Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars - Mythos Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Mythos is not based on any scene. It's kind of connecting dots in between what could have happened, what might have happened. It's for you to decide how you want to display it and the story you want to tell with your collection."— Matt Bischof

True to that philosophy, Sideshow’s 2017 1/6 scale Mythos Obi-Wan action figure features a facial likeness clearly modeled after a middle-aged Sir Alec Guinness. Although the figure was released 12 years after Revenge of the Sith—giving Sideshow the perfect opportunity to use a middle-aged Ewan McGregor—they chose Guinness instead, which aligns perfectly with my own preference for the classic "Old Ben" likeness.
In 2024, Sideshow release another statue version in 1/4 scale of this character now giving both headsculpts options.

Chronologically, the figure is set in the timeline between Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV – A New Hope. After surviving the Jedi purge of Order 66, Obi-Wan went into hiding on the desert planet of Tatooine. Adopting the alias "Ben" Kenobi, he lived in complete seclusion to avoid the Empire's attention, dedicating his life to a single, critical mission: ensuring the safety of Anakin Skywalker’s young son, Luke Skywalker.

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - Bounty Hunter 4-LOM

 

Wookiepedia : 

4-LOM was a LOM-series protocol droid manufactured by Industrial Automaton who was programmed by a specific individual. The programmer told him about a planet where droids rose up. 4-LOM was assigned to a luxury liner, but logic glitches and personality software corruption allowed 4-LOM to override his programming. 4-LOM rewrote his programming, and became a galactic thief, and later a bounty hunter. As a criminal 4-LOM was known for specializing in anticipating the moves of its targets. 

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars - Return of the Jedi - Klaatu Skiff Guard

Klaatu's Story :

Klaatu was a Kadas'sa'Nikto male from the planet Kintan who served as a bodyguard for the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure in the criminal's palace on the desert planet Tatooine. He was also hired to keep the Hutt crime lord's skiffs in perfect condition.

At the palace, Klaatu spent his time repairing skiffs and amassing larger and larger gambling debts. During the childhood of Luke Skywalker, who was raised as a moisture farmer on Tatooine from 19 BBY, Klaatu became infamous across the planet for his dark deeds. In 4 ABY, the guard was present early one morning when the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO arrived at the palace, carrying a message for Jabba from Skywalker, who was now a Jedi Knight. In the message, Skywalker asked to bargain with the Hutt for the freedom of the smuggler Han Solo and then gifted the droids to Jabba as a sign of good will. After viewing it, Jabba declared that he had no interest in losing Solo, who was frozen in carbonite and kept displayed on the wall of the Hutt's throne room.

He was killed aboard Jabba's sail barge Khetanna on Tatooine during the failed execution of Luke Skywalker and his companions.

 

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars - A New Hope - Greedo

Star Wars Fandom
Greedo was a male Rodian bounty hunter who grew up on Tatooine in Mos Espa. During the Clone Wars, he was hired by the Trade Federation to kidnap Chi Eekway Papanoida and Che Amanwe Papanoida, the daughters of Chairman Papanoida, but was forced by the chairman to lead him and his son Ion to them. He was occasionally hired by crime lord Jabba the Hutt for various mercenary jobs, including the capture of Han Solo, who killed the luckless Rodian.

With an outfit like that, Greedo is more suited in a disco dancefloor than being a bounty hunter. Failure from the outset when Han is just doing him a favor so that he can chose another profession when his next life comes along.

Hot Toys MMS554 1/6 Scale Star Wars - A New Hope - Jawa & EG-6 "GONK" Power Droid

*Picture shows Hot Toys ANH Farmboy Luke & Sideshow R2-D2

 

Doubt there is any need to share the Jawa's story like how a new thread was always kicked off with an intro of the character/thing for the post in this Blog. This little pest - or "trader", "scavenger", "opportunists" spanned across most, if not all of Star Wars Live Action film or Television series and doing what they did, as always. Very consistent little buggers. I find them, cute. Really.

 

And there is nothing much to say about that "Gonk Gonk... " EG-6 droid either. All it does was to walk past in the background emitting some low frequency, low pitch mechanical sound. Walking like it could fall by the side anytime and looking dumb.Incidentally, the sound "Gonk" literally translated to "Stupid" or "Dumb" in my local Hokkien dialect and aptly so. For that, I love the Gonk Droid.

 

Now about this Hot Toys MMS554 set, some "Could've been" and "Why" passing through my head. Read on for further elaboration within this post.

 

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars - A New Hope - Garindan

Garindan

 

"I can tell you where to find them... for a price."

