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Imperial Review => Action Figures => Topic started by: wraithnine on March 01, 2010, 08:05:28 AM
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hello Wraithnine here with the new capt rex as seen at toyfair a couple of weeks ago
i purchased this and Cold Weather Obi-Wan Kenobi from Ebay seller Tunghori a week ago and they arrived this morning
This version of Capt Rex was seen in the season 1 episode "Trespass"
this version has some unusual articulation
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010613.jpg) (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010620.jpg)
first let me dispell the rumour his helmet is NOT removable!
ARTICULATION:
Rex has a ball hinged head(not a ball joint neck) similiar to that seen on some of the imperial snowtrooper figures also ball jointed are the shoulders,elbows and knees with swivel wrists,waist and hips ,with NO ankle articulation whatsoever!.
this makes him a bugger to stand as he has the same problem the legacy Galactic Marines had as he tends to lean backwards .
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010618.jpg) (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010617.jpg)
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010616.jpg) (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010621.jpg)
the top of his helmet IS removable which makes absolutley no sense at all!,also the backpack is removable as well as the shoulder armour which makes even less sense !!
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010614.jpg) (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010619.jpg)
The sculpt is accurate to the show altho i'm not impressed with the overly small hand sculpts as he has trouble holding the pistols/rifle. and the paint apps are excellent altho i think that the undersuit is a tad too grey .
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010626.jpg) (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010628.jpg)
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn93/nosaj37/01032010630.jpg)
overall as a static figure its excellent figure as an action figure its a bit lacking so with that in mind i give this figure 8/10 a not bad figure that had the potential to be so much more ....
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Great Review buddy, its a real shame about non removable helmet that is odd the way the you cant separate the head from the neck like all previous clones we have seen, it;s like they dont want us to customize these figures
A shipyard first exclusive!!! well done buddy..
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I see that Jay beat me to this one. I will post the views I have of my copy when I get it. That being said, it was as I had feared as far as the helmet goes.
Jay, does the head look like it has enough room to house a clone head, were it to be hollowed out?
Nice job on making us the first site to review this figure, Jay. Going to the front page with it, now.
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Great review, and I'm really wanting this one, as I do see some potential. By chance could you dremel out the lower helmet and place a head on the ball joint and the helmet over the head?
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I see that Jay beat me to this one. I will post the views I have of my copy when I get it. That being said, it was as I had feared as far as the helmet goes.
Jay, does the head look like it has enough room to house a clone head, were it to be hollowed out?
Nice job on making us the first site to review this figure, Jay. Going to the front page with it, now.
unfortunatley mate i'd have to say no there isnt enough room to hollow out for a head
clint i ordered mine on the 22nd of february ! got it at 11 a.m. this morning
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well that sucks, then. Oh well, I'll still probably pick up a couple of these.
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Don't care if he's crap!
I LOVE CLONES!
And I envy you for owning this one!!!
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Great pics and review, W9. kind of wondered who wopuld getr it first.
This could be the worst figure ever.... as bad as the old Snowtroopers with crappy articulation, and they would still sell.
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Shucks! Oh well, we get the skippy first from Jay. Good one.
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great figur removable helment
it had
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new vid up guys
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Lame articulation and cheap way to go on the helmet also. I was excited about this one but I'll pass for sure. The only clones from TCW line I will be getting this year are Camo ARF's and already got BLY!
Its disapointing to see figures this bad its a step back from the SA ARF mold if they only made them all like the ARF's mold I'd be buying!
Oh well HASBRO saves me money this year : )
Nice review though I always look forward to your YOU TUBE vids and these reviews plus your customs!!!!
Thanks Wraith9
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Oh well. Another Hasbro let down. I'll still pick some up to customize and one carded, and one loose. But still really? You'd think after most of the clone wars clones released this far a removable helmet would be part of the trend.
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Man, did hasbro screw this one up big time.
Possibly, could have been the coolest figure in the entire cw line.
It's stoo skinny, the blue looks to bright, the grey is too lite, and the head looks really really funky imho.
Shame, hasbro seems too be keeping a lot of money in my pcket this year so far.
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Mandalore the skepsis , You and me both. I'll save my money as of late though I have been on a Republic Commnado buying spee. Adding several Fi Skirata's for custom builds, and AOTC Clones from E-bay. Only new Clone Wars stuff I bought this year was Commander Bly for myself and the new AT-RT however I did get my son a Commander Stone. The lack of foot articulation kills the Clone War Line for me. I really do believe this line is being aimed at Kids and not collectors. Kids don't care if the colors are right on or that the helmet is just plain stupid IMO, kids might not get so much enjoyment out of the Snow Rex once they lose that top part of the helmet. It is unfortunate that Hasbro is doing this. I have 68 TCW clones as of now but will not add to that number very much this year from what I have seen and from some of the reviews here.
