Let's look at ALL of the Rotta the Hutt merch -- including the Halloween costume & new maquette!

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: The character of Jabba the Hutt's son, Rota, was introduced in the Clone Wars movie in 2009, and in that movie he was kidnapped and was kind of used as a pawn in the struggle between the Separatists and the Jedi, but he didn't really have much in the way of a personality because he was essentially just a baby. After he was returned to his father at the end of the movie, we basically never heard from Rota again throughout the entirety of the Clone Wars animated series. As far as I can recall, they basically never mentioned him ever again, which seemed a little weird, and I had a lot of people even asking me over the years, hey, what happened to Rota? And I didn't know what to tell them. But as you may be aware, in the movie The Mandalorian and Grogu, which was released earlier this year, 2026, they reintroduced Rota, this time pronounced Rata the Hutt, and he's an adult. He's all grown up, quite buff-looking, and he's basically an arena fighter, kind of estranged from his father, trying to prove that he's his own man, so to speak. I think opinions are a little bit split on the movie, but I really enjoyed it. I thought it was great, even though it seemed a little bit more like an extended episode of The Mandalorian, rather than, you know, a full-on blockbuster Star Wars movie. But I really liked the fan service moments that they had, bringing up old alien races and things like that. And especially the way they treated Rata the Hutt, the character, I thought was exactly the way I wanted it to be. I didn't want him to, you know, secretly be a bad guy or something like that, and betray The Mandalorian. Spoiler alert. He turns out to be actually a really good guy, and he's doing his best to kind of not be who his father was, which I think, you know, is a common theme in Star Wars with Vader and Luke and so forth as well. So I thought this would be a good chance to kind of look back on the merchandise that's been created for this character, first of all as a baby in The Clone Wars, and then in his more grown-up version that we just saw in The Mandalorian and Grogu movie. Now, I will warn you that I'm so used to saying Rota for this character that I probably will slip up and do that, but I'm going to try and switch over to Rata from now on. So our first item is this LEGO minifigure of Rata. Pretty cute, honestly. This was released as part of the Twilight LEGO set, and I often like to pose him kind of next to one of the LEGO Jabas in my collection. Next we have a keychain for Rata that was released in Australia. I believe this was only part of like a larger Clone Wars set, so you couldn't just buy this on its own. But they also, in addition to this more realistically painted one, released a golden Rata, which is pretty cool. This right here is the 1/6 scale Rata figure from Saichou Collectibles. This was an accessory that came with the Clone Wars Anakin. It was sort of a realistically styled Clone Wars Anakin figure, and this was their sort of interpretation of what he would look like, not so much in the, you know, sort of stylized Clone Wars CG style, but more of a realistic style. I quite like this one as well. I keep him next to Jabba's throne in my Sideshow Jabba display, The 1/6 scale Sideshow Jabba display. One more thing is the Hasbro figure, which you can see right here because I can't find it. I'll just have to put a photo up that I took way back in 2009 when I got it. This was an accessory for an Ahsoka figure, and it's pretty cute as well. I've got him somewhere. He'll show up someday, but I'm not sure where he is right now. I think the only item I don't have for the baby version of the character is this one from Hot Toys that came as an accessory for the Clone Wars Ahsoka 1/6 scale figure. Unfortunately, they only included this accessory with the exclusive version of the figure, so it's actually pretty hard to get at this point. I do, however, have this statue from Gentle Giant, which attempts to recreate the actual Clone Wars CG version of the character as opposed to the Hot Toys one, which is more of a realistic looking one. And he's pretty cute in this version as well. Finally, what is probably the most sought after version of Rota as a baby is this one here from Comic Images. This was obviously a plush, made as part of a set with a backpack, similar to the one that Ahsoka wore in the Clone Wars. I do have the backpack somewhere as well, but it's pretty beaten up because my kids actually used it to play a lot of things, and you know, it's just got it's got like marker and stuff on it, and it's not in great shape. I did manage to keep Rota here relatively in good shape, even though we did also play with him a fair amount as well. I think that's pretty much everything that they made for the character as a baby, so let's go ahead and