Although I really, really like this VOTC line, and I will buy each and every one (if I can find them), I'm not sure I'm totally sold on the soft goods tunic on Luke.
I feel the same way - it reminds me of the jackets from the old Princess Leia collection. It just goes to show soft goods aren't the end-all-be-all of solutions, considering it looks like they've focused a considerable amount of attention on nailing the look of the tunic here, with nice stitching and good material, and it still just doesn't work.
It's not really a big deal to me with all the other perfectly good Tat Lukes out there, like you said. I'm sure Hasbro hasn't forgotten the wrath of collectors from the glut of them a few years ago, and tried soft goods as something new, since they couldn't well not include him in the VOTC in that costume.
Yoda on Card is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in a long time...a long time
I think this is the best example so far of the VOTC's intent. Seeing that figure on the card looks so close to the vintage version in scale, you'd almost not notice the figure was new. It seems to pull off the nostalgia bit a lot better than the others for some reason.
And go figure, after not liking SG on Luke at all, it looks perfect on Yoda.
