Yeah man he was really menacing. I loved the original tartikovsky series and I wish they'd have done a more cartoon accurate grievous, or just more accurate series in general..
I like the idea of grevious at the beginning of the war in clean white, but by revenge, hes just been through so much action and death and destruction that his body just looks like that now, like hes just never cleaned himself after every battle
I’m really glad that this line gets respect the 2003 clone wars mini series by the guy that did dexters lab and samurai jack is really underrated compared to the faloni clone wars tho I wish we got a durge figure that beefy boi needs his due now that he’s back in canon
Yeah, for the ARC Trooper they reused the Echo version of the mold when it should have been the Phase I Trooper version. Maybe with Echo’s left forearm. This baffles me because unlike Boss or Fixer, it’s not like they didn’t have the parts. Take the pauldron and the kama from Rex or Bly, stick a rangefinder on the helmet and bam, it’s Fordo. Though I admit I’m not miffed about this one because this figure looks really cool on its own, and making a custom Fordo will be a lot easier than trying to fix the Gaming Greats “commandos”.
I like the wider look on mace his appearance on clone wars cartoon being an absolute powerhouse was the greatest demonstration of a Jedis fighting skills outside of a saber
Okay I’m definitely getting the Grievous model kit and painting it like the animated series. Absolutely loved him in the show, stone cold, and menacing. Felt unstoppable! Great review Mr. Robo🤙🏼
The accuracy issues of the arc trooper bug me more than they should. I feel like it wouldn't have been too hard to get those little details right, some normal clone legs, a fixed kama. Buts thems the changing times with black series. Accuracy has been punted for easy re-use.
Grievous I wanted because it is technically his "first appearance" look. I would love for Hasbro to just make 6 inch figures that look exactly like the animated bodies, but that'll never happen so this will do. Also Mace kicked a lot of droid tuckus without his saber in that series, so displaying him without the saber ignited makes sense.
@@FanaticMitchell1 I mean maybe EVENTUALLY they will, but in the meantime they have settled for making the animated characters out of the molds for the live action versions.
@@FanaticMitchell1 prob not for black series, but i could see disney renting the clone wars license to someone like mcfarlane or bossfight for something closer to the original art
I'm still disappointed in Fordo. He's supposed to be an early arc trooper, but Hasbro opened for the later body but a phase one head. I'm ok with Mace, but he's not what I was hoping he'd be in hand.
Was surprised to find these guys last month at my local Walmarts, never heard of any preorders for them this far back. But it's not unusual for mine to put out stock like this so late, they also made the mistake of thinking they were old stock and clearanced them along with some recent Marvel Legends. It was only like $2 off compared to the legends being like $19 a piece but it still made me happy to have them since I wasn't into collecting when the original sculpts came out.
Nice. I was actually able to pick up the Arc Trooper at a local toy store rather than wal mart, glad I did, he is really cool and unique looking out of all the other troopers I have so far :P
Arc trooper really urks me that they could have just gone with the Bly/Rex base body and it would have been better. It's so close. That said they could repaint this blue and have a perfect Alpha.
Ha got him, Stealth Iron Man chilling at the back of the desk, living a little dangerous underneath the Watcher actually. Hopefully Robo don't get a figure catastrophe
Mace is going to be the one everyone wants. How far back do his arms go? Who do the sabers go to that Grievous has? I’m sure there are a few out there who know which are screen accurate.
So... funny thing about the lightsabers in the Prequels. There's a number of lightsaber designs shared between different Jedi, just with different colors. Plo Koon and Luminara Unduli share a lightsaber design, just with different colors, for example. The TBS6 Grievous comes with lightsaber designs used by Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, Aayla Secura, and Shaak Ti, and on this version they're painted solid silver.
if the right side of the chest armor's peg hole is any indicator, it looks as though you'd be able to just heat up the pouch and glue it in on the other side
I bought General Grievous and Mace Windu back then when they first appeared in the Series,but, the New Releases seem lot of reuse. Arc Trooper is a masterpiece !
I just bought that ARC Trooper I didn't know that they came out with that my favorite colors are red and black and I wanted a new Clone Trooper anyway.
