I'm pretty content with everything, not that the Hi-Rez photos are much to base that assumption on since they do seem to be "early" versions of the figures that everyone's already cited flaws with...
The Snowtrooper's my stand-out favorite of the wave I think, mostly due to his army builder status, but add to that the fact this figure's NEVER had a "decent" version made of him. There's 3 unique Snowtroopers and not one was ever really that great... That really bumps this figure up in my book.
Han's great to me... I get the hat's a distraction, but I figure slitting the skirt for some posing isn't out of the question and he is seen around echo base without the hat on... I dig that. I figure I'd rather be trying to make a removable hood for him than not for him, but ideally Hasbro would've given us both heads. Alas that wasn't meant to be.
Luke I like but... I'm not fond of the expression. I can deal with the waist not tapering, even though I think it does a little, but the face is... Well it's not inaccurate to the character, it's just sort of dumbfounded looking and a little weird. If that skin tone remains and the ball/sockets are a match, I think a swap with Pilot Luke might work.
Bossk... Why do I like Trandoshans? 'Cause they gets all da ladies. Bossk is back and better than ever. I love the rampant (elsewhere) gripes of "why do him, he just got a good figure a couple years ago", but when you look at it, he's under articulated still and has some pre-posing going on to boot. I'll take this baby in a heartbeat and I'm HOPING they do a Danz Borin using this as a base. An easy/cheap cranking out of a Cantina denizen and he'd be SA on top of everything! They've got the mold, so use it!
IG-88... This is THE figure I was debating whether I liked it as much, or more than the SNowtrooper... The wires, the articulation, the DESIGN... This is outstanding. You can see, ever-so-slightly, the knee joints... And the knife. I still can't get over that he has his knife. Kudos to Hasbro on a figure that rivals their best work in terms of sculpt. Now I just hope he's sturdy on those swizzel stick legs. It's more than possible to accomplish, it's just a matter of Hasbro actually using the right plastic or attempting to get away with cheapy plastic on him. That's my only fear on IG-88.
Otherwise the more I think, he may be my favorite, he's just that sharp looking... But man an SA Snowtrooper, like the Scout last year, has been a LONG time coming. NOw we need SA Rebels because, well, Hasbro's screwed the pooch on every Rebel "trooper" figure till the Honor Guard this year and it's just high friggin' time for some Hothies, Endie's, and Fleeties.
Some curiosities...
-Will Hasbro give us Han, again somewhere down the road, but with the hooded head? What about in blue colors? His coat's brown, that's really difficult to debate at this point, but do they throw nostalgia a bone on blue ones? Or worse, do they do the hooded figure down the road ONLY in blue? That'd suck.
-Would Hasbro use Bossk for Danz Borin?
-Snowtrooper's an obvious candidate for a legends assortment next year I think. Isn't the Scout making it this year? I didn't really keep up with the voting much on that crap beyond the Pit Droids.
-Is IG-88 Hasbro's best design/sculpting work ever perhaps? I'd say he beats VOTC Chewie and Ephant Mon (Ephant's not anything special as far as design but he is one of the finer sculpts in the modern line I believe)?
