Star Wars Black Series No 4 First Order Stormtrooper The Force Awakens Hasbro 6" Figure

The last figure I'll be looking at in this new wave of Black Series figures. It's number 4, and it's a cracking figure! Today we're checking out the new First Order Stormtrooper, and here's the read up

Again, this figure comes in the sleek new black and red packaging which I really like.

The Stormtrooper comes with two weapons, the first being a small blaster reminiscent of the small pistol that comes with the Speeder Bike and Scout Trooper set

The second weapon is a more typical looking blaster rifle that we'd see with the Stormtrooper

Both of these seem to have been cast in white plastic then painted black with silver highlights. These look great, really great detail and the black and white looks amazing together on a weapon.

The figure itself I love. I think I might actually prefer this figure to the Clone Trooper and Stormtrooper figures we already have. The armour and design looks great and it's been translated incredibly well into plastic.

The helmet looks great and I love that new design! The belt and grenade canister have also been well sculpted and detailed.

I love this sleek new armour with the slightly flatter chest piece. There are nice smaller parts on the armour that are nice to find as you look over it. The forearm detail, extra detail on the top of the helmet and the detail on his lower legs to name but a few.

As for articulation, his head looks left and right easily but, mine anyway, doesn't really look up or down. The shoulders are on a ball and hinge joint which rotate the arm right round but the armour stops it moving up. There's a single elbow ben and the wrists rotate and hinge. There's an ab crunch which moves quite far back and forward a little and this also acts as the waist rotation.

The hips are on a ball joint which moves the legs back but the armour inhibits movement out and forward. There's a hip cut, double jointed knees and ankle rotation, hinge, and rocker pivot.

I really do think this is a fantastic figure and well worth the money. I would recommend this to any Star Wars fan, and I've already noticed that this is an incredibly popular seller if looking at the pegs in Forbidden Planet is anything to go by! Does this guy beat Kylo Ren as my favourite new Black Series figure? I'm not sure... I think at the moment I need to call it a draw!

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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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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 14 Clone Commander Cody Hasbro 6" Figure

I completely forgot to photograph this guy in his packaging, so thank you Dorkside Toys for the image!

So we're going to be looking at the last of the clones that have been released in the Black Series - Commander Cody. For me, this guy was highly anticipated for 2 reasons: 1st - this is a great looking character design and I was excited to see him brought to the Black Series; and 2nd - this hopefully means that my favourite clone will be brought to the Black Series: Captain Rex!

Cody comes with 2 weapons, and, unsurprisingly, they are exactly the same guns that we've seen with the other 3 clones.

I'll quickly run down the articulation on Cody first. His head is on a ball and hinge and he can look up and down a decent amount and his head fully rotates. His shoulders are also on a ball and hinge but the shoulder armour hinders the arm from moving up, his arms still rotate right round. He has bicep swivel, double jointed elbows, and hinge and rotation at the wrist.

The ab rotation takes the place of any waist rotation - this ab articulation does not really let Cody lean forward or back but this is mostly due to the armour/belt. His hips are on a ball and hinge but again, the armour doesn't let the legs move too far forward, back or out, but it does still work. Cody has double jointed knees, hinged and rocker ankles.

So Cody's body is the same as the other clones, the differences are the colours, the shoulder armour, the back armour piece and, of course, the helmet.

The weathered look to the mustard paint on Cody's torso and left thigh looks great, as does the grey on his arms. The antennae on Cody's helmet and shoulder are all a softer plastic meaning you shouldn't need to worry about them breaking. The visor on his helmet looks great too, and has a neat white line up and over it.

There are a few parts which also has a nice gold paint applied to them. There's a band on his right arm, 2 belt pouches and a strip on his back pack.

This guy, so far is easily my favourite clone so far, but I stand by what I said - if Captain Rex makes an appearance I don't doubt he'll take that title.

We're getting even closer to Force Friday! Anyone else hitting up any midnight openings? I'll be trying for sure!

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Star Wars Black Series No 4 Chewbacca Hasbro Figure

Time to check out Han's best pal, Chewbacca! You may have noticed the numbering of the Black Series is all over the place - this is because Hasbro changed the packaging from black and orange to black and light blue. It's changing again for the new figures released on Friday. Because Hasbro.

Chewie comes with his bowcaster that requires a little assembly straight out of the box.

It's just a peg that clips the two parts together, and once it's together it's a good looking weapon with a silver dry brush giving it a metallic, realistic look.

Chewbacca is a big figure with really well sculpted fur detail all over. The paint apps on Chewie are all pretty good. The fur is pretty screen accurate with a mostly brown colour with dark lowlights throughout. His fingers and toes are grey, his eyes are relatively well painted and his teeth and nose have separate paint apps.

His satchel is very well painted and sculpted. It's removable but it leaves a flat line on his shoulder where the strap sits so I'd recommend leaving it there.

Chewie's articulation is quite well hidden by his fur but that same fur can also be a little inhibitive.

His head pretty much only looks forward but you can make it look left and right a little. His shoulders are on a ball and hinge joint, the elbows bend and rotate, and his hands hinge back and forth and also rotate.

Chewie has an ab rotation and waist rotation, the hips move out, forward and back, there's thigh rotation, single jointed knee and knee swivel, and his ankles pivot side to side and rotate up and down, but the fur here hinders this movement.

There's a new Chewbacca figure coming out with this first wave of new The Force Awakens figures released on Friday, but as far as I can tell the only thing that makes that figure different to this one, is that the new Chewie doesn't have an open screaming mouth.

I won't be picking that figure up, no point for me, but I'll try and get the rest!

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