Star Wars The Force Awakens is only 23 days away and the toys keep dropping! TFA Black Series wave 2 figures started to trickle out all the way back on #ForceFriday in September, then in Asian markets, and now finally they are hitting North American shelves regularly. Wave 2 consists of Captain Phasma, Poe Dameron (in pilot gear), Guavian Guard, and Constable Zuvio. The case also comes with a repack of Wave 1 Finn and the standard First Order Stormtrooper. We’re going to take a look at Wave 2 here, minus Captain Phasma. She’ll get her own post later today, so check back in a bit for that! Head on in for over 50 shots of The Force Awakens Black Series wave 2 courtesy of Entertainment Earth.
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Star Wars The Force Awaken Black Series Constable Zuvio, Guavian Enforcer and Poe Dameron
Overall – these are solid filler figures, but none personally excited me. The helmet on Poe is well done. The Guavian Enforcer looks like a cool character but the figure is a bit dark and the weathering makes it dirty, I’ll have to wait for the movie to trigger a connection. Zuvio also looks like a really cool character, but again – no connection. The star of this wave is Captain Phasma, which we’ll show off later today.
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Check some key shots here, full set below!
From Friday:
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That updated Tie Fighter is nice.
If I collected this line, I would have so much fun creating something awesome with Starkiller, the Tie Fighter, and a bunch of Stormtroopers.
The soft rubbery plastic they used on the TIE and X-Wing is a real disappointment, especially since the sculpt is nice. Warped wings forever.
It's the wing panels. You can see in the photo they are not flat.
Has anyone bought and opened the First Order Snowspeeder yet? I'm wondering if it has rubbery/warped parts too.
I'm mainly out of collecting Star Wars and pretty much have been for three years, minus a single figure here or there. That said I wouldn't pass up some of the new figures, maybe certain ones that strike my fancy, but I just cannot get into this 5 POA business. I will wait to see what the 3.75 black figures look like and possibly get some of those.
Micromachine spotlight is up:
the big thing that kept me away from the new MM is the fact that they dont have stands like the original ones had.
Yeah that was a bummer. Only way to get cool poses with the ships interacting was to put two playsets next to each other. Hopefully Hasbro or someone makes some stand packs with the proper peg ports. Even peg add-ons for Tamashii stands would work.
Love the new micro machines, but yeah they need to include some flight stands. It's the one thing holding the line back from true greatness. Even so, building tiny armies doesn't get much better for the price points.
Updated with the Snow Trooper Officer:
Shame about the dumpy elbows on the Snowtrooper. But, that's the state we're in. Cut as many corners as possible when people will buy it anyway.
I feel like the orange pauldron isn't really an issue since it was never the intended goal of the Empire to have any kind of camouflage so it stands that the First Order feels the same. Snowtroopers are just white because Stormtroopers are white, if they were actively trying to hide themselves then Scout-Troopers wouldn't be wearing all white too.
Edit: Mine came in today and I was able to get mine into a nice both hands shooting pose. I really like the pauldorn's visual flair.
cool toys, hope the movie is good
Edit: Mine came in today and I was able to get mine into a nice both hands shooting pose. I really like the pauldorn's visual flair.
Admittedly though it's possible the pauldrons on these new snowtroopers wouldn't do too much to give them away. Snow blindness could hide them as it might anything, otherwise they'd be just as visible as any other snowtrooper regardless of the target on their shoulder.
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