The Book of Boba Fett

[Halliwax]

I have had a couple of brushes with death. First was a cancer diagnosis back around 1997, when I was newly married and really happy for the first time in my life (I mean, since the age of about nine or so, when finding reasons to be happy seemed a lot easier). It was totally unexpected; I went into the hospital for appendicitis, which it turned out had been caused by lymphoma.

Several years later, I was in a head-on collision with a drunk driver; for that brief moment when I realized I was not going to be able to avoid the crash, I was sure I was either about to die or at least be very seriously hurt. Instead, I walked away -- or rather, limped away. I was closer to serious trouble than I realized; one of my injuries was a lacerated spleen that I didn't know about until about a week later. Thankfully, the internal bleeding stopped on its own. Took about three days to get all he bits of glass out of my hair. The drunk driver died after he got to the hospital.

You can bet that these things certainly did affect my general attitude toward life.

SSB

Very glad to see you beat the cancer. We need more positive story’s likes yours, all we hear is the negative.

 

[Halliwax]

Ugh... I think it's a differently shaped helmet. Not a fan.

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Is that a freakn black series helmet!?! See the gap above the visor?!

 

[blewis17]

I grew up reading Spider-Man comics and one of the only thing that has irked me about all 3 movie versions of Spider-Man is how often he takes his mask off.

I get that you're paying big bucks to Tobey McQuire and Tom Holland and medium sized bucks to Andrew Garfield and you want to see their faces and emotions in scenes but Spider-Man hardly ever takes his mask off when he's in his Spidey suit. In comic books it way easier to draw him talking with his mask on instead of having to draw a human face all the time, so he pretty much always kept the mask on.

I was really chaffed in EndGame when he came out of the portal at the end battle and immediately took his mask off (via nano-tech) and again when he had the Infinity gauntlet (after landing on the ground).

...why do I get the feeling that many modern celebrities have a certain amount of "facectime" written into their contracts?

 

[blewis17]

Is that a freakn black series helmet!?! See the gap above the visor?!

...I think that it's just the way the light is hitting the eyepiece and casting a shadow just above it, makes it look like a gap.

BUT... I cannot see the left side (right side if looking at the helmet) upper brow "droop" present on the OT helmets. This looks nice and level, just like the Black Series. I can totally see the production modifying multiple BS helmets for use, as they are relatively cheap and easy to come by.

ALSO, did anyone notice that when BF helmet falls in the sand and dumps a bunch of credits in the dust, the inside of the helmet looked plain? No electronics, no greeblies?

 

[skoota73]

...It's just the way the light is hitting the eyepiece and casting a shadow just above it, makes it look like a gap.

BUT... I cannot see the left side (right side if looking at the helmet) upper brow "droop" present on the OT helmets. This looks nice and level, just like the Black Series. I can totally see the production modifying multiple BS helmets for use, as they are relatively cheap and easy to come by.

ALSO, did anyone notice that when BF helmet falls in the sand and dumps a bunch of credits in the dust, the inside of the helmet looked plain? No electronics, no greeblies?

I think the Hasbro Black Series helmet looks much better than this. The Black Series has more of a OT shape.

 

[Halliwax]

...It's just the way the light is hitting the eyepiece and casting a shadow just above it, makes it look like a gap.

BUT... I cannot see the left side (right side if looking at the helmet) upper brow "droop" present on the OT helmets. This looks nice and level, just like the Black Series. I can totally see the production modifying multiple BS helmets for use, as they are relatively cheap and easy to come by.

ALSO, did anyone notice that when BF helmet falls in the sand and dumps a bunch of credits in the dust, the inside of the helmet looked plain? No electronics, no greeblies?

I noticed the inside looks like it has panels like the interior of the falcon, if you look the ear piece looks like it has some detail inside and there is alittle greeblie holding the visor

 

[Halliwax]

I think screencrush did a good job pointing things out

Funny how boba fett is written on the throne when we first saw it with bib sitting on it lol

 

[blewis17]

Also, Boba's chest plate armor does not have the subtle downward slope on the upper edge from outside toward the center diamond, although it did in Mandalorian season 2:

I noticed in most scenes in this BoBF trailer that the armor (both the chest pieces and the neck/upper chest collar) appear to have straight/parallel edges.

 

[Elevader]

The changes in his helmet/armor are bumming me out and dampening my enthusiasm. Hopefully, if it’s good, I’ll get swept up and focus less on it.

 

[blewis17]

I noticed the inside looks like it has panels like the interior of the falcon, if you look the ear piece looks like it has some detail inside and there is alittle greeblie holding the visor

Also, if the helmet and armor nicks and dings get worse from show to show, then WHAT VERSION do cosplayers use?!

 

[Thain]

The changes in his helmet/armor are bumming me out and dampening my enthusiasm. Hopefully, if it’s good, I’ll get swept up and focus less on it.

Couldn't agree more

 

[Halliwax]

I’m just curious to where they sourced this helmet

Wouldn’t you think they would just used the same source?

 

[Wolfsburg]

Well as I recall, the last helmet had been sourced by Legacy Effects and came from their life-sized Boba Fett busts. That’s why it looked a little odd. It had no lineage to any of the old helmets. No idea on this one!

As far as I know, this trailer finally offers our first canonical glimpse at the interior of the helmet!

 

[blewis17]

Well as I recall, the last helmet had been sourced by Legacy Effects and came from their life-sized Boba Fett busts. That’s why it looked a little odd. It had no lineage to any of the old helmets. No idea on this one!

As far as I know, this trailer finally offers our first canonical glimpse at the interior of the helmet!

Not sure... the creamy white helmet panels Halliwax was referring to don't look "in costume" to me. They look like some type of practical reinforcement or foam padding for the inside of the prop, perhaps to cover the raw fiberglass interior. You can see the far edge has an uneven cut that does not line up with the outer helmet.

And the T-visor, which I have always thought was supposed to be parallel in the downward nose piece (although sometimes it looks pinched inwards where it first starts downward from the eyes in the OT), now looks tapered toward the bottom of the helmet, not the upper mandible. Sort of how Mando's helmet does, although not as prominent. We know that in Mandalorian season 2, either a stunt Mando helmet or mistake in the prop department gave us a very pinched T-visor in some shots.

I would ASSUME that the prop BoBF helmets (hero helmets) are fiberglass, although I guess they could be 3D printing them, and stunt helmets are rubber (or even reworked Black Series... how weird would THAT be!) So I am wondering if the T-visor mounting in the BF helmet is what is causing the slightly pinched T visor and perhaps the misshapen helmet now?

 

[Halliwax]

to me the green arrow looks like a mounting greeblie, the red arrow shows weathering on it, which reminds me of the weathering of the falcon panels, and the blue looks like some cover up for the ear thats placed inside and not part of the helmet you can see a seam

 

[NakedMoleRat]

You’re all a bunch of nerds!

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

I guess I come from the old EU where his helmet *was* his face and he was shrouded in mystery.

Still one of my favorite moments...

 

[KROENEN]

Memories, I loved the Twin Engines of destruction comic, the Boba Fett vs Jodo Kast battle was amazing! Perhaps we see him in the show?

 

[Halliwax]

Would love to see Jodo cast! And I think they could pull it off, with all that missing time with fett living with the sand people, jodo could be running around pretending to be fett

 

[Halliwax]

Seems like the dented helmet let out that the helmets were made by “iron head” and that machine craft supplied the aluminum greeblies and ear pieces