50 Creepy 3.75” Star Wars Toys (Part II):  40-31

Today we continue presenting our list of 50 Creepy 3.75" Star Wars Toys. As we wrote yesterday, they're not always gross, but you have to admit that the concept to bring some of these to the toy aisle can be pretty interesting.

If you missed it, feel free to check out PART I, 50-41.

Today we continue the countdown with numbers 40-31, along with a bonus version of a popular Banthaskull feature, [Creepy] Missing in Action Figure. We'll let you know the top 15 gruesome figures that Hasbro should make.

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Here's a figure that's basically a two-fer. First, you get Luke with a battered and bloodied face after a vicious haymaker from a wampa. He survived, though his tauntaun was not so lucky. We saw what was left of that poor creature in yesterday's installment. Secondly, the figure is designed specifically to interact with the two-part ice cave accessory. Luke hangs vertically, thanks to the foot clams in the ice "ceiling." There's also the nice touch of the scarf swiveling to hang downwards due to gravity, something the later update in the Black Series line did not carry forward. So basically, this figure is intended to be a side of beef, as Luke is just hanging in the ice box waiting for the Wampa to finish the main course. Pretty chilling, no? Ha!

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Here's a guy that made the mistake of trying to make Darth Vader look like a fool in front senior officers at a big meeting. Vader was having none of it, and decided to show Motti (and the audience) a taste of what it's like to be on the wrong side of a Force choke. We were introduced to these powers for the first time at this point, which gave Vader a boost to that street cred that made him one of the most feared villains in cinema history. Of course Tarkin never really got any of his own street cred he felt he deserved, and he basically told Vader to cut the crap and then went ahead and moved the conversation forward. In any case, Hasbro, not satisfied with a basic Admiral Motti figure, designed a version that tugs at his collar so you can recreate that memorable scene where he frantically gasps for air as he teeters on the brink of death. Bravo!

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Hasbro gave us a guy that was being Force-choked, although Motti lived to tell the tale...at least until Vader's son finished the job a few hours later. So why, then, did Hasbro not do the same for their TLC Captain Needa figure that came nearly a decade later? Did they get soft on us? We got a basic Captain Needa, but we aren't able to satisfactorily recreate that moment where Vader "accepts" his apology. We need to have the terror painted into the figure's eyes, the horror sculpted into the silent scream emanating from the open mouth, and the hands reaching for the neck in a futile effort to ease the suffering before the arrival of the sweet release of death. That's the Captain Needa figure we need.

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This figure is interesting because I only recently learned that there is a moment during ROTJ where Han is performing first aid on Chewbacca's wounded leg on the skiff just as Luke and Leia make their swing from the deck of the the Khetanna. Billed as being from the deleted sandstorm scene, this version of Chewie features a bandaged left shin, complete with a couple of bits of Wookiee blood seeping through the gauze.

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Here's another figure that seems like it comes from a time when Hasbro would make anything (except the Tonnika Sisters.). After seeing The Empire Strikes Back for the first time, I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I wanted a figure of Luke in a diaper more than I wanted an AT-AT. That's basically what this is. It's a nearly naked Luke "floating" inside a bacta tank. Along with Luke from the Medical frigate, Hasbro has tried to make sure they covered the bases for every time our hero was in a hospital.

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So we got Luke in the bacta tank from ESB, why not The Lord Darth Vader himself from Rogue One? And why doesn't Vader ever lock the door when he's doing physical therapy? He's constantly being interrupted by officers and other minions at times when he's just trying to get a relaxing moment alone. It ain't easy being a Sith.

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If Vader is a candidate, then surely so is the weird clone(?) Emperor Palpatine from Exegol. While not actually submerged in a tank of bacta, he seemingly is hooked up to some kind of machine that administers constant streams of life-giving fluids to his decrepit body. Speaking of creepy, those milky white eyes certainly didn't help anyone sleep more soundly at night. It would be a surprise if this were made into a figure, but a welcome one, to be sure.