see what they made for him now that he's an adult. My family and I recently returned from a trip to Japan, and one of the things I was kind of on the lookout for was this item that I'm going to be talking about right now. I found it in this store. This is sort of a hobby store that we found in semi-rural Japan, and they had him right here, as you can see, just sitting out on a shelf, which is unusual because this is a blind box toy normally, but they had a little handwritten note that said that they had already sold through all of the blind boxes, and they just had like the sample that they were using, you know, as an example of what they look like, for sale on his own. So I managed to get him without having to open a bunch of blind boxes, which is pretty cool. This is a Cosby figure, C-O-S-B-I from Hot Toys, and you know, he's extremely cute. I'll have to give him that. They've done a great job. This is a very high-quality feeling plush, and you know, it goes for, I think, $25, $30 a piece, and that's if you're probably just getting the blind box version. So it could be quite expensive if you just wanted one particular character. You can see the other ones that they had available here. You know, I could live without all of those, frankly, so I was glad that I was able to just pick up Rata on his own. Extremely cute version of the character, though, for sure. Speaking of blind bagged or blind boxed things, we have this bag clip from Monogram. This is a kind of a hard rubbery type thing that you might hang on your bag, or I suppose you could use it as a keychain. I've shown various ones of these from Monogram in the past. They have lots of different variations on Java and things like that, so that's pretty cool. This one, as you can see, this is the packaging. He's not even listed on the front here. You have to look on the back, and then you can see here it says "Exclusive B," and it's just a silhouette, but it's obviously him. So I guess this must be the hardest one to, one of the hardest ones to find, but I just ended up buying him on his own on eBay because I haven't found these in stores anywhere. I heard from a couple people, though, that he's quite a bit heavier and bigger than the other ones, so that even if you have them blind bagged, it's not too hard to figure out which one is Rata. Next up, we have a couple of items from Funko. We have, of course, the Funko Pop figure of Rata, and then we have a Mystery Minis figure. These are the blind boxed, smaller bobblehead type figures. And, you know, looking at these two figures side by side, you'd be forgiven if you thought that it was just essentially this figure shrunk down to this size. But they are different sculpts in reality, at least largely. I'm not sure, it's possible they reused some of it, like the hands and arms kind of look very similar, but the tail and the body and the head all have different details on them. So I don't know. It's kind of weird, though, because they, I don't know why they decided to make them so similar, because, you know, if you're going to make them, if you're going to redo them, do different sculpts for the entire thing, you might as well make them a little bit more different, I would think. But anyway, these are both bobbleheads, which is what the Star Wars ones have to be sort of contractually. And they're not bad. I'm not the hugest fan of either of these, really, of the Funko Pops or the Mystery Minis. But they're, they're nice, and they, you know, sometimes will have a little bit less common characters, which I do appreciate. So yeah, these are definitely worth taking a look at. This is the Actionverse team-up set. Actionverse, apparently, I'm gathering, is kind of aimed at a little bit younger kids. It's four plus. It's not quite as, you know, the superposable figures that are more aimed more at collectors or older kids. This is maybe more of something you would actually play with, I'm guessing, but I haven't actually, you know, seen these in hand yet. Now this box is one of those newer style boxes where you, you know, you can't see inside, you can't tell what the actual things look like, which is interesting because I'm pretty sure they're not going to look as good as you see them on here. And, you know, while I applaud their efforts to be more environmentally, you know, responsible, I do think it's a little bit of a problem when you can't even see what the actual product you're buying looks like. And you also can't compare maybe paint jobs for if you happen to find this in a store, compare them from one to the other, that kind of thing. If we look at the back, you see it says the Mandalorian team-up pack. But the idea, of course, here is, and spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the movie. But, you know, there is a certain portion in the movie where Rota and the Mandalorian join forces, and I really enjoyed that part. But, yeah, that's what we're doing here. They're not