I've actually seen these on wing stacks in the center isle's at Walmart picked up the holiday scout trooper and a purge trooper sweet finds in the wild if I don't say so myself
We better get a face-off between that Grievous and the recently revealed Vader when that releases, battle of the bright white bad guys. Honestly that Grievous to me almost has a retro feel, in the sense that a lot of actual retro Star Wars figures had less complex and more vibrant colour schemes than the actual film designs. Plus as a child growing up with the prequels I had Grievous toys that were more white in colour, and I thought of him as that colour rather than the more accurate bone colour, so I think this figure has a simplified toy aesthetic in a way. Wave 31 has been scheduled for an April release date here in the UK since late last year, but surprisingly when it finally released in the last week or so wave 32 was released along with it, so it was nice that even though I had to wait longer I was able to get way more new figures at once than I usually would.
I really hope someone yoinks that helmet off the ARC Trooper soon to see if they painted the head for whatever reason as well as casting it in flesh tone.
I think we all collectively went " hmmm" when got to boots lol either swap or dark brown paint...Saber on belt has that presence 🤔. In the animated he was wrecking those tin cans with his fist for a good while...
I don’t have either one but the heads on those Mace Windu figures look different to me. The Clone Wars version looks like he typically goes back for seconds, maybe thirds.
Im considering buying that grevious just for the lightsabers, the 2 blue ones would be better to replace the sabers that came with plo koon and kit fisto
Couldn’t get Mace, and I like these mostly for the look of the packaging so I’m Keeping mine on card, especially since Grevious is so thin, fragile and loose.
Missed opportunity for Walmart to have ordered more of these from Hasbro. I was never able to find them even when Preternia announced they were available. Oh well...
I like to get creative with my displays outside of their originally intended properties. I create entirely new worlds/teams and this stark white general grievous is going to look amazing next to my "anti-hero" team with white prototype Boba and eventual all-white Vader. Now if we can just get a black and white darth maul some day.
Would you recommend opening these or do you think the value may go up? I’m genuinely curious I just got grievous and I rlly want to open him but I also think it looks great in the box and I would have a better possibility at selling it
I'm with ya, but in this case, where it's rehash characters, and following the Black Series "make animation look realistic" guidelines, it makes sense to reuse parts here.
The Greivous is out of scale. Too small. He needs to be much taller than Mace Windu even when he is hunched over. It only works when he stands up straight which he doesn’t do in the movie. He’s much larger than a human especially when fighting kenobi. The black series one isn’t big enough when it’s hunching.
Yea, these are a let down. I just bought two of them yesterday from walmart and i thought they would look more like the animated design. Can't believe they reused older figures, repainted, and added stuff instead of crearing new molds for that animated look from the 2003 cartoon shorts. Bummer.
You know Hasbro couldve took the clone wars 2008 #6 General Grievous and upscale it to 6" ... but then again those classic 3.75 cardbacks in 6" is a slap in the face to time when every walmart and target had two aisles of star wars figures and vehicles
Interestingly enough I preorder all of them on the first round of preorders in July 2021 and only received mace and the arc trooper so far. My Grevious has been delayed.
Damn you Robo! Another fantastic review but I think you’ve Jedi mind tricked me into buying Grievous! I have the other 2, love them. But I’ve really held off on the General cause I love my custom kit. Ah well, good thing Ramen noodles are still cheap…
You should check out Clone Wars by Gendy Tartatovsky(?) on Disney +, grew up with just that leading up to RoTS coming out. I hope we get more Clone Wars 2003 animated like black series figures, I’d love a blue arc trooper to have the squad.
Just keep that Grievous away from Shaggy. If watched you know why. Even the net version isn't safe. I never saw that trooper but at time I had stopped black series collecting so as much as dig this series didn't want to get back in. Mace Windu was one debated on as well since in this, and to me it's cannon don't argue, he is the cause for Grevious coughing. Would love to see more Arc troopers but mainly cause recall one villain that did a number on them. Durge.
I always wanted the BS Grievous but after I saw this, I love my Bandai model kit Grievous. Its so much better. Except the cape, this is also not good. Anyone know how to cut a cape on my own? Are there shapes to download?
I actually do want to get the creeps figure but why went to Walmart they were all out of the grievous so they only had three Mace windus left was I actually did bought the Mace windu figure
It’s hilarious that you see 03 grievous as “less threatening” because 03 grievous is a true monster
Shaggy shoulda used 2% of his power
Yeah man he was really menacing. I loved the original tartikovsky series and I wish they'd have done a more cartoon accurate grievous, or just more accurate series in general..
He destroyed like six Jedi masters, and a Padawan lol
I swear grevious should be way bigger
@@lloydabraham4739 Palawan Sha’ Gi
One of the things I remember from the show is Mace ripping super battle droids apart with his bare hands.
