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Black Series Wave 5 Darth Vader In-Hand Gallery

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Darth Vader. The one everyone’s been waiting for. Black Series Darth Vader is here and ready to spread the dark side to your galactic shelves. When he was first seen it was a love/hate situation – it had all the key elements, some thought it went a bit overboard on the soft goods tho. I was in the middle and wanted to wait until I had it in hand to judge. Well, I do so let’s take a look after the break courtesy of site sponsor Entertainment Earth!

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Black Series Wave 5 Darth Vader

Pros
Tall
Great movement under the cape
2 piece removable helmet
Cape has anchors at the front corners to keep it weighted in posing.
Face sculpt and detailing under the mask is awesome

Cons
Helmet looks a bit chunky when fully on
Cape is not removable, stitched into shoulders.
Inner soft goods near hip tends to come out of holder slot

Overall
I was very surprised by this figure. I thought the cape would be too doll-y for me, but after taking it for a spin I was cool. The weighted corners allow you to toss it into a position and it stays put. The inner one, little pain in the ass, it’s folded and then tucked into a slot on his waist, but the fold comes undone easily. Once you get it posed up tho should be fine. The Helmet – when off it’s a great death scene head. But when on it’s a little fat. All the other details like the suit and armor molding and paint, the chest panel, all are on point. Articulation is there and easily positioned, maybe a bit loose in the legs. Overall, when you get him posed up or battling Luke, it’s an impressive figure and very well done. Putting him in the same wave as Jedi Luke just makes the pair an easy grab when you see them. Check some cool shots right here, and over 50 down below!

Black Series Darth Vader 14

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Black Series Darth Vader 46

Black Series Darth Vader 60

Make sure to check out our other Star Wars Black Series galleries as well:

SDCC Black Series Boba Fett with Carbonite Han Solo
Black Series #01 Luke Skywalker
Black Series #02 Darth Maul
Black Series #03 Sandtrooper High Res Gallery
Black Series #04 R2-D2 High Res Gallery
Black Series Wave 1 Artistic Shots
Black Series #05 Princess Leia (Slave Outfit) High Res Gallery (Wave 2)
Black Series #06 Boba Fett High Res Gallery (Wave 2)
Black Series #07 Greedo High Res Gallery (Wave 2)
Black Series #08 Han Solo High Res Gallery (Wave 2)
Black Series Wave 2 Artistic Shots (Wave 2)
Black Series #09 Stormtrooper High Res Gallery (Wave 2)
Black Series #010 Obi-Wan Kenobi High Res Gallery (Wave 3)
Black Series #011 Luke Skywalker High Res Gallery (Wave 3)
Black Series Wave 3 Artistic Shots
Black Series #12 Anakin Skywalker High Res Gallery (Wave 4)
Black Series #14 Clone Trooper High Res Gallery (Wave 4)
SDCC Black Series Jabba The Hutt & Throne Room
Black Series Deluxe Biker Scout & Speeder Bike (Deluxe Wave 1)
Black Series Deluxe Jabba the Hutt (Deluxe Wave 1)
Black Series #01 Sandtrooper (Wave 5)
Black Series #03 Luke Skywalker (Wave 5)
Black Series #04 Chewbacca (Wave 5)

Related Entertainment Earth links: All Star Wars Black Series, All Hasbro Star Wars, All Star Wars Products.

Discussion / Comments (Jump to this Thread on the Forum)

  4. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    Chewy looks good. Wish the gray on his hands and feet was a little more covered. Other than that, pretty solid.

  5. Frank Richards's Avatar Frank Richards says

    Lol, I'm soooo envious of you right now ! Chewie looks so good !

    Despite all of my hunting, I still haven't found him yet. I guess I should be happy that I was lucky enough to find Darth Vader though.

  7. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    Luke turned out great. The swappable chest plate is interesting. Vader looks good as well. The pyre scene is a nice touch.

  8. Tony_Bacala's Avatar Tony_Bacala says

    Thanks. Yeah, this wave brought the Black Series back for me. It was getting a bit boring. This wave is 4 solid figures, no fronting. Shadow Troopers and White Boba are next on the list.

  9. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    The Vader helmet is definitely a bit too large. But, it does come off into multiple pieces without head swapping, which is pretty cool.

