Editor’s Note:  This review has been updated with our second look at TVC…

Original Review:  Chris - 6/25/10 05:38 PM

If you liked this figure before, chances are you will still like it now.  This is the second re-release of the Evolutions Fett with the first coming last year in the Legacy Collection.  The green of the armor seems to strike the correct balance between the light green of the Evolutions release and the dark green of the TLC release.  The paint applications also appear to have been tightened up since the last release.  Speaking of the plaint applications, one thing is apparent.  Whatever budgetary dollars have been saved by eliminating our beloved Build-A-Droid parts have been put into paint applications for the weapons.  The EE-3 carbine and the sidearm each have added painted details.

Updated Review: Chris- 4/5/18. 07:05 AM

What idiot wrote the original review?  My mandate with this Vintage Collection retrospective has been to take the carded photos.  If you think I’m getting off light, go try to square up a Vintage Collection card for a photograph.  After you’ve spent an hour battling the trapezoid affect seen in in every single card photo on Ebay, you’ll smash your camera, kick your dog and yell at your wife for no reason.  Then come tell me I’m getting off easy.  I’d rather spend an eternity in hell photographing the smiling Luke head on the Snowspeeder Pilot body (an inside joke from 2010).  Anyway, enough digressing.

The reason I decided to exceed my mandate for this Boba Fett figure is because I’ve grown to hate it so much I simply had to make the case for an all new Boba Fett figure.  It’s overdue.  This figure does have its merits, but if you’re still reading, you’re here for the hate.  So, Evolutions Boba Fett, how do I hate thee?  Let me count the ways:

• The stance is too narrow and the hip articulation is too restricted. 
• The removable helmet stinks out loud.
• The arms have limited range of motion.
• The gouges in the sculpt of the armor don’t work to express battle damage.  It looks more like Richard Dreyfuss playing with his mashed potatoes in Close Encounters.
• The trigger guard on the EE-3 carbine is smaller than the figure’s trigger finger.
• The cape and the jetpack work together like a snake and a mongoose. 
• And finally, the removable helmet stinks out loud.  Did I say that already?

The completely distinct Episode VI Boba Fett figure was released as a running change under this same number despite being a unique figure.  I’m tired of photographing dated Boba Fett molds, so you’ll have to use your imagination.

Update:  The original score of 10 was lowered to a 5 for this review because I’m embarrassed that I ever thought this figure was a 10. 

We need an all new non-removable helmet Boba Fett for both Episodes V and VI.  It should have the works for articulation.  That goes without saying.  But one important point is that wrist articulation should come at the actual wrists and not the forearms, as on this figure.  That is one of the limiting aspects.  Make this figure and put it in every single case going forward.  For some reason, Boba Fett always sells.  Then paint it in animated colors, slap it on a repro Droids card, and sell it again.  You will literally sell a billion of ‘em.  I mean that figuratively. 

Update by Bret 4/4/2020:

In 2019, Hasbro updated this figure with some slightly new paint applications (probably due to time passing and resources available, rather than actually intentional, but that’s just my perspective) and added Photoreal technology to provide an all new face.  One notable difference is that the cape is much shorter.  It also behaves better in that it hangs properly, instead of shooting out sideways, like it tends to do on my other Fett figures.

As with many of the PhotoReal figures, when you look from a reasonable distance, the face looks more natural than the previous release.  However, if you get too close, the illusion is lost, and it looks more like a mess of dots than an actual face. 

I prefer these updates, but they may not be enough to convince someone to make a new purchase.  I have a shortage of this version of Fett in my collection, so I have no problem adding it.  There isn’t much else that is notably different from the original release.  Basically, if you like this figure, you’ll like getting the update at less than the original figure on the secondary market.

As Chris pointed out, we really need an all new Fett, as this one is a bit tired.  But until that happens, these will have to do.  I bought this in a case from Entertainment Earth (Sponsored) because 2 each of Fett, Chewbacca, R2, and Stormtrooper seemed like something I should get.  I don’t regret it at all, especially since the case is now sold out with no replenishment expected.  As of this writing, you can get the individual figure from EE if you click HERE (Sponsored).