ATTN HASBRO: Use Caution Before Releasing A Deluxe Snowtrooper Set

Posted by Chris on 12/11/21 at 07:10 AM Category: Vintage Collection

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I can't be the only one who saw the recently revealed Imperial Stormtrooper with E-Web Cannon , and immediately started dreaming of a similar deluxe set with a Snowtrooper. That is where the E-Web first made it's on-screen appearance being manned by a pair of Imperial Snowtroopers in The Empire Strikes Back. But if Hasbro leaps into such an offering by using the "good enough" VTSC Snowtrooper, they have a huge problem. The reason:

That VTSC Snowtrooper is so far away from the modern standard for the Vintage Collection that it's not even funny. "Good enough" can be used to justify re-releasing substandard sculpts of secondary characters for which new tooling dollars make zero sense. "Good enough" should never be used to justify doing the same for core characters and certainly never for army builders. Hasbro, if you wanted to re-release the 2007 30-26 CZ-4:

If you re-released that 2007 VTSC Snowtrooper:

To me the only critique I really need to make about that Snowtrooper is that it can't really perform a two-handed-weapon-grip (THWG). That is a fatal flaw for an E-11 wielding trooper. You may think that it can perform a THWG, but look closely. You will notice the E-11 is being contorted into a c-shape. This isn't to say that some retooling of the arms could make the figure passable. A trooper these days needs the full lower body glam treatment from ball jointed hips crossing over a thigh swivel heading towards ball jointed knees with good range of motion until it all ends at glorious rocker ankles. Hasbro, if you gave the Snowtrooper the VC140 treatment plus rocker ankles:

This communicating via gifs is a whole heck of a lot easier than writing. Hasbro, you would cash in all that fat O96 money (put me down for two cases), and then you could put the tooling to re-use with a deluxe E-Web set. If you really wanted to get whacky, you could even release a Blue Star. I'd buy one faster than I bought the Droids Boba Fett.