Right off the bat, this commits the number one sin for a limited articulation figure:  It has difficulty standing.  Standing can be achieved, but there’s a nanometer difference between toppling over backwards and toppling over forwards.  Have fun finding that sweet spot.  Make a game out of it.  A straight-legged 6POA figure with prodigious clodhoppers for feet should stand with Weeble reliability.  But the rant about this standing issue is not the reason for the review this morning. That’s just a byproduct of the photography.  The true reason is that the AT-ST Driver is notable for a notorious reason.  It’s perhaps one of the few POTF2 figures that is inferior to its vintage Kenner counterpart.

I’m not a loose vintage Kenner collector, so apologies for the lack of a comparison photo.  You’ll have to take my word for it.  Alternatively, you can check it out HERE over at our friends at Jedi Business.  This POTF2 release is only one point of articulation better than the Kenner version, having waist articulation (which doesn’t add much utility).  So it really comes down to the aesthetics when comparing the two, and arguably the Kenner version is better.  The POTF2 release still retains the ridiculous “human v” bulky proportions as well as the skin-tight jumpsuit that looks like a spandex body suit.  The Kenner version has some sculpted folds in the jumpsuit.  That is a detail we wouldn’t see fully emerge in the modern line until Power of the Jedi in 2001.

Other aspects of the figure are pure Power of the Force 2.  Both hands are sculpted in the classic c-grip using a plastic so hard that it rivals 5160 steel.  I’m pretty sure these paws could be used as bottle openers in a pinch.  It’s a good thing the hands are so durable.  They have to hold the customary gargantuan POTF2 blasters.  One is an E-11 blaster that is roughly the scaled size of a Buick.  The other is a rifle that appears to have some accordion tubing in the barrel.  It’s good for shooting around corners.  Of course, this AT-ST Driver can only hold the rifle in the ultra unrealistic one-handed sticking straight out pose.  But amazingly, it can actually shoulder the butt of the rifle.  I know.  I don’t believe it either.

There really is no reason to own this figure today unless you’re hellbent on owning them all.  If it could stand well, it would get the standard POTF2 score of 3, but since it can’t, it’s a 2 out of 10.