While I unfortunately did not get the opportunity to attend the Midnight Madness toy release for the new Clone Wars toys, yesterday I headed off to Target with hopes of finding the toys and a wallet full of cash. Target has completely re-done the Star Wars section, giving it more shelf space and two end caps full of Clone Wars goodness. The Legacy Collection looks promising, but the only thing I’m collecting this year are the movie figures. Hey, it’s a movie year. We don’t get many of those. And from the figures I saw, the Legacy Collection was a bunch of re-packaged Saga Legends figures.
While I’m sure I’ll end up buying them all, I had limited funds last night, and I was out to pick up some main characters. So Obi-Wan and Anakin were musts. Of course, we can’t not get one of those awesome animated clones. And because I like figures in even numbers, I picked up a Trade Federation battle droid. All these figures are great, my favorite being the Obi Wan with removable helmet. While at first I didn’t like the Jedi’s mix of par
tial Clone armor and jedi robes, it’s really started to grow on me. The Clone looks great, and the action-feature missile launched actually looks pretty cool on the figure.
Hasbro ingeniously made these figures for the adults and the kids at the same time, with the action features being removable accessories. We all remember some of those horrible leg-squeezing action features the Revenge of the Sith figures had. So, hats of to Hasbro for the idea of removable action accessories, which allow for the older audience to have a movie-acurate, fully-articulated figure.
These are some of the coolest figures I’ve seen in a while. It seems a movie year brings out the best in Hasbro.