―Garindan

 

Garindan ezz Zavor, also called Long-Snoot, was a Kubaz who was considered to be the "greatest spy in Mos Eisley spaceport." was a male Kubaz who had been forced to work as a spy for the Galactic Empire. In private, Garindan loathed his Imperial overlords and sought to return to his clan and free his homeworld of Kubindi from Imperial rule. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, Garindan received news that his family was in danger. In an attempt to buy passage home, Garindan provided information about the location of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, and R2-D2 to the Galactic Empire during a battle on the desert world of Tatooine. Despite the failure of that job, Garindan accepted another job to help Derrida the Ketton spy on the Rebel Alliance.

 

This is a 2nd entry of a 1/6 scale Garindan. The first being only the other 1/6 representation of this character from Hasbro's SAGA collection from 2003.

 

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back - Bounty Hunter Zuckuss

Star Wars Wookiepedia :

An insectoid being with compound eyes, Zuckuss was a Force-sensitive male Gand born on his species' homeworld of Gand as one of the planet's traditional findsmen. Using the findsmen's mystic traditions, dating back centuries, Zuckuss operated as a tireless tracker until the planet's findsman traditions began dying out. After failing to retrieve a T'karra flower from the nesting grounds of a charon, Zuckuss was deemed to have failed a traditional findsman rite and was cast out of his clan. He became one of the first such to leave the planet's thick and toxic atmosphere, and wore a respirator to breathe ammonia while operating in oxygen-rich atmospheres in the wider galaxy. He worked as a bounty hunter on lucrative jobs that made use of his particular talents as a highly sought-after hunter with renowned tracking skills, and he often paired up with 4-LOM on many occasions. Although Zuckuss's uncanny abilities made some uneasy, he and 4-LOM remained a formidable team. They flew aboard the Mist Hunter, which Zuckuss filled with gasses to remind him of his homeworld.

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars Sandtrooper Sergeant (White Pouldron)

Except from the writings within the product box :

The Empire encompassed thousands of worlds, with countless climate and terrain challenges. Their stormtrooper ranks reflected this through specialized units trained and equipped to operate in specific environments. The sandtrooper is a desert terrain stormtrooper. Their armor consists of an 18-piece anti-blaster coccon shell with heat-reflective coating worn over a temperature-control body glove. The sandtrooper helmet features automatic polarized lensed, a built-in comlink and breathing filters. These stormtroopers are specifically designed for high temperature environments. Instead of depending on machinery that may not function in hostile environments, sandtroppers make use of local creatures for transportation. The stormtrooper detachment dispatched by Lord Vader to investigate a crashed escape pod on Tatooine just prior to the Battle of Yavin consisted of sandtroopers. They had heavy weapons, survivor gear, and shoulder pauldrons denoting rank.

Bandai S.H.Figuarts Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope - Princess Leia Organa

One of the main protagonist in the ever expanding Star Wars universe. Leia was the 2nd of it to appear in the first Star Wars movie [A New Hope] (ANH) (1977), right after Darth Vader (6 years later, we know he is also her father). This figure represented the same Leia in that scene.

There is no need for further elaboration of this character for even the most casual Star Wars fans knew enough of Leia Organa to spare further writings. Carrie Fisher was the actress portraying this character. She reprises the same role in its Sequel Trilogy ie [The Force Awakens] (2015), [The Last Jedi] (2017), [The Rise of Skywalker] (2019) as an aged Leia Orgna.

A digital (deepfake?) rendition of a young Leia Organa - pre-Stormtroopers invasion on Tantive IV - was added to the end scene in Star Wars, [Rogue One] (2016). Personally I think it is badly done and although share some resemblance but one can tell immediately it is not the real Princess. There is even more likeness to this figure's sculpt comparing to that digital clone.

Star Wars Black Series 6" : Luke Skywalker with Yoda in Jedi Training (Dagobah)

The Rebels had their asses kicked in Hoth by a superior Galactic Empire forces. Number One task was to get their sorry asses out of the icy hell base that was overan by AT-ATs and Snowtroopers and a stomping huffing and puffing Darth Vader hot on the heels. While the rest of the Rebels buddies, that manages to take off, were still working on evading Imperial Destroyers and TIE fighters, our pal Luke Skywalker decide to divert himself (and R2-D2) to a swamp planet Dagobah seeking out a Jedi warrior, Yoda, to further his Jedi training becoming a Jedi Knight eventually. Seeing how his first teacher, Ben Kenobi, fell to the blade of badass Sith Lord Darth Vader, he reckon a much worthy teacher should be seeked. Same sentiments as Ben when he appear in Hoth egging a wampa-traumatize Luke on to Dagobah.

Yoda, he found. Training, he does. Hot headed, he is.

