I’m not really sure what to say here. But I have an idea that could save us all some time.
First, I have to give full credit to our friends at Jedi Temple Archives here. I wasn’t really interested in buying this, but kind of needed to for the purposes of this very gallery and review you are looking at. I had no interest in paying full price for it, but after seeing a news item on JTA that Walmart was offering the set for $17 (or something like that), I figured it was time to dive in. I would also like to thank JTA for their review, which grants a 4.5 out of 5 for this vehicle.
Before I go further, I would like to make clear that “credit” and “thanks” are completely sarcastic. I’m not sure if I just received a reject version that somehow made it past QC, or if JTA got their hands on a perfectly manufactured diamond-in-the rough. My sample is horrendous. The joints and legs are made out of silly string. There is only one position the vehicle has even the most remote of chances of sustaining, and that is the basic one in the images here. Touching it, breathing near it, or eating a meal within 30 feet of it will cause it to fold like the Dennis Green-coached Cardinals playing against the 2006 Chicago Bears.
The only thing this toy is good for is to reproduce this scene:
I think the best I can do to sum up is to paraphrase the review I gave the TVC K-mart version:
**** this piece of **** right in the goat ***.
I can only hope this was an aberration, and other people got better quality AT-ST’s if they purchased this from Walmart. The one thing salvaging this for me was that I only paid $17 for it.