On your mark, get set, terrible.  Sigh. This is a repack of a figure from the 2005 ROTS line, which was repacked in the battle pack with the senate pod.  Therefore, I have like 25 of these figures.  They get exponentially more terrible when they exist in close proximity to others of their kind.  There’s a small black hole in my house, centered on the bin that contains these guys. 

The sculpt isn’t too bad.  In fact, if it weren’t for the horrendous accessories, this might actually be a decent Yoda.  The bare figure looks pretty good.  It’s a small figure, but still has ball joints at the head, shoulders, and ankles, along with swivels at the wrists and hips.  For a tiny guy, he’s got decent (not great) articulation.  The worst part of the sculpt is that Yoda is in a permanent action pose.  Right away, this is usually a big negative.

That’s the most positive I can be.  Once you start adding the accessories, everything goes downhill.  The plastic robe is THE WORST.  It is shaped in such a way that it forces the arms into a rather suggestive pose.  If you fight through some frustration, you can just barely get his right arm to move upward slightly, so that you can have Yoda hold his cane.  This is about as far as he is posable without the cape popping off completely, or at best, hovering strangely over his shoulders. 

Speaking of the cane, it’s also terrible.  It’s just a straight stick.  There’s no handle, so Yoda is utterly incapable of gripping it.  You have to carefully balance it in his outstretched hand, while the arm is already precariously balancing the plastic cape which is about to fall off.  Taking the shot of him walking with the stick nearly killed me.  A butterfly flapped its wings in the Serengeti, and the cane fell to the floor.

There’s a blast of force energy, so you can try to recreate Yoda and Dooku bickering over who was stronger in the Jedi arts.  The problem here is that Yoda’s left hand, which is fortunately shaped in such a way as to mimic wielding the force energy, is almost incapable of actually welding said force energy.  It’s a challenge to get the hand/arm to hold up the blue lightning, and the lightning is so heavy that it throws off the figure’s balance unless it’s aimed almost straight up.  Again, I was nearly killed capturing the shot of Yoda projecting the energy blast.

We’re left with the ligthsaber, which is the only reasonable accessory in and of itself.  Again, however, unless you remove the robe, Yoda can’t really do anything meaningful with it.

So, in a nutshell, this figure is pretty horrendous, as are the accessories.  The only possible reason to own it would be for the energy blast, which you could also get with a previously released Yoda from the 2002 Saga line.  You wouldn’t lose any sleep if you passed on this completely.