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Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« on: October 31, 2009, 11:55:59 PM »
Picked this one up at TRU today for $17.95?
  Aside from the elevated price, I had been looking forward to this one as it was shown in one of my favorite season 1 episodes.
  Like alot of the other new vehicle releases, this one comes with a display backdrop that this time is integrated into the structure of the package. Although perferations were present on two of the seams  to make the process of assembly easier, it was a booger to get that box open without ripping part of the backdrop. There were tabs all over the place with tape to boot. After carefully removing the fig and the vehicle from the box, one is presented with a decent animated obi wan sculpt with super articulation but not the clone articulation in his hands. The paint work looks good and there is a peg hole in the back from a backpack on an earlier released version. He comes with a lightsaber.
  The Freeco bike is pretty awesome with 3 fold-away landing gear and a frosted front canopy that slides forward to allow access to the cockpit. The cockpit is decently detailed and has a two handled yoke that a figure can easily hold while not leaning all the way back in the seat. The color scheme looks pretty spot on and while I had thought upon viewing earlier pics that this speeder was scaled too small, upon closer inspection the size appears spot on.
  For a pleasant change, this vehicle fits fairly well into it's provided cardboard backdrop diorama and looks pretty spiffy displayed in it.
  Besides the elevated price, this one is a pretty solid by,especially if you are into speeders.
   About the Obi Wan............Why not make us a winter geared Obi wan for this release? I'm sure that Hasbro is making one and may very well re release this craft with a snow ops obi or ani. That would have made the whole purchase a no brainer for some who might otherwise be scared off by the price.

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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2009, 11:57:09 PM »
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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2009, 11:58:29 PM »
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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2009, 11:59:43 PM »
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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2009, 12:01:02 AM »
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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2009, 12:02:39 AM »
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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2009, 02:09:56 AM »
Yay, the mini rig returns...

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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2009, 02:56:15 AM »
Good point about the snow release Obi Wan, I need to go do some of these hasbro questions before we loose em.

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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2009, 04:31:00 AM »
great review buddy ! thats just gone on my hit list
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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2009, 08:14:07 AM »
Adding to my wish list... =)

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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2009, 08:13:18 PM »
I cannot wait for this set! I don't mind that it doesn't come with a sub-zero ops Obi-Wan because I'm fine with a standard super-articulated one! :) Also gotta love the freeco speeder!

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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2009, 11:35:02 PM »
Why wouldn't hasbro put in a snow Obi-Wan, that makes no sense.

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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2010, 05:16:12 AM »
i just found this at my local target yesterday, boy it was such a surprise to find this cool speeder, its really been dry as a nuns......"ahem".... out here in OZ this past year and to finally find something new was such a buzz, even if it is a clone wars toy and not a legacy figure, i really like this one, and yeah Clint it was a real pain trying to open this sucker up...

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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2010, 08:38:31 PM »
I grabbed this one the first time I saw it.  I knew I wanted one before they even anounced the toy, after seeing the episode I thought to myself "if they don't come out with that speeder as a toy I'll be making one..."

I knew though as soon as I got mine out of the package that it'd needed to be customized and spruced up. 

go check out my custom vehicles thread to see how hasbro SHOULD have made this ship.....(especially at the elevated price!)

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Re: Clone Wars Obi Wan and Freeco Speeder
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2010, 01:05:47 PM »
I really need to finally buy this speeder.  I keep looking at it and putting it down but then wishing I had pulled the trigger later.