The Mandalorian

 The Mandalorian

Cara Dune, Remnant Stormtroopers, Imperial Combat Assault Tank

Hasbro

I’ve had these a while, but just now Getting around to having a closer look.  As I mentioned back in my custom Baby Yoda review, Disney/Hasbro underestimated the success of the show, and was way late getting any merch to the fans.  Still, how they got to a Raider goon and redecorated AT-ST before the titular character is a bit baffling.

Anyway, he’s here now, along with the badass, Cara Dune.  Not much to say about them...they are both well executed figures in the classic 3.75 inch scale.  This is Mando from the very beginning of the season, so no jet pack or upgraded armor.  Judging by how long they let fans of this scale wait, we’ll get some Beskar armored Mando from the end of season one right around the time season three ends.

No jet pack, but at least he comes with my favorite nod to the Star Wars Holiday Special:  the tuning-fork, disintegrator rifle.  If they’re going to integrate garbage from Clone Wars and Rebels into the show, why not explain this one in future seasons.  Boba Fett popping up again is inevitable.  I can live with it...if they can push the Holiday Special further into canon (Life Day exists!  Thanks, Jon Favreau!), I’m game.

Hasbro has also delivered some dirty-decoed, Remnant Stormtroopers in this scale.  Of course, I needed at least six to fill the slots on the now-canon Imperial Troop Transport.  This is the cheap-o Rebels model...I wasn’t paying $80 on the revamp.  Though I do notice its down close to $50 on clearance.  If it gets to $40, maybe...

 

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Like the tank here...I think it was $70 out of the gate.  I got it for $28 on clearance.  It’s a nice looking vehicle, but definitely not worth full price.  As much as I despise Rogue One, I do like the removable containers that house Kyber crystals.

 

Wrapping up, three new figures in classic scale from the Mandalorian is a step in the right direction.  However, I will not be satisfied until I have tiny versions of Werner Herzog, Giancarlo Esposito, and Carl Weathers in my Star Wars collection.

 

More Mando goodness:

The Child custom figure

AT-ST Raider

Commander Bond and the Knights of Ren

Commander Bond and the Knights of Ren

Disney Store PVC figurines - custom Hasbro figure

Since Disney stalled out on Star Wars, this leaves a large, sad gap in the 3.75inch figure line.  Yes, the Knights of Ren were a big washout (in the tradition of other cool-looking-but-armor-is-not-a-character characters, like Boba Fett and Captain Phasma), but surely my imagination could fix them if only I had plastic representations. Luckily, the Disney Store produces a similarly scaled line of PVC figurines to scratch that itch.

A set of 10 figures was $26, and included the 6 Knights, Kylo, a First Order Stormtrooper, Sith Trooper, and Jet Pack Trooper.  They are just statues, but they are highly sculpted and detailed.  Lots of nice metal weathering and mud where appropriate on the Knights.  

These guys were all given names after production (which I haven’t bothered to learn).  The one they made for the Vintage line (big ax guy) was just “Knight of Ren” on his card.  My favorite is gun arm guy.

The vintage line made a Sith Jet Trooper, but no standard jet trooper.  Which I find strange, since it was featured in one of the earliest released clips of “Rise of Skywalker” and made the cut in kiddie toys, along with the catapulting speeder thing.

 

That’s about all I’ve got on these.  They look nice and fill a hole in my collection until Disney figures out what to do with this mess in the future.  To spice up this lackluster review, I’m throwing in a custom figure.

Daniel Craig had a cameo (or at least his voice did) as a Stormtrooper in “The Force Awakens”, so I took a head from a “Golden Compass”(the atheist Narnia flop) figure, put it on a Stormtrooper Finn figure, and painted over the bloody handprint on the helmet.  I also dremeled out the helmet a bit to get it to fit better.  Quick and easy, but reminded me that I need a Galen Erso figure after all.  Rogue One sucked, but “Casino Royale” in the Star Wars galaxy is a win!

BTW...Sam Smith’s Spectre theme was awful: