A new bounty hunter leaps from the CG Clone Wars series! Is he as iconic as Boba Fett or Bossk or 4-LOM? Not quite. But he's still pretty durn cool. Rootin tootin, maybe you could say since he has that spaghetti western look which is actually pretty appropriate given that Star Wars, at least the original movie, was as much a space western as anything else. So, pretty fine looking figure, a little limited articulation wise but really, isn't the above pose all you need him to do?
Through the magic of photography it looks like I have two ARFers but really they are just one. I would have bought two if there were two, but there was only one and he was a little on the expensive side to boot. Comic shop rather than a chain store. Is this the sharpest looking CG CW clone yet? I would say so. Great helmet, kind of mean looking (even if they are more nervous looking in the photos). Since I just got me Clone Wars DVD set the other day I haven't seen any episodes with him yet. I guess they drive AT-RTs. I drive a Saturn Ion but I would trade it for an RT and one of those helmets any day.
Some of the Clone Wars line of figures don't really fit in well with the other 3 1/4 figures, but lots of them do. Asajj is one. She looks great standing next to my Luminara from the other style of figures. If only she could hold her lightsaber worth a darn. It's actually two that fit together to form a double-bladed one like Darth Maul's. Cool. Anyways this is the third Asajj I've featured here so what else is there to say? Two out of three Asajjs agree- holding lightsabers is hard work!
So this guy was supposedly a mail away exclusive, though you could get a nearly identical figure right from the first wave of Clone Wars figures that came out. The difference was, this one was clean as opposed to battle damaged. Meh. I know these clones are thought very highly in the collector community, all super articulated and all that, but I never really got into them too much. Don't like the helmets, just not quite right. OH well. If you put him up next to some glitter you can hardly even tell, right?
One of the concepts Lucas rejected for RotS was a sort of Predatorish wrist duo lightsaber thing. I was just looking at the concept art last week thinking it would have been cool to see even if Lucas' instincts were right, at least as far as the movie. But anything goes for the Clone Wars series, and lots of artwork originally made for Sith concepts is being used. Another example I can think of is the Twilight. Anyways, all that is to say it was really cool to see the double wristsaber (it needs a better name!) incorporated in the Clone Wars Plo Koon. I don't recall if he used it in that one episode where he was floating in space with some clones- I don't think so. So doubly cool the doublyblade is realized here. Because it is doubly cool. Just look at it:
Leave it to Genndy Tartakovsky's studio to finally get a ship right. For the most part the ships in the prequel trilogy lacked that cool factor. Naboo starfighters? No thanks. Hard to picture one of those shiny yellow things strafing a Death Star. BUt the Torrent is perfect Star Wars. Elements of Imperial Shuttles as well as maybe the B-Wing with all those movable parts. S-foils I imagine they're called. I'm glad this ship shows up in the CG series, though I'd love to see it more often. But wait- I have my very own V-19 to look at anytime I want! And even better, my employer bought it for me! Safety points get turned into wal-mart gift cards get turned into Star Wars vehicles, the first I've bought in the modern era. Other than a black scout bike. Too bad there's no $20 AT-TEs here like there are in Ontario.
I fall squarely in the camp of people who think Snips is a great character. The other camp lumps her in with Jarjar. The other camp are full of people who hate everything about Star Wars except the idea of Star Wars (See that classic essay on the subject). But not me, I just love Star Wars and I love Star Wars figures. The overgrown manchild that I am. Anwyays lets talk about the Tortugachild here in question. Anakin's padawan. Some people think this is a ridiculous idea since he plainly had no padawan in RotS. Obviously, she met an untimely and undoubtedly tragic demise which I hope the Clone Wars series will address with appropriate gravity. Because as we get to know her we admire her spunk, her courage and her ability with a lightsaber, and it will be wrenching to watch her die. BUt before that happens we can enjoy her action figure from the Clone Wars line, which is pretty decent. Already tiny, some complain that she is too big to be truly to scale, and a Snowtrooper did a nice job of customizing her. As for me I am happy as she is. She has a hard time standing unassisted but oh well. At least she came with a little Huttling, truly the accessory that never stops giving.
This figure is getting some pretty poor reviews over on Snowtroopers. Soft plastic, doesn't grip the lightsabers very well, can't stand up. All pretty damning. But because of all the sales it was almost impossible to not get him for under 5 bucks what can you expect? This is what I like about him- interchangeable arms, so you can have 2-handed blaster-wielding Grievy or four-armed lightsaber-toting Grievy. Also I think the sculpt is pretty cool, even better than the regular realistic figure. Better legs, with nice big claws.
I think I have almost as many Kenobis as Grievouses. Fitting, actually. All the versions can fight each other! This one here may be the best. There is a Legacy Wave 2 with the armor that is pretty great based on the microseries but this one is just a fine sculpt- almost dead on to the CG Clone Wars Obi. I wonder what a Darth Maul in the CG style would look like? Maybe a flashback episode or something and Hasbro will have an excuse to crank one out!