Best part will be my Wallet gets FAT! Worst part Hasbro keeps pumping out this crap! I guess you can always make a custom.
Jon
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I'm starting to wonder if my snow Rex is ever actually going to make it to me from Singapore.
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I'm starting to wonder if my snow Rex is ever actually going to make it to me from Singapore.
I paid for mine on the 15th. Still no sign.
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Just to be clear here, Jay. His head isn't removable at all? It's connected by a pin that recesses into his body?
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Just to be clear here, Jay. His head isn't removable at all? It's connected by a pin that recesses into his body?
yep thats right clint ,check the vid out and you'll see what i mean by the head movement
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that figure is a 3 out of 5 it needs a removable helment
overall that figure is okay
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Oh, I watched it, Jay. As you demonstrated and, as I had feared, there is probably a t-shaped peg that recesses into the body for the forward and backward movement along a channel that is cut into the top of the torso which terminates to a swivel shaped piece within the head for side to side movement. I wonder how the boil and pop method would work for removing the head from that peg? As Jay had mentioned, the head is pretty small and I don't know if a clone head would fit inside it, were it hollowed out but with some major surgery, I plan on testing that possibility.
About the removable shoulder pads, I like this idea in that it allows for the in and out movement of the arms with that hinge acting independently from the shoulder pad and allowing the shoulder pad to pass over the hinge, when the arms are spread apart. I took a few pics to add to Jay's great review.
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you got yours then mate ..your thoughts .......?
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Here is a shot showing the shoulder peg hole and the peg on the shoulder pad. Also, there is a peg in the bottom of the helmet that recesses into this hole in the top of Rex's head.
I believe that my copy of this figure is considered a factory reject because of the lopsided stripe on top of his helmet. You can see how it leans to one side. This factory blemish doesn't explain where the rest of the figure and his accessories would have come from. Were this found by a quality control person and rejected because of the paint apps on the helmet, why not just replace the helmet rather than toss the body, backpack, and guns. It wouldn't make sense to do things this way unless the cost of producing the figure is so low that the cost of labor to replace that one helmet would be higher. There must be more to how tunghori gets his figures to sell.
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Overall, like Jay, I feel that this figure is fine as a stand alone piece but because of the lack of ankle articulation, posing him to stand is kind of a chore. I can't imagine that he would pose well on a speeder bike, either, because of the ankle issue and the kama getting in the way. I find the gray coloring on the legs and arms to be not cannon with what we seen in the Trespass episode. I see what Jay means about the hand sculpt making it hard for him to hold weapons, as well. Man, they should have given him the same wrist and ankle articulation like all of last years CW clones had as well as given him the always nice to have, removable helmet. I do like the backpack and think that it's a pretty good representation of what we seen.
When it comes time for them to give us the obligatory repainted flamethrower trooper, come next year, this is the sculpt that I am afraid that we will be stuck with.
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more pics
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what are the odds that when they re-release this figure with the freeco...maybe? that he will get ankle articulation and a fabric kama?
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Mandalore the skepsis , You and me both. I'll save my money as of late though I have been on a Republic Commnado buying spee. Adding several Fi Skirata's for custom builds, and AOTC Clones from E-bay. Only new Clone Wars stuff I bought this year was Commander Bly for myself and the new AT-RT however I did get my son a Commander Stone. The lack of foot articulation kills the Clone War Line for me. I really do believe this line is being aimed at Kids and not collectors. Kids don't care if the colors are right on or that the helmet is just plain stupid IMO, kids might not get so much enjoyment out of the Snow Rex once they lose that top part of the helmet. It is unfortunate that Hasbro is doing this. I have 68 TCW clones as of now but will not add to that number very much this year from what I have seen and from some of the reviews here.
Best part will be my Wallet gets FAT! Worst part Hasbro keeps pumping out this crap! I guess you can always make a custom.
Jon
I already made a custom of him, check him out in the customs section.
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CC you beat me to the comment. We all know the Bro loves to give us an inferior figure first when it is a most wanted figure. Then they release it with a repainted vehicle like the Freeco or heck just put it on another card with better articulation. They are like, you know those crazy fans will buy the crappy one first then we will put out a full articulation to double our profits. Followed by low, deep, evil laugh.
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They even messed up the paint job on this one. I like the white and blue apps, but the grey is pretty bad.
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The more I see this figure, the more it makes me sick.
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As long as we've been waiting for this damn figure to finally get made, Hasbro definitely could've done a much better job on it.
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As long as we've been waiting for this damn figure to finally get made, Hasbro definitely could've done a much better job on it.
Here Here!!!
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great Review!!!