's exactly what he would have done because that's what this guy is made of guy, a normal 501.

Trooper body and a new helmet, now there is only one thing that people have been complaining about with the new Troopers and luckily it seems that with this guy it is not a problem with the newer more modern clone troopers, they have a division between the forehead. the chest and back plate, this guy still has them fused, like I said, not a problem, but even then it can allow for greater flexibility and range of motion, so at least for me I don't see it as a unanimous bad. But once again, let me know what you think below.

Some of the markings on this armor may be slightly different than the standard 50 First Trooper. I shot myself in the foot a little bit when I said this is the same as the regular 504, but a lot of times I'm sure they're going to correct me down, but nevertheless, the mold, the sculpt of the armor is identical, now moving on to the atrt, this big chalky sixth scale kid, he's huge, he's not necessarily super wide or super deep but he's very, very tall, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I have seen many collectors, including myself, have cabinets that are too tall, so when we put a six scale figure in the cabinet, we type not to use the vertical space because there are six scale figures, they are all sixth scale, They have the same bottom size.

We tried to experiment with elevators and platforms to raise the figures, but with an atrt that is not necessary. you can put it in the back, it will tower over everyone, it will practically prop up your aft Trooper or your general Skywalker or cross your fingers one day, your General Kenobi, whoever you decide to blow up in this damn thing, it's like I said it goes to prop up. Raise them up so you can see them a little better than when it comes to sculpting super crunchy hot toys. They've got this sixth scale concept vehicle down to a science.

The lines are sharp. The molds are also very, very sharp. I love it. paint applications on the top there is also a lot of wear. It seems like I'm repeating myself, but there are many ways to describe this paint finish. He is completely disheveled. There are scratches on the high points as the clone troopers climbed onto the atrt. there's no time to worry about mocking the paint, they have to go into battle, they'll bump into it, their armor will slide, so it makes sense that on all the exposed, raised edges the paint will chip off the same way.

Something can be said about his armor because once again he is bumping into the atrt, now the atrt will be walking around the battlefield bumping into things, stepping on some clankers, so yeah they are completely scruffy and the distressed finish works for me, there is also some fuel tanks. and some antennas and multiple moving pistons because this thing is fully articulated. I can't wait to see what that is like in hand when it is finally known how stable it will be on display. It looks like you can hold it perfectly well. It's counterbalanced with the big horn and the feet on the bottom, then these very thin chicken-like legs, then the top piece would be quite heavy with the ARF Trooper on top, it looks like it wants to fall forward, but on display it holds to the Earth Trooper above.

Surprisingly, it is a very interesting unique looking vehicle. I wouldn't be surprised if the feet were the right weight. Hot Toys could put big chunks of casting on the feet to keep this thing planted and who knows, maybe that's what they do. We've already done it, we'll have to wait and see when we get this in hand. The feet are also absolutely disgusting. They are covered in Mark. They are covered in dirt. Maybe these things have been trampling on Felucia or Salukemai, who knows she's been in certain ones. planets I'm sure and like I said it's dirty as you go up the legs it gets a little cleaner but overall this thing is very well painted.

I'd love to pursue, just as a side note, this diorama building thing. In the background it creates a really nice backdrop and attractive toys. Maybe you will consider making dioramas in the future. I know that for more than a few people, if you could package them with your clones, they would probably sell well, so talking about clothes like me. I said before that you can't buy the AF Trooper on its own, but you can buy the atrt separately, does that mean people could buy them and put them with their Jedi figures? General Skywalker maybe on top of his atrt, yeah that would look really cool. but hot toys again, why do I know more than a few people would buy a bunch of Troopers, including me now?

If you are looking to preorder the heavy weapons clone trooper and parking speeder, the atrt separately or the atrt and aft trooper I have. Links to that appeared in the description below. Of course, they are from Toys Wonderland.com. They have installment plans and a rewards system while you're there. Why don't you hit the subscribe bell notification icon and the join button if you like the sound of Seeing your name in the end credits of my reviews, please like, comment and subscribe, we'll see you in the next video .