While the mold is clearly the same, the texturing on the flight suit looks a lot more pronounced on the new figure. Here’s a quick shot of them standing side by side and it’s easy to see what a monumental difference the better noggin makes, but I’ll come back to that in a bit.
And that’s fine, because my issue with the previous figure was from the neck up. So, this is essentially an apology do-over figure of Poe in his X-Wing Pilot outfit and from the neck down, it’s actually the exact same sculpt that we got last time. That quickly descended into, well, if I’m buying one I might as well buy a few more. When I saw him on the peg and realized he was so much better than the garbage Happy Meal toy of a figure that we got for The Force Awakens, I decided to buy him to replace the old one. I wanted to start with Poe, because he’s the main reason I bought these. I’m not sure if that’s the norm, but it’s certainly enough to vex the MOSC collectors. On a side note, just about every one of these cards came out of the cases all bent to hell. The packages are fresh and original, and it’s a shame I already tore them to shreds. I really miss the days of “Collect Them All.” Anyway, I dig what Hasbro has done here. Unfortunately, the back of the cards are a f’ugly multi-lingual soup with a mix of warnings and copyright information. The bubble shows off the figure and accessories quite nicely, and there’s an insert that calls out the Force Link gimmick, which uses a chip to identify the figure and play sound clips out of a glove-like accessory (sold separately!). The presentation here is white, clean, and snappy! The Star Wars logo is in red and you get a red swipe with the character’s name along with some great character art striping the card to the right of the bubble. But that’s OK, let’s just borrow the official Hasbro pictures to have a look at the packaging… Also, because I have even less willpower, I wound up opening them in the car while I was waiting for my order of Chinese Food to be ready, so I don’t even have any packaged shots.
And after publicly boasting about my awesome willpower, I folded exactly one day later and bought four of these little buggers.
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I ordered the 6-inch Black Series figures that I wanted online, and I planned on abstaining from the 3 3/4-inch offerings completely. But as a buyer I was trying to sit most of this one out. Last weekend was Force Friday II, an event where retailers launch the new toys for the upcoming Episode 8: The Last Jedi, and my job requires that I partake, as a planner, coordinator, and executor.
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