We switch back to the POTJ era today and look at the first R4 series astromech droid in the line.  Today’s Throwback Review looks at 2002’s R4-M9.

A failed hard drive created a content outage for Bantha Skull yesterday, but we’re back in the swing of things today and look at 2007’s Mustafar Lava Miner for our Throwback Review.  If your lava needs minin’, this is your figure.

This could have been a great release, but Hasbro botched it in a comical way.  Today we look at the Thirtieth Anniversary Collection Obi-Wan Kenobi from 2007.

Did you think I forgot to write a review today?  HAH!  I just wanted to give the Entertainment Earth sale a little room to breath before bumping it down.  Today we look a highly prized collectible that may not live up to the hype with 2007’s Pre-Cyborg Grievous.

That stats don’t lie.  You’ve collectively told me you’re bored with my fascination with the weird Star Wars Saga line and the boring obscure characters.  So I will take a break from that (for now) and look at a more exciting offering.  Today’s Throwback Review focuses on 2007’s Thirtieth Anniversary Collection Airborne Trooper which has amazingly never been re-released or updated.

For someone who constantly complains about Attack of the Clones, you’d think I’d lay off reviewing the figures, but I can’t help myself.  Today’s Throwback Review spotlight’s 2002’s Captain Typho figure which is a rare example of a figure from this era that’s aged pretty well.

Even though these Throwback Reviews have a shotgun approach across the history of the line, if we can review successive figures that have a bit of a theme, we do.  Yesterday we reviews Dexter Jettster who informed Obi-Wan Kenobi about those cloners on Kamino.  Today we review one of those cloners with 2002’s Taun We figure.  This figure is so bad, I immediately regret the theme concept.  I should have reviewed FX-7 instead.

While Attack of the Clones is a total drag of a movie, a lot of the characters were visually interesting and make for neat toys. While the design of Dexter Jettster is questionable, the toy translates admirably and is the focus of today’s Throwback Review.  This is as close as you will ever get to owning a Mel action figure unless Funko gets really wacky.

Most fans think back fondly to the Power of the Jedi era.  Sure the figures are now dated in terms of articulation, but the line felt fresh because for every core character, there seemed to be one obscure offering.  This Sith Apprentice Darth Maul is one example and is the focus of today’s Throwback Review.

Hasbro released a Shmi Skywalker figure once.  Once!  I can’t imagine this character ever being revisited in the action figure line, so for today’s Throwback Review we look at 2001’s Power of the Jedi Shmi Skywalker figure.  While the value of the character to your collection is dubious, it’s not bad for an older figure.

We take Vader Week full circle from a certain point of view with today’s Throwback Review.  We look at a figure that represents Vader “redeemed” in 1999’s Flashback Anakin Skywalker figure.  Unfortunately this is a figure we will probably never see updated.

The march of Vader Week is as relentless as the Sith Lord himself.  Today we continue with 2000’s Power of the Jedi Dath Vader (Dagobah) representing the ephemeral phantom Vader from the Dark Side cave on Dagobah.  Fourteen years later and I still like this figure.

Vader Week continues with 1999’s CommTech Darth Vader figure with IT-O Interrogator droid. We review the only Vader figure intended to intimidate instead of fight with a lightsaber.

We continue our Throwback Review Vader Week with 1999’s Flashback Darth Vader with Lightsaber.  Somehow the inclusion of the lighsaber was worth marketing on the package.  This is Hasbro’s follow up to 1998’s removable helmet Darth Vader and you know what they say.  The sequel is never as good as the original.

We’re going to make this week of Throwback Reviews a Vader Week.  If the Discovery Channel can do Shark Week, we can do this where we look back on five Vader (or Vader related) figures.  We kick off the festivities with a landmark figure that has not aged well.  I give you 1998’s Freeze Frame Darth Vader with Removable Helmet.