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This is undoubtedly old news to some but was new to me so I can't be the only one.
On the Imperial Commissary Facebook group a member posted up the below photos asking what the deal was with her new Imperial Gunner (left of the two figures). There were clearly some sculpt detail differences although it has to be said, not as many differences/variation in some figures such as the Biker Scout.
It was soon pointed out that the figure on the left was a painted AT-ST Driver with a transplanted IG head! All these years and I'd never noticed the figures figures had, too all intents and purposes, the exact same bodies.
Of course, to make this scam work you have to have a good IG head and I can't say I see many IGs missing limbs.....but maybe this is why :lol:
Carl has used his great powers of recollection and the search function to provide a link to one of these covered in the ebay section:
http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32776&p=436237&hilit=imperial+gunner#p436237
On the Imperial Commissary Facebook group a member posted up the below photos asking what the deal was with her new Imperial Gunner (left of the two figures). There were clearly some sculpt detail differences although it has to be said, not as many differences/variation in some figures such as the Biker Scout.
It was soon pointed out that the figure on the left was a painted AT-ST Driver with a transplanted IG head! All these years and I'd never noticed the figures figures had, too all intents and purposes, the exact same bodies.
Of course, to make this scam work you have to have a good IG head and I can't say I see many IGs missing limbs.....but maybe this is why :lol:
Carl has used his great powers of recollection and the search function to provide a link to one of these covered in the ebay section:
http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32776&p=436237&hilit=imperial+gunner#p436237
. I never noticed the similarity before, and it forced me to dig out my 'Star Wars Costumes' book and check out the originals. Having done that, I have to say that the AT-ST Driver figure's torso is a piss-poor likeness! It's vaguely similar, but hardly accurate. And as for the gunner, it's hard to tell what the torso / jacket should look like in Star Wars as it's mostly covered by a piece of armour / body protector which renders the Kenner Gunner figure also inaccurate for Star Wars, but possibly correct for Jedi when the armour / protector piece was ditched (it's hard to tell from this photo!):
