2012 Vintage Wave 1: The Phantom Menace

[TradeFederationSympathy]

I scored at Target today too!

[LadyIrithyl]

Curse you online stores!!! lol

I want to order this set, cause from the looks of it, I'm going to want every figure.

[TradeFederationSympathy]

I've been inspecting the figures and they look great! Daultay Dofine is perfect! I really like the battle droid, great balance when standing him & great articulation, but his stature doesn't quite fit in with the previous battle droids. Overall, a very impressive show by Hasbro.

Although, wife wasn't very happy with the $50 price tag right before Christmas

[AaylaSecurasMan]

I don't remember the Naboo Guards having any color on their helmets

I thought they were just reflecting the colors of the areas they were in

Yes, look at the cardback!

[drod26]

TradefederationSympathy: thats a scored man!! Which I could get a hold of them. Tell your wife the toys are part of your holiday gift. Hehe

Segura: awesome pics man and thanks for sharing. Sounds like you are a happy guy with your figures.

[YAK_Chewie]

I just hope this isn't a case of each store that gets these in, only getting in 1-2 cases... if it is, finding these in my area will be tough for a while. The competition is fierce!

[PadawanPapa]

Looking forward to these as well. My little boy loves Darth Maul so that will definitely be an at least 2 purchase since he opens one and we collect one.

Love the Anakin as well....they all look great!

[AaylaSecurasMan]

Some Quadrinaros and Otoga-222 pics

[YAK_Chewie]

I can't believe I actually am looking forward to that silly character as a figure.

[YAK_Chewie]

AaylaSecurasMan, how well does your Ben Quadrinaros figure stand? According to Banthaskull, he doesn't stand too well at all and doesn't even have peg holes in his feet.

In their reviews of this wave, they didn't seem overly impressed by Darth Maul either.

They seem to have a better liking toward Darth Sidious and Vos (which I think look to be the best figures in the wave, followed by the Naboo Guard).

[Eopie Herder]

AaylaSecurasMan, how well does your Ben Quadrinaros figure stand? According to Banthaskull, he doesn't stand too well at all and doesn't even have peg holes in his feet.

In their reviews of this wave, they didn't seem overly impressed by Darth Maul either.

They seem to have a better liking toward Darth Sidious and Vos (which I think look to be the best figures in the wave, followed by the Naboo Guard).

Can't speak for Quadrinaros, as I don't own him, but I'm surprised to hear that they didn't like Maul. Now granted, I have a love for the character and am excited to be getting a new version of him, so my review may be skewed towards overly positive. But Maul is a fantastic sculpt, and much more accurate than anything that has come before it. I could see why people may complain about the sculpted bracelt, but I'm hoping the one from the second new Maul due in January will fit (and I will be able to tell you for certain later this week)

[YAK_Chewie]

They did seem to like the figure, but in their review they implied that he could have been better... here is what they said:

Roundtable Reviews!

Good. Perhaps very good, But not great. I have a feeling that if we could catch Hasbro in a moment of honesty, they’d tell us that most of this figure was developed previously. It just feels a little dated particularly in the arms. The elbows are stiff with minimal range of motion. The swivel forearms pop off with the least provocation. This combinations means that attempting to bend the elbows usually ends in action figure amputation. I’m also not thrilled with the hands. The grip pose is not perpendicular to the elbow, but slanted. This means that some two handed saber poses are not possible because the hands end up slanting away from the body at opposite angles. Lastly the ball jointed neck needs a little more range of motion. Many of Maul’s fighting poses have him in a predatory crouch look up at his adversary. The range of motion of the head stops with Maul staring at straight forward. The figure can not look upward. None of these are damning critiques, but frustrating and annoying.

I’ve been accused of being a bit of an easy grader and the reason is quite simple. If a figure has 14 points of articulation with ball joints at at least the shoulders, elbows, knees and ankles, it starts off at an 8/10 with me, and then subjective factors take if up of down from there usually within a point or two. With that in mind, this figure is starting off with 8 out of 10. The lower body is great and I feel balances of the negatives with the upper torso. The ball jointed hips, knees and ankles really allows for some lifelike Maul fighting poses. The soft goods lower skirt is executed very well. The only other item that I feel is worth of consideration for a point deduction is the plastic hood. It works better than previous attempts at soft good hoods, but it still doesn’t work. It’s passable, but not the holy grail. Still I don’t think it’s worth affecting the grade of the figure. So with a base of 8 out of 10 and the positives balancing out the negatives, 8 out of 10.

[Eopie Herder]

Interesting, I don't have those issues with the hands popping off. They're pretty tight. Been able to get some great two handed poses as well. Again though, I may be a bit biased.

[AaylaSecurasMan]

AaylaSecurasMan, how well does your Ben Quadrinaros figure stand? According to Banthaskull, he doesn't stand too well at all and doesn't even have peg holes in his feet.

In their reviews of this wave, they didn't seem overly impressed by Darth Maul either.

They seem to have a better liking toward Darth Sidious and Vos (which I think look to be the best figures in the wave, followed by the Naboo Guard).

I posted it over at RS, but yes, I had a hard time getting Ben to stand with no pegholes, I had to play with his legs a bit, I will be drilling holes with a small bit (by hand), that's what I've done to othe rfigures with shallow pegholes. Otoga-222 doesn't have pegholes either

[YAK_Chewie]

Hit two Targets today thinking I might luck out - nada.