The Last Jedi - Wave 2

The Last Jedi - Wave 2

Hasbro basic 3.75" figures

The Last Jedi is here and boy is it...disappointing.  Just my opinion.  Well, despite being a critical darling, it's not just my opinion...looks like lots of long-time, professed Star Wars fans are uneasy about some of the choices made with this sequel.  But, we aren't here to analyze movies, just the toys they spawn.  I will try to be as spoiler free as possible.  With this second wave of figures we get new "old" Luke and Leia, Rey in Jedi garb, some red guy, and Benicio Del Toro.

 

Remember when a Rey figure from the end of Force Awakens came out before the movie and it included Luke's lightsaber and all the fans that cried "spoilers" at the top of their lungs despite the fact that a battery commercial had been airing all month featuring a little girl dressed as Rey waving a lightsaber around?  Ah, memories.  If you considered Rey being Force-sensitive and getting trained by Luke Skywalker a spoiler, bless your heart.  And if you haven't yet seen Force Awaken, don't look at this figure, whatever you do!  *SPOILERS!*  JEDI TRAINING REY!  LIGHTSABER ACCESSORY!  Sort-of Spoiler:  Rey may or may not have a receding hairline in the new movie...or I got a figure with a bad paint job.

Also, she is packed with a Praetorian Guard who is kind of like the Emperor's red guards (you know, like poetry) but his armor could also be compared to Vlad the Impaler's in the opening prologue to Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula." *SPOILER*  REY FIGHTS DRACULA IN NEW STAR WARS MOVIE!  GARY OLDMAN SET TO REPRISE ROLE!  Wait a minute...he has a double-bladed weapon...DARTH MAUL RETURNS IN THE LAST JEDI!  Sort-of spoiler: the weapon splits in two halves.  Until I saw the movie, couldn't tell if that was supposed to happen or just a design flaw.

 It's the first (recognizable) Benicio Del Toro action figure!  Sure, there were a couple of Wolfman remake figures, but that movie was trash.  You would be better off repurposing those as "Dog-faced Boy/Big Top Pee-wee" customs...offensive, but slightly less offensive.  Anyway, the figure looks enough like the actor, but the eyes and eye baggage are lacking something.  Maybe if I soaked the figure in some malt liquor and left if it to dry in an ashtray overnight...*SPOILERS* Benicio plays an untrustworthy criminal in this movie.  Is typecasting really a spoiler?

I'm not really sure why Luke wears his white Jedi robes in exile at all, when he spends most of his time in the movie *SPOILERS* in his hermit rags.  And why a glove on the robot hand at all?  Oh, I know why...the alien butler from the "Find the Fish" sketch in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" doesn't want you *SPOILERS* touching it's nips with that cold thing when you come to milk it.   That would be some San Diego Comic-Con exclusive 2-pack: Milking Alien with Milk-stache Luke variant.

This Leia figure is a great improvement over the "Mommy Dearest" eyebrows on the Force Awakens Black Series figure.  She has a blaster that *SPOILERS* is neither seen or used in the film. 

Spot on as far as likeness goes, I could see this one being repainted for a *SPOILER* "Deep-Space Leia/Frozen Fish Stick" 2-pack down the line.

 

Nah, I'm just kidding.  I mean, there's no way we'll see that 2-pack before we get the "Carrie/Gary Fisher Convention Circuit" 2-pack:

$40 for a photo-op with Princess Leia's dog?!  Sign me up!