really, they don't really have anybody to fight against. If you just, if you just buy this pack and you want to stick to the, you know, actual story of the movie, there's not really anything to do with these characters, I'm now realizing. But they are going to be releasing some other ones. I believe they're going to have at least one or two of the, you know, the creatures from the arena that these guys could fight, which would be pretty cool. Anyway, let's go ahead and open this guy up, see what he actually looks like, and whether he looks as good as he does on the box. Now, one thing that I hadn't really noticed about this box is there isn't any tape or anything on here. And I believe there's no way to open this up without at least partially destroying it. You have to just, you know, it's glued shut. We're going to have to peel this up, I guess, or cut it open, maybe with an exacto knife or, you know, utility knife, that kind of thing. So it's a little bit disappointing if you wanted to kind of keep this nice. Although, I guess it's not that destructive. So if we look inside, we have here our heroes kind of strapped to a cardboard tray here. Cut the little guy, cut the little, you know, eyes off of him, and now we get to see what he actually looks like. Aha! Well, you know, it's not that bad. Especially, you know, for this kind of toy. I actually think this looks relatively decent. It's only got one color of, well, I was gonna say it only has one color of paint, but no, I think it does have - this is the color of the plastic. It's kind of an olive drab color. And on the back, he's got green, like a forest green almost. And then on his tummy and part of his face, he's got this sort of sand color. So they did add some, you know, not just a bare minimum of paintwork, which is nice. And his eyes. It's difficult to see in the camera, but if we look at his eyes, you can see they do have a lot of nice detail there. And they look like they're inside the head. Like they've done something, they maybe have an eyeball, separate eyeball piece that they insert inside the head. But it looks good, honestly. So I'm, I'm relatively happy with this. The only thing I'm not crazy about are the holes here. I guess that's to help him carry his, uh, his weapons or whatever. We'll have to see about that in just a second. But yeah, other than that, pretty good. And if we look at what else is included, we have the, uh, axes and then the random, um, you know, weapons that they had in the arena that the Mandalorian used at some point. These are done. Let's see if we can cut these out first of all. They're done in a kind of a, um, translucent plastic, which actually looks pretty cool. It's a little unusual. But, uh, I'm not, not too upset about it. We've got our little, little Grogu figure here. He's got a little bit of articulation. I don't know, a fair amount. Probably all you really need. It doesn't have any legs. And we've got the Mandalorian. Again, this is one of the, uh, I guess you'd say, lower articulated figures, which honestly I am fine with. I don't, I'm not one of these people who necessarily needs my figures to be super duper articulated. As long as they look decent, I find, uh, I'm happy with about this amount of articulation or sometimes even less. So I'm not upset about that at all. It is a little bit of a cartoony sculpt somehow in there, in the, uh, I don't know if it's the proportions or what looks a little strange somehow, but I guess his hands are too big is the deal. But other than that, looks, looks pretty decent. And the, the paintwork I think is nice if simple. We can get the, uh, the weapons out here, as I say, they're trans, transparent slash translucent. And, uh, you know, you just have to kind of separate them from the sprue yourselves. No paint on these, of course, but I guess that's all right. Get rid of these little bits that are sticking around. You can see on the axes, they've got little, little bits here. And that's, I believe, what would go in here, I guess. I mean, it's a little weird, weird that he would have it on his arm. And he can, of course, you know, hold them. So what is the purpose of having that? I'm not entirely sure. The arms, at least, are made of this slightly rubbery plastic, it seems. This, this part here, I think, is made of a different plastic than this part. It seems a little, a little softer, which is good. It allows you to put them in his hands without, you know, breaking anything. It's funny that they have the, just the tip be a separate piece like this. Anyway, um, yeah, I'm, I'm actually not upset about this set. Not, not as much as I thought I might be. Part of me wants to, uh, repaint this Rota, but, um, well, I think what I'll do is wait until I can possibly get a, a cheap one of these. If these go on clearance or something, I will definitely try it. Otherwise, maybe I won't. But, uh, let's go ahead and take a look at these guys together. One thing I neglected