Boba Fett and Han Solo in Carbonite Premium Format (SDCC 2022)

[ZenLogikos]

Originally Posted by IcedDog

Aside from the fact that you're talking about a fictional technology (repulsorlift tech) in a fictional galaxy where the physics are clearly different from ours (i.e. sound in space), the carbonite slab was moved around horizontally, so if the imperials who were pushing it through the halls of Bespin were to stop and sit on top of the slab it would likely support their weight, just like Luke's desert speeder supported his weight when he jumped in it and rode off. Since the carbonite slab is in this vertical position, it actually makes sense that Boba could lean on it and have his weight supported like so.

But hey, just a thought

I've never considered that Star Wars has different physics. I find that 'sound in space' merely a conceit for movie-making purposes.

[IcedDog]

Originally Posted by ZenLogikos

I've never considered that Star Wars has different physics. I find that 'sound in space' merely a conceit for movie-making purposes.

Yeah, perhaps "clearly different" is an overstretch. I'm not saying the physics in that world is radically different from ours, and how certain things are portrayed (like sound and explosions in the vacuum of space) is certainly better off as we see them for the sake of storytelling and spectacle. My main point centered more about the fictional replusorlift technology allowing Boba to lean on the slab. Ah, we're such geeks, I love it

[ZenLogikos]

Originally Posted by IcedDog

Yeah, perhaps "clearly different" is an overstretch. I'm not saying the physics in that world is radically different from ours, and how certain things are portrayed (like sound and explosions in the vacuum of space) is certainly better off as we see them for the sake of storytelling and spectacle. My main point centered more about the fictional replusorlift technology allowing Boba to lean on the slab. Ah, we're such geeks, I love it

Yeah, just scifi tech we haven't invented...yet...

[Frankierock]

Originally Posted by SONICobra

obviously it would need to be reworked a little but im pretty sure when han was sculpted it was done completely before boba was keyed to it. they take that sculpt and key it to the base that is also already sculpted and produce. not that far from producing a variant with minor changes and they get to get even more revenue from an already existing sculpt

Oh I get what you are saying and agree..but it?s also why I?m shocked they didn?t just leave well enough alone. Han never needed to float to impress us. It would have been just as impressive if Han was in back of Boba keyed in on the base.

[VS1976]

Originally Posted by marker2037

I think it's quite clear how it's not only possible, but probable that someone leans like that as obviously the below post indicates from the artist himself. Haven't you ever leaned into a wall before?

I also think you are missing some of the imagination needed for this piece. Can't you imagine that the the carbonite chamber has some sort of magnetic hold on the piece which locks him into place, if desired? If you can believe in the carbonite freezing system, surely you can believe in it's suspension capabilities too as we already know it can float when he's horizontal so why not vertical as well? And if it can float with that weight, surely it can hold a couple hundred pounds more of weight without giving in to gravity.

Not with a weighted backpack on. Imagine putting a propane tank on your back and try to stand like that? A firefighter air tank weighs 23 lbs and it’s quite small compare to boba’s pack. I would say it would be close to 50lbs. Your leg position would not be relaxed like that if you had 50lbs on your back. It’s 100% impossible to do what the sculpt is implying it can do. It defies logic and yes physics! And not only that, the Carbonite has no indication that’s it’s locked into place. There should be something below (or the top) magnetizing / locking it into place and it doesn’t. This tells me it’s floating and if it was touch, it would move. Therefore, Boba Fett would not have any support when he is trying to lean on it. He would in fact fall backwards. Love Matt Black stuff but he missed the mark on this one.

[prototypy]

Matt Black was trying to create a new pose,and this is a fully sculpted piece sales within 800 dollars.Be fair.

[Bubsy]

Originally Posted by prototypy

Matt Black was trying to create a new pose,and this is a fully sculpted piece sales within 800 dollars.Be fair.

Lol, statue collecting isn?t a cult. It would be hilarious to suggest that he was working backwards from a new pose for this design. He was clearly working backwards from how to suspend the carbonite in the air without too much future lean and the bad pose was the result of statue physics dependencies. Seems like a bad design philosophy.

[nearmint]

Originally Posted by Bubsy

Lol, statue collecting isn?t a cult. It would be hilarious to suggest that he was working backwards from a new pose for this design. He was clearly working backwards from how to suspend the carbonite in the air without too much future lean and the bad pose was the result of statue physics dependencies. Seems like a bad design philosophy.

Pretty sure he based the statue on his own pose, as he often does.

[House]

As much as i love Boba Fett, this isn't correct. ESB Boba Outfit with A ROTJ Han in Carbonite sequence. I wont be spending 800 on this.

[Bubsy]

Originally Posted by nearmint

Pretty sure he based the statue on his own pose, as he often does.

That?s after-the-fact PR once it was determined the Han carbonite needed to come in contact with Boba, which never happened in a movie scene and the only justification for it goes back to statue physics considerations. Or maybe it was really something like he was at a bar and a lightbulb went off, what if Boba Fett did the pickup artist lean on a table at a singles bar?