Saga Legends 501st Clone Trooper I Review

[Sev]

Paint Apps: I actually prefer these paint apps. to the original 501st Legion figure’s. The armor is white with blue designs all over it and the unarmored parts are black. There is no slop and the black battle damage marks look good. His face is the right skin tone and is thankfully not cross-eyed like his previous release. Although, a tiny bit of clothing under the arms is painted white instead of black but it’s so minuscule that I won’t take off points.
5/5

Sculpt: This figure sculpt originated with the ROTS AT-TE Tank Gunner figure. It wasn’t too good of a sculpt actually. The arms are at an angle so that he only looks decent holding a gun two-handed. Aside from that, his ball-jointed hips were praised by many but cause the hips to stick out too far. It also has a removable left shoulder pad for some reason.
3.5/5

Articulation: This figure has a ball-jointed head, swivel shoulders, swivel elbows, swivel wrists, ball-jointed hips, ball-jointed knees, and ball-jointed feet. That’s a good 13 points of articulation and even with the ball-jointed hips, this figure lacks ball joints.
3.5/5

Accessories: Well, obviously, this figure comes with a coin. The coin has Grievous, Anakin, and Obi-Wan on the front and says “III” on the back, making it an Episode III coin. His other two accessories are his helmet and gun. The blaster is a decent, yet flimsy, sculpt and the helmet fits well and is well painted. Thankfully, it’s not super rubbery like the Evolutions helmets.
5/5

Value: For $6.99, you get a Tactical Ops Trooper with the rarely seen ball-jointed hips. Not too bad of a price.
4/5

Overall: This is a decent figure but I’d wait until the super-articulated 501st Trooper comes out.

Overall Rating: 21/25

[Tyranusspotting]

Hasbro seems to have forgotten to paint the black bodysuit on the figures torso, near the shoulders.

[Battlefield]

Hasbro seems to have forgotten to paint the black bodysuit on the figures torso, near the shoulders.

Dang never saw that. Great eye. That gives me another reason to not get him.

[Sev]

Hasbro seems to have forgotten to paint the black bodysuit on the figures torso, near the shoulders.

Yeah I made a mention of that in the paint apps. section at the end.

[Rocket_Back]

According to SWActionNews, Hasbro's goign to be doing a running change on this figure - there will be a super articulated version hitting the pegs, so keep an eye out for it.

Of course, if you live anywhere near me and have never even seen Saga Legends wave 1 or 2 on the pegs yet, I guess we have nothing to look forward too.

[coybrafett]

Hasbro seems to have forgotten to paint the black bodysuit on the figures torso, near the shoulders.

Yeah I made a mention of that in the paint apps. section at the end.

This has been the case for every tank gunner molded figure. Another area they forget to paint is a small area by the elbow joints and where the hip joints are at and in the crotch area. Its easy to paint, as the joints easily pop off, but this should NOT have to be done by us.