2010 TVC Wave 2

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2010 TVC Wave 2

« on: October 12, 2010, 04:53:36 PM »

Okay, my thoughts - and please be advised that I have only dealt with all of these figures CARDED.

I will divide the wave into 2 sections for ease of use: buyers & leavers. The buyers for me were the following, and I'll explain why:

THE BUYERS

1.) Darth Sidious/Palpatine

First off the face is very striking, let's leave it at that. For this sculpt alone, the figure felt fresh enough to me to warrant a purchase. The more I look at him, the more I'm happy with having spent the money - he looks JUST like he does in the film. Great work on this, Hasbro!

2.) Commander Cody

ONLY as a result of this figure being a repack of one I missed last year. Other than that, this figure would have easily fallen in with the leavers.

3.) Sandtrooper

Just to have a 2nd "newest" version Sandtrooper to go with my Dewback rider. I would certainly have preferred a few choices in pauldron colour though - maybe we'll see that down the road.

THE LEAVERS

This group can almost entirely be summed up as "been there done that" or "2005 called, they want their figures back".

1.) Grievous

As stated above, the figure has a much more appropriate scale than the initial GG figures - but this has been remedied, if you recall. The cape has really nice red/grey colouring and I MAY wind up springing for this figure down the road depending on what I read about him.

2.) Obi Wan

Looked exactly like the late-ROTS Pilot Obi Wan, which was re-released with Baby Luke in that exclusive Walmart (I believe it was WM anyhow) set. The figure includes a soft goods cape, but somehow again I'm sure I have this Obi Wan and this cape somewhere. It almost looked as though they changed the torso to a slightly thicker one, but I'm not sure. Not a significant enough departure to warrant a purchase.

3.) Anakin

This ROTS Anakin actually does look like a bit of a departure from previous ROTS versions, but the differences weren't positive in my eyes. This figure appears to have a removable hair section, allowing for a "burnt" version but I am not able to say for sure. If not, the hair is glued on as opposed to sculpted, and that would make no sense to me whatsoever. I'm calling this one "Big Head Ani" due to the horror I felt in seeing him, which reminded me of the horror I felt when I first saw Big Head vintage Han as a youngster.... similar, but grotesquely different from what I was used to.

In the few I examined it looks as though there is significant "variety" in the amount of red touches used to create the sith eyes & cheek scar on this figure - make sure you have a look and pick one you like.

4.) ROTS Clonetrooper

I had a look at this guy alongside a legends 501'st repack, and it doesn't look as good as the classic ROTS 41 super-poseable sculpt in my eyes. Not sure if they used the AT-TE gunner legs/hips for this guy or what, but it's not as tight looking. The removable helmet, as always, makes the head look bigger than it ought to. Why on earth they wouldn't use the swappable heads like the Clone Wars Obi Wan in Clone armor is beyond me - I find that option infinitely better than the warpable, jumbo removable helmets. Also suffers from a slight bit of observable-chin-itis, at least on the ones that I saw (mind you, I was tipping them to check for that - on a shelf at eye level it won't show).

5.) Magna Guard

Piece of junk and/or crap, depending on your preferred verbage. I looked as this figure at length - the staff ends look terrible, the head is now sculpted to look as though the cape is partially draped over it but the colours don't come close to matching..... this figure is a travesty. I can't bring myself to talk about it further as a matter of fact.

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