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Review |
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| Sculpt: |
| Jedi Master Saesee Tiin leads his Clone Troopers in a daring ship-to-ship space walk in STAR WARS: CLONE WARS. With their Republic Destroyer breached, General Tiin dons armor and a space helmet to cross the short void of outer space between the two ships. This is a mostly new sculpt. The head is from the REVENGE OF THE SITH Saesee Tiin, while the body and helmet is all-new. The Clone Armor is a bit different from the regular Trooper armor, especially at the shoulders and belt. The helmet fits around Master Tiin's horns, and has air hoses coming out the bottom that attach to a control panel that sits on his chest. A very nice, movie-realistic interpretation of the animated character: 9 out of 10. |
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| Paint: |
| Saesee Tiin's head and hands are molded in a very pale flesh tone. His head has white paint apps to the eyes, with black lashes and brown irises (there are no pupils). His horns have a medium sand colored app, and the skin around his face is a light melon color that progresses to a darker melon on the back of his head. There are black and white striped decos on the back of his head. The hands have a light gray app to the armor plating. His body and helmet are molded in light gray. The helmet has a dark metallic blue paint app to the T-visor. There are orange, red, blue, and silver paint decos to the chest box. The air hoses have medium gray paint apps. There are dark melon apps to the pressure-seals that fit around the horns. The torso has a dark gray app at the undersuit around the neck, and a melon app at the skin of the neck. There's a dark brown app to the Jedi tunic that fits over the armor. The arms and legs have dark gray apps to all the exposed undersuit areas. The lower tunic is molded in dark brown. His lightsaber is molded in translucent blue, with a silver paint app: 8.5/10.. |
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| Articulation: |
| Master Tiin's head, shoulders, elbows, knees, and ankles are all ball-jointed. His waist, wrists, and hips have standard, planer-cut joints. Surprisingly, the non-softgoods lower robes don't inhibit the hip joints much at all. He can hold his lightsaber with both hands, and it looks pretty cool: 9/10. |
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| Accessories: |
| Saesee Tiin comes with a removable helmet, ignited lightsaber, and the right leg for the R7-T1 build-a-droid figure: 8/10. |
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| Packaging: |
| The Legacy Collection card uses a diecut stormtrooper helmet as its base, with the STAR WARS logo in light blue and "The Legacy Collection" printed in black just beneath it. The figure info is printed on the blister insert, and depicts Saesee Tiin with a heavily manipulated image from REVENGE OF THE SITH. Each figure's name is in the center of the insert, while their number in the collection is just below their image. Saesee Tiin is figure number 11. The cardback features photos of all 8 figures in the second wave of the collection, and has text that explains the character's role in the CLONE WARS micro-series: 8/10. |
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| Availability: |
| As of this writing, the figure has been appearing at retail for less than one month, and is readily available from both retail and various online sources: 9/10. |
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| Conclusion: |
| This Clone-armored version of Saesee Tiin from the Cartoon Network's micro-series is perhaps one of the most fan-requested EU figures to come out of the original animated CLONE WARS. Although there are some minor inaccuracies (his hands should be gloved, not exposed; his T-visor should be black; and his cape is missing), this one does pretty well by the character: 8.6/10. |
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