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#3789: Greedo

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GREEDO

STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE (HASBRO)

Okay, here we are at the end of the week.  We made it, you guys!  Good for us!  As a reward to myself, you know what I gonna do?  I’m gonna review a Power of the Force figure.  You know, as a little treat.  Yeah, that’s the ticket.  Waaaaaaaaaay back, nearer the beginning of this site, I took a look at the first Greedo from Power of the Force (and pissed off one of my trolls along the way), but today, I’m setting my sights on the second Greedo, from the tail end of the line.

THE FIGURE ITSELF

Greedo was part of the 1999 run of Star Wars: Power of the Force, in the first of the two Commtech-sporting sets that ended the line.  By this point, the figures were officially branded as “Hasbro” products, as Kenner had been disbanded and absorbed.  This figure was designed to pair off with the Han Solo form the same line-up, both of them specifically being based on the cross-table conversation from the cantina.  The figure stands 3 3/4 inches tall and he has 8 points of articulation.  Like Han, he gets a better articulation set-up than earlier figures, with actual bending knee joints, which let him sit properly in the Cantina booth.  His sculpt was all-new, and was a far less stylized one than the prior version.  His proportions land closer to the actual film look, so he’s a lot skinnier, and his head is a bit bigger.  There’s also a bit more work into the texturing and such, and his vest is now a removable rubber piece.  Under the vest, there’s even a blaster mark on the chest, from where Han shoots him, which is particularly gruesome, but also kinda cool.  Greedo’s color work is rather on the basic side, but it does what it needs to, and is generally pretty solid.  There’s even some slight “scorching” where the blaster wound is sculpted, which is a neat touch.  Greedo is packed with a blaster pistol and the Commtech stand.

THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION

I actually bought this figure several years ago, back during one of my initial pushes to round out my collection, but he’s sat unopened, hanging from a thumbtack on the wall in my upstairs hallway for most of that time, because I had the other Greedo actually out on display with the rest of the collection.  A couple of months ago, I picked up the cardboard Cantina set, and it’s got the little booth for him, so I finally opened him to put him there.  He’s actually quite a nice little figure.  The first one’s not *bad*, but this guy’s better, and holds up incredibly well for a figure that’s more than a quarter of a century old.

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#1286: Greedo

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GREEDO

STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER)

Boba Fett may be the go-to bounty hunter of the Star Wars universe, but he and all of his bounty hunting pals owe just about everything to one guy: Greedo Q. Kazoo.  Okay, it’s really just Greedo.  No last name.  Or first name.  It’s just the one name, really.  Like Michelangelo. Or Beyonce.  I’m getting sidetracked.  Anyway, Greedo was instrumental to introducing the whole wider bounty hunter thing to the Star Wars universe.  He’s probably my personal favorite bounty hunter, truth be told, due to having a fun design, serving a clear purpose, and generally not being overhyped (unlike some *other* bounter hunters out there).  Greedo’s had a few figures over the years, including one during the infamous Power of the Force II incarnation from the ‘90s, which I’ll be looking at today.

THE FIGURE ITSELF

Greedo was released as part of the second 1996 assortment of Star Wars: Power of the Force II.  Interestingly enough, Greedo’s not one of the figures pictured on the back of the packaging.  This marked Greedo’s second time as an action figure, after his original vintage figure.  He stands about 3 3/4 inches tall and has 6 points of articulation.  The PotF2 sculpts were generally stricken by ‘90s uber-stylization, but as the line moved forward, the stylizing slowly worked its way out.  Coming from the line’s second year, Greedo already shows some of the steps forward, being a lot less pre-posed than some of the earlier figures were; there’s still a slight bit of a mid-step thing going on, but it’s hardly an extreme pose.  He’s still a little on the buff side (which is further accented by the slightly tighter fit of the clothes), but it’s fairly minor.  He’s helped by his more alien design, which helps to mask some of the faults.  From a purely aesthetic standpoint, his sculpt is definitely solid.  The head is a pretty pitch-perfect recreation of the Greedo mask seen in the movie.  It’s perhaps a bit underscaled, but I actually think it looks slightly better that way.  There’s also a ton of really sharp detail work, not only on the head, but also on the rest of the body sculpt.  While he’s certainly not going to be outdoing the Black Series figure or anything, he’s still sporting a very well-crafted sculpt.  The sculpt is topped off with a decent paint job.  Nothing particularly fancy, but all of Greedo’s basic colors are there, and the application is all pretty clean.  Greedo was packed with two blasters; one large, one small.  The smaller blaster is based on Greedo’s sidearm from the movie, and, aside from being a little sized-up, is pretty accurate.  The larger piece is made up for the figure, but hey, at least they gave him something extra, right?

THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION

I didn’t have Greedo growing up (in fact, my first proper Greedo figure was actually the Black Series figure).  This figure was another that I grabbed during this past Farpoint’s charity auction, alongside a handful of other PotF2 guys.  I’ve actually eyed this figure a few times before, and, like Kaylee and Cobra Commander before him, the good cause was enough to finally convince me to pick him up.  I’m glad I did, because he’s definitely one of the better PotF2 figures Kenner put out.

#0046: Greedo

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GREEDO

STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES

Today, I’ll be looking at the final figure from the second series of Star Wars: The Black Series.  Okay, technically, going by the numbering on the figures, he’s the second to last, and Han, who I reviewed yesterday, is the last.  But this is Greedo, and every good Star Wars fan knows, he does NOT get a shot at a review first.  So, yeah, I’ll be looking at Greedo, punching bag of the Star Wars universe.

THE FIGURE ITSELF

As I said above, Greedo is part of the second series of Star Wars: The Black Series.  He’s #007, and he’s based on the only possible look to base Greedo on, the jumpsuit/vest combo he wears during his fatal encounter with Solo.  Greedo is the tallest figure in the series, standing just over 6 inches, and he features about 20 points of articulation.  Like everybody else in the wave, he’s got a brand new sculpt.  It looks good, and seems to be accurate to Greedo’s look from the film.  The vest is a separate sculpted piece, with a fairy basic jumpsuit sculpt underneath.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hasbro reuse parts of this figure in future waves.  Greedo’s head and hands are his most distinctive parts, and they’re rendered well.  I don’t know if they’re 100% screen accurate, but they’re certainly close enough for me.  The paint on Greedo is actually a bit better than the rest of the wave.  He’s got a little bit of slop on the yellow stripe on one arm, but other than that everything looks pretty sharp.  I was most impressed by the fact that the yellow detailing continues under the vest, where it’s rendered virtually invisible.  It’s a nice touch that most companies would over look.  Greedo is topped off by a blaster pistol.  This is a bit light when compared to the others in the series, but there are very few things one can give a character who appears for less than five minutes.  Unless the wanted to throw in an alternate torso with a hole in it, but that seems a bit morbid.

THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION

Greedo is a surprisingly cool figure.  I wasn’t sure I really wanted him, but I bought a full set in order to get Han and Boba.  Having Greedo in hand, he’s become one of my favorites.  I hope that Hasbro puts this much effort into some of the more important characters.