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Amanaman dragged around a headless skeleton/corpse as a trophy, and we thought that might be a gateway to proper Owen and Beru Lars, (post stormtrooper encounter) figures. But just to show that this possibility shouldn't be written off, Hasbro went out of their way to throw in a little Easter egg of their own creation inside the HasLab Sail Barge. For whatever reason, they carved a (non-removable) Ithorian prisoner skeleton inside the jail cell. It's particularly gruesome because obviously Jabba never cared enough to have the dead hammerhead removed and tossed overboard, and probably decided it would scare the bejesus out of anyone unlucky enough to earn a spot in that cell. So how long had it been there in order to decompose fully into a skeleton? Who knows. But kudos to Hasbro for coming up with this on their own.

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It was a pivotal moment for FN-2187 when his dying brother-in-arms put a bloody handprint on his helmet. Deciding that he'd rather go AWOL than clean his helmet for yet another full dress inspection by that jerk, Captain Phasma, Finn instead sprung Poe Dameron, and together they made a daring escape in a TIE Fighter to the surface of Jakku.

It's not the first time that a bloody handprint ended up on a trooper's armor. After Captain Rex killed a Rishi eel and rescued a handful of clone trooper cadets at an outpost, Rex placed his hand, which was covered by the eel's blood, onto the chest armor of clone trooper Echo. Echo maintained the handprint on his armor throughout his entire career. Of course, that was the blue blood of a dangerous beast, while in the case of Finn, it was the red blood of his dying friend. Sadly, Hasbro relegated this version of Finn to the not-OK-5POA line.

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You know that reaction you have when you see something that you know is gonna burn real bad? You scrunch your face like you're eating a lemon and do a sudden intake of air through gritted teeth and make a hissing sound? Well, when I saw AOTC the first time, everyone in attendance at the theater did that simultaneously when the nexu swiped Padmé's back with his claws. And Hasbro allowed you to bring that moment to your bookshelf with this Padmé figure. Complete (or is it "incomplete"?) with torn outfit and deep, bloody gouges in her skin. Good stuff.

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The attempt on Palpatine's life may have left him scarred and deformed, but Hasbro was there to capture the moment in figure form. Not satisfied with Chancellor Palpatine or Emperor Palpatine as standalone figures, Hasbro set out to allow kids and collectors to recreate the precise instant where his battle with Mace Windu turned him from a wrinkled old man into an even more badly wrinkled old man. To make the feature work, Hasbro needed to take a little artistic license by putting Palpatine in an outfit we didn't see on screen, with the big hood in order to help conceal his double-faced head. Push the lever on his back, and not only does the head swivel 180 degrees to reveal his new Sithly visage, but lights on the wrists activate to enhance the included lightning accessories. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

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Back in 1999, Hasbro released what was the best ever Stormtrooper sculpt in the POTF2 Commtech line. The figure had a debut feature. There was a temperature sensitive blast mark on the trooper's chest. When exposed to cold air, the blast mark turned black. When returned to room temperature, it faded back into something resembling invisible. It was pretty neat, if you wanted to put your stormtroopers in the freezer to see it work. It took almost 2 decades for Hasbro to revisit this technology when they did the opposite thing with the Dryden Vos (Filthy Sixer) figure. That one had a face that transformed into his angry animal version (or something like that) when exposed to heat. It's better than Nerf missiles, that's for sure.

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In 2008, at the tail end of the Thirtieth Anniversary Collection, Hasbro released a wave of figures in support of The Force Unleashed video game. One of the best was this Darth Vader with battle damage. Beat down after a duel with Starkiller, Vader is beaten down pretty badly. His helmet is smashed, his bodysuit is in tatters, and his shoe fell off. What you're left with is a half-exposed Anakin Skywalker, in his pink and scarred glory, along with some internal bionics. It's a super cool figure, and one of my favorite from the TAC line, but definitely kind of gross.

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The countdown will continue soon. Stay tuned!

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