I had plenty of opportunity to pick up Maris Brood when she came out in that initial Force Unleashed wave but since I had no idea who she was I passed. So I wound up getting her yesterday at the Calgary Comic Expo. She's Shaak Ti's padawan but is teetering on the dark side, so she is the mirror image of the character you play in the game, a Sith apprentice teetering on the light side. I would think Shaak Ti would do a better job but oh well. Seems all the padawans are on the verge of going to the other side alla time. Occupational hazard of training in the Force. As a figure she is alright, dunno how well she can stand on her own, as with all the female figures, she is super slender and her legs are pretty teeny. I've seen better paint jobs but for a minor character in a video game I can't really complain. I still hope they revisit TFU with some more figures later on.
It's amazing how striking this figure is and really it's just an inverted Royal Guard. Black becomes red and red becomes black. But the Royal Guard design has always retained its intrinsic perfectness even after 25 years. Like the other Force Unleashed characters, it is not quit accurate to the game. In the game they are more of a greyish color and don't have robes. Just like the cardback, actually. But I am not complaining. I want the robes to match the red guards. And Hasbro can always release a version sans robes and I am sure I would get one. Or two.
Hasbro released an entire wave devoted to The Force Unleashed, but prior to the game's release, so no one knew who Maris Brood or Rahm Kota were. But three figures in the line really stood out- the Jumptrooper, the EVO trooper and the Shadow Guard. I finally tracked down all three, but it took a while and I've only ever seen one of each. Hopefully they will be rereleased later. I'm a sucker for troopers of any kind, and this guy with his modified stormtrooper look makes me all giddy. I'm not sure if they look quite that way in the game but that's fine- Hasbro can always make more Unleashed troopers as far as I'm concerned.
