The following text is copied from our review of the Luke Skywalker Jedi Destiny 3-pack SDCC Exclusive set posted on 7/27/19.

Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight)

This is the figure in the set that I was most eager to get.  This is the first modern Jabba’s Palace Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker figure to have screen accurate wardrobe both in terms of the types of garments and color.  Previous releases of Jabba’s Palace Luke figures include the correct outer garment, a cloak, but they were incorrectly colored as black.  Luke’s cloak is now properly colored as dark brown on this figure.  The VC87 - Lightsaber Construction Luke Skywalker included a more accurate brown outer garment, but it was the wrong style.  Instead of a cloak, it included a robe.  A ridiculously oversized robe at that.  With this figure, Hasbro finally got everything right.  I haven’t been this thrilled with owning a figure since perhaps that first Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker in 1983.  It’s my favorite character wearing my favorite costume and it’s dead nuts accurate.

Additionally, HASBRO HAS FINALLY SOLVED THE SOFT GOODS HOOD ISSUE.  Soft goods hoods have been plaguing figures in all scales because when miniaturized, the material simple does not hang the way it does in reality.  Some 1:6 figure have partially solved the issue by including a shaping wire.  Here, Hasbro solved the issue in much better fashion by simply stitching the hood down to the body of the cloak.  It does a fantastic approximation of lifelike draping.  So now that Hasbro has cracked this nut, I need to take a little side track and channel Neal Page from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles:

Hasbro, I want a new Emperor figure and I want it right…stinking…noooooow.

Neal didn’t say “stinking” though.  In addition to another new and improved head sculpt, Hasbro made two other notable changes to the base Lightsaber Construction figure.  The first and most massive of these two improvement is that the wrists have been slightly retooled to recess the joint better in the lower arm.  This provide drastically better aesthetics.  The second change is that the sand paint app to the boots is gone.  It looked nothing like sand, and it actually was reminiscent of something unpleasant we northerners have to deal with.  It looked like the dried road salt that accumulates on our shoes every winter, so this is definitely addition by subtraction.

Finally, while the PhotoReal does make the figure much more lifelike and expressive, I think there is an intentional “pre-posing” to the paint apps.  The figure is looking off to its right.  I don’t think this is a mistake on my sample because the eyes are positioned correctly.  Only the iris and pupil are off to the right.  I believe the entire PhotoReal application is applied at once.  So if this were a case of misapplication, the entire eye would be out of position.  Furthermore every sample I have seen is looking off to the right.  While this is a very realistic expression, I find it a little limiting, and for that reason I give this, my favorite figure out of the set, a 9 out of 10.  Update:  Commenter julythrunov pointed out in the comments that his sample of the Jedi Luke IS NOT looking to the right, so it is not an intentional design. 

HASBRO PLEASE GET THIS FIGURE OUT AS A SINGLE CARDED RELEASE ON THE VINTAGE KENNER “JEDI KNIGHT” CARD IMMEDIATELY.  I WANT TO BUY LOTS.  The only other time that the vintage Kenner Jedi Knight card has been issued in the modern Vintage Collection was when it was erroneously used for the Endor Capture figure.  Releasing the correct figure on that card is certainly justified.

Editor’s Note:  Hasbro reads Banthaskull.com!