SO here is Republic Commando Scorch. I guess he was the star of a Star Wars first person shooter that came out a few years ago. I don't play too much videogames but that one sounds fun. So Scorchy is gone away, given to a young kid in the Maritimes who will hopefully treat him well. I never cared for the sculpt all that much, and though I dig his blue visor the rest of his color scheme is meh. BUt this photo is not too bad eh?
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?
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.
