Around the Spring of 2010, Toys R Us brought us the final wave of The Legacy Collection.  It was a fan favorite wave, consisting of various Expanded Universe characters and troop builders.  For some, the wave was particularly difficult to come by.  Personally, my local TRU at the time, Times Square, was practically swimming in these figures. I picked up a couple of sets, but as many a collector has lamented, if I knew then what this wave was to be worth, I would have invested in every figure I found.  As it is, I’m lucky to have gotten the ones that I did.

I rescued this bit from the original review we did at the time the figure was released:

I was not familiar with K’Krukh, except in that I read from fans that there’s a big deal made about his “magic hat” he wears in many of his comic book appearances.  Apparently it is one of the most famous hats in the galaxy, and is one of the reasons people seem to like this character.  Yet, Hasbro, for whatever reason, left out the hat.  It’s too bad, because it would have been a welcome addition for most fans, I’m sure.

When I researched this character, I had forgotten to remember that K’Krukh was in the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars Microseries, and was part of the Ki-Adi-Mundi led strike team that encountered General Rick Grievous for the first time.  He was presumed dead by his fellow Jedi, and left behind by those jerks.  Speaking of which, watch that episode if you have time.  Ki-Adi totally loses his mind and becomes a raving lunatic.  There’s something kind of cool about that concept, that encountering Grievous drove Jedi mad.  But alas, like so many other characters in the saga, Grievous was sadly misused in film. 

So, not knowing much else about K’Krukh, my sense is that he was created with the purpose of providing some continuity across the entire saga.  He fought in the Clone Wars, and then represented the New Jedi Order in something called the Galactic Federation Triumvirate in the year 2525.  Or something like that.  I don’t know, ask Jimmy.  He knows this kind of stuff, I think.

The figure is pretty cool.  K’Kruhk is a Whipid, the same species as J’Quille, who you totally need to get before the Sail Barge arrives.  He’s much taller than J’Quille, although he has a less broad face and he is slimmer.  You wonder if this is just an inconsistency between the figures of the Whipid species by Hasbro, or if the Whipids do come in all shapes and sized.  In any case, it’s one of the more impressively sized figures.  The face sculpt is really well done.  The entire body sculpt, while clearly in the tradition of Jedi, evokes a certain unique quality, perhaps due to the fact that K’Kruhk went barefoot.  He is superarticulated, although lacks the more modern and preferred JLA (Jedi-Level Articulation).  He can be posed in aggressive stances, although it was basically impossible for him to achieve the THWG, which is a shame.  The figure comes with a lightsaber (no hilt, nor belt peg hole in which to place one), which he grips assuredly in his hand.  He also comes with a robe which somehow still looks big on him, even with him being of tremendous stature. 

K’Kruhk is no longer canon, but Hasbro did manage to immortalize him into plastic form before the Disney purge.  He was hard to find, but if you’re a fan of the character, you need to track him down.  Despite some possible tweaks that could be upgraded, this is the definitive K’Kruhk figure.  Starting with a baseline of 7, he gets a bonus point for being large, but still super-articulated.  The fact that he can’t do a THWG is a shame, as is the lack of his famous hat, but otherwise, he’s worthy of an 8.

Build-A-Droid 

K’Kruhk contains the right arm of BG-J38.  This worker drone droid served as Jabba the Hutt’s personal dejarik and hologames droid.  Source:  Return of the Jedi

Verdict: No Action (for the main line) 

The figure goes for absolutely insane prices on eBay.  One of, if not the most expensive figures we’ve reviewed so far, carded samples seem to sell for over $100, and even loose figures go for something close to that.  Nevertheless, there’s really no reason to release this figure again in the main line.  It’s strange enough that Hasbro is repacking the 2007-era Revan in TVC, but tepid fan reaction to that announcement surely gave Hasbro the hint that they should have found another avenue for it, especially without an update to the old figure.  But, unless Hasbro somehow decides to throw together a convention exclusive multi-pack consisting of no-longer-canon greatest hits figures, we’ll likely never see this guy again.  But such a pack could include all 6 EU figures that were in the final Toys R Us wave of TLC, and it would likely be pretty popular among hardcore collectors.

Verdict Guide:
Re-sculpt = The figure is not definitive, and a new version should be developed.
Re-issue = This version is definitive (or close enough), and shows sufficient secondary market demand to warrant a straight repack.
No Action = This release does not require new attention.