So this is pretty much the ultimate in Bobas. The UbaBoba. Just a great looking figure, accurate as far as I can tell, if you ignore the fact his rifle is all warped. Probably my fault anyways for leaving it like that. Came with his dad and great-great-great-grandad in an Evolutions pack.
I'm sending these guys to the Outer Rim planet of Quebec today. Trading them away for a Spacetrooper and a Jawa. Darth Bane obviously doesn't actually wear Clone armour but I never really liked the yellowy gold translucent armour plates he came with. Kind of a lame custom. The droid came with Kit Fisto and is actually the only astromech I have with the swiveling antenna in out thing. And now I don't have any! Oh well. Sometimes you gotta make the trades.
Basically this figure sucks. Even the photo sucks. Biggs is a big dork. At least his helmet can hide his 70s pornstar mustache. And the helmet is removable so you can stick it on another, non-suck figure. He came in an IMperial Pilots Evolutions set, the one with the blue clone gunship pilot and the white ARC-170 clone pilot. I think. Maybe it was the black. Anyways. Biggs, ladies and gentlemen.
So this guy is a little weird looking, at least for Star Wars. He looks more like he belongs in Lord of the Rings. Although I guess battleaxes are an accepted weapon in the SW galaxy. I looked him up in Wookiepedia to see where he comes from and he is from the Great Sith War of an even longer time ago in that galaxy far, far away. Fair enough, I guess he is the great grandpa of all Mandalorians. Anyways, as figures go he is nicely done, but he just feels out of place alongside the others. He came in an Evolutions pack with Boba and Jango.
It's been a while I know. Daughter born and all that. But actually I still have time, just all camera resources are dedicated to her right now! But I took a quick shot of Jango and sons. This Jango is from the Fett Evolutions set, the one with that weird battle-ax wielding Mandalore guy. I guess Gamorrean Guards have the battle-axes so it fits. Anyways, this is not about him. This is about Jango. His helmet looks great, and his jetpack is fine too, different from Boba's. Not sure about his shirt, the color seems a little off. The other Jango I have is stuck in a pose, so it's nice to have a more posable Jango. They should also make a head-comes-off Jango. Poor guy. I never really understood why he was fighting on Dooku's side. Wasn't he hired, at least ostensibly, by the Republic? Oh well. At least he got to do more than Boba.
The one and only figure I got when Episode I came out was Darth Maul. I took that little guy to China and New York and all sorts of places. But New York was his undoing as he never came home with me. I think Jon still has him but I don't know. So anyways this quasi-concept art Maul was a good replacement. Quasi because this version of him appeared in the four issue Darth Maul series which I posed him in front of. All those extra tattoos give him an even more distinctive look. And since he was criminally underused you gotta jump on the chance to release new versions of him that weren't in the movie. I just got a more normal version of him (in which he wears a shirt) and I hope to rip his legs off and replace them with tri-droid legs or somesuch so as to customize a Maul-borg, also based on concept art, straight from LucasFilm as far as I know. Anyways that is neither here nor there since I haven't done it yet. What matters is this Maul is pretty good, maybe not as much articulation as there could be. But he came in a Sith Evolutions 3-pack with Darth Bane (pthhhpp!) and Darth Malak?? Something like that.
These guys made their first appearance in Attack of the Clones and were pretty much the only ones with a different helmet design (other than stripes of color) than the main clone troopers had in that movie. Makes sense since they were pilots not infantry. And only the yellow version was in the movie. The blue guy is just a fun paint app that as far as I know is unique to the figure. Which came from the Imperial Pilots Evolutions three-pack. Come to think of it, the yellow guy came from an Evolutions pack too, kind of- at least his helmet did. The figure is just a spare clone I had that I swapped the helmet out since the 3-pack had the helmet as an extra. Which is why he is carrying an infantry rifle and is all mud-spattered, which is something most gunship pilots probably don't ever deal with. So yeah- yellow guy is not even really a real Hasbro-released figure, and blue guy exists only because of Hasbro. A good pair! Only complaint- bluey's paint is quite sloppy. Oh well you can say they painted their own helmets. My hardhat at work has been extensively customized by me and it is not so pretty either.
