IT’S SUNDAY CONTENT!  It’s not Chris’s Sunday Funday, because let’s face it, he’s not very fun.  I asked him if he wanted to do something for today, and he said he would consider discussing his etchings if enough people were interested.  I told him that a review of an Episode I figure would be way more exciting, (which obviously isn’t true).  He got angry, and told the operator to disconnect the call.  Whatever, man.

This was the third Qui-Gon released in the basic figure Episode I line.  Around the same time, there were also the third releases of Obi-Wan and Darth Maul.  These three guys got a large slice of the basic line pie, which makes sense.  That’s on top of multiple additional releases in various sub lines.  Hasbro was obviously experimenting with different items to see what would work.  Each release was similar, but differed in things such as articulation, accessories, and soft goods.  On this third try, all three characters got some soft goods integrated into the figures.  While soft goods had been done before in POTF2, these were among the first to offer it in the basic line.  In Qui-Gon’s case, it was the lower tunic (skirt), which afforded the figure greater range of motion in the legs, but given the limited articulation (no knees or ankles), it didn’t really do much in reality other than provide a more premium feel.

For accessories, Qui-Gon came with a standard lightsaber (the previous version also included an unlit hilt) as well as a communicator, which could attach to the belt. 

The sculpt is a bit odd, kind of looking like he’s doing some kind of upper body flex.  The hair is sculpted in such a way as to make it look like he’s competing with Fabio to be on the cover of a 90’s romance novel.  The face looks about as similar to Liam Neeson as you would expect from a figure of the day, which is to say, no resemblance whatsoever.

Qui-Gon Jinn (Jedi Master) serves no purpose in your collection today.  It’s been surpassed and rendered obsolete.  However, fans have been participating in a growing chorus requesting that Hasbro #makethemains for the prequels.  In particular, the best Episode I versions of Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, and Darth Maul are each generally considered substandard, even though they’re all in TVC.  Now that we seem to have almost every OT main either updated or pipelined for an update (except C-3PO), it’s high time Hasbro heeds the call.