The ADP Troopers were in charge of the Empire’s payroll as part of Comptroller Command.  Many historians have credited the ADP Division’s decision to switch to paperless pay stubs as the singular cost saving measure that permitted the construction of Death Star II.  This figure is not an ADP Trooper.  It’s an AT-DP Driver.  I read the bubble too quickly, and once again, many hours of invaluable research has been wasted.  The jokes about e-delivery write thenselves.  Now I have nothing.  AT-DP stands for “All Terrain Defense Pod.”  One last thing before I conclude my customary 5POA time-stalling introductory paragraph:  Rob Gronkowski recently did a PSA against swallowing Defense Pods.  It’s no joke, folks.

Look, I like this character.  I like it a lot.  I know it’s little more than a stylistic kit bash combining elements of the AT-ST Driver, AT-AT Driver and the McQuarrie Concept Snowtrooper, but it works for me.  I particularly like the more menacing “Stormtrooper frown” borrowed from that McQuarrie concept.  If you have a problem with that, take it up with the office.  I really wanted to use one of Peter’s Catchphrases by Carter Pewterschmidt there, but I felt it was a little too low brow and scatalogical for our usual fare here.  But you should hear it.  It’s a great sentence.*  Anyway, if I can steer this back on topic, I really like the design of this character and would have army built a super-articulated version of it.

But alas, the figure is sourced from the 5POA Saga Legends line and that’s not okay.  It stands and has decent visual appeal.  The helmet appears a bit warped and elongated making the face vaguely remiscent of Ghostface from the Scream franchise.  The paint apps on the face also get a tad wonky.  The eyes are not fully painted and Hasbro colored outside the lines a little bit.  If Billy Madison turned in this work, Miss Lippy would never have let him graduate Kindegarten.  As expected, the limited articulation means the figure’s limbs can only be engaged in motions that approximate an old-timey exercise reel (barring Iroquois Thrusts of course).  Still, I have to say that it wouldn’t take much convincing to get me to plop a couple of these into the back of any Imperial formation display.

Where this figure gets a little less scrutiny than other 5POA figures is that it is meant to pilot a vehicle, and this figure can indeed sit in the AT-DP vehicle that was released.  If that is your bar for action figure performance, mazel tov!  You can call this one definitive.  Our audience is more demanding, however.  It gets some points for being able to blend into a formation display and for interacting with its companion vehicle, but those points stop just short of a handful.  4 out of 10.

The supply of these on the secondary market is scant, so if you want one, you probably should not look twice when you find one in your price range.

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*Editor’s Note:  Wow, what a great sentence!