I said this yesterday, but seriously:  $29.99! as a Toys R Us exclusive in 2010.  This particular set includes 2 repaints (one of which was is repacked from the 1st set), 1 retool, and 2 new (or kitbashed) figures.  These two 5-packs were a huge boost to Hasbro’s offerings of toy support for The Force Unleashed.  Both were cool sets, and did I mention they were only $29.99?

Imperial Jumptrooper

This figure is a retool and repaint of the basic TAC 08-10 Imperial Jumptrooper.  The big deal here is that Hasbro remembered to include the jetpack.  It is, after all, a Jumptrooper. In order to accommodate the jet pack, the torso was retooled slightly to include a hole in the back, slightly off center for some reason.  A peg, also slightly off center, on the jetpack fits into the hole to complete the proper look.  The jetpack remains fairly secure to the figure, although if you mess around too much (like when taking photographs of multiple poses), it tends to annoyingly fall off onto the floor and then bounce to a place inconvenient and just out of reach.  The other major difference from the basic figure release is that this is a clean variant, and lacks the dirt spray on the shins and boots.  Otherwise, it is almost identical.  For a full review, check out the link earlier in this paragraph for the basic figure.

PROXY

Star Wars is known for its sassy protocol droids, and PROXY is no different.  The figure is an excellent interpretation of the on screen character.  He seems like he’s not quite finished, almost like C-3PO in The Phantom Menace.  PROXY isn’t fully super-articulated, even by 2010 standards, but just because he’s got swivel shoulders.  He’s got similar articulation to several of the Build-A-Droids from the TLC line, like HK-47.  I would also say he’s built similarly to VTSC IG-88, with his super-thin limbs.  So thin, in fact, that I kind of broke the left arm on PROXY.  You can’t see it in the pictures, other than the fact that his left arm never flexes at the elbow.  There’s a weak point on my figure, and if I attempted to engage the left elbow, it would definitely break, and then I’d have a Hulk Smash moment.  Nobody needs that.  PROXY has no accessories, which is fine, I suppose.  He’s a really cool looking droid, and a nice figure to represent one of the better characters in the video game.

Galen Marek

Galen Marek is represented in both of these sets.  Again, this is a debut of him in this bounty hunter disguise.  It’s a kitbash that includes some all new parts, and as far as I’m concerned, it qualifies as an all new figure.  At some point in the game, Starkiller wore a Mandalorian disguise.  The figure includes a removable Mando helmet.  While it fits nicely, it seems a bit narrow to me.  The arms ar familiar, and still don’t have a particularly great range of motion.  The hands are sculpted strangely, and he doesn’t grip his lightsaber very tightly.  A THWG is possible, but it is awkward.  He has a plastic shmata, of sorts, and the thinness of said plastic allows for a decent range of motion of the arms and legs.  The shmata is removable, but don’t bother, because the underlying sculpt is not meant for public consumption.  The headsculpt is a decent likeness to Sam Witwer from the game.  It’s a neat version of Starkiller, but not my favorite.

Feclucian Warrior

This figure is repaint of the one that came with the Rancor set in 2008.  (We’ll get to that soon enough.)  The design of this alien from Felucia is one of the most bizarre and outlandish in all of Star Wars, without being insane, like Jaxxon, or whatnot.  It kind of looks like the body is a humanoid version of a slug with the head being a tropical plant.  It actually fits pretty well with what we’ve seen of the planet in The Clone Wars series, or Revenge of the Sith.  The figure is reasonably articulated, although it falls short of SA.  It lacks ankles and wrists, and does not have a movable head.  Yet, somehow, you can still coax a fair amount of cool poses out of the figure.  It comes with a bizarre skull weapon, which it can grip in its weird tiny hand, which is on a separate thin forearm that branches off from the thicker sucker arm.  It’s hard to describe, but Hasbro really did a great job with this guy.  It’s wonderfully weird.

Shadow Trooper

[Editor’s Note:  This is the same exact figure that was included in the other 5 pack, which we reviewed yesterday.]
A tough figure to pull off.  This is the Shadow Stormtrooper as it is phasing in and out of a cloaked state.  Hasbro essentially started with a clear version of a stormtrooper figure, and added a few paint details and glow effects to help make it convincing.  It was a valiant effort, but probably wasn’t an achievable look for a figure.  I think I was hating this at the time of release, but it has since grown on me.  The biggest drawback in 2019 is the outdated nature of the base sculpt, but the phasing attributes are kind of charming now.  Even the blaster is cast in a clear plastic.  The figure, as expected, is limited in the poses because of the sculpt, but it’s still an interesting addition to the TFU figure lineup.