1/6 Hot Toys Luke Skywalker - Dark Empire (Legends)

YO I'm buying this for sure. It will look amazing next to Vader or Revan and Starkiller.

Why not reuse the Mandalorian Luke headsculpt? Not loving that part of this. Not a one off Luke I need so happy to avoid the Artisan trauma. I also think shorter hair will be problematic for artisan hair long term…

Rooted hair for anything shorter than neck length hair never looks right it seems.

But the sculpted hair also looks like a melted toupee, so it seems neither option looks good

Not too interested in the body, but...

Grateful there's a regular option; Luke doesn't need rooted hair. Mega nostalgic for this as I can still see the single issues of this series on the spinner rack as a 11 year old and going thank god for new SW. I'd happily take a Dark Empire clone Emperor too.

Having not read Legends, this is probably one the goofiest looking figures to me. Gives me a random mashed up Halloween costume vibe.

Definitely looks like a sculpt that they will reuse for a ANH 2.0 version though. Just don't do Artisan for it if it's gonna look like this Hot Toys..

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evenflow said:

Dark Empire Luke is by far the most exciting release of this bunch. Honestly, even more exciting than Revan and Starkiller for me.

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Always nice to have one more tangible element emphasizing the Disney canon was only ever one conceivable future.

And while Dark Empire was never the greatest, it's still 100x better than what Disney pulled out their @$$
A parallel Leia in all white analogues version of this would be great

The Artisan is cool but not necessary so I'm OK with just the normal edition.

Any pics of the accessory layout? Hands, lightsaber options etc

Also, how bad do we need a clone emperor now? And/or Jedi Leia?

Luisenigma1 said:

YO I'm buying this for sure. It will look amazing next to Vader or Revan and Starkiller.

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All 3 Legends would look amazing on a shelf together. I already preordered Revan and Starkiller and DE Luke would fill out that shelf nicely.

Looks like a cool concept of Luke. Nice to see them continuing with the Legends line. Got to say from a distance this looks like if Dylan Sprouse played Luke Skywalker

Hologram AI said:

Having not read Legends, this is probably one the goofiest looking figures to me. Gives me a random mashed up Halloween costume vibe.

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Yeah, that's essentially what it was. The story featured Luke turning to the dark side, so the artist literally just slapped pieces of Vader's outfit on top of Luke's RotJ look.

Asta said:

Dark Empire takes place 10 years after the Battle of Yavin, so he should be older.

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For the record (from the back of the book, (not sure if it's contradicted elsewhere?)...


Though agree this Luke could stand to look a bit more aged.

Mondragon said:

For the record (from the back of the book, (not sure if it's contradicted elsewhere?)...

Though agree this Luke could stand to look a bit more aged.

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Battle of Endor was 4 ABY. Dark Empire was six years later, so 10 ABY.

Oops, somehow assumed you also said Endor..

So is the PO for this tomorrow...?

Sideshow says Gold Clone and Shadow go up for PO tomorrow so maybe? Though since there is also a Artisan release it might not be for a bit.

It'll be interesting if the hairpiece from the ANH figure will fit on this new head much like how the DX Mando/ESB Luke heads work with the ROTJ & Snowspeeder hairpieces

Yikes. That sculpt doesn't look like Mark at all. It doesn't even look like deep-fake Mark. It doesn't even look like Mark-lookalikes like Sebastian Stan or that guy from that Star Wars youtube channel.

I cannot believe someone at Hot Toys looked at this sculpt and thought, "yeah, this is it".

It's so off that I'm wondering if they couldn't get the likeness rights for Mark.

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