Right now there is a package making its way towards my house that contains some Star Wars legacy trade paperbacks. When they get here I will be able to find out more about this Lord Maleval guy. Right now all I know is he's a Sith, he's a Quarren, and he is the boss of Joker Squad or at least fights them or something. Because he came in an exclusive boxed set with a bunch of stormtroopers, including a femtrooper. So reallly I should have waited till next week to do this entry but whatever. Darth Squidhead!
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.
I watched the Tartakovsky series again so I decided to feature one of the figures from that line. Dooku this time, since I think this is the only Dooku I will ever get- on purpose anyways. He's a great character onscreen, Christopher Lee is amazing, but as a figure he is a little visually boring. THough this sculpt of him is bang on to the cartoon. Sculpt being the keyword since, like alll the figures in this line, he is not articulated and is meant for display only. Fair enough. The photo is a little subpar but I like the earthier colors, fits Dooku's half-Jedi half-Sith wardrobe.
I think Revan is another video game character, maybe Knights of the Old Republic. I haven't played hardly any Star Wars games so I don't know much about that realm of the EU. I played Shadows of the Empire! That was fun. I think it would be cool if they did a game with the same sort of concept as SW LEgo but did it with the old vintage Kenner figures. OR maybe a real time strategy game where all the units are the vintage toys. The only thing that would suck about that idea is you wouldn't have Darth Revan here. And I think he should get to play if he wants to. Anyways, he is a cool figure, great design. Is he like a Mandalorian Sith? Who knows. There were plenty of cool helmets in the Star Wars galaxy so probably not.
I always thought it was silly that there could only be two Sith. A master, and an apprentice. So when the apprentice got really good at being bad it could kill the master and start the cycle anew. So aside from being really evil they are also really dumb. Fortunately the writers of Star Wars Legacy apparently feel the same way and that comic is crawling with Sith, many of which have red skin and black tattoos a la Darth Maul. And if they are females, hardly any clothes. Comics is a visual medium after all and who am i to complain? Thus, Darth Talon. Basically Aayla Secura's evil twin. Born like 300 years apart. So they don't really have the same birthday. As far as the character herself, she is Darth Krayt's chosen assassin and is pretty mean. I have the first couple of issues of Legacy but that's about all I know. Anyways, cool figure.
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.
