This is a quick review.  I was only motivated enough to do it because the Mets won a game.  They’re the only team in MLB history to lose 12 straight in April coming off a winning season, while coincidentally having the league’s highest opening day payroll in history.  It’s a neat combination.  But the streak is over now. Just like the Mets 2026 season.  I look forward to Bobby Bonilla day.

I forgot about this set until it arrived.  And I don’t mean that I forgot I ordered it.  I mean I forgot it existed.  When I opened the package from Pulse and saw this, I immediately had to check online to see if I had just made an amazing discovery and I was going to post a comment on Yakface, MAKMCSWF’s Youtube page, or some other reputable Star Wars site.  Then I was like, wait a minute, I have a site!  I’ll post a story about this and we’ll get millions of clicks.  But on my way to the computer riding in the HindenBantha,  I realized that it couldn’t possibly be an unannounced never-before-seen product because I’m the one who ordered it. That could mean only one thing: Chris is an idiot and forgot to remind me not to forget about this set.

Anyway, it’s a figure we’ve all seen a million times.  Great sculpt, rocker ankles, wrists that Hasbro makes us flex in specific directions whether we like it or not, and old-style ball jointed hips.  I know plenty of people are in the Never Hippers club, and won’t buy any more stormtroopers until they get the new barbell hips. It’s definitely starting to get a little annoying for me as well, even though I’ve been fairly ambivalent about it so far.  The articulation is excellent, it’s just that the new hips are even better.  Hasbro really needs to just make that fix already, just like they had done with the rocker ankles.

One thing to note about the sculpt:  At first glance, these are just repaints of the existing figure.  But the stormtrooper with the off-color left leg has a new shin guard.  I’m not sure if it’s recycled from a different figure, or if it’s new, but it makes at least one of the figures a slight re-tool. 

As for the paint, it’s quite good.  I rather like the dirty and weathered look.  It comes across as very realistic wear and tear on some old armor.  Aside from the weathering, there’s the one differently colored left shin as well as a stripe on the same trooper’s left bicep.  Otherwise the paint is as you would expect. This same multi-colored trooper has a date stamp on the inside of his right thigh, whereas the other 3 troopers lack these markings.

For accessories, you get the expected 4 E-11’s as well as the 2 DLT-20A’s. But way more fun than that, we get one black pauldron and one shoulder ammo pouch.  In images 15 and 16 above, I combined them, so if you were wondering they do fit on the same figure.  It’s actually pretty cool, because this is how the sandtrooper ammo pouch is supposed to be.  It’s not attached to the pauldron, is a separate thing.  Every other sandtrooper we’ve ever gotten like this as it as one piece.  So you could use these to make a more accurate sandtrooper on a different figure. 

Even still, you’d not have a definitive sandtrooper.  The most recently released figure checked off 3 of the 6 boxes that I’d want for the figure to be accurately differentiated from a regular stormtrooper.  That figure had the backpack, the correct abdominal plate, and correctly lacked the canister on the back of the belt.  However, the ammo pouch was incorrectly attached to the pauldron instead of being a separate piece, and that seems to be something Hasbro can now do with these 2 accessories.  The other missed items on the sandtrooper figure are the diamond shaped left knee pad and black pouches on the belt.  But I digress.

It’s a nice set.  The weathering paint applications are really nice, and the accessories, while not mind-blowing by any stretch, are a nice touch.  The biggest issue is the inclusion of the old-style hips.  Otherwise, it’s a neat set of Remnant dudes.  9/10.