Immediately upon its release, this figure earned the monicker “Disco Lobot” because some fans thought it bore likeness to John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.  Those fans are nerds.  NERDS!  The cool kids know that this Lobot bears likeness to Robert Hays in Airplane!

Kenner and Hasbro likes to make us wait for Lobot.  The Power of the Force “2” (POTF2) line was in its fourth year when we finally got this Lobot, the first in the modern line.  We would wait another six years for it to be updated in 2004s Original Trilogy Collection. We have now been waiting seventeen years and counting for Lobot to be brought into the super articulated age with the Vintage Collection. 

This figure is nonsense, even by POTF2 standards.  It doesn’t have the hulking proportions from the earlier years of the line, but the head sculpt is unnecessarily rugged.  It looks like it could be reused form Kenner’s Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos line.  Big Jim.  Action Man.  Lobot.  The rough and tumble manly men of action figures.  Articulation was barely present in 1998, so figures could not achieve dynamism via posing.  Instead, any and all dynamism had to be achieved via sculpted preposing.  This Lobot takes that to a ridiculous degree.

The Jerry Seinfeld puffy pirate shirt sleeves are sculpted in exaggerated swooping curves. Lobot looks like a swan about to take flight.  The legs are permanently stuck in a semi-crouch, which does look passable in certain shooting poses.  But in other other poses, Lobot looks looks like the aforementioned discotheque regular at best.  The included blaster is the Star Wars equivalent of Danny Vermin’s 88 Magnum.  It shoots through tibanna mines.  The transmitter accessory makes less sense that the continuum transfunctioner. It’s mystery is only exceeded by its power.

Again, the figure is nonsense and scores an 3 out of 10.  The only reason to own it is if you’re a masochist collecting the worst of the worst.  Finally, for the the best version of Staying Alive, it’s Marty and Elayne. Hands down.