I started out this recent run of throwback reviews with the Flashback Yoda figure.  In that review, I said that I felt like the entire wave was a belated April Fool’s joke.  This figure in no way argues that supposition.  Watch this before proceeding:

I honestly think I could just end the review there.  Do I need to say anything else?  No.  I don’t.  But I will.

This figure is titled “Hoth” Chewbacca, so we can presume the large blotches of white paint on the figure are supposed to be snow, and definitely not cinnamon roll icing or bird droppings.  But the facial expression offers an important clue.  It’s one part hurt and one part shock.  The video above is the answer.  Chewbacca was on the business end of a flour antiquing prank by his good pal Han Solo.  Best buds don’t do that to each other and you can feel the sense of betrayal in the figures eyes.  In Han Solo’s defense, we all got a little carried away with the hijinks when Johnny Knoxville’s show was on the air.  Myself, I cut off Mr. Nomadscout’s right foot as he was sleeping.  He tried to get up and immediately toppled over when he attempted to walk on the missing appendage.  I said, “walk much?” through the laughter tears, but he has no sense of humor.  He thought I took it too far.  Whatever.  The man doesn’t know comedy.  Anyway, this is Antiqued Chewbacca and nothing else more disgusting.  Keep it clean folks (this wave, I swear). 

So yeah, the snow affect was applied with the subtlety of a howitzer.  But take that misfire away and…you’re still left with a pretty awful figure. The bowcaster looks like it was made out of pool noodles by some cheap dad so his kid could play Star Wars in the back yard.  It’s both too short and too squat.  The figure’s right hand is sculpted to hold the bowcaster at a 45 degree angle. Because the only arm point of articulation comes at shoulders, that is your only pose option.  Congratulations, you now own a “gangster aim” Chewbacca.  And that’s pretty much all this figure can do.  It’s 5POA that can’t do much.  It’s an easy 1 out of 10.

Unless you really want a Chewbacca figure that looks like some 5th grade went to town on it with some White Out, the usually kitsch / comedy / nostalgia reasons are the the only justification for buying this figure today.  2010’s Saga Legends Chewbacca figure is a much better execution of the snow affect on everyone’s favorite wookiee. You can find that figure HERE on Ebay (sponsored).

Oh, one more thing.  The Flashback photo switches between Chewbacca, a mighty and fierce warrior, and a Wookiee Senator.  We should have seen it coming.