After waiting for months after my pre-ordering, the 501st Legion Vader's Fist Clone Trooper finally arrives. He came with the usual accessories of a long blaster rifle and a short blaster, a pair of fist hands and finally, a doll stand. Exactly the same kind of accessories as the Utapau and Shocktrooper though I am not sure those 2 came with a pair of spare hands or just 1 pcs. Too lazy to check.
Something immediately caught my eyes when I first took this out from the box. The black spandex suit's material had changed. For the previous troopers, they came with a sort of rubbery suit while this one came with stretchable cloth material. Just like the material used to make socks. It is a pleasant surprise for me as I prefer cloth over the rubbery material used previously. At least cloth won't vulcanize or crack in time to come.
Have used a Corruscant background with a burning Jedi Temple... how sweet to have these guys charging into the place causing havoc ;)
Sometimes I just felt like a fool buying up these repainted figures (from the same mold) and falling into Lucas's trap of his rapid merchandising trick. Credit to him for managing to create a small part of stories relating to each color. Have skipped the gray ones as I don't really recall seeing them that much in the movie.
There is a constant struggle within me to reason out for not getting the gray guy in the name of completing all CT that Sideshow puts out. But I know we can never have it all...
I think that's about all the Clone Troopers that are more note worthy in the movie, next thing will be their commanders. Had Cody on pre-order and now struggling whether to add Rex into team. Makes sense to do so don't ya think?
2 comments:
Pretty agree with your statement here..So many Clone Troopers to collect :)
Yup. Get those troopers that at least had some amount of screen time instead of those obscure background trooper characters :)
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