Not a bad set, for 5POA.  Not that it’s OK, but it’s not the worst thing we’ve seen recently.  This would be an awesome set if it was super-articulated, because it would be great if you could set up something more dynamic than these 2 just standing there like dopes.  This set was definitely available at brick and mortar, if only fleetingly.  I never saw it, and got this set from our sponsor Entertainment Earth.  I did find its casemate, Rebolt and Corellian Hound at Walmart a couple of months back, but missed this one completely.

Han Solo is an all new sculpt.  He’s in some kind of stripped down version of the mudtrooper outfit.  When you compare it to the mudtrooper figure, he’s not wearing a tunic (unless it’s so muddy that it’s just caked onto his body), and he’s lacking the shin armor.  At first glance, it just looks like a uniformly painted gray/brown figure, but Hasbro actually sculpted on some of the mud covering the uniform, and the various subtle paint colors add a lot more depth to this figure than I originally thought.  Han’s face isn’t particularly remarkable, but comes with the pre-requisite mud smear on his his cheeks and chin.  The figure is actually 7POA, including swivel wrists.  It doesn’t add a ton to the posability, though, but it helps a bit.  Han has an ankle shackle and chain that is removable.  He comes with the Imperial blaster carried by other mudtroopers.  I don’t recall Han wielding a blaster after his escape, but maybe he did grab the weapon somewhere on his way to rendezvousing with Beckett’s crew in the AT-Hauler.  Speaking of Beckett’s crew and the AT-Hauler, we have none of those figures and toys from Mimban.  So “completing” the scene is pretty hard.  The closest you can come is recreating the actual Han/Chewie meeting, and the ensuing prison break.  Not awful, but man, WE SURE DO NEED MORE FIGURES AND TOYS, HASBRO!

Chewbacca is also an all new figure.  His hair is well wet, muddy, and matted, so he’s considerably skinnier than the other Solo Chewbacca figure (plural, if you include the same figure with goggles that came with the Vendor-1 cardboard playset).  Hasbro did another nice job with the sculpt. The articulation is only 5POA, and really, 4POA, because the head barely moves.  Unfortunately, my particular sample was a bit tough to get to stand up without tipping over, but it could be done with some care.  Like Han, Chewbacca comes with a removable shackle and chain.  It would have been cool if the chains would connect, as the scene in the jail cell has the two joined, and Chewbacca initially uses that to his advantage when he attacks Han. 

A nice addition to this set is the large armored cannon.  It comes out of the package in 3 pieces, but after a quick assembly, it’s a neat diorama piece.  The figures can hold the controls fairly easily, although Chewbacca looks a little to big next to it, which makes sense of course, since the Empire didn’t have Wookiees in mind when they designed her).  It’s a bit of a bummer that the Force Link 2.0 device doesn’t interact with the cannon.  Neither figure’s chip provides any sound effects for the cannon. Han makes blaster sounds, but that’s about it.  The set could use some cannon fire and explosion sounds.

Overall, a pretty neat set if you can find it.  Sure it’s 5POA, but the figures are sculpted fairly well, and it would seem that we have close to a zero percent chance of getting these versions of Han and Chewie, even though we should probably consider their meeting a pivotal moment in the Star Wars saga.  Since it’s the best we’ll ever get, consider grabbing the set.  At the very least, the cannon is good background fodder.  The set gets a 5.