OP Mace
And grievous dancing on his hands while swinging lightsaber with his feet
Alexander The Great, I subed to your channel
@@naomishelton1960 thanks!
I like the idea of grevious at the beginning of the war in clean white, but by revenge, hes just been through so much action and death and destruction that his body just looks like that now, like hes just never cleaned himself after every battle
Mace is the clear standout in this group, for sure. I thought to myself, "Robo should just do a leg swap," right before we heard the "hmmm.."
Haha, same wavelength!
Its nice we got a grievous painted after his OG appearance in the 2003 clone wars cartoon!
The Arc Trooper is Commander Fordo, he's an awesome character by the way.
It will be amazing if we see fordo it his new armor
Captain*
@@Oppen1945 I think he actually was a captain.
I’m really glad that this line gets respect the 2003 clone wars mini series by the guy that did dexters lab and samurai jack is really underrated compared to the faloni clone wars tho I wish we got a durge figure that beefy boi needs his due now that he’s back in canon
He would take too much new tooling for Hasbro to possibly bother.
@@omegashenron8 if we get him in a new animated series they will do him
Yeah, for the ARC Trooper they reused the Echo version of the mold when it should have been the Phase I Trooper version. Maybe with Echo’s left forearm. This baffles me because unlike Boss or Fixer, it’s not like they didn’t have the parts. Take the pauldron and the kama from Rex or Bly, stick a rangefinder on the helmet and bam, it’s Fordo.
Though I admit I’m not miffed about this one because this figure looks really cool on its own, and making a custom Fordo will be a lot easier than trying to fix the Gaming Greats “commandos”.
I like the wider look on mace his appearance on clone wars cartoon being an absolute powerhouse was the greatest demonstration of a Jedis fighting skills outside of a saber
I have see the picture but seeing it in hand the toy look amazing and retro
All three look great though I agree about Grievious's articulation problems.
What a treat to have a trio of Black Series figs reviewed by Robo.
Okay I’m definitely getting the Grievous model kit and painting it like the animated series. Absolutely loved him in the show, stone cold, and menacing. Felt unstoppable!
Great review Mr. Robo🤙🏼
The accuracy issues of the arc trooper bug me more than they should. I feel like it wouldn't have been too hard to get those little details right, some normal clone legs, a fixed kama. Buts thems the changing times with black series. Accuracy has been punted for easy re-use.
That intro was Gold! Keep up the amazing stuff Robo!
I've been waiting for you to get these!!!!
Grievous I wanted because it is technically his "first appearance" look. I would love for Hasbro to just make 6 inch figures that look exactly like the animated bodies, but that'll never happen so this will do. Also Mace kicked a lot of droid tuckus without his saber in that series, so displaying him without the saber ignited makes sense.
Why won't they?
@@FanaticMitchell1 I mean maybe EVENTUALLY they will, but in the meantime they have settled for making the animated characters out of the molds for the live action versions.
@@FanaticMitchell1 prob not for black series, but i could see disney renting the clone wars license to someone like mcfarlane or bossfight for something closer to the original art
Oh my gosh so cool! I’ll always love this version of the Clone Wars! Gendy Tartarkovsky I’d the man!!!
Mace looks amazing, love that cloth underneath the armor look 🔥
I'm still disappointed in Fordo. He's supposed to be an early arc trooper, but Hasbro opened for the later body but a phase one head. I'm ok with Mace, but he's not what I was hoping he'd be in hand.
Wish they'd given him more accurate pistols too. Those standard guns don't have the big barrel attachments Fordo's blasters did
Was surprised to find these guys last month at my local Walmarts, never heard of any preorders for them this far back. But it's not unusual for mine to put out stock like this so late, they also made the mistake of thinking they were old stock and clearanced them along with some recent Marvel Legends. It was only like $2 off compared to the legends being like $19 a piece but it still made me happy to have them since I wasn't into collecting when the original sculpts came out.
The mace windu in this 2003 animation always reminded me of the Handsome Squidward 😆
I love the red on the arc trooper, it just pops out compared to other painted troopers.
That arc trooper is so cool! I definitely need to grab one
Nice. I was actually able to pick up the Arc Trooper at a local toy store rather than wal mart, glad I did, he is really cool and unique looking out of all the other troopers I have so far :P
So sorry Rob I must have missed this video. I will watch it now.
This show is the best version. Samurai Jack meets Star Wars. So damn good!
Walmart please do another run they literally only had the code words up in the first pre order so none of us even knew what they were
Missed opportunity to have white Grievous sing he's dreaming of a "White Sithmas"
Arc trooper really urks me that they could have just gone with the Bly/Rex base body and it would have been better. It's so close.
