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#3732: Momaw Nadon

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MOMAW NADON

STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES (HASBRO)

“An exile from Ithor, Momaw Nadon was a rebel sympathizer who cultivated a hidden garden in the mountains south of Mos Eisley”

Hey, look, I was just talking about the slowdown of Black Series reviews around here on Tuesday, and I’m already reviewing another one.  So much for spacing them out, right?  Alright, so the last one was a rather modern entry in the franchise, but today, I’m jumping back to the beginning, with one of the first movie’s many distinctive alien designs, Momaw Nadon.  Momaw appears only in a head shot during A New Hope‘s cantina sequence in Mos Eisley, and was at the time unnamed.  When Kenner entered their second year with the license, they made up their own version of his body and named him “Hammerhead,” with his proper name not being granted to him until 1989, along with an actual backstory, and a full design.  He’s become a recurring fixture of the Star Wars toy lines since, and now he’s the latest cantina alien to join The Black Series!

THE FIGURE ITSELF

Momaw Nadon is figure 7 in the A New Hope sub-set of Star Wars: The Black Series‘ Phase IV incarnation.  Thus far, five of the seven ANH figures have been cantina-themed, so he’s in good company.  Like Tuesday’s IG-12, Momaw is at the deluxe price point, which still feels kind like a hazy distinction, but he does a have a little more to him than the average Black Series release.  Momaw is a Fan Channel-exclusive offering, so no big box stores for him.  After the poor performance of the last three cantina aliens that went to mass retail, it’s probably not the worst call.  The figure is about 6 3/4 inches tall and he has 26 points of articulation.  Momaw’s sculpt shares a good number of its parts with fellow Ithorian Dok-Ondar, who was a Galaxy’s Edge Disney Parks-exclusive last year.  He gets a new head, forearms, belt/skirt, and scarf, allowing him to be differentiated from Ondar.  It’s a solid sculpt, through and through.  There’s a lot of texturing going on, which looks really great, and the new head’s a good match for what we see on screen.  His articulation scheme’s pretty much what we’ve come to expect from Black Series at this point, so he’s pretty mobile for the most part.  His color work’s not bad.  Notably, the exposed skin gets a wash to help accent the sculpted texturing, which really does help.  In terms of accessories, he does feel a little light.  There’s a blaster rifle, and three different cups.  I don’t know *exactly* what you could give him, but he’s a deluxe, so *something* more would be nice.  Even a recreation of his Power of the Force era big honkin’ gun would be cool.

THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION

I’d say this guy was an impulse buy, but he wasn’t quite that.  I mean, I didn’t know if I was gonna buy him ahead of time, but by the time he’d arrived in-store, I was pretty sure.  This is just one of those designs I have a hard time saying no to, because it certainly does look cool.  He’s a pretty nifty figure.  Not a ton to say beyond that, but I’m not really sure there’s a ton that *needs* to be said beyond that.

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#1621: Momaw Nadon (Hammerhead)

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MOMAW NADON (HAMMERHEAD)

STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER)

The smash success of both A New Hope and its tie-in line of toys in the late ‘70s created a demand that Kenner was having trouble meeting.  They needed more figures for their toyline, but had produced the major players, apart from the less exciting likes of Tarkin, or Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.  They were out of named characters.  How do you solve this problem?  You give names to unnamed characters, specifically the very unique crop of aliens seen in the Mos Eisley Cantina.  Along the line, Lucasfilm decided that Kenner’s names weren’t quite cutting it, and introduced their own.  Thus, for his second figure, Hammerhead became Momaw Nadon.

THE FIGURE ITSELF

Momaw Nadon was released in the 1996 assortment of Power of the Force II figures.  The figure stands 4 inches tall and has 6 points of articulation.  As an earlier entry in the line, Momaw has a fair bit of pre-posing going on here.  With that being said, there’s something about his more alien nature that makes it seem like less of an issue on this figure (though he has some slight difficulty with standing).  As far as detail work goes, Momaw’s actually pretty solid.  There’s plenty of texturing on the skin, which makes for some nice variety.  I quite like the hands, which are uniquely posed and very full of character.  His vest is an add-on piece, split at the sides to allow for removal.  It’s a little difficult to get over his head, but once you due, there’s an undergarment of some sort, which I suppose is a nice touch.  In terms of paint, Momaw is rather on the monochromatic side, being mostly shades of warm brown.  It’s more or less accurate to the source material, so there’s that.  No random turquoise or anything, like his original figure had, but that was what people wanted at the time.  The fools!  Momaw was packed with a big blaster thing, based on nothing he has in  the movie, but I guess he needed something, and it’s fun in a goofy sort of way.

THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION

Momaw was another figure picked up from the Farpoint charity auction.  Slowly but surely, I’m putting together a complete collection of Power of the Force II figures.  It didn’t start out that way, but here I am now, buying Momaw Nadon.  Once you buy a Momaw Nadon, there’s really no going back, right?