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 Wave 5 6" Figures

Just a quick post to say that I'm freaking delighted and super excited that I picked these up on my way home from Forbidden Planet. I just popped in on the off chance they'd have a Black Series figure I wanted, I didn't expect to find the whole of the newest wave!

Sorry for the poor photos - I'm really pretty excited to have found these so I just wanted to photograph them and get them up here!

I didn't go for the black pauldron Stormtrooper - I'm not in to army building, and I have a few troopers (my reviews of those will be coming up soon!). So happy to have got these though, can't wait to get them out the packaging and pose them around - Han and Chewie! Vader and Luke! Troopers and Vader! Brilliant!

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Star Wars Black Series Wave 4

Wave 4 of Hasbro's Star Wars Black Series have been unveiled, and this bad boy is a personal favourite!

Bossk! Lizard bounty hunter that mocks your need for shoes! Others include Han with tauntaun in Hoth gear, Luke in Hoth gear with Wampa, Clone Trooper Lieutenant, Han (again) in stormtrooper gear, and Tie Fighter Pilot.

These are all really nice, but not sure if I'll be adding any of these to my collection (other than Bossk, and maybe that clone. I've always liked the look of their armour). I can only imagine that Han with tauntaun and Luke with Wampa will be VERY expensive. The Imperial Shadow Squadron is a Target exclusive over in the states so I've no idea where we'll be able to pick this up in the UK (probably Amazon), but this is a very nice set.

Good luck hunting these guys down if you like to collect all of the Black Series! Go Figure!

Star Wars Black Series Luke Skywalker

The hero of the Rebellion! Luke Skywalker, the last of the Jedi (kind of)! I know the Black Series have been around for a while, but hey, they're awesome, so I'm going to talk about them.

The Black Series figures from Hasbro are pretty much the Star Wars toys I've been waiting for. I mean look at Luke!

6 inches and fully articulated, the Black Series figures are just superb. The first Luke in the series comes in his flight suit, ready to pilot his X-Wing for the Rebellion against the evil Empire . The flight suit is brilliantly painted with neat detailing on the chest area, and the head sculpt is a great likeness to Mark Hamill.

For me though, the real highlight of this particular figure is the accessories. Luke comes with signature blaster, flight helmet - which has a brilliantly weathered, almost battle damage look to it, is movie accurate with the insignia painted on and is a good fit - and of course, his lightsaber. The really nice thing about the lightsaber is that the blade is removable meaning it can hang on his belt, which I personally think is a stroke of genius on Hasbro's part and looks bad ass. You can of course have the blade attached and have Luke ready for a fight!

The articulation on this figure means that you can get him in some nice poses, and he stands really well, no real balance issues that I found.

All in, I'd say if you're a Star Wars and toy fan, these are a must.

Stay tuned for more Hasbro Star Wars Black Series figures! Go Figure!

All photos taken by my very good friend Fezbongo, you should absolutely go check out his Tumblr!