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Star Wars Black Series No 3 Kylo Ren The Force Awakens Hasbro 6" Figure

I meant to get this review before now, I really did. But I'll be honest, I was catching up with Game of Thrones. And after all this time I'm fully up to speed! Hurrah!

Anyway onto the figure! Firstly, Kylo Ren's read up

Kylo Ren comes with one accessory which is the new lightsaber that got a lot of people talking.

Like we've seen with previous lightsabers, the hilt and blade can be separated. The hilt is a cross shape and painted with silver and black dry brushing with a small red dot on the bottom - maybe a button?

The blade isn't quite as translucent as the previous lightsabers we've got, and I'm not sure I like it. I do like the shape though and how Hasbro have made the blade look fiery.

Once the blade and hilt are combined though, I think this is a great looking lightsaber!

As for the figure itself... I love it.

A lot of people have problems with mixing soft goods and soft rubber materials but I think it works here. The rubber cloak piece around Ren's neck helps hold down the cloak, and the rubber belt helps define his shape and again, holds the cloak in place.

And his mask is bad ass.

As for articulation, the head looks left and right, and the hood does not hinder this movement at all. The shoulders move the arms right around but the rubber neck piece keeps the arms for moving up. There are single jointed elbows, wrist pivot and rotation.

There's an ab crunch which also acts as a waist swivel. The crunch doesn't really work due to the cloak however. The hips are on a ball joint and there's a thigh cut. The knees are double jointed and the ankles have a rocker pivot, rotate and swivel.

I've also heard complaints that the cloak is too long. Honestly, I think it looks great. The way it drapes and lies on a surface just makes this guy looks even more foreboding.

I'm very impressed with this figure, easily my favourite so far. But will he be topped by the First Order Stormtrooper? Stay tuned!

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Star Wars Black Series No 6 Yoda Hasbro Figure

Honestly, I had to wait for this guy to drop in price before I picked him up. I just couldn't justify paying full price for a 2 and half inch figure.

In saying that though, I'm actually really quite surprised with how much I like this figure! Yoda comes with his cane

Which is nicely sculpted to look like withered wood, but it's just the one colour of brown.

Yoda also, thankfully, comes with his wee small lightsaber which can be used with just the hilt or place the blade in it to have it lit.

And as a throwback to the vintage figure, Yoda also comes with a snake!

Yoda is pretty plain looking but the head sculpt is really solid, with wrinkles, hair and facial details all well sculpted. And his eyes are painted well too!

His robe is soft goods, which I know isn't too well liked by many, but for me, it works here.

As for articulation, Yoda's head turns left and right and looks up a tiny bit. The shoulders allow the arms to move up a bit and back and forward. His elbows bend and his wrists rotate.

No waist articulation, hips are on a ball so the legs come forward and back a little, there's thigh rotation, no knee joint, and the ankles turn left and right.

Like I said, I was surprised by how much I liked this figure. I didn't think it looked very good in package, but that's probably because of all the empty space in the box. Next to the other Black Series figures he looks pretty great.

If you can find him cheap, which I think yo should be able to for the next few days while The Force Awakens figures take over.

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Star Wars Black Series No 11 Bespin Luke Skywalker 6" Hasbro Figure

Back to the original trilogy for a look at Luke! This is the second Luke we've got in the Black Series, the first being the excellent X-Wing Pilot Luke. This second Luke doesn't quite reach the quality of the first figure, but it's not without it's good points.

Bespin Luke comes with a couple of accessories, the first being his blaster

The second accessory is another weapon, one for a more civilised age, his lightsaber. The hilt and blade are separate pieces so you can have the blade lit or hang the hilt on his belt.

As for Luke himself, his face and hair does not meet the high standards set by the X-Wing Luke. His outfit and the way that it is painted and sculpted is very good though.

The face has quite a shiny plastic look to it, and the hair is just one colour of brown, as opposed to the multi-layered colours of hair on X-Wing Luke. This is by no means a terrible Luke head sculpt, but it's a real step down from the first figure of this character we got.

The outfit that Luke wears on Bespin has been faithfully recreated here, with the jump suit having a worn in wrinkled look that is brought out with the dirty wash that has been applied.