Hasbro 2003 SAGA Collection 1/6 scale Star Wars Garindan

Garindan :

 

"I can tell you where to find them... for a price."

―Garindan

 

Garindan ezz Zavor, also called Long-Snoot, was a Kubaz who was considered to be the "greatest spy in Mos Eisley spaceport." was a male Kubaz who had been forced to work as a spy for the Galactic Empire. In private, Garindan loathed his Imperial overlords and sought to return to his clan and free his homeworld of Kubindi from Imperial rule. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, Garindan received news that his family was in danger. In an attempt to buy passage home, Garindan provided information about the location of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, and R2-D2 to the Galactic Empire during a battle on the desert world of Tatooine. Despite the failure of that job, Garindan accepted another job to help Derrida the Ketton spy on the Rebel Alliance.

Star Wars Black Series 6" : Bib Fortuna

Writings from inside Sideshow 1/6 scale Bib Fortuna box :

A tall, pale-skinned humanoid, with distinctive, curling lekku and pulpy chin roll, Bib Fortuna is the very epitome of male Twi'lek glamour. But, in truth, beneath the pallid complexion and behind the soulless, pink eyes beats the limp heart of a cowardly Hutt lackey.Though he exalts in the respect and obedience his station, as major-domo to one of the Outer Rim's most feared crime lords, demand from those around him, Bib knows he is really little more than an errand boy and vassel for the will of his bloated master.

Under Jabba the Hutt's direction, the Twi'lek lieutenant orchastrates shady deals and illicit substances and contraband. At his master's bidding, he trades in slaves of his own kind, purveying and exhibiting their bodies for Jabba's amusement and that of his sycophantic guests. Little of the wealth and power that passes through Bib's clawed hands ever remains his own to keep. Even the act of ambitious treachery that elevated him to the position of Hutt's second were merely blind plays, made by a weak-willed man, caught in the tide of the criminal underworld and trying to stay afloat. The Twi'lek even fancies that he might one day overthrow the slug in some kind of glorious mutiny, seizing Jabba's assets as his own, but if he were truly capable of such steely initiative, it would have happened long ago.

Now it is too late, for with the arrival in Jabba's desert palace of two droids, gift of the self proclaimed Jedi Skywalker, the dice are tossed in a game of fate far bolder than Bib could have conceived. Time has run out for Jabba and his criminal empire, and his act of self-aggrandizing debauchery will finally swallow him and those who serve him too, for the Jedi are returned.

Medicom Star Wars 1/6 Boba Fett - Return of the Jedi version - Republish

Another republication of an old posting.

This time the iconic Boba Fett gets another chance in the limelight. This is the Medicom version that was the only high end 1/6 ROTJ version of the bounty hunter, released in 2010 under the Real Action Hero (RAH) category, until Hot Toys made their version in 2016 (standard and deluxe with Sarlacc diorama base). Sideshow did made an ESB version of Boba Fett in between and even an all white proto armour version but never a ROTJ one. Reason only Sideshow themself know.

Star Wars Black Series 6" : Ponda Baba "Walrus Man"

 

Wookieepedia :

"Negola dewaghi wool dugger?"
"He doesn't like you."
―Ponda Baba and Evazan, to Luke Skywalker

Ponda Baba was a male Aqualish thug who rescued Dr. Cornelius Evazan from a bounty hunter. The two formed a partnership and began to smuggle spice for the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, resulting in him becoming a wanted man. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, he was a patron in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina on the planet Tatooine, where he instigated an argument with Luke Skywalker while bored and drunk. Evazan claimed that Baba did not like Skywalker and began to threaten the youth, leading to a brief confrontation with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who, after failing to calm tensions with the pirates, used his lightsaber to sever Baba's right arm. Kenobi, who was secretly one of the last remaining Jedi Masters of the nearly extinct Jedi Order, wounded Evazan with a slash across the torso when the pair drew their blaster pistols on the old man. Evazan later tried to reattach Baba's arm using his medical training, but ended up nearly killing the Aqualish in the process when the procedure failed.

Star Wars Black Series 6" The Mandalorian : Cobb Vanth, "The Marshal"

Wookieepedia :

Cobb Vanth, also known as "the Marshal," was a human male who lived during the Galactic Civil War and subsequent New Republic Era. Once a slave, he rose to become marshal of Mos Pelgo on the planet Tatooine. He despised the Red Key Raiders, a syndicate attempting to establish itself on the planet. Immediately following the Battle of Endor, Vanth fled into the desert following Mos Pelgo's takeover by the Mining Collective. He then encountered some Jawas and traded a camtono of silicax oxalate crystals for a set of Mandalorian armor.

