ggriffaw
Sr Member
What the 501st accepts is sometimes hard to understand. At times they are very strict to the point that some actual screen used items would not be accepted. Other times they are pretty loose. Some of it appears to depend on which costume it is.Very interesting to see that the 501st requires 6 or 7 stitches in the cap even at the basic level, seemingly (I've never bothered to count the stitches until this came up in this thread.) Interesting that Anovos would go this route, but I'm not in any position to doubt someone who said it matches (at least some of) the originals.
Who knows though, the 501st is the same organization that used to give a big thumbs up to the FX Stormtrooper helmet and armor, so I don't really take their word as gospel. Will be interesting to see this play out.
There are screen shots of some costumes that do not pass the CRL.
I understand some of it is to enforce consistency. That is probably more important for stormtroopers since that is the most likely to have multiple costumes at an event.
But in the case of the IO hat, I would have preferred the Anovos have six stitches just because that is the most common in screen shots from the films.
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