Thank you to LitzkyPR and Hasbro for providing us with this free sample.

Note:  The carded shots at the beginning of the gallery are of the same figure.  The first pair are meant to show the foil effect, while the second pair are to show the card in better lighting.

Yesterday, I reviewed the Black Series 6” SDCC Sith Trooper, which was also supplied by LitzkyPR.  This product is pretty neat as a one off for casual collecting, but its main negative, which cannot be overstated, is that it’s too large.  He looks like a beast next to the thousands of other figures in my collection.  I mean, he towers over the BMF Slave I.  It’s not right.  It’s unnatural.  Now, if he were a good collectible like a Sideshow 12” figure, it would know its place.  It would be happy on its own; content to be fairly unique.  A nomad, if you will.  But the problem with these guys is that they want to be 3.75”.  They insist on being part of bigger groups of other overly large figures, and some of them want vehicles.  It’s just not natural.  If they could just understand that they are a niche item, we’d all be a lot happier.  But they are too demanding, and too self-centered.  They want the world for themselves.  They claim they will share it, but they can’t.  Like “The Godfather”, this figure insists upon itself.  And this insistence means it’s going to take down the entire hobby.  We can’t let that happen.

Again, like the Sith Trooper, it’s nothing groundbreaking, just a repaint of 2013’s TBS6 Boba Fett #06 . The 3.75” line is full of these types of things, so it’s certainly not an insult, but as a special SDCC exclusive with premium pricing, you’d expect more than it just being a repaint.  To be fair, it isn’t just a straight repaint.  It excludes the cape that came with the basic figure, and instead includes the stormtrooper blaster as a callback to the vintage Kenner figure.  That’s what this figure is.  It’s a 6” callback to something that was near and dear to 3.75” collectors.  And it’s in vintage Kenner packaging.  It isn’t something that makes a ton of sense to me.  These 6” figures in retro packaging that are supposed to hit old time collectors right in the feels seems to be a misfire to me.  I don’t know.  Obviously, I’m not Sixers, but it just seems to be the wrong demographic.

But anyway, it’s a cool figure.  It has decent articulation, including the excellent rocker ankles that should be more prevalent in the 3.75” line.  But the armor and belt/pouch sculpting to limit some of the joints from full range of motion, and that seems to be a bummer for a figure like this.  He’s unable to use his right hand to cross his body and activate the weaponry on his left gauntlet.  That’s kinda lame.  The ankles, while having “rocker” articulation, are severely lacking in the dorsiflexion department.  Yeah, I used that word again.  The feet can barely flex upward, and it’s important for warrior-type figures to have this. 

Finally, you would think that a Kenner callback figure would have a rocket firing backpack.  It doesn’t. What’s with that? 

So it’s a decent figure.  I don’t give the 6” figures grades, because I’m too biased.  The pictures should speak for themselves.  If you are a Sixers, or you love collecting Boba Fett items, you’ll probably want this.  But to me, it’s a six-year old sculpt of a repainted 6” figure intended to appeal to 3.75” collectors.  In the immortal words of Josh Baskin from Big, “I don’t get it.”