I mean to be honest, I agree with you, you may as well just swap out the Stormy Bucket at this point as it should look the same way right.
This is the first six inch Han Stormy I have seen and I really like it. Hope you do the same thing with the Luke coming out. And if they want the bucket just switch out the helmet. IMO, Hasbro should make more money by releasing these the way you just did and offering one more head (whichever the case may be). And to play Devil's advocate, how cool would it be to see a Cad Bane done this way with Clonetrooper armor?
Thanks! Yeah, it would be very smart for Hasbro to just make the heads of Han/Luke and the Stormtrooper interchangeable. Unfortunately, they're not, and based on the ToyFair responses to the Q&A, Hasbro doesn't really seem to get this. Basically, the Stormtrooper is just the Sandtrooper body, but no weathering. This means that the neck is a bit too high for the Stormtrooper (and it looks like the Stormtrooper has a long neck ). Also, you can't switch the neck pegs either because they're designed differently. My crude solution was to insert the Han neck peg ring into the Stormtrooper neck and paint it black. This did involve breaking the Stormtrooper's neck to remove the Stormtrooper peg, but if you do so carefully and paint over the crack it's not a big deal.
Some other customizers have dremmeled out the hole in Han's head, but I wanted to keep the head preserved in case I ever want to put it back on the Han body I have (I can always clean off the neck peg and reinsert it).
So, this actually turned out to be quite a bit more than a head swap! I won't be doing it for Luke unless I get another spare Stormtrooper body, and given the current prices on eBay that's not likely. The Luke X-Wing pilot figures seem pretty plentiful so I could pick up one of those for pretty cheap.
