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.
I like the ROTS clones a lot. Maybe even better than Stormtroopers. They're just a little more streamlined and symmetrical. Well, that might be blasphemy to some. I really like the grey on the trooper in the foreground, who appeared for a second or two in Sith on a landing pad, hence his landing pad security moniker. I'm not sure if I got that exactly right but close enough. The other guy is just your standard issue clone from that era.
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 five clones I have from the Tartakovsky line that came out, I think this one was only available in the States but a Snowtrooper hooked me up. Basically the same sculpt as the regular clone but with a backpack and obviously different helmet. Looks sweet- after a year I still have the same setup on my shelf of these guys. They just look good. Like the Galactic Heroes line, don't do much but look good.
I'm not even sure what this Clone's real name is- Purple Durple is good enough for me. I got it used from a Snowtrooper. I think he is associated with Mace Windu since all his clones and ships are purple to match his lightsaber. Anyways, I think this guy is sharp. Very similar to a shocktrooper but with a few differences that are plain to see.
So Wave 4 finally showed up out here in the wild west. I picked up Faie here and FX6. The rest of them . . . meh. Breha Organa? I am sure she will be warming those pegs soon. Oh well. So waaaay back when Hasbro released a poster showing all the figures in the Legacy Collection, there was one that was hard to make out, was a trooper with some weird misshapen head. I had no idea who it was supposed to be, or even what. Another concept snowtrooper? Some comic book snowtrooper commmander? Turns out Faie comes with this hard plastic, uh, cowl. Not pictured because I think he looks better with just his helmet, which is unique amongst troopers. Almost an AT-AT driver's helmet but not quite. Cool green eyelens. Turns out on page 198 of Art of RotS there is a picture of Commander Faie pretty much exactly as Hasbro rendered him, complete with white cowl. So this guy could be considered a concept character. He has a lively backstory in the EU as well- video games I think.
ARC troopers come in all sorts of colors, including black. But I think this one that I bought today (the first figure I've gotten this year) is my favorite. For now at least. Yellow isn't my favorite color or even top five but yellow looks sharp on Clones. See I got that whole yellow squad going. Not sure which Jedi the yellows were associated with. Maybe Yoda. Apparently the ARCs were trained by Jango Fett. Which would make him an employee of the Republic so I still dunno why he was fighting for the Seperatists. Maybe they should just remake AotC and do it right.
I'm not even sure how many of these guys I have- quite a few though not more than 10 I think. You need a bunch of these guys, they were the original clones. Who themselves were based on the original Jango Fett. Who was based on Boba Fett. See? You need them. Umm, yeah. Just like they appeared in Attack of the Clones. They even got that little red light on the back of the helmet fin. It's just red paint and not an actual red light, of course. And other than that . . . cloney!
The first I ever heard of these guys was in a comic pack I picked up at a TRU. I was all excited about a new clone sculpt. Turns out it is not new at all but a rerelease- the original was a battlepack I think. Which is fine since as new sculpts go it is actually not exceptional- not that much articulation. He has trouble even standing unaided. he comic it came with just showed a bunch of these commandoes fighting and then Yoda says something prescient at the end about clones turning on them just to follow orders. But I think they originally come from some Karen Traviss books, which I'd actually like to read. They're nulls trained by a mandalorian? That might be from a webcomic. Obviously I don't know much about them. BUt I have another like him, more colorful, named Scorch.
This was one of the first clonetroopers I got. Maybe even the first one. Over the holidays we watched Revenge of the Sith and I was surprised to see several shots of these guys, though only brief glimpses. For some reason, Pawlus I think, I thought these weren't in the movie. But they were, helping Obi-Wan there on Utapau. And then gunning for him. Silly clones. Anyways, I dig these guys, with their cool helmets. I'd definitely get repaints in different colors.
So here are a bunch of guys that are permanently stuck in a certain pose. Handy for dioramas and such, and for ambushing hapless battle droids. Because as if two troopers aren't enough look up! Oh no! Two more cloneys ready to do some sniping!
Anyways, I got these guys from a Snowtrooper and they were cheap- like 2 bucks each so can't complain about that. I didn't think they were all worth their own entry, and for that matter neither is a battle droid so here you go all of them at once! Even Pawlus didn't care for them that much.
What does BARC stand for? I don't really know, maybe Biker Advanced Recon or something. Because apparently they have speeder bikes and that is why they come with ridiculously large guns (not shown but even bigger than the ones that are shown). One of these guys came with the little blue Jedi n the Order 66 two-pack. And the other was Saga Legends, or reruns, not that I am complaining. Since they don't have their bikes I set them to guarding some Lord of the Rings books for me. So far no one has stolen them. Good job little barcies!
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.
Quad Gunners The Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars series is one of my favorite things about the whole Star Wars universe. Hasbro has released a number of figures based on that series, and recently an entire wave of Legacy figures. I love them all. These Quad Gunners are great- but a bit of a cheat in that they aren't very close to how they appeared in the cartoon. There they were just regular ARC clones, and their guns were a little smaller. Minor details. I actually like this version better as it sets them apart from other ARC troopers. Their helmets are slightly redone AT-RT drivers' helmets. So far I have three! *Turns out they are exactly as seen in the cartoon- gotta go to chapter 21 not 3 which is where I was looking.
Shocktroopers This guy here was my favorite Clone until the Legacy Wave 2s. I love the red- hence the Clonie Bear's colors. I got this one at Comic King at an inflated price- 12 bucks I think, and then two others off of a Snowtrooper (with Quick Draw Action as I just discovered from the FotD Blog entry) for 5 bucks each. The non-quickdraw is a newer release- not sure what wave or anything but it had the Captain Rex offer so whenever that was. The quick draw ones have a weird little shoulder pad that comes off. Their guns are different too, I might have switched the older ones around, the new one's gun is tied to his hands.
