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Sideshow Collectibles Star Wars Imperial AT-AT Sixth Scale Figure is based on his appearance as seen in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. The AT-AT Driver appeared during the Battle of Hoth, where the Empire launched a full scale invasion on the Rebels at Echo base. The figure depicts the likeness of the AT-AT pilot suit as seen in the film, and is sculpted and detailed in the highest quality of fabric and plastic parts.
There are two versions of the figure that is available, a Sideshow Exclusive version with a, exclusive blaster rifle, and a standard version, which is being reviewed here. Right now, there are two companies offering high-end Star Wars figures such as this, which are Hot Toys, and of course Sideshow Collectibles. Hot Toys have been focusing on recently Star Wars films such as The Force Awakens and Rogue One, and Sideshow has been offering classic characters from the original trilogy.
Thank you to Sideshow Collectibles for providing their Star Wars Imperial AT-AT Sixth Scale Figure for review.
Availability: October 2016
The AT-AT Driver Sixth Scale Figure stands at 12-1/4″ tall and is based on his appearance in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. The figure is sculpted in a fabric flight suit with a PVC plastic helmet, chest and shoulder pads, pressurized hoses that are connected to the helmet, and a plastic BlasTech E-11 Blaster. The helmet looks incredible with a realistic vents, tubes, and surface mechanicals that makes the character look realistic. The paint deco on the helmet and mechanics are also nicely detailed, with even the smallest detail on the back plates looks incredible. The deco on the front chat and the helmet also has a ton of very specific paint details that stands out nicely on the white and black plastic. The hoses are connected to the chest to the back of the helmet are a made of a soft, pliable material, that can also be removed. Underneath the front and back plates, are straps that are connected using buckles. This holds them in place and allow you to adjust their length. This allows you to have the straps hang at different lengths around the legs, but it can be tricky doing so and you might end up freeing them from the buckles.
The articulation on the neck joint is ball jointed, and is also a bit wobbly and can be only posed looking straight ahead, and opposed to staying in place.
The hand sculpts are gloved, and are interchangeable for various poses. The hand sculpts include fisted, neutral hands, support hand, and trigger hand for the blaster. The hand sculpts pop in and out pretty easily, except that the plug might end up getting stuck inside the forearm if sever force is applied putting the hand through it. The fabric part of the suit is incredible detailed with pouches on the arms and legs, and the boots are made of a soft PVC plastic. The boots are also removable, and are connected to the body using ball joints at the ankles. As the boots are all once piece, ankle articulation is not possible and the boot can only swivel.
The rest of the body articulation is standard from what fans are used too, including double-hinged elbow and knee joints, swivel wrists, bicep swivel, ball jointed neck, and swivel ankles. Included with the AT-AT Driver is a E-11 blaster that comes with the standard version, and the Sideshow Exclusive release came with an exclusive blaster, which is the version we did not obtain.
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