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Kenner Retro Collection / Re: Target 2024 Kenner Retro Collection - The Phantom Menace
« Last post by Ryan on March 29, 2024, 11:26 PM »I saw one of these out on the shelves at Target here in Denver tonight.
Agreed on the size of the helmet. But I think a removable helmet will almost never look quite right since all of the AOTC troopers were digital characters - there was no need for the helmet to be functional and for an actual person to wear it. If you look at some of the close up shots of troopers during the battle of Geonosis, it looks as if there's no way that helmet could be removed unless it split apart somehow.
But the one thing that's notably better here? The visor on the helmet! I don't know how Hasbro dropped the ball so badly on the phase II armor's visor. Thankfully this looks a hell of a lot better.
The two on the left look like they were released that way! But the two on the right have a little too much facial hair to be convincing Imperials. That's something that always gets me with some Imperial custom figures - too much facial hair. The Empire always struck me as a bit too uptight for that sort of thing.