BingoBongo275 wrote:
Thanks for the input guys.
7 sounds right to me (and backs up what I'd heard), which going back to Paul's list suggests:
"Hero" helmets - have these been placed in the movie?
Reveal, (Q-could this not just be a hero with a neck brace? - sorry but its been a long time since Ive seen ESB).
Hi Jez, I have counted 2 hero's on screen for definate but a 3rd was made, I think I know where it features but I am only 90% on that, I am 100% on a promotional picture that there was a 3rd hero though.
as for the reveal, I have heard the same, but it doesn't add up from what I know, the facemask is different so it is more than the neck brace as seen here. I ruled it out based on investigating the shooting schedule and no direct mention that it was a hero originally, so I would state it as seperate.
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Did all the helmets have the same face/dome connections?
The numbers were significant as a matching pair as they were individually hand made, so #3 will not match a dome that has number 1 in it. This was confirmed with Vadermania and his experiences handling some helmets in the archives.
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Moving onto Jedi its my belief they used 3 or 4 of the same helmets again, rather than go through all the hassle of making more. However does this conflict with the photo of the LFL guys goofing around?
I don't know half as much on the subject about ROTJ Vader as I do ESB/ANH, so it's possible, I wouldn't like to say 100% but if the rumoured 7 Jedi helmets turned out to be 4 ESB's I doubt it through a process of elimination.
1 ESB dagobah reveal was blown up, the ESB reveal is not a hero, the PA stunt exsists today and so does 2 hero's.
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Did the ESB and RotJ have the same dome connections?
Yes and no. They mainly used the same connection (hat mount) for the main helmet as seen in jedi which was an ESB originally before alteration. The same mount also features on the ROTJ stunt. However the DP style of mounting ring which was widely thought to be used I'm sure features. Many think due to that promo pic with the prop guys that the taller DP ring was used more so, at one time I thought that also but I have since seen photographic evidence to indicate otherwise.
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So it sounds like 7 castings were made off a casting made on a remaining ANH helmet
Yes, I would say so although just speculating one of the helmets may be the actual ANH, although I pretend otherwise just due to the thought
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