I never wanted the 6” line to come into existence.  But with each passing review, I make myself more its servant.  I think I’ll start off with the negatives of this figures which I consider minor.  First, I don’t think a single 6” line head sculpt has perfectly captured the subject’s likeness.  This head sculpt is reminiscent of Harrison Ford but not a perfect facsimile.  The next iffiness comes at the transition from the bare forearms to the hands.  They’re different colors.  This gives the Han Solo figure a Frankenstein’s Monster appearance.

My final gripe comes with the hands themselves.  Instead of nickle and diming us with a separate releases of every permutation of the base smuggler costume, Hasbro banged most of them out at once.  This means that the figure comes with a set of swappable hands wearing the pilot gloves.  In order for the hands to be interchanged, the peg for the wrists is reduced in size.  However that small peg doesn’t offer enough structural integrity to activate the ball jointed wrists on my sample.  I’m fairly convinced that the peg would break before the joint frees itself.

Those negatives are beaten into submission by the positives and this figure is going to paradoxically receive a perfect score despite the fact that I just admitted that it’s not perfect.  This figure does everything I want a Han Solo figure to do except chauffeur me to work while I wear a movie quality Chewbacca mask.  The figure can stand with its hand on a sarcastically cocked hip.  This figure can draw down on a charging Stormtrooper or it can charge headstrong after fleeing Stormtroopers until they realize they have the intruder outnumbered.  Yeah, we’re going to ignore the Special Edition’s explanation for the about face during that foot chase.

As mentioned above, the figure comes out of the box ready to represent every minor costume version of the base smuggler wardrobe with the exception of the Millennium Falcon headset.  The holster of the DL-44 Blaster hangs perfectly and works flawlessly with the blaster accessory.  It even features a working clasp which Han can stealthily unhook TO SHOOT FIRST! I will admit, the lower loop of the holster has to be stretched a bit to fit over the ankle.  That was a trying few moments wondering if it would snap.  I have a tendency to break things.  That holster can be exchanged for a Stormtrooper belt with it’s E11 holster so you can create a “Death Star Escape” Han Solo.  This interchangability takes the figure to the next level and is why I’m giving it a perfect score despite the flaws I mentioned above. 10 out of 10.

10/10 Bantha Skulls