Credit:  Packaged sample from the collection of John Miko from the Star Wars The Vintage Collection Facebook group.

Revisiting this set is like pouring a fresh dose of lemon juice on the still open wound of the Toys R Us bankruptcy.  We should all get to line up the board of Bain Capital and give them pink bellies until they start whimpering.  Not only was Toys R Us the home of an incredible number of muti-packs that bolstered the super articulated 3.75” line with many definitive figures we might have never gotten otherwise, but they exerted incredible pressure on the two big box retailers to up their game.  Now Walmart and Target get to act like the cable company. 

It’s a common refrain in the community now.  The pain of the minimal offerings we get in the 3.75” mainline is compounded by the fact that there are zero supplementary multi-packs to augment the line.  Multi-packs have been the source of more pilot figures than the mainline.

Lt. Ekelarc Yong (Gray Three)

This is our one and only pilot from Gray Squadron, a B-Wing and Y-Wing squadron from Return of the Jedi.  A figure of Lt. Yong was oft requested by fans due to the distinctive “bat” symbol on the helmet. 

Spoiler alert:  He dies right after that screen shot.  Below the neck, the figure is basically the B-Wing pilot sculpt, which originated in the Rebel Pilot Legacy II Evolutions set, and was most recently released in the Vintage Collection as VC63 - B-Wing Pilot.  The articulation is not up to current standards, but it’s good enough to do pilot business.  This figure gets an 8 out of 10 which is one point more than the base super articulated score.  This is due to how well it interacts with the helmet.  This is the definitive Ekelarc Yong figure, a many fans would like to see it re-released.

R5-P9

To the best of my knowledge, R5-P9 never appears on screen.  On the character’s Wookieepedia page, the reference photo is this figure.  This might be a case of Hasbro determining canon, which is something the more relaxed and independent LFL would allow.  This is another R5 droid based on the very good TSC 032 - R5-D4 sculpt.  All figures based on that sculpt earn an 8 out of 10 as does this R5-P9 figure.

Sila Kott (Red Two)

The first thing to notice about the figure is that the head sculpt has very feminine facial features.  On-screen, the character looks feminine as well, and even appears to be wearing makeup:

As many of you know, there is good reason for this.  Sila Kott was played by British actress Poppy Hands whose lone line of dialog was dubbed over by an American male voice.  The figure is a repaint of the TAC 30-44 - Tycho Celchu figure with a new head.  The original figure got a score of eight, but this one loses a point to a 7 out of 10 due to the ill-fitting helmet.

Lt. Oxixo

As noted by ColonelGeorge1991 in comments below from a year ago (from the original review), Lt. Oxixo wasn’t in Return of the Jedi.  He was in A New Hope, and died, a victim of the Millennium Falcon’s quad lasers.  The sourcing of this figure to the Battle of Endor is entirely from this set (i.e. it doesn’t count).  The base figure originates from 2009’s Walmart exclusives Imperial Pilots Legacy Evolution set, and stinks.  It’s an ankle-less abomination with obvious knee joints and an awkward narrow stance. I also hate how the holstered SE-14r light repeating blaster tickles the figure’s armpit. It’s a 6 out of 10 and needs a resculpt.  This figure has been released, and re-released countless times.  Let’s pray Hasbro doesn’t re-release it again. That would be very foolish.