The belt especially looks really good with silver highlights for buttons and buckles, and the holster that holds Luke's blaster very well actually fastens.

The articulation is solid on Luke, much like we've come to expect from the Black Series range.

His head turns left and right and can look up and down - much more down as his hair sculpt does stop a little of the up movement. His shoulders are ball hinged and he has single jointed elbows, though these work well and bring the arm into a 90 degree angle, the elbows also rotate. The wrists rotate and hinge up and down.

There's a waist swivel which also pivots backward and forward and works very well. The hips allow the legs to kick quite far forward and back a good amount, and the hinge outwards a little. There is upper thigh rotation, double jointed knees, ankles hinge back and forth and have a great ankle rocker.

The X-Wing Luke figure is a pretty difficult figure to come by nowadays for a good price and this is no bad replacement. I'd say if you can get him, pick him up - especially if you have a Vader figure to cut his hand off with...

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Star Wars Black Series #12 Anakin Skywalker

I don't like Anakin in the prequels. I don't think many people do to be honest. But he's a much better and more likeable character in The Clone Wars cartoons and that's one of the reasons why I bought Anakin to add to my collection. The other reason is because it didn't seem right having Obi-Wan from the prequels and not Anakin.

Skywalker senior comes with 2 accessories: his lightsaber and an alternate head with red eyes, to show when he fell to the Dark Side.

Personally I prefer Jedi Anakin's head over the Sith one. The hair sculpt just doesn't work for me on the Sith head.

The rest of the sculpt is good though, with the same sculpted robes as we've seen on Obi-Wan. Anakin has darker robes, all blacks and dark browns, with some silver and gold highlights. He also has his cyborg right hand which is nicely sculpted.

Anakin has the same articulation as the other 6" Black Series figures. His head moves back and forth (but not too far back due to his hair), and left and right. His shoulders move up and down, back and forward, there's an elbow bend and wrist swivel. There's an ab swivel and crunch, hips move out a little, and back and forth and there's a thigh cut. there's a double knee bend and ankle pivot, swivel and bend.

Just like Obi-Wan I was able to pick up a robe for Anakin in a dark brown which looks great and really adds some character to this figure.

I'm glad to have Anakin beside Obi-Wan in my collection - especially now that we're getting more Clone Troopers to back up the Jedi generals!

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Star Wars Black Series #10 Obi-Wan Kenobi

I'm not a big fan of the Star Wars prequels but Obi-Wan is my favourite Jedi in the series so I was happy to pick this guy up from Amazon when it was VERY cheap. I'm talking sub £8 cheap.

Obi-Wan only comes with one accessory, which is his blue bladed lightsaber. It's a nicely sculpted piece with neat paint apps. The blade can also be removed from the hilt so that the hilt can be attached to Obi-Wan's belt.

Obi-Wan is a nice looking figure, with nicely sculpted robes - the robes have a nice wool looking texture to them and a nice light brown dry brush that brings out that detail. The skirt part of the robe is a soft rubbery plastic over a soft goods skirt - like we've seen with Darth Maul before.

The paint apps are nice and near over this figure, the eyes are neat and the beard and hair have a nice dark wash to bring out the details, but he also has the distinct white flashes of hair at the side of his head.

There are browns for his boots, belt and under shirt (that you can see under his chin).

There are darker browns and silvers on his belt, that also has sculpted pouches which look really nice.

Overall I think this is a really nice sculpt and quite a good likeness of Obi-Wan.

The articulation is what we've come to expect from the 6" black series figures. The head is on hinge and ball joint so it can look up and down and left and right, his shoulders move up, down, back and forward. Hi elbows bend and his wrists swivel.

Obi-Wan has an ab swivel and crunch, his legs move forward and back and outward a little, a thigh cut, a double jointed knee, and ankle articulation.

I did think something was missing though, and that thing, was a Jedi robe. Thankfully, this is where eBay comes into play.

I really like the robe on this figure. I think it adds a lot to this figure and really, for the price of these figures normally, a robe is something that should have been included originally.

Stay tuned for more toy reviews coming up, including more Black Series figures, Batman, Turtles, and more!

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