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| Sculpt: |
| Darth Vader, Chewbacca, and even Obi-Wan Kenobi, the vintage Kenner Stormtrooper action figures were the same mold throught the 1978-85 toy lines. For their Vintage OTC Trooper, Hasbro chose to recreate the ROTJ line packaging. After the overwhelming success of the CLONE WARS line's Super Poseable Clone Trooper, this is the Stormtrooper that ravenous army-builders have been dreaming (and drooling) about for well over a year. The all-new sculpt accurately depicts the Original Trilogy Troopers' armor, with the best version of the infanous helmet to date: 9.5 out of 10. |
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| Paint: |
| As always, the Trooper is molded in white, with black, gray, and silver paint decos. Some of the past decos that were painted gray are now a medium blue-gray, but things otherwise appear to be very similar to the paint apps of the Saga '03 HOF Stormtrooper: 9/10. |
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| Articulation: |
| The Stormtrooper has a pop-off ball-jointed head, with ball-jointed shoulders, elbows, knees, ankles, and waist. The wrists are planer-cuts. Total points of articulation are fourteen. While the figure can hold its blaster in either hand, I couldn't get it to hold it two-handed: 8/10. |
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| Accessories: |
| The Stormtrooper comes with the smaller version of the POTJ Imperial blaster, molded in black with no paint details. It fits awkwardly into the slit in the Trooper's holster on its left hip: 7/10. |
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| Packaging: |
| The same Vintage OTC clamshell outer case as the rest of the line, with an inner blistercard that reproduces most of the elements from the original Kenner card. The clamshell insert depicts the OTC logo with silver-foil highlights, with the UPC code on the bottom of the insert. The blistercard reverse explains the significance of the OTC, showing a photo of an original, carded 1983 ROTJ Stormtrooper. It also shows small pictures of all four figures in the ROTJ wave, with a list of all 12 VOTC figures below that: 8.5/10. |
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| Availability: |
| The figure first appeared at retail over six months ago, but was fairly scarce because the ANH wave was still pegwarming when this wave was released. Army-builders scarfed these things up as if they were made from solid gold -- and to those so inclined, I guess they almost are. It just means that the more, um, rational collectors had to hunt a bit harder for them. The good news is, if you actually manage to find them at retail now, they're half-price! 7/10. |
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| Conclusion: |
| The Super-Articulated 3 3/4-inch Stormtrooper that army-builders have been begging and whining about is here at last, but the collectible packaging and higher price-point means that army-builders and just plain ol' collectors are going crazy over them! They're nice, and I've got the one that suffices to fill my collection. Please, just don't go kneecapping each other over them in Wal-Mart or Toys "R" Us, okay? 8.2/10. |
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