How many drop boxes?

[ShavedWookie[501st]]

While researching all that I can for my ESB TK, I came across this photo:

 

 

It was taken on the Bespin set and is featured in J W Rinzler's [awesome] book The Making of The Empire Strikes Back.

 

I have never seen this pic before, and it fills me with hope. As a taller trooper I have a bit of extra black showing between thigh & cod (and everywhere else really). The ability to cover this with an extra drop box would be great!

 

 

Unfortunately I can't see this particular TK on screen...

 

Nice idea though.

 

(ps if this has been discussed elsewhere please point me in that direction)

[gazmosis[501st]]

Nope. Sorry to say, it is a costume malfunction. After two films, these costumes were stretched to their limits and beginning to break down. rRemember that the drop boxes were attached only by a loop of elastic. Unless another picture shows more than two (which it won't) this drop box just slid over out of position. Is that gaffers tape connecting the chest and back?

[Dark PWF[Staff]]

Aye, Steve... I believe that is yet another piece of Gaffer's tape.

 

You'd think that by the time that they were filming ESB, they'd have had a bigger budget for the costumes, no? LoL

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

I like to call him "extra ammo" trooper.

[Daetrin[Admin]]

All the same, great find on the photo

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

I guess we finally have found the drop boxes thief  :

 

 

 

But on this ESB trooper, as Steve says, it's most likely the left/hand drop boxe which slided to the right side before the belt was snapped on the ab plate.

[Tolo[TK]]

Is this going to be another debate? Mr No Dropbox?

 

Lolll

 

 

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[troopermaster]

The drop box on this particular trooper has more likely come off and been reattached on the wrong side. The elastic loop holding the drop boxes are glued to the belt to stop them moving, so I doubt it slid accidently. If it did, though, the centre rivet holding the ammo belt to the canvas would have popped in order for the box to slide.

 

Here is the full photo:

[Tolo[TK]]

The drop box on this particular trooper has more likely come off and been reattached on the wrong side. The elastic loop holding the drop boxes are glued to the belt to stop them moving, so I doubt it slid accidently. If it did, though, the centre rivet holding the ammo belt to the canvas would have popped in order for the box to slide.

 

Here is the full photo:

The one on the ground has only 1

 

 

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[The5thHorseman[501st]]

I don't care about the drop boxes, the full picture is amazing! I had never seen it before.

[bjsavage7[TK]]

yeah awesome pic. Almost looks like the guy on the ground dropped one & the crew picked it up & stuck it on the wrong guy.

[walt[501st]]

Nope.....that trooper blasted his mate and took it!....

[Sly11[Admin]]

Like the trooper you see in ANH , the boarding party, stops to check one of his slain troopers, then later on strips him of anything useful.

 

 

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[ShavedWookie[501st]]

The one on the ground has only 1

 

 

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Ha ha!

 

I was so impressed by noticing the "extra" drop box that I didn't even look at the dead stormtrooper. I wonder how much else I have missed,

[Dark PWF[Staff]]

Could be that the drop boxes contain information sensitive to the security of the Empire. If so, TKs would be under standing orders to secure or destroy them if a fellow trooper fell, in order to prevent the contents falling into rebel hands.

Edited October 17, 2014 by Dark CMF

[walt[501st]]

Haha....the guy fell and his buddy picked it up for him

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

I have never seen any information regarding drop box elastic being glued to the belt.  can this be shown? or is this just an educated guess?

and I have seen that photo before.

[Daetrin[Admin]]

I don't care about the drop boxes, the full picture is amazing! I had never seen it before.

+1 - thanks for sharing Paul!

[troopermaster]

I have never seen any information regarding drop box elastic being glued to the belt.  can this be shown?

How do you think the drop boxes stay in place? If the elastic loops were not glued they would slide across the belt. Check out the RS references on here. You can clearly see the glue and on other original belts too.

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

I'll start gluing them!

 

thanks TM!

 

you can never learn enough!

 

I'm still a little wary of cutting the elastic like that tho!

Edited October 17, 2014 by TK Bondservnt 2392

[Locitus[Admin]]

Mine stay in place because the elastic is lodged between the rivet and snap.

 

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[gazmosis[501st]]

Seems like that is the case with that original belt pic

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

Same as Mathias. So i haven't glued them and i have no issue with my drop boxes sliding out of position.

[troopermaster]

The drop box elastics on the original belts are glued. What you do with your armour is your choice

[Sly11[Admin]]

I did the loops and put a small piece of Velcro on the inside to keep them in place and make them easily movable.

 

 

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