  10. Phwalalabah has no avatar! Phwalalabah says

    "Since soft goods are being used in this line, it would be nice to get a cloak for use in some Jabba scenes"

    I believe that he wears a slightly different costume in those scenes anyway, so the cape wouldn't have been necessary for this particular version of Luke.

  11. Tony_Bacala's Avatar Tony_Bacala says

    Just looked it up, you are right. My star wars love is "hyper casual", mostly from when I was a kid. I just always thought black Luke = Jedi. Learn something new every day.

  12. Dr Kain's Avatar Dr Kain says

    The lower area of Vader looks so much better than it did earlier this year, but his helmet looks a little bigger. They should have just done alternate heads instead.

    And what is up with Luke's face?

  13. En Sabah Nerd's Avatar En Sabah Nerd says

    The helmet would have looked better if it wasn't removable for Vader, and using soft-goods for the torso sash-things is too much soft-goods. I can't escape the feeling that the abundance of soft-goods makes it look closer to being a doll than an action figure, much like the Emperor seen at NYCC (it's still an action figure but so much soft-good is very doll-like). Still, we probably won't get another 6" Vader if they do another it'd probably just be a re-release of this figure so what choice do I get, at least it looks good with troopers.

  14. Skoob's Avatar Skoob says

    Quote:
    They should have just done alternate heads instead.
    That would have been a good option. I was thinking that these figures reach a broader audience that includes children, making avoidance of mouth-sized parts a priority, but that would also rule out the little guns and accessories, so I guess they just decided to be ambitious with the removable helmet. It's a touch on the large side, but you have to give them credit for overall success.

    Luke seems frail. He needs to bulk up - eat more protein, and spend more time exercising at the Academy.

  17. En Sabah Nerd's Avatar En Sabah Nerd says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Skoob View Post
    Lest we forget, Figuarts is coming.
    Don't care for the plastic articulated cape (a plastic cape is fine, but when it has articulation it looks wrong), and I especially don't care for the jacked up Japanese import costs that get thrown on. I also don't know how that will stack up to this Hasbro figure size-wise.

  18. evilekim's Avatar evilekim says

    I actually really like this figure. I hear what people are saying about the alternate heads but I disagree. I think that the way they did it kinda tells the story better. This allows Vader to hold the helmet, or you can pose him maybe with Luke taking off the Vader's helmet. As opposed to just having two seperate looks. It's really ambitous that they did this, instead of doing what's expected. If you want a non removable helmet Vader, you can pick from several versions. This version is more unique. I'm glad too that they went with a slightly larger helmet as opposed to a tiny head ��

    Also, why are complaining about the size of Vader's head?! Have you seen the Luke figure?! His head is freakin HUGE lol
    I see them releasing a 2 pack with Luke maybe in time for Christmas. Possibly a final fight scene that's made out of cardboard lol

  20. En Sabah Nerd's Avatar En Sabah Nerd says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Skoob View Post
    That would be the hilarious version by Revoltech. Figuarts appears to be pursuing the rubber option.

    The Black Series version of Vader's human face is really quite good for the scale and price point.

    Thanks to whomever supplied the photos.
    If you check out his back though and the shoulder area of the cape you can see they gave it some degree of articulation, not nearly as silly/absurd as the revoltech Vader, but not what I would consider optimal appearance-wise. Plus like I said there's the Japanese import price bump, and I'm not sure how it'd size up (for all I know size-wise it works, but the cape does look like it's plastic with some articulation).

  21. VashTS has no avatar! VashTS says

    If anyone has owned the Revoltech Vash figure, articulated cape is the way to go....to eachtheir own I guess....but don't dismiss Revoltech because of the poor pose.

  22. En Sabah Nerd's Avatar En Sabah Nerd says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by VashTS View Post
    If anyone has owned the Revoltech Vash figure, articulated cape is the way to go....to eachtheir own I guess....but don't dismiss Revoltech because of the poor pose.
    I'm not dismissing the Revoltech version because it has a plastic cape with pose, I'm dismissing it because it looks bad having pose the way it does. In the movie his cape is fairly hugging around him or dropped back over his shoulders, not floating above them like the Revoltech figure. Other than the cape the Bandai and Revoltech figures look fine.

  23. Talisman's Avatar Talisman says

    That's probably the best-looking Luke we've gotten out of the line so far. I may need to get two to swap out the head on the Bespin version.

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