The Last Jedi Figures

Star Wars:  The Last Jedi

basic 3.75" figures - Hasbro

 

Well, it's that time again...another Star Wars movie!  While mostly a beat-for-beat remake of A New Hope, the Force Awakens was okay.  It's final judgment hinges on where they go with the next chapter, The Last Jedi.  No worries though.  It's gonna be great because of Porgs!  PORGS! Penguin-pugs!  Close in cuteness to Ewoks, but slightly less annoying than Gungans! You say you've been waiting 34 years for the next adventure of Luke Skywalker?  Who cares?!  PORGS!

 



These new figures are pretty good in the sculpt department, no matter how much whining toy collectors do about the lack of articulation.  Looks like old Mark Hamill to me...does he really need to be posed in Darth Maul-style combat?  The plastic cape is soft enough not to hinder the arms and legs, and definitely drapes better than the cloth mess on the super-articulated figure.  It is Luke's only accessory.  Sorry, I guess he lost his green lightsaber, too.  "That is a story for another time." Shut up, Maz Kanata.

Weird, middle-aged, non-canon Luke, meet sad, senior citizen, canon Luke.  Oh, what might have been...what could have been.  Nah.  Star Wars in the early 90's would have looked as terribly dated today as the dinosaur establishing shot in Jurassic Park does. 

Chewie's forehead seems a bit tall, but who cares?  He's just an accessory to this Porg! 

Say, what has Luke been eating all those years on the island?

 

They don't make Bowcasters like they used to...

Well the gang is finally all together again, if only on our toy shelves and in our dreams...and in the boxes of Expanded Universe novels and comics locked away and forgotten in my garage.  Rogue One deserves worse.  It sucked...but this new one is gonna be great!