STAR WARS The Black Series Darth Vader Premium Electronic Helmet, OBI-Wan Kenobi Roleplay Collectible Toys for Kids Ages 14 and Up

it came inside of two boxes, so the packaged box with the printed images was not affected at all, the quality of the parts, the details are amazing, the breath sound changes if you have the full assembled or without the top cover. love this master piece. i wear it with no problem, fits perfect, i fully recommend it.

As a display item to mess around with now and then, you can't beat this. No, it won't get you accepted into any overzealous costuming groups, but it will pass for a lot of lesser needs and more laid back groups. You may or may not have a circle on top of yours from the molding process. Each piece is awesome. Magnetic snaps do a lot of the work. The audio is not bad at all, though I don't love where they placed the button. All that said, it's the centerpiece in our Black Series helmet collection. Very cool. Fun. Good looking. Fits my head better than most of the other Black Series stuff. Love it!

Bought for my 7 year old son. Fits well enough on him but made for adults. The rim hurts his neck but I put a scarf there and it was fine. Definitely for an adult but man is this worth it for any age. Would look good on wall. Comes in 3 pieces which really adds to the visuals over the other helmets.

The media could not be loaded. I couldn’t be more satisfied with this purchase.It looks amazing right out of the box.I wear a 7 7/8 hat and it fits snug but totally bearable.The materials are high quality and it seems to be made very well.The sound in the video is the helmet.All in all I would buy this helmet again and again.

A really perfect item for collectors. Feels big and heavy but fits my head very well. The construction and material is excellent. The rest of the features are exactly as advertised. Very satisfied with this purchase.

This is an excellent helmet very happy to have bought.

First, this was said to be released in January 2023, but it came out September 1, 2022. It’s similar to the Black Series masks already released. But this is different from the others. This has a screen accurate color scheme which makes it accurate to A New Hope. What I was unaware of until this past year was that the original film, STAR WARS, had a Darth Vader filmed against a white background. Due to the all black costume choice, seeing details would be potentially difficult to see. So, they actually painted silver in different places on the mask to add highlights to the shape of the mask and texture. It made it easier to see what Darth Vader looks like and it allowed to show details on-screen. This mask has those details. It has the asymmetrical paint job of the original film. Subsequent films used a more highly polished version and they chose not to paint silver “highlights” on the mask.The other nice touch was the use of red-tinted lenses for the eyes. If you look closely in some scenes of STAR WARS (ANH) you will see the lenses are red tinted and not smokey lenses like Empire or Jedi etc.The mask uses magnets to keep the helmet in its place and the top portion of the mask can be removed (like in Jedi) and is also held in place with magnets. When you have just the bottom portion of the mask separated from the top portion of the mask, the sound FX of breathing is altered to reflect the sound from Jedi when Luke removes his mask. Nice touch!It’s easy to wear and I’d say not for a kid. It’s going to be displayed on a table in my house and it looks good doing it.I wish the breathing noise would loop longer, but it’s loud enough.

I got this piece to wear for Halloween night, based on several video reviews posted by adults shown wearing this helmet, as I wanted a cosplay costume piece for greeting Trick or Treaters while handing out candy.First, the pros: it has excellent detail and is handsomely crafted. It actually looks like the prop helmet Darth Vader wore in the Star Wars movies.It takes two AAA batteries that power its sound effects: the vacuum sealing/breaking sound made when attaching/removing the face mask to/from the chin piece, and the sound of Vader's assisted breathing you get when pressing a flush-mounted button on the right side of the chin piece. The sound effects are a nice touch, although I wish the breathing were on a continuous loop until you pressed the button again to turn it off.Being a full-size wearable helmet, it makes for an imposing and impressive display piece for anyone into collecting Star Wars memorabilia.Now, the cons: I'm a big guy, standing 6'4" tall and weighing in at about 300 pounds, and it barely fits me. Because the chin piece fits so tightly on my neck, it limits my ability to move my head up or down and from side-to-side. The hard plastic construction offers no give around the jaw, as it digs into the tissue underneath my jawbone. This is an area that would've benefitted from less plastic and more padding.But even with all of the discomfort built in for guys with a bigger frame, like mine, it suffers from a critical design flaw as a costume piece: once you're fully "snapped in" to the helmet, breathing becomes difficult. The mask offers both poor circulation and ventilation, and my warm breath was not only fogging the goggles (further limiting visibility), but adding to the heat build-up inside the helmet. As noted in the attached video, this is not an active light-saber dueling, Monster Mash dancing costume piece. The poor exchange of exhaled for inhaled air means you want to keep your respiration rate as low as possible, even to the point of talking as little as possible. And, if you live in an already hot climate, like central Florida, you will want to remove the helmet and face mask often to keep cool and towel off.For those with smaller faces, necks, and frames, these issues are probably not as pronounced, but the poor visibility coupled with the poor ventilation would be a deal breaker if you’re looking for an active night out with it. In that regard, it is certainly better suited as a display piece than a wearable costume piece.In my case, I’m going to live with its limitations and discomfort for Halloween night, just to help entertain Trick or Treaters that come to my home.UPDATE: After further review of the owner's manual, I discovered that a plastic piece of grill work responsible for the severe lack of ventilation inside the helmet can be removed (see attached image). Removing the plastic grill does improve ventilation somewhat, but does little to improve air circulation inside the helmet.Because the helmet is marketed for "roleplaying" (according to the product description) the addition of a piece of plastic that the company knows restricts ventilation, and thus one's ability to breathe freely once the helmet is on, makes little sense to me. I would strongly recommend removing this piece of plastic grill if you plan on wearing the helmet for any activity at all.UPDATE #2: I discovered that the main problem with trying to wear this helmet was the rigid, plastic neck band that holds the chin piece under your neck. When I saw another review of someone wearing the connected face mask and chin piece without the neck band, I decided to try it on, using only the head strap to keep the face mask in place. Much to my surprise, the mask actually fit on my head quite comfortably, and I was able to breathe much easier because my face and throat were not mashed up against the front and sides of the mask by the neck band. And while this worked, I still wanted to be able to remove the mask without having the chin piece fall off my neck.The solution? I got a 2" wide by 60" roll of black crafting leather from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C774WKMV?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1) and used a pair of shears and a leather punch to cut a longer neck band! The new, leather neck band allows the mask to fit on my face comfortably, as though I'm not using any neck band at all, while still keeping the chin piece from falling off when I remove the mask!I've upgraded my review to four stars because of the increased comfort by making this one mod. And I can use the original, rigid plastic neck band for displaying the helmet.Now, tip for Hasbro: make an adjustable, one size fits all neck band for this helmet, and you will sell out of them next Halloween to all the big guys out there that want to role-play Vader!