I’m sorry Jayson Tatum got hurt in last night’s game.  It definitely deflates the moment when the opposing team’s superstar goes down.  It happened just as the Knicks took a 9 point lead with 3 minutes to go, so it may have already been a lost cause for the Celtics, but we’ll never know.  Tatum was having a monster game, and he and Jalen Brunson were trading buckets in a duel for the ages.  The point is, this Nomad/Chris duel isn’t fun anymore.  So I’ll just hope the Knicks end this series quickly and move forward, and I’ll root for a relatively mild injury diagnosis for Tatum and his speedy recovery.

The Acolyte was a show that was on TV.  That was almost as much as I remember about it.  And to be clear, I’m not saying I didn’t like it.  I’m saying I don’t remember it.  I have a vague recollection of there being some kind of investigation into Jedi murders that eventually revealed the Sith were behind it.  I think.  Something like that.  It was very forgettable for me.  While watching the show with my wife, I think I fell asleep at some points during most of the episodes. 

This is the last figure from The Acolyte (that we are aware of). Chris reviewed the other 4 (Osha, Mae, Sol, Indara), so this is my first dig into the source material since the show aired.  As such, I had to go back and watch parts of a few episodes to look for some scenes to try to recreate.  And guess what…I found myself interested in the show.  I’m not sure if I would be willing to go back and watch all 8 episodes, but I liked what I rewatched from episodes 1 and 2.  I might give it another shot.  We’ll see.

So I only watched parts of the first 2 episodes, and I decided that there probably wasn’t much I could recreate with this figure, given the limited world-building that we have at our disposal.  We don’t have his Padawan, Jecki, and it looked like a lot of his scenes were with her.  That includes the one I chose for a simple mockup, I just left her out.  It’s where Sol, Yord, and Jecki locate Osha on the cliffs of the snowy planet she briefly crash lands on.  That’s all I did.  I’m pretty sure he dies in battle later, but we don’t have The Stranger, so what’s the point?

As for the figure itself, you may be surprised to know that it only re-uses a few parts from Sol.  He’s got different boots, a different torso and tabard, and different forearms and hands - as well as, obviously, and all new headsculpt.  So to me, he’s a new figure.  In Chris’s VC329 Jedi Master Sol review, he came down hard on the soft plastic used to make the figure, which contributed to the difficulty in performing a two-handed weapon grip, as well as keeping some other poses steady.  But he commended the awesome headsculpt in particular.

For Yord, I would almost flip those critiques.  I found the figure to be excellently poseable, and it was pretty fun to set up the shots for this gallery.  I found the body sculpt to be outstanding, with almost all of the articulation having a full range of motion.  There was a notable exception, which was something that Chris pointed out as frustrating with Sol.  The sculpt of the tabard around the shoulders extends a bit beyond the torso, and therefor creates a slight impediment to the shoulder range of motion.  I didn’t find it upsetting, but it did reduce movement a bit.  I was nevertheless able to get some decent THWG poses out of this figure.

For accessories, you get a robe with a hood that is stitched down.  This adds great realism to the way the cloth falls, but does limit display options.  I would still prefer this to an oversized hood.  Included is an unlit hilt, which plugs into the hole in the belt, as well as lightsaber that can be gripped in either (or both) hands.

My nitpick (aside from the tabard/shoulder restriction) is the headsculpt.  I think the face is reasonably close to the actor (who I don’t know well), but I feel the hair is a bit to wildly off to the side.  I could be wrong, but in watching a few scenes, I see that his hair does flow to the left side of his face, but I think the figure overdoes it just a bit.  As such, it’s a bit off to my eyes when looking at the figure head on.  Also, there is a tad too much paint on the lips, giving him a lipstick look.  One other note is that Hasbro did include the earring.

Overall, I think this is an outstanding figure, even if the source isn’t the most beloved - or possibly just forgettable as in my case.  But Hasbro did a great job with these 5 figures, if you believe the reviews that Chris and I have given.  We avoid, as best we can, grading a figure based on the source, so even if The Acolyte wan’t well received, these figures are definitely worthwhile.  9/10.

EDIT:  As pointed out in the comments below by SuperDurge:

Yord comes with another accessory! The little doo-dad on the left side front if his belt is removable.

Indeed he does!  Great catch.  I completely missed this as a separate piece, and I barely gave it notice as I just assumed it was a sculpted greebly on the belt.  It is in fact a separate piece that plugs into the left side of the belt in much the same way the lightsaber hilt does on the right side.  It’s a communicator, which he uses in Episode 2.  Indara comes with this same accessory, while Sol’s communicator is molded onto his belt.  Last few images of the gallery have been updated with new images.