Have you ever used Google Translate?  It’s pretty neat.  You can get a rough translation of almost anything between almost any two languages you might think of.  It’s a miracle!  Imagine if The Ancients had access to this.  The whole Tower of Babel story would have ended very differently. 

Anyway, if you type “The Saga Collection” into the Google Translate machine and choose Yiddish, you’ll get “די סאַגאַ זאַמלונג.”  If you translate that into Chichewa, you’ll get “Kutolere kwa Saga.”  Now translate that into Esperanto, and then to any 3 languages of your choice, before going back to English.  What does it say?  That’s right. “The Wow I Forgot How Many Repacks and Repaints Were in This Terrible Line Collection.” Many collectors probably remember The Saga Collection fondly.  They’d be wrong to do that.

Case in point:  In an exact repaint of the TSC 212th Clone Trooper, that had just come out a few waves earlier, we get the 442nd Seige Battalion Clone Trooper.  And I mean exact.  It’s the same unit pattern, just green instead of orange.  It even has identical carbon scoring marks all over the armor. 

It’s certainly not a bad figure.  Just check out the review for the aforementioned 212th Clone for all the deets.  It’s yet another repaint in The Saga Collection.  It just repaints itself!  The real problem here is that the 442nd Siege Battalion is a construct by Hasbro.  It’s the action figure equivalent of the Kenner mini-rigs.  With all the clones to choose from, Hasbro simply invented one of their own. And it wasn’t the first, either, as you can see in the last photo, there was a nearly unarticulated kneeling version that came in a cheap three-pack of Phase 2 clones.  The unit apparently served on Cato Nemoidia, so I just added a green commander and assume the worked with Plo Koon during the battle at the end of the Clone Wars.

It’s the laziest of lazy repaints.  But despite that, it’s a good figure.  Sadly, it was around this time that many collectors were getting cloned out.  I’d give it the same 7 that I gave the 212th, but I’m deducting a point for the sake of “meh.”  6 out 10.