NEW PICS 10/21/2014: What is with this new Rubies stormtrooper helmet?

[blewis17]

This has been showing up over the past year; it's obviously a frankenhelmet. What the ?@&$ is up with the HUGE forehead?

You would initially think that this is a stretched or manipulated photo. But nope... Multiple auction and online sites have this thing

 

[Usagi Pilgrim]

Re: What is with this new Rubies stormtrooper helmet?

Maybe it's styled after the REBELS trooper buckets? Kinda looks that way to me.

 

[BDK]

Re: What is with this new Rubies stormtrooper helmet?

Same one they've had for years now. That is a stock photo that most stores and sites use for advertising.

 

[blewis17]

Re: What is with this new Rubies stormtrooper helmet?

Here's the Rubies line up

First, from the original standard stormtrooper Don Post molds (from the late 1970s), but with a softer vinyl (Don Post on top, Rubies below)






Here is a different Rubies mold (on the right) next to a Master Replicas/EFX basic bucket on the left.....




...and how squishy it looks...


and someone one wearing this helmet








Here's the 2 piece Rubies (front and back Velcro together)




Heres the Rubies Supreme stormtrooper costume, with the helmet based on the Don Post classic Action/ Don Post Deluxe molds




this is a Frankenhelmet with the ginormous forehead





and here's an in-between Rubies, somewhere above the level of the 2 piece Velcro helmet...

 

[blewis17]

Re: What is with this new Rubies stormtrooper helmet?

I still can't figure this helmet out. It's really bizarre!