Someone from Hasbro really has a thing for half naked Kit Fisto, and who can blame them.  In the space of five years, this figure was released three times.  The first was 2003’s Clone Wars 03-49 - Kit Fisto figure. This Saga Collection release followed a mere three years later.  Finally in 2008, it was released again in a 31st 30th Anniversary Collection Droid Factory 2-pack with the droid R4-H5 and the torso of a grumpy C-3PO.  The final release is distinguished by a fancy robe.  For the record, bare chested and an open robe is not an acceptable combination.  It’s creepy.

It terms of articulation, the figure is nearly unremarkable.  From the head to the hips, is a basic pre-super articulation era figure.  It’s a ball and socket head, swivel shoulders, swivel waist and swivel hips. Be still my beating heart.  Remember I said “nearly” unremarkable.  The legs terminate in ball jointed ankles.  You know the one point of articulation that gets costed out of even some modern figures. It’s like getting leather seats on a Kia Rio.  Of course the reason for the ankle articulation is that this figure is sourced from the Tartakovsky Clone Wars Microseries and the underwater Battle of Mon Calamari.  The ankles are there so you can pose the figure swimming.  What?  What psychopath was behind that design decision?  How in the heck does one pose a figure swimming?  Bake it into some ballistics gel?  No one is going to display a figure in pose that makes it indistinguishable from a figure that’s fallen over.

Okay, so what’s odd is that we often complain about figures with knees and no ankles, and for good reasons.  Aside from sitting, the knee articulation in that scenario is essentially useless since the figure won’t stand with the knees engaged because at least one of the feet is no longer parallel to the ground.  You need that ankle articulation to compensate.  We often sarcastically say, “It would be better to have ankles and no knees.”  Well guess what.  We’re right.  Thanks to the ankles you can slightly engage the swivel hips and still have the figure stand.  It allows you to coax an smidge more expression out of the sculpt.  So that’s not nothing.

Perhaps the best reason to own this figure is the expressive sculpt.  It’s highly detailed from the beefcake muscles of the upper body to the dynamic folds of the trousers.  Just a few years prior, pants on Star Wars figures were sculpted like a pair of tights.  Perhaps the neatest aspect is the tendrils on the head.  They are sculpted in a way that gives the impression of underwater weightlessness.  The downside is that the tendrils force the head backwards a little bit, so it permanently looks like Kit is giving you some pre-fight “sup” gesturing. 

Before we get to the score, you will notice there is no picture of the figure on the included stand.  There’s good reason for that.  I can’t find it.  I have all the TSC stands stored together and alphabetized.  When there was no “Kit Fisto” stand in the “K’s”, I sat down and sobbed for a solid half hour.  I don’t lose accessories.  This is unacceptable. 

Mr. Nomadscout gave the original release a 6 out of 10. Don’t worry.  We’ll have him drug tested.  But until we get those results, I’m going to retain that score here even though he’s probably the one who stole my stand to support his habit.