Here is one of the crappier 2-packs in the line.  It basically includes 2 unlikeable repacked figures and some nonsense accessories.  There’s not much to love here. 

Cassian Andor is pretty much a straight repack from the figure that was packed-in with the underwhelming U-Wing.  Just the fact that this pack made me think of the U-Wing is almost enough for me to stop typing right now.  But we at the firm of Nomadscout and Other Guy are dedicated to bringing you exacting reviews and high quality galleries of stuff you probably don’t want anyway.  This is what we do.  So anyway, the figure isn’t particularly good.  The sculpt, like most in the 5POA Rogue One line, is a step up from some earlier offerings in the TFA line.  That is, in as much as the figure has some better uniform detailing and paint apps.  However, as decent as the uniform might be, the head is pretty bad.  The sculpt looks nothing like Diego Luna, and the beard is horrendous.  But I went over all of that in the U-Wing review, and I don’t feel like revisiting it.

The Imperial Stormtrooper is also a repack from the basic line, although the pauldron is painted white instead of orange.  That way, you can have some variety in your awful army of awfulness.  One other difference of note is that the ab dots (or “belly controls” as I called them) are correctly painted black on this figure, when the previous version omitted this paint detail.This is a figure that I hate, and said as much in the basic figure review.  The battle damage chest armor and pauldron assembly is horrendous, and I want it to die.  As many of our readers commented in that review, if you discard the extra pieces and just go with a straight stormtrooper, it’s a pretty decent sculpt, and the helmet is particularly good.  That’s wonderful and all, but the fact is most collectors have legions of super articulated stormtroopers, and if they don’t, they can find them on ebay at a price reasonable enough where these 5POA’s aren’t really worth a look.  The OT era Imperial Stormtrooper is the ultimate example in a figure begging to be super-articulated.  This 5POA figure simply exists as an example of why the 5POA line as a concept is bad news.  Sure, there can be the occasional standout gem in the line that might make an average to slightly-below-average figure in the collector line, but in general, these figures are just substandard.  This, of course, is nothing we don’t already know.

So with Cassian as a straight repack and the crappy trooper as a repack with a white pauldron and painted ab dots, the only thing this set offers the buyer are the accessories.  And boy, what an offering!  You get one ridiculous giant shoulder-fired missile launcher, and you also get…you guessed it…a zipline!  Yes, the most popular accessory in the Rogue One line, and a Bantha Skull favorite, returns in this Toys R Us exclusive set.  Your Rogue One figures will be ziplining across the galaxy until the cows come home.  And then, after the cows have come home and are relaxing in front of the TV, these figures will still by ziplining.  What a time to be alive!

I give this set a 2.  In truth, it’s probably a 3 or 4 for the decent, but flawed, 5POA figures, including accessories and at a price that gives it a better value than two basic figures bought separately.  But it gets a 2 because it gives me agita.  Nomadscout and Other Guy make the rules here, and Other Guy is very busy, so…