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...

May the Force be with You, and remember - Go Figure!

Star Wars Black Series No 10 Bossk 6" Hasbro figure

With only a week until Force Friday I figured it'd be time to get caught up on my Black Series reviews. First up, let's take a look at Bossk - one of the best looking bounty hunters in the Star Wars Universe in my humble opinion.

So Bossk comes with just the one accessory and that's his long blaster rifle.

The sculpt on the blaster itself isn't the best, it's just moulded in black plastic with very little detail. The strap is nice though as the buckle sections attaching it to the weapon have a nice silver paint application.

Bossk himself is much more impressive.

Everything about the figure itself is really pretty great, and I'd go as far to say that this is the best figure we've seen in the Black Series since those first great figures like Han and X-Wing Luke.

The sculpt in the skin alone is top notch with all the scales, spikes, and claws really well done, especially with the added paint wash bringing the details up. His teeth and inside mouth are also well painted and easy to see with the articulated jaw. I know - Hasbro articulated the jaw! And it works very well indeed.

The rest of the paint is well applied but sadly no shading over the yellow jump suit. That would have made all this wrinkles really pop. Bossk's jumpsuit is very screen accurate though, even though you hardly see him on screen!

Like the X-Wing Luke, the hanging straps on Bossk's suit are a rubber material which means the articulation isn't inhibited too much.

Talking of articulation, Bossk's head looks left to right, but is inhibited by the neck piece so can't look up and down. The shoulders turn right round and come out to about 90 degrees to the body, there's elbow rotation and bend, and the wrists rotate and pivot.

There is a very minor ab swivel, thigh swivel, double jointed knees, boot cut, ankle bend and ankle rocker pivot that Hasbro use in the Marvel Legends too.

I'm a big fan of this guy and would completely recommend this guy to Star Wars collectors.

Also, he looks bad ass among his fellow bounty hunters!

Stay tuned for more Star Wars reviews coming soon! May the Force be with You.

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Lego Star Wars Microfighters AT-AT Set 75075

The second series of Lego Star Wars Microfighters have been released and having picked up the original trilogy vehicles from the first series, how could I turn these down? This series, which takes the vehicles from Star Wars, and shrinks them down into an utterly adorable ride on vehicle. I have only picked up the two original trilogy vehicles in this wave - the AT-AT and the Snowspeeder - and in this review I'll be looking at the AT-AT.

This set, as with all of them, comes with a minifigure. The minifigure with this set, is unsurprisingly, an AT-AT pilot.

And underneath the helmet, the Imperial officer looks nice and angry!

As far as the AT-AT goes, it's an easy build that takes about 15 minutes and looks great when it's complete.

And to give you a bit of size perspective

These really are small, but they look great! And they don't take up nearly as much room (or as much of a bite out of your bank balance) as the full size versions.

There is a little articulation in the vehicle. The head moves up and down and the legs move back and forth as do the ankles.

If, like me, you don't have the money or space for the full size versions of the vehicles from Star Wars, these are for you!

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Star Wars Black Series 04 R2-D2

I finally picked up the plucky little droid from Star Wars in Hasbro's Black Series 6" line... unfortunately it was at eBay prices. Nothing at all wrong with eBay, but as a collector, and someone who sells toys on eBay, I do my best to keep prices starting reasonable - if the auction goes up, that's fine, but I at least try and start prices at what I think is reasonable!

Anyway, rant over, let's take a look at Luke's faithful little droid.

This is a great little figure! Nice shiny paint apps, and the accessories?! Well, you can have whatever Artoo you want really! Jets on his legs for Prequel Artoo, lightsaber firing Artoo from Jedi, periscope Artoo from the swamps of Dagobah in Empire, or use his little scanner in Empire when he's waiting for Luke and Han to return on Hoth - all of these come with R2-D2

So Artoo is full of accessories. One downside? No storage for said accessories! That's a minor gripe though, mine are simply in a baggie and stored away.

Artoo doesn't really have much in the way of articulation, as is expected. His legs move forward and back and his head turns. But, if you fully turn his head, his middle leg extends, which is a very cool feature.

So let's look at some of these accessories.

His jet legs - the only time these will ever be on my Artoo figure...

His periscope, I think, could have used a little more paint so that it wasn't block white

The scanner is a nice piece

The lightsaber hilt is one of the nicest accessories but does take a little work to get into place.

The nice thing about these accessories is that they all have separate places and the peg hols show what goes where in Artoo's head.

Artoo also has two sections in his front that house his computer interface arm and electric bolt firing weapon

The paint on this guy is great, the silver is so shiny as is that gorgeous blue and it's all really neat. The copper colour used for some of the cables at his feet is also great. I'm very glad to have R2-D2 added to my collection - just wished I'd grabbed him when I saw him in the wild all that time ago!

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