CLONE CAPTAIN REX

STAR WARS: THE VINTAGE COLLECTION (HASBRO)

Remember two weeks ago when I ended a lengthy hiatus from Vintage Collection with a review of a Bad Batch-based Captain Rex figure?  Did you know it was almost a review of a *different* Bad Batch-based Captain Rex figure from The Vintage Collection?  I mean, probably not.  I don’t tend to let other people know about my planned reviews in advance.  Anyway, there was the new Rex, so I hotplated him, but I didn’t want to just forget about the other one, so, two Rexes in one month?  Is that really so bad?  I don’t think so.

THE FIGURE ITSELF

Clone Captain Rex was released as part of the Amazon-exclusive Bad Batch-themed Star Wars: The Vintage Collection four-pack, alongside three other non-Batch troopers.  He’s numbered VC208, making him numerically the first of the four included figures.  He’s based on Rex’s incognito look from the show, just like his Black Series figure from the same time. The figure stands about 3 3/4 inches tall and he has 26 points of articulation.  Rex is built on the previous Clone Trooper base body, which was first introduced in 2011, and is…well, it certainly shows its age.  The articulation is the earliest implementation of “super-articulated” in its more modern sense.  There’s a lot of movement, but it’s not as intuitive, and it’s a little floppy.  He’s also rather lanky, made only more evident by the removable helmet, which bulks the head up.  He gets a new belt piece and pauldron, as well as a cloth kama and poncho.  The pauldron is a curious oddity, since it’s not the full thing, due to being based directly on the animation models, which had tweaked it so that it wouldn’t clip through the poncho.  It’s not actually meant to be seen, and was swapped out for the full version in all of the scenes without the poncho present.  The helmet is also tweaked to add his extra visor piece.  It’s articulated, but it’s also connected to the range finder, so they both move in tandem, which looks a little weird.  Under the helmet we get an unmasked head, which is just a standard clone head re-used, meaning it’s got too much hair to be Rex, since he had his close cropped hair still in Bad Batch.  The color work is decent enough.  Not too far removed from the more recent one, though the blue paint seems a little more wobbly.  There’s some slop on the hairline, but otherwise, application is decent and pretty clean.  Rex is packed with his twin blaster pistols, which he can hold or holster, as per usual.

THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION

I like Rex a lot, but I wasn’t rushing out to buy three other figures just to get this one, especially because its a Vintage Collection release.  So, I opted to play the waiting game.  It worked out, because I was able to snag a loose one through All Time, when it was traded in a couple of months ago.  He’s a rather dated figure, and far moreso than he should be, given he’s only actually three years old.  But, he’s at least a more unique design, and he’s got the poncho to hide some of the worst of it.  Ultimately, it’s another Rex, and I can certainly dig that.

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