The hits keep on coming!  The Saga Collection delivered a rare hit with yesterday’s R5-J2, despite it being a repaint itself.  But we get back on track with another eye-roller of a release:  Clone Trooper (Fifth Fleet Security).  Just like the 442nd Siege Battalion, there is barely any mention of this unit in any reference material, but Hasbro saw fit to turn it into an action figure because everyone loves clones!  Wookieepedia has even less information on this than it did for the 442nd, but it would seem that these troops provided security on board the naval ships of the Republic’s Fifth Fleet.  Sure.  Whatever.

The color pattern is one of the more random of the various clone units.  Pairs of blue stripes of different thicknesses, lengths, and angles accent the white armor.  It’s like it was the result of an internet contest.  The only thing that would be better would be if they just named the unit Cloney McCloneface.

Like many before it, this figure uses the venerable ROTS #41 mold, which was the Phase 2 answer to the game changing 03-50 Clone Trooper.  As such, it is super-articulated, unlike most figures in the Saga Collection - but obviously just like the other repaints of the same base figure that came also were released in TSC, like the 212th and 442nd. It comes with a blaster and the removable antenna. 

You know all about the figure.  It’s pretty good, even by today’s standards.  It does most of what you might want, and has an arguably better and more logical aesthetic than the gaunt and spindly VC45-based clones. 

Hasbro was taking full advantage of the clone craze that was going on, going to the well once again to give us a figure that nobody asked for, but probably plenty of people not only bought, but army built.  Collectors are terrible people.  Just like the 442nd Clone, I’d give it a 7 for being a solid figure, but deduct a point for representing a cash grab of a clone that Hasbro might as well have just made up themselves.  6/10.