Showing posts with label Finn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finn. Show all posts

Friday, 4 September 2015

Star Wars Black Series No 1 Finn (Jakku) The Force Awakens Figure


Number one in the new Black Series 6" figures is Finn in his Jakku outfit. And firstly, I really like the new slick packaging!

If you're interested, here's the read up on Finn that's on the packaging


Out of the packaging and I'm instantly impressed. Finn comes with a new style of blaster which is in a gold/bronze colour with a silver barrel. A dirty wash has been applied to the blaster which gives it a bit of a worn weathered look.


Finn himself, I think, looks great.


Finn's quite a good likeness to John Boyega so that's a positive! He's wearing a nice brown jacket which is a really good mould with wrinkles and details and has some red paint apps too.

The black sweater underneath the jacket has a good rough material effect, his trousers are plain black for the most part which are wrinkled and there are paint apps at his feet. His boots are a sand colour and this sandy dust look travels a little up past his ankles, making it look as though he's been walking in the sand.


Finn's head looks left and right but can't look up or down sadly. His shoulders can rotate his arms right round and up a little, and down to his body. His jacket is a softer plastic so doesn't really inhibit his arm movement. His elbows are single jointed and his wrists rotate and swivel. He has an ab crunch which can move him forward, but the jacket doesn't let him move back. This ab crunch is in place of any waist articulation.


His hips are on a ball and hinge joint, he has thigh rotation, double jointed knees and ankle rotation, joints and pivots.

I'm impressed so far Hasbro! Stay tuned for more of the new Black Series figures!


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Star Wars Force Friday Midnight Madness Haul Blog The Force Awakens Black Series

I won't often do haul posts, but this felt necessary!

Last night I went to Smyth's Toy Store to attend the Midnight Madness event for Force Friday. A whole ton of new Star Wars toys were released today including Mashers, Black Series, Lego, Micro Machines, die cast models, and much more. For me, the real want were the new 6" Black Series figures.

A friend and I went to the event together and while he sat in the car I kind of accidentally started the queue while making a phone call... And I'm glad I did! Being the first in the queue definitely had it's perks - but I'll get to that.

Firstly let's take a look at the freebies I got at the event!

Firstly, I got this poster (sorry about the terrible picture!):


I also got a small sticker sheet of The Force Awakens characters


And the last free goodies I got were these Lego Star Wars minifigure key rings including Wicket, Imperial Guard, Imperial Gunner, C3-PO and The Emperor!


So like I said, I was glad to be first in the queue because Smyth's got ONE box of the first wave of 6" Black Series figures in, and thankfully I managed to scoop them up straight away! I genuinely feel bad that others missed out but Smyth's should have realised that as it was a midnight launch the majority of people there would be adult collectors - those same collectors should have been catered for.

The only figure from the first wave I didn't buy was Chewie. Like I said in my review of the original Chewbacca, I couldn't justify buying, what is essentially, a different head sculpt.


Stay tuned as I'll be getting reviews and pictures of each of these as soon as I can!

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