A quick note about the Haslab LAAT/i Gunship.  As of this writing (2am ET), the backer count has reached 3517.  Doing some simple math and based on gut and hunches, I personally was feeling like hitting 3500 sometime Monday morning would keep the campaign on track to fund - at least the base offering.  We hit 3200 last Monday, so that means we’ve gotten over 300 this past week.  If we do that for the next 2.5 weeks, we should be close to 4300 as we enter the final weekend.  I would feel pretty good that a strong surge over the final 72 hours would be enough to hit the funding goal.  If that happens with enough time to spare, all the other forces kick in, and we could knock out some tiers before it’s all over.  But that’s just me writing numbers down on a napkin.  Anyway, as you probably know, our friend John Miko keeps a fantastic tracker complete with historical campaigns, daily updates to the gunship numbers, and a couple of forecasts.  Check it out if you have time.

OK, so now it’s time for the main event: Another ROTS20 review!  Here’s the clickah, nobody would blame you.  Yes, I’ve used that Family Guy line about 37 times over the past couple of months because this exercise can be a bit tiresome, especially as we wind things down with the final few mainline figures that are generally underwhelming.  But we here at Banthaskull know the importance of completing our galleries so that we have the full history of the line documented for research and historical purposes, and so here we are.

Next up is a Plo Koon “repaint.”  Technically, it’s more of a “recast”, as it’s completely unpainted and cast in a translucent blue plastic.  Hasbro went “hologram” happy with figures from around 2004-2006, with approximately 712 hologram figures produced during this time.  This final wave of ROTS figures had 2 of them back-to-back (get ready for another one tomorrow), but there were several others in the OTC line before, as well as in TSC afterwards.  There were more in other lines, but this 3 year period was filthy with them. 

This sculpt dated back 4 years to the POTJ line, when Plo Koon was an Episode 1 figure.  He has some rudimentary articulation, was lacks action and mostly just stands there.  The POTJ figure was pretty nice for what it was at the time.  Plo Koon was updated in the SAGA line with a figure that could sit down in his Jedi Council seat.  In ROTS, Plo Koon can be seen in holographic form as he was participating in the Jedi’s WFH program.  In the scene, his hologram is seated, which makes it a bit of a puzzling choice by Hasbro to use the standing POTJ figure instead of the more articulated (and more screen accurate) SAGA figure.  To be clear, that figure wasn’t particularly good, but it would have made more sense to be used in 2005 for this particular version. 

The figure does exactly what you’d expect - it stands there, with some basic arm posing possible to wave a lightsaber around.  The lightsaber is also cast in translucent blue, and interestingly, he comes with a translucent blue “ship floor” figure stand.  He’s not very exciting, but at least it’s from the film.  The biggest downer is that it can’t sit down.

Because it’s the wrong sculpt, it falls short of the 5/10 that most of these ROTS figures get.  But, it still gets 5 Stars!

5 Stars
4/10 Banthaskulls