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars Captain Antilles

 

Wookieepedia :

Raymus Antilles was a human male from Alderaan. During his time in the service of the House of Organa, he captained the CR90 corvettes Tantive III and Tantive IV. Antilles was killed in action during the secret mission to Tatooine while trying to protect Princess Leia Organa from being captured by Darth Vader.

Gentle Giant Mini Bust - Star Wars 2-1B Surgical Droid

From Rebelscum :

2-1B (Too-Onebee) was chief surgeon for the Rebel Alliance on Hoth’s Echo Base. This highly-skilled surgical droid has treated a variety of injuries and patients, most notably Luke Skywalker. Attending to the young commander on several occasions, 2-1B revived Luke from a state of dormo-shock after a prolonged exposure to the Hoth elements. After Luke’s confrontation with Darth Vader on Bespin, 2-1B affixed Luke with a cybernetic hand.

Gentle Giant’s 2-1B mini bust, with its limited production run of only 1,980 pieces to commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, was originally intended to be a Star Wars Celebration V (Orlando 2010) exclusive, but production delays pushed it past the maximum shipping date. Rolling with the punches, Gentle Giant offered this light-up collectible to their Premier Guild Members.
2-1B is the tenth mini bust in Gentle Giant's Star Wars collection to spot a light-up feature.

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars Original Trilogy C-3PO

From Wikipedia :

C-3PO (/ˌsiːˈθriːpioʊ/) or See-Threepio is a humanoid robot character in the Star Wars franchise who appears in the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy. Built by Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO was designed as a protocol droid intended to assist in etiquette, customs, and translation, boasting that he is "fluent in over six million forms of communication". Along with his astromech droid counterpart and friend R2-D2, C-3PO provides comic relief within the narrative structure of the films, and serves as a foil. Anthony Daniels has portrayed the character in eleven of the twelve theatrical Star Wars films released to date, with the exception of Solo: A Star Wars Story, where the character does not appear.

Despite his oblivious nature, C-3PO has played a pivotal role in the galaxy's history, appearing under the service of Shmi Skywalker, the Lars homestead, Padmé Amidala, Bail Organa, Raymus Antilles, Luke Skywalker, Jabba the Hutt, and Leia Organa. In the majority of depictions, C-3PO's physical appearance is primarily a polished gold plating with a silver plated right leg (from knee joint to ankle), although his appearance varies throughout the films; including the absence of metal coverings in The Phantom Menace, a dull copper plating in Attack of the Clones, and a red left arm in The Force Awakens. C-3PO also appears frequently in both canon and Star Wars Legends continuities of novels, comic books, and video games, and was a protagonist in the animated television series Droids.

Hot Toys TMS016 1/6 Scale Star Wars Mandalorian Biker Scout Trooper

Except from Wookieepedia :

Biker Scout, also known as Scout Trooper were specially trained stormtroopers of the Imperial Army's Stormtrooper Corps. They were used by the Galactic Empire on a range of missions, which mostly involved reconnaissance. They had lighter armor than standard stormtroopers, much like their urban counterparts, patrol troopers, who used C-PH patrol speeder bikes to navigate dense urban environments.

Sideshow Toys 1/6 Scale Star Wars Jabba's Major-Domo, Bib Fortuna

From inside the box :

A tall, pale-skinned humanoid, with distinctive, curling lekku and pulpy chin roll, Bib Fortuna is the very epitome of male Twi'lek glamour. But, in truth, beneath the pallid complexion and behind the soulless, pink eyes beats the limp heart of a cowardly Hutt lackey.Though he exalts in the respect and obedience his station, as major-domo to one of the Outer Rim's most feared crime lords, demand from those around him, Bib knows he is really little more than an errand boy and vassel for the will of his bloated master.

Under Jabba the Hutt's direction, the Twi'lek lieutenant orchastrates shady deals and illicit substances and contraband. At his master's bidding, he trades in slaves of his own kind, purveying and exhibiting their bodies for Jabba's amusement and that of his sycophantic guests. Little of the wealth and power that passes through Bib's clawed hands ever remains his own to keep. Even the act of ambitious treachery that elevated him to the position of Hutt's second were merely blind plays, made by a weak-willed man, caught in the tide of the criminal underworld and trying to stay afloat. The Twi'lek even fancies that he might one day overthrow the slug in some kind of glorious mutiny, seizing Jabba's assets as his own, but if he were truly capable of such steely initiative, it would have happened long ago.

Now it is too late, for with the arrival in Jabba's desert palace of two droids, gift of the self proclaimed Jedi Skywalker, the dice are tossed in a game of fate far bolder than Bib could have conceived. Time has run out for Jabba and his criminal empire, and his act of self-aggrandizing debauchery will finally swallow him and those who serve him too, for the Jedi are returned.