That said they could repaint this blue and have a perfect Alpha.
Just started collecting black series tomorrow a imperial clone shock trooper bad batch is arriving rly excited 😊
Ha got him, Stealth Iron Man chilling at the back of the desk, living a little dangerous underneath the Watcher actually. Hopefully Robo don't get a figure catastrophe
Mace is going to be the one everyone wants. How far back do his arms go?
Who do the sabers go to that Grievous has? I’m sure there are a few out there who know which are screen accurate.
So... funny thing about the lightsabers in the Prequels. There's a number of lightsaber designs shared between different Jedi, just with different colors. Plo Koon and Luminara Unduli share a lightsaber design, just with different colors, for example.
The TBS6 Grievous comes with lightsaber designs used by Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, Aayla Secura, and Shaak Ti, and on this version they're painted solid silver.
if the right side of the chest armor's peg hole is any indicator, it looks as though you'd be able to just heat up the pouch and glue it in on the other side
That captain fordo is awesome
Glad Walmart shipped yours I ordered the arc trooper day one and then mine never shipped just got delayed to infinity
Bad side about living in Brasil... No way we're getting the opportunity to buy those different figures hahah
Caramba, achei que era o único brasileiro aqui
Same here in Bolivia xd
Same here in Colombia.
I just got Captain Fordo and he’s so awesome I love him
General grevious looks awesome!
I bought General Grievous and Mace Windu back then when they first appeared in the Series,but, the New Releases seem lot of reuse. Arc Trooper is a masterpiece !
Only wanted Grievous, but kept missing the preorders. Ugh love this look.
Another good review, Robo! I want all three. I hope I can find them on the pegs.
These look really cool!!💝😊
5:22 . Yo, I always knew Robo was a closeted Pokémon fan.
I just bought that ARC Trooper I didn't know that they came out with that my favorite colors are red and black and I wanted a new Clone Trooper anyway.
the arc trooper is actually a named character his name is captain Ford if you didn't know
What a costume design for the main man of da Jedi Order, pow…
Sad I missed out on these just recently got into black series. Use to only collect 3.75.
Love the video buddy.
Hell yeah
I dont know why they approved of the image of the Arc Trooper on the back, that is clearly very different from the figure in the package.
I want that captain fordo so bad now(or arc trooper. He is badass tho in the show tho)
I've actually seen these on wing stacks in the center isle's at Walmart picked up the holiday scout trooper and a purge trooper sweet finds in the wild if I don't say so myself
We better get a face-off between that Grievous and the recently revealed Vader when that releases, battle of the bright white bad guys.
Honestly that Grievous to me almost has a retro feel, in the sense that a lot of actual retro Star Wars figures had less complex and more vibrant colour schemes than the actual film designs. Plus as a child growing up with the prequels I had Grievous toys that were more white in colour, and I thought of him as that colour rather than the more accurate bone colour, so I think this figure has a simplified toy aesthetic in a way.
Wave 31 has been scheduled for an April release date here in the UK since late last year, but surprisingly when it finally released in the last week or so wave 32 was released along with it, so it was nice that even though I had to wait longer I was able to get way more new figures at once than I usually would.
For me, the just cononized Fordo and I'm fine with it.
I really hope someone yoinks that helmet off the ARC Trooper soon to see if they painted the head for whatever reason as well as casting it in flesh tone.
Seems like Fordo should've included a heavy blaster, too. I think that's the weapon most associated with him.
Definitely getting the Arc Trooper, not sure about Grievous tho
Nothing wrong with that, if you're not feeling it I say pass on by, grab what you are interested in.
@@TheFwoosh thx for the replie, have a great day
Gonna get the arc trooper today is my childhood clone wars 2003 character
I think we all collectively went " hmmm" when got to boots lol either swap or dark brown paint...Saber on belt has that presence 🤔. In the animated he was wrecking those tin cans with his fist for a good while...
That can work as a mirror universe Jedi greaves
yeah i got the arc trooper its sooo cool
I don’t have either one but the heads on those Mace Windu figures look different to me. The Clone Wars version looks like he typically goes back for seconds, maybe thirds.
Im considering buying that grevious just for the lightsabers, the 2 blue ones would be better to replace the sabers that came with plo koon and kit fisto
Couldn’t get Mace, and I like these mostly for the look of the packaging so I’m
Keeping mine on card, especially since Grevious is so thin, fragile and loose.
