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!
Go Figure!
