Say you were a Jedi and you could go anywhere in the galaxy to live in any culture you chose- which one would you go to? I'm thinking hanging out with the mon calamari and quarrens might be kind of cool. But Sharad Hett decided to go to Tatooine to live with the Tusken Raiders, and that's not a bad choice either. So this guy was a character in a pretty cool arc of the Star Wars series that was launched when Episode I came out. Sharad dies but his son lives on and eventually becomes Darth Krayt. Anyways, for some reason Dark Horse never realized that red lightsabers were reserved for Sith lords, so lots of Jedis had redeyes. Which is cool because in Hett's case it wasn't clear at first if he was good or bad. He was good. And so was his son, until he became bad.
I had to look up on the googles this guy's name. He's an Imperial Knight from the Star Wars Legacy series. which I really enjoy. But it's hard to keep track of everyone's names. The design of the Imperial Knights is fantastic- part royal guard, part, umm, Jedi. Which is what they are, the Emperor's bodyguards. They have colorless lightsabers, which is maybe the only weak part of their design, but at least it's unique.
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 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.
I read about Whitey here on one of the collector sites so I knew he existed but the comic-pack he came in was released before I was a collector so I didn't think I would ever get my hands on one. Luckily a Snowtrooper sold me one for five bucks. I don't have the comic it came with so the context isn't there. From what I recall, it was a what-if story where Leia turned Vader back to good without him having to die so he changed his armour to white and was a Jedi again. But then why is his lightsaber red? So basically I got it for the bizarre-factor. You have to admit he's funny! Funny in a good way- fun. Fun is fun! They should make some white royal guards for him to march with. Oddly, the only other Vader I currently have is McQuarrie Vader. Maybe I should get a regular Vader one of these days- there's no shortage of them. Another scenario where this guy would work is Vader enters a tree like the one on Dagobah only this one is a locus of good Force energy and he faces his mirror-self . . . . . never mind.
