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C-3PO Unpainted 4-up Hardcopy (Alternate Sculpting) - Star Wars Collectors Archive


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C-3PO Unpainted 4-up Hardcopy (Alternate Sculpting)
Many of the Micro Collection's dozens of figures underwent considerable revision in the early stages of their development. Heads of figures would be cut off and re-attached at slightly different angles, bases were enlarged or cut down, arms would be re-positioned--in short, modifications were made during the production process whenever it was felt that the product could be improved in some way. Often, hardcopies would be made from the original wax sculptings before these changes were enacted; but in a few cases, figures seem to have actually made it to the final production stage (meaning the stage at which they could be produced as metal miniatures) before they were altered. In these latter cases, modifications were cut directly into the production molds, since going back to the earlier, pre-tooling stages would have been too expensive.

Here we have an example of a figure--a C3PO from the Millennium Falcon that was subtley changed during the sculpting/hardcopy phase of production. The differences between this from production are the positioning of the arms and the hands. What probably happened here was that, after Kenner received the 4-up from the vendor that produced their hardcopies for them, they decided that the figure should be detailed in a slightly different manner. So they either modified the existing sculpting or had an entirely new sculpting made, and had another round of hardcopies made of the revised sculpt. This sculpting is the same as the one used in the Micro Collection Lucasfilm presentation piece.

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Ron Salvatore
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Country:United States
Film:Empire Strikes Back
Licensee:Kenner
Year:1980
Category:Prototypes / Micro Collection

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