Nice review Ryan....we still need Jesse to weigh in on this one.
I love these army builder sets and consider them fine additions. Superior I’d dare say to the carded figure really. Makes it all the more meh that they didn’t at least give the Rogue One Trooper a new hair color for variety’s sake.
Now it’s like the rebels like to recruit at the retirement home.
With my sets generally I felt the paint apps were good but I think mine have some paint straying as well (like Ryan’s sets). Such is collecting though. I see it often these days.
Obviously the sculpt is pretty amazing… miles ahead of the potj figure. To get some extra ethnicities now too is nice, and something I’d love seeing with the Endor and Hoth rebels and also the echo base trooper. I’d kinda like pretty significantly new Endor Rebels though, in general. And I’d dig seeing some Imperial Mud Troopers in a pack using some of these new parts and them to have some multiple ethnicities.
I would never turn my nose up at a new sculpt like Ryan mentioned, but honestly I don’t think we’d ever get that and I don’t think it’s necessary… but I’d totally buy a bunch, haha. A little modding I can get these to kneel better for hallway defense posing an’nat. The holster thing, whatcha gonna do? Well the Echo Base Rebel you can steal his holster and belt and pop it onto the RFT. It’s an acceptable substitute. But it’s not accurate, no.
I like the idea of helmet variants but I have so many of the honor guards I’ll just use those. The white helmets that seem to lack a visor are weird but doable with some paint remover. I’ve modded some of the antennas with real metal antenna and it looks nice I think.
The Antilles is a mixed bag to me. Overall I love it and feel it has a rogue one variety look to it. It’s a superior action figure to the 03 figure, but it’s not accurate sculpt-wise to that figure, so that’s noteworthy. I prefer the new one’s head though, to the weird Sixth Sense kid looking 03 figure’s face that wasn’t bad at the time, but I’d off now to me. That said, I’d still buy that figure cheap and just articulate his knees haha. He works still. Can’t have enough Rebel variety.
I wish we’d get a Gareth Edwards variant that maybe had the Death Star plans as an accessory, someday. I’d also never turn my nose up at a new (or new legs anyway) Antilles for a carded figure of a dude I wish had an individual card.
I have 6-7 of the new packs and I’d had a pile of the new figure to begin with, so it’s just nice having an expanded army. It’s nice too that this sculpt has so many other “army builder” type figures that head swap easily to it. Im assuming it was all on accident since they don’t standardize neckball size in this line like other lines do.
Now bring on the shore troopers and a billion other packs of army building goodness!
