2023 TVC Endor AT-ST & Chewbacca

[Jedi Idej]

I'm ok with this being all re-pack. An at-st makes sense for the 40th but I don't need another at-st. I would have been miffed if they included a new figure.

[Matt_Fury]

Entertainment Earth has my order listed as Processing.  Looks like I should have it this weekend or early next week.

[Rob]

I ordered one but am waiting to open it until someone else
Does and posts about those legs. 

Has anyone seen comparison pictures of the Chewbacca and past versions with this sculpt?  If the paint is new I’ll open it regardless.

[Mister Skeezler]

I canceled mine, but I might order one eventually. If I miss out, I'm fine with that. The paint job looks fantastic, but the review on Bossk's Bounty didn't look so great with the legs.

[Matt_Fury]

I ordered one but am waiting to open it until someone else
Does and posts about those legs. 

Has anyone seen comparison pictures of the Chewbacca and past versions with this sculpt?  If the paint is new I’ll open it regardless.

Bossk's Bounty did a review you can see it here.

The Chewbacca is nice.  I'll let you know when mine arrives if I have to fix the legs.  I made a video of Jesse's tutorial on how to fix them and it's here.

[Mister Skeezler]

I ordered one but am waiting to open it until someone else
Does and posts about those legs. 

Has anyone seen comparison pictures of the Chewbacca and past versions with this sculpt?  If the paint is new I’ll open it regardless.

Bossk's Bounty did a review you can see it here.

The Chewbacca is nice.  I'll let you know when mine arrives if I have to fix the legs.  I made a video of Jesse's tutorial on how to fix them and it's here.

Thanks so much for creating that video! I have a few AT-ST's from when the Black Series 3.75" ones were being clearance out. I need to do this fix on them.

[Jeff]

the review on Bossk's Bounty didn't look so great with the legs.

Bossk's Bounty did a review you can see it here.

Yeah, that video review makes it seem like they really didn't do all that much to help the legs like Hasbro was saying they did.  Too bad that after at least 7 re-issues of this sculpt they couldn't find a better way to do the legs so it doesn't topple (or better yet sculpt a brand new one after 14 years of rehashing this mold).

[Matt_Fury]

I received mine from EE today and it stands just fine without the fix.

[Rob]

Nice.

From the review Matt posted, the paint apps look new... but they're just comparing it to one iteration of this Chewbacca, and Hasbro has used it lots of times.

Has anyone seen anything definitive about whether it's a new paint scheme or matches an existing one?

[Matt_Fury]

I compared this Chewbacca with one in my BMF Falcon and the paint is darker than that version (the one playing Dejarik in my Falcon has a lot of grey on him and this one does not.)  The one in the Cockpit of the Falcon (he's the one with the headset that came with the Falcon) looks a lot closer to this version.  I still don't have other Chewies out and displayed yet so I can't compare them all, but he's pretty similar to later versions of the character iirc.

[Rob]

Trying to get to the bottom of this... here are images of 7 Chewbaccas that use the sculpt... although only the VOTC and Co-Pilot ones use the ROTJ haircut...  I don't see any matches so far.

What other releases of this figure am I missing?

[CorranHorn]

There’s also the Early Bird Kit Chewbacca from 2005…

[Rob]

Ah right.  That’s the ANH haircut too, so still no matches.

[Dave]

what about the Solo releases?

[Ryan]

Not having this Chewie in hand, from everything I can tell it looks like a unique, straight repaint of the 2004 VOTC Chewie.

It's crazy that nearly TWENTY YEARS after the original release of that figure we are still getting repaints that are not that far off from today's standards.