The Utapau grunt looks fantastic. I'm completely happy except that once again he obviously doesn't come with the rifle and it's getting sorta comical that Hasbro won't give us the rifle... It's the most seen weapon the Clones have but yet most of us have them in limited supply, haha.
I've been scarfing up loose ones I see at Toy Shows just to try and outfit my troops... The paintjob is one of Hasbro's more heavily weathered but it looks good I think.
The Republic Commando's a huge disappointment in that this, an army builder extrordinaire, has such limited leg articulation. The upper body's fantastic, the sculpt's good I think... I like the gear. Hasbro taking the dickishly cheap route by not articulating the legs any better than a 1983 Star Wars figure though, is just ****** on their part.
What the hell happened to toys with this company? Every toy line in this scale has 10 times the articulation Hasbro does at this point... 2006 has seen a huge regression in quality simply because Hasbro's cut back on articulation I'm afraid. Till it changes, a lot of figures get a disappointing rating from me... Just put some F'n knee joints on the figure and let's get back to the quality we were seeing in 2005 for the most part. Figures like Veers or Derlin have been disappionting, but a Clone Commando is a HUGE disappointment when the articulation's cut like this at the legs.
They're so close to perfect in my eyes, and yet they're so far simply because of this. This blows, but was expected so it's not a huge shock at this piont, it's just dejecting about the line overall at this point. I want action figures, not statues...
