AGENT KALLUS

STAR WARS: REBELS (HASBR0)

“Agent Kallus is a member of the Imperial Security Bureau, a secret police force that hunts down and crushes any rebellion in the galaxy. Intelligent and ruthless, Kallus is a skilled pilot who makes it his mission to stop throublesome freedom fighters.”

You know what?  I’m gonna keep this Rebels train rolling for another week.  Go ahead.  Try and stop me.  Actually don’t.  It’s my site.  You won’t succeed.  And then you’ll feel all silly, and I’ll feel bad, and it’ll be a whole thing.  So, back to Rebels.  While the Imperials in the Original Trilogy are largely just straight forward evil, Rebels played with that a little bit.  Alexsandr Kallus starts the show as a purely antagonistic force, with some pretty terrible deeds behind him.  Over the course of the show, as he has more run-ins both with the Ghost crew and with Imperial higher ups who are far worse than him, and by the end of the show, he’s a full-fledged hero in his own right.  It’s one of the most satisfying arcs in a show that’s got a lot of satisfying arcs.  Despite all of his journeying, Kallus got one action figure.  Kind of a bummer.  Well, let’s look at it.

THE FIGURE ITSELF

Agent Kallus was released in the first assortment of the Star Wars: Rebels tie-in line’s single carded component Saga Legends.  He’s figure SL05, the second to last of the first batch of Rebels.  He only got the one release, with no re-issues or updates later in the line.  The figure stands about 3 3/4 inches tall and he has 5 points of articulation.  He’s got the same basic articulation that this whole line got, and it works as well as you could hope.  For 5POA, it’s not bad.  Kallus got an all-new sculpt, based on his Season 1 design from the show.  For whatever reason, they decided to depict him with his helmet permanently attached, rather than giving him a removable one.  It’s a real bummer, and means we never got to see Kallus’s mutton chops in all their plasticky glory.  Beyond that, the sculpt is actually quite nice.  The proportions match his animated counterpart, and the detailing is all very sharply defined.  The figure’s color work is generally pretty drab, as you might expect from an Imperial.  Lots of grey and black.  It works, though, and the mix of paint and molded colors does alright.  Application is pretty clean for what’s there, too.  Kallus is packed with the Bo-Rifle he stole from one of the Lestat; like Zeb, Kallus’s rifle doesn’t transform, instead being only in its gun form.  It’s too bad there couldn’t be a second one in the staff form, but again, this line was really locked into only one accessory per figure.

THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION

Agent Kallus is a figure I didn’t get when he was new.  I remember seeing him, but I’d not seen the show, and didn’t know the character.  After seeing the show, I grew to really like the character, and since this was the only figure he got, I kind of had no other options.  I was able to snag a loose one from All Time, back in 2019, from the same collection that got me Hera.  He’s better than I’d expected.  I still don’t like that the helmet doesn’t come off, but I guess I can’t let it go.

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