Its plastic fur, and to me, at least from the pic they show, it doesn't look too bad at all....much better than past versions. I was really surprised to have it show up in the mailbox today, since it wasn't supposed to "ship" until the 22nd (and usually it is a couple weeks late getting to me, but we've since moved). Maybe it was because I recently renewed my membership, there are some nice Episode III pics in there too.