to mention is that these sprues, once you've taken the weapons out of them, they actually function as weapons racks of a kind. Uh, they've got little places here. So for the axes, for example, you can use those things that I was mentioning, those little nubs and attach them here. And there you go. This also has stuff like the, the clan symbol. Although, uh, they also have Star Wars emblazoned on the top, which is a little, little weird if you think of it in universe. Uh, this one over here, you know, the one with a lot more weapons is a little bit more tricky though. Uh, this, this long rifle does have a, uh, a nub on it that you can use to attach it. But the other ones, you just have to kind of rest on top of these little, uh, I don't know, little carrier things that they have. And for the short ones, it's a little difficult to get them to stay on there properly. At least I've found it to be, you have to kind of precariously balance them, but you know, you can do it, especially if you're just using it to display them. So I think that's pretty nice. Instead of just making it something that you would throw away, it's actually something, uh, you might actually want to use. And here they are all together. I am pretty happy with this set. As I mentioned more, you know, more than I thought I would be, uh, Rota in particular is nicer looking. The sculpt is pretty good. The paint is not terrible and he's got a nice size to him. So yeah, I'm not, not mad at it at all. Um, this cost me, I believe 32.99 on Amazon, although I don't think it's available right now. Um, I don't know what the status of this is in terms of, uh, you know, being able to pick it up at a local store or whatever. I ordered mine, uh, late, late June, and it took two or three weeks to finally, uh, you know, get shipped and everything. So I do hope we end up getting some, uh, more detailed, you know, collector focused versions of this guy, such as in the black series, for example. But, uh, I'm pretty happy with what we got here, at least. Now in the past, I've made a review of the inflatable Jabba the Hutt costume that came out a number of years ago, and I also did one of a sort of Chinese knockoff of that costume as well. So I'm familiar with this style of costume, which has, you know, a fan in it, and it kind of blows it up to make it, you know, bigger than it ordinarily would be without having to have a lot of padding or something. Um, it works okay. I'm not a huge fan of this style of costume, but yeah, I mean, I guess I can understand why they choose it. Um, so I was interested anyway when I saw that there was a Rott of the Hutt version of this costume. I say a version, I mean, it's a totally different costume, but it's the same general concept. And, you know, at first glance, it looks pretty good. You can see his head here. Uh, we panned out. Wait a minute. What is this? Ratta seems to have some human hands sprouting from his armpits. I don't recall that from the movie, but maybe I missed it. Let me continue down here. We also see that he's got, uh, some human legs with sneakers. Uh, interesting choices, let's say, but let's not judge it too harshly before we actually try it out. Um, yeah, let's go ahead and see what it looks like when it's on me. Moving around in this costume is definitely a challenge. You're basically forced to just make little shuffling steps. I was happy to see that you can put your own arms in Ratta's arms and move them around and then only have your arms come out of the armpits there. If you needed to like, you know, maneuver something or, you know, pick something up, maybe, I guess that's the intended idea. Um, otherwise it looks reasonably okay. I like the way the tail sticks out straight behind him like that. So in terms of the looks, it's not bad, but it does have a few issues. So here's the costume. Uh, I thought it'd be easier to explain this outside because this is quite an unwieldy thing. It's difficult to put on. Um, inside you've got some straps that kind of go over your shoulders and help keep the costume up, but you really do need a couple of people. I mean, one person to help you, uh, put on the costume. It's got here, as I mentioned with the other kind of costumes, got the same kind of fan here. And on the other side, this is where the blower is blowing inside the costume. It's got a cable here that attaches to a battery box. And that battery box has four, uh, AA batteries in it. You just plug it in here and then turn it on here and the fan will just go constantly. While it's on, you're supposed to basically just either clip this to your belt or your waistband or put it in your pocket. Um, I will say it filled up really nicely. It didn't take very long to fill up with air and, actually, it worked better, I think, than the other costumes, the, uh, the previous java costumes. You do have here, this is, uh, under the arms where your, your own arms can go out. It's got kind of little