Grey Limbed Hoth Stormtrooper

poncho said:

There all came from a bad patch of plastic forming and were thus treated as rejects as they went grey pretty quickly that is all.

There white on the inside they've just turned grey on the outside.

Interesting curio

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Are there other figures with contrasting limbs similar to this Hoth Stormtrooper?

Would loose figure collectors class this as a variant?

High end variant collectors would consider it a variant also the yps comic book hoth trooper

I've never seen one in person looks cool though

Here are some useful links guys if you want to read more and are members of some of the FB groups:

Confirmation following the Palitoy talk
https://m.facebook.com/groups/152246575220345?view=permalink&id=547109979067334

Where Lee Bullock gives his findings
https://m.facebook.com/groups/244754502759184?view=permalink&id=262223877678913

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1640698419587897?view=permalink&id=1848631932127877

https://m.facebook.com/groups/152246575220345?view=permalink&id=334136383698029

https://www.facebook.com/groups/JabbasCourt/permalink/2593478657643197/

poncho said:

There all came from a bad patch of plastic forming and were thus treated as rejects as they went grey pretty quickly that is all.

There white on the inside they've just turned grey on the outside.

Interesting curio

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100% agree. It's from a spanish mold. None of these gray limbed has been found in spain, so probably a batch that was shipped to UK, rejected, and sold by some former empolyee. So it probably having some value, but people are selling these as possible first shots, pre prodcution pieces, which I think is wrong. Palitoy certainly did not have the spanish molds and did test shots themselves.

Sadly, I think the people who are paying £500 for one, do not do so because it's a bad batch of plastic.

Pretty sure these must've made their way into the Palitoy factory shop. All sorts of rejected stuff ended up in there. I remember seeing quite a few of these over the years in the 90's. There were plenty around back then.

One up for auction over on Jabba's- https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158476911304034&set=pcb.1233028140374925

Thanks for the link Andy, for those not on Facebrick it went for £1000.