Don’t believe the logo on the package.  It might say this is a “Star Wars” figure, but don’t be fooled.  This is a G.I. Joe figure, and that is both good and bad.  If this figure were someday repainted as Cover Girl and included with a G.I. Joe Wolverine, you wouldn’t bat an eye. The good of this G.I. Joe-ness is that the figure can easily achieve all manner of combat poses.  This figure can naturally kneel in a completely balanced pose.  That’s something.  Usually to get a figure to kneel, you have to contort and twist the trailing ankle joint to keep the figure from toppling over.  Not so in this case.

The elbow joints have excellent range of motion.  The arm can flex beyond ninety degrees which is always welcome.  This is likely facilitated by the smaller ball joints used with the daintier limbs of this Felicity Jones-based figure.  If Hasbro could ever figure out how to incorporate these smaller ball joints into a Stormtrooper figure without disrupting the aesthetic, that would be a godsend.  Higher end Japanese figures, such as Revoltech, incorporate these smaller joints and the results are wonderful, but I’m getting off topic.  This figure is a re-release of the Black Series Sergeant Jyn Erso figure. Most of the new figures in the Walmart exclusive Black Series featured ball jointed wrists.  Unfortunately, this figure sports the older swivel wrists.  Ball jointed wrists would have next-leveled the upper body pose-ability of this figure. 

Where the downside of the G.I. Joe-ness of this figure comes into play is with the accessories, specifically with how the figure interacts with them.  When I used to collect G.I. Joe figures, one of my frequent complaints was that I felt the accessories and the figures were developed in a vacuum.  I could imagine them being developed by separate teams in isolation on different continents. If the final product of figure and accessory worked well together, it was merely a coincidence.  When the three piece rifle is assembled, it’s not possible to pose the figure with it in any realistic shooting pose.  It’s simply too long for the figure.  The figure can’t come close to shouldering the rifle, and can’t approximate any pose of looking through the scope (2D forced perspective aside).  It really only manages to hold the rifle across its body.  The figure works better when the accessory is a pistol, but still not ideally so.  The handle and trigger guard are each a little too bulky for the floating trigger finger.  As a result, the figure’s grasp on the pistol is always a little tenuous.  This isn’t a damning issue, however.  It’s just a mild nit pick.

The vest and holster are both highly pliable.  In fact, they almost have a supple feel.  Perhaps they are made of rich Corinthian leather (nomad made this reference recently, and I was jealous).  This means that neither encumbers the figure when trying to pose it.  The face sculpt is passable for Felicity Jones, but it’s not an uncanny likeness.  In the original review of this figure, nomad noted that the paint apps were a little sloppy on the Black Series release.  This is the case with my Black Series samples as well.  My two Vintage Collection samples have accurate paint applications.  This warrants elevating the 7 score of the Black Series release to an 8 out of 10.

In the Adam Pawlus “different enough to make you mad” category, there is a noticeable difference from the previous release.  The shirt on the Black Series release had a blue hue.  For the Vintage Collection release, this is much more muted and appears to be screen accurate.  Finally, I predicted this figure would be a heavy peg warmer.  It’s early. but so far that hasn’t proven to be the case.  As I’ve said many times, I couldn’t be happier if I’m wrong about the retail viability of this figure.