elastic, so it mostly keeps the air from coming out, uh, when you don't have your arms out there. And then also on the bottom, you have these little leg things with sort of a camo looking, uh, pattern on them. Uh, you, they're, they're quite small actually. So I, at least for, in my case, I had to, uh, put socks on and then put my feet through and then put some shoes on. Um, now most of this, as you can see, is kind of a, um, I don't know, parachute material, I guess. But the face, if we can find it. Where are you? Here he is. The face is different. It's got kind of a clear plastic and then a mesh, well, it's got a mesh over a clear plastic, I guess you'd say. So there's his eyes. So you can see a little bit through there. I'll give you an idea of what that looks like here. So this is what it looks like from inside the costume. You really cannot see much of anything at all. In fact, here, let me put my hand outside the costume. You can see that, but it's very hazy. This is not the kind of thing you're going to want to go out trick-or-treating in. I wouldn't, uh, give this to a kid to go out trick-or-treating or anything like that. It needs to be in a kind of a controlled environment, I think. Um, this is a, this is an adult costume. It says one size fits all. I'm a fairly large tall person, um, and it did fit me fine. So I think you, you might more so be worried about if you're, if you're short. It might be, it might be a little harder for you to wear this, but you know, you have those, uh, the straps inside are adjustable, so you could probably, uh, probably make it work. Overall, uh, it's an uncomfortable costume. I nearly fainted, I think, out here in the sun. Luckily, of course, most places probably, uh, Halloween is not a particularly hot time of year, but, uh, still, if you're in there for very long, I would expect you to feel the heat, so do be careful of that as well. Anyway, uh, overall, I think it's a pretty good costume, but as with any hot costume, it's gonna have, uh, you know, a movement penalty. It's gonna have some, some problems, let's say. So be aware of that before you buy. I also recently got this Rata t-shirt. This is specifically for the Mandalorian and Grogu movie, and it is officially licensed. As far as I can tell, this was kind of a Amazon print-on-demand type shirt. I don't typically include shirts in my collection, except just sort of casually. You know, if I find something that looks cool, I might pick it up, but I don't feel the need to be, uh, completist with shirts, because there's just so many of them typically, but, uh, I haven't really seen any other Rata shirts, so I decided to pick this one up, and it's got this kind of interesting, uh, faux vintage, you know, effect. It's never even been worn. I haven't washed it or anything, but it's got, you know, an intentionally weathered effect, at least I think it's intentional. Pretty cool looking. I think that just about does it for things that have been actually released, but there are a couple of other things I wanted to mention. One is the Rata the Hut figure from Hot Toys. I mentioned this in my video about things that were announced on Star Wars Day this year. This looks to be a very impressive figure. Hot Toys, of course, is, you know, arguably the best at making 1/6 scale action figures, and for many years, people have wanted a 1/6 scale Jabba from them. Uh, we're not getting that as of yet, but, uh, we do have this on the way, not entirely sure when this is going to be shipping. It costs $295. Um, I'll definitely be doing a review when it does show up. If you have seen The Mandalorian and Grogu, you'll know that they created an updated version of Rata as a baby that they used in one sequence in that film, and this is the actual maquette that they created for the production. It was a physical statue, apparently painted by Jon Favreau himself. It's currently on display at San Diego Comic Con, where Gabe from Star Wars Replicas took this footage. Thanks very much for allowing me to use that, by the way, Gabe. I'm very excited to announce that Regal Robot is actually going to be releasing their own replica of that maquette, and that's what we're looking at right now, as a matter of fact. This is an early prototype of the maquette that Regal Robot has kindly loaned to me so that I can make a review video, which is going to be coming out in just a few days. So if you're interested in that, definitely stay tuned. I'll be putting out a full video with all of the details and more information about it at that point. But that's about it for today's video. I think I covered pretty much everything that's been made for Rata as a character, but let me know if I left anything out. And I'd also be interested to know which of these are your favorites. Are you planning on picking any of these up, or do you have any of these in your collection already? Let me know in the comments below. And thanks very much for watching.