Bossk! Finally I hunted down the most awesomest bounty hunter in the galaxy! You heard me Boba Fett. The most awesomest, Bossksomest bounty hunter evah! Until now I only had the vintage version. No other version in any line, not even Lego or Galactic Heroes. But it was worth it as my life is now complete. Totally fulfilled. Ah. Feels good. Feels Bossksome!
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.
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?
Well these guys were originally just called General Grievous' bodyguards. Now they are Magnaguards. Either way they are kickass droids that almost kind of beat the General himself in cool-lookingness. I got two of them when Sith came out though I think there are more updated sculpts with better articulation and the Clone Wars version is supposedly pretty great though I never saw one. Pretty great photo, eh? No photoshop, thank you very much! Just mad laser pointer skills.
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?
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 got both of these guys from trades on the boards so I am not sure what they are really called- spacetrooper maybe but there is that new stormtrooper that is called that. Anyways, they started out as clones of one another but then I painted one up so they are different. My first time trying to paint a figure. Went alright, except I got paint everywhere, including on my pants an it didn't wash out. Anyways, they have wings. So they can fly. Better than a Mando jetpack?
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 is pretty much the ultimate in Bobas. The UbaBoba. Just a great looking figure, accurate as far as I can tell, if you ignore the fact his rifle is all warped. Probably my fault anyways for leaving it like that. Came with his dad and great-great-great-grandad in an Evolutions pack.
Return of the Jedi had so many great aliens and Kenner cranked out some good ones- for the time anyways. One of my faves was this Gamorrean guard. I think I had two. This one I got last fall at a toy convention, it was $5 being incomplete and loose and not really mint. The battleax he has is borrowed from Gimli the Dwarf, who has a plethora of axes and was happy to lend one. It would be nice to have a real gamorrean guarding my fridge and all my snacks, but then he would probably just eat them all himself.