Missed opportunity for Walmart to have ordered more of these from Hasbro. I was never able to find them even when Preternia announced they were available. Oh well...
1:59 Michael Bay movies be like: 💥 💥
These are dope I didn’t know about these
I didn't even know these when up for pre-order. When exactly was the opening to order these and when were they announced?
Summer 2021.
@@TheFwoosh wierd never even saw it. The promotions must not have been good.
I actually really want the general grievous because I missed out on the other one or the mace windu
I like to get creative with my displays outside of their originally intended properties. I create entirely new worlds/teams and this stark white general grievous is going to look amazing next to my "anti-hero" team with white prototype Boba and eventual all-white Vader. Now if we can just get a black and white darth maul some day.
All of them are in stores today.
I had no idea cellophane was your mortal enemy Robo
I think Robo forgot that he has a random blue Iron man on the corner of his desk
Are the joints in the Grievous figure any tighter than the previous version?
Would you recommend opening these or do you think the value may go up? I’m genuinely curious I just got grievous and I rlly want to open him but I also think it looks great in the box and I would have a better possibility at selling it
While I understand the re-use is a price-saving measure, I do wish they'd just been new sculpts all around.
I'm with ya, but in this case, where it's rehash characters, and following the Black Series "make animation look realistic" guidelines, it makes sense to reuse parts here.
Foredale should have come with his alternate helmet as well like the original figure did.
That ARC is slick but I HATE phase 1 helmets with a passion
I really prefer the Phase 2, if I'm being honest. But I like the evolution.
The Greivous is out of scale. Too small. He needs to be much taller than Mace Windu even when he is hunched over. It only works when he stands up straight which he doesn’t do in the movie. He’s much larger than a human especially when fighting kenobi. The black series one isn’t big enough when it’s hunching.
Yea, these are a let down. I just bought two of them yesterday from walmart and i thought they would look more like the animated design. Can't believe they reused older figures, repainted, and added stuff instead of crearing new molds for that animated look from the 2003 cartoon shorts. Bummer.
You know Hasbro couldve took the clone wars 2008 #6 General Grievous and upscale it to 6" ... but then again those classic 3.75 cardbacks in 6" is a slap in the face to time when every walmart and target had two aisles of star wars figures and vehicles
White Grevious nade me laugh I'm 24 I guess I have a sad life
I wish we going get an accurate 2003 grevious rather than reuse.
In the episode with Mace in it he beat up a whole army of droids with his fists
Interestingly enough I preorder all of them on the first round of preorders in July 2021 and only received mace and the arc trooper so far. My Grevious has been delayed.
See I love black sieries but it's just hard to find them now.😢
Nah fordo has a wrist rocket
Serious, what is that “bright white~” with sound effects lol
Damn you Robo! Another fantastic review but I think you’ve Jedi mind tricked me into buying Grievous! I have the other 2, love them. But I’ve really held off on the General cause I love my custom kit. Ah well, good thing Ramen noodles are still cheap…
I got mine about 2 weeks ago, all of the boxes were destroyed by Walmart shipping
Does the Mace have "BAMF" stamped on the sole of his boot? Just checking😏
My local comic shop was able stock all of these through their distributor at retail, so there's hope besides relying on a walmart restock
NICE! Hopefully there's other avenues when it comes to these exclusives.
I wish they looked like the cartoons
does anyone know if the 50th Anniversary is over? because the back of the cards show rebels, rogue one and solo, did those already came out?
I remove the helmets from all of my clones. I even paint some of them.
You should check out Clone Wars by Gendy Tartatovsky(?) on Disney +, grew up with just that leading up to RoTS coming out. I hope we get more Clone Wars 2003 animated like black series figures, I’d love a blue arc trooper to have the squad.
if only we got phase 2 fordo
Just keep that Grievous away from Shaggy. If watched you know why. Even the net version isn't safe.
I never saw that trooper but at time I had stopped black series collecting so as much as dig this series didn't want to get back in.
Mace Windu was one debated on as well since in this, and to me it's cannon don't argue, he is the cause for Grevious coughing.
Would love to see more Arc troopers but mainly cause recall one villain that did a number on them. Durge.
I always wanted the BS Grievous but after I saw this, I love my Bandai model kit Grievous. Its so much better. Except the cape, this is also not good. Anyone know how to cut a cape on my own? Are there shapes to download?
I actually do want to get the creeps figure but why went to Walmart they were all out of the grievous so they only had three Mace windus left was I actually did bought the Mace windu figure