Here’s another figure crammed with stuff.  Not necessarily good stuff.  A lot of it is bad stuff.  But there is some good stuff.  Read the following stuff to find out which stuff is the good stuff.

As you know, the Saga line seemed to be a Hasbro free-for-all to try out a bunch of different gimmicks and styles in their figures.  They usually went overboard when it came to the main characters.  Maybe at the time Hasbro assumed they’d be able to put out a more collector-friendly and “definitive” (for the day) sculpt of the main characters, and now was their chance to go crazy.

This Obi-Wan Kenobi is overflowing with Hasbro’s attempts at fun toy-ness.  First, there’s the action stance.  It’s more subdued than with some other releases, but this definitely isn’t meant to be a “just standing there” figure that a lot of you terrible collectors love so much.  The lack of meaningful articulation may actually make it a challenge to get to stay standing. 

Second, there’s an action feature built in. A large button in Obi-Wan’s lower back activates both arms to move up and down.  You could use this to have Obi-Wan signal a touchdown, if he were ever called in to officiate a Jawa Football League game.  (JFL games were a “thing”, according to some sources.)

Third, there’s a magnet in the figure’s left hand, which is meant to attract to the metal lightsaber hilt, with removable plastic blade.  I generally liked the metal hilts, and I thought Hasbro’s execution of some of the magnet features were pretty well done.  Here, it just gives you the ability to “force-attract” the hilt to Obi-Wan’s hand.  It would have been more awesome if this worked from, say, across the room, but it only works if you hover the hand directly over the hilt from a distance of about half a centimeter.

Fourth, Obi-Wan has a sculpted pilot headset.  This effectively forces the figure into a scene-specific situation where it is inside the cockpit of his Jedi Starfigter.  At no other point does he wear the headset on screen, so it would have been a good time for Hasbro to invent a removable one.  You could always go for a Björn Borg custom.

Obi-Björn Kenobi

Finally, there are a bunch of included accessories.  Along with the aforementioned metal hilt and removable blade, there’s an oversized, extra cozy “winter” robe.  It’s really thick, as if this was Obi-Wan’s spare robe for when he travels to cold climates, or for when the heat gives out in the Temple.  To be fair to Hasbro, it does look like the Geonosis nights are cold, as Obi-Wan visibly bundles up, but the thickness is still weird here.  The best thing about the robe is that it conceals the button on the figure’s back.  There is also a tiny pair of binoculars, which are probably from a scene that was cut, or may be just a Hasbro invention.  Good luck not losing this piece.

Also included is the little radar dish which plugs into an “off screen” stand.  However, the real positive here is that it is meant to plug into a hole in the hull of the Jedi Starfighter (sold separately!), so you can get it to be screen accurate.  I love it when Hasbro makes different toys interactive with each other like this.  The only problem is that the hole in the ship is a little small, and the peg on the radar doesn’t easily fit, but a little elbow grease can accomplish this task.

Overall, there’s a lot to take in.  The figure is useless, but the radar dish is something you might want, as is the metal hilt.  Even if you don’t have a figure with a hand magnet, the metal hilts still look pretty cool.  I’ll give this a generous 3/10, but the figure is garbage.