Love how this turned out. But really nearly 2 years later for a simple repaint? And still no Tusken Robe Fett. This episode was probably the best of the season after The Rescue it’s so disheartening to have to wait so long
Definitely getting a couple of these glad he comes with a blaster and that backpack shows someone made the effort to make him even more fun to play with
I can't wait until the 9 to 5 Stormtrooper is released. Complete with coffee cup and lunch box. Until then the artillery trooper is my new favorite Stormtrooper.
Some of the newer tooled figures have the geometrically shaped barbells, but first time seeing it that big. I think these are pieces that are 3D printed in bulk, but I'm just assuming since the geometry is something that comes out of 3D printing functional designing pieces when you want to save time and material. But as always, excellent video!!!!
@@chrisworsley8836 Yes, in my comment I'm explaining that 3D printing geometric shapes instead of spheres saves a lot of time, money and material - this is very common practice, so when I saw Hasbro do this for the first time, I assume they are offloading some repeating tooling to 3D printing. Think of it like polygons in a video game. A perfect sphere would take a very long time and require many, many triangle vectors, rendering, easy to misprint.
Those polyhedron spheres are used all over modern Star Wars figures, from the head post, to the torso posts, so the hip joints etc. they are used for positional resting. Like “clicks”, so that the part is put into a position and holds it place. It makes the joint less likely to become loose over time. It’s an method used in engineering.
Awesome figure. I just checked my 4 pack stormtroopers for the one with the pauldron because mine his head pops off too easy, but its completely round unlike the artillery trooper's dumbbell.
If you are a Mandalorian fan and you love this episode ("The Tragedy") you must love TVC. Now we have almost EVERYTHING from this episode. Mando, Grogu, Fennek, Morak Boba (unfortunatelly not 100% accourate for this scene) Hopefully tusken outfit boba soon (for now it's just slave1 extra). We got new standard stormtroopers, we got new E-Web heavy repeating blaster stormtrooper (nevarro cantina stormtrooper deluxe) . New Artillery Stormtrooper, we have dark toopers, we have Slave 1 and some lucky people have the razor crest. I think we also need a stormtrooper with red pauldron. I really loved this episode Boba was absolute badass. Nice review as always. Really happy for this figure even with the small mistakes :). I really like this concept of having complete scenes. Took them some time but better late than never. Good Job Hasbro.
Lots of new figures have the multifaceted ball at the top of the neck barbell, but none of them are loose-fitting. Usually you need heat or pliers to pull them out of their sockets. Maybe if there's no "pop" sound when you put the head on it could be that the ball isn't going into the socket at all, because it's too tight? I'd advise soaking the head in hot water for a few minutes and see if that makes any difference. Otherwise it could just be that you have a defective sample but I'm pretty sure it's not an issue with the shape of the ball
Thanks for the review BB! The "Craft bead" barbell neck joint is actually old stock it seems... those are similar/the same as the TVC Range Troopers from SOLO barbell neckjoints (and a few others from around that time 4 yrs ago), I suppose they had that barbell piece to reuse from 2018.
Hands down my favorite type of storm trooper. Already started making a home made board games based on this figure. Even though I don't have it yet. I Have one put on back order online.
Great video as always. Yourself and OOK are my go to for any figure or vehicle reviews. I have just got the Carbonized Incinerator Trooper myself last week,fantastic figure. I have had the same issue with my Lobot. The head pops off so easily!! And that was straight out the packaging as well. Thanks for the great video👍
they all have that ball, it normally stuck in the head, they used the ball joint, from heavy trooper, they have a different size, and the ep4 one has a shorter one, think he has the ep4 ball rod instead the heavy which should have, swapping em i found this out
It’s great that they are making more vintage figures from black series, for example the bad batch: vintage collection has only or is about to release hunter, with black series having all the bad batch group. Great review!
Great review! I just got mine and was bothered that there’s no weapon storage for the mortar or his blaster. Then I figured out that if you don’t put the legs in the mortar, it can fit into the tab sticking off the backpack. Then you hang the legs over it. A holster for the gun would be nice. Why don’t they include those on every trooper?
Thanks Tim, great review. Question for you, this wave was always labeled as coming this month, but now it’s saying it won’t ship until May 2023. Any idea what’s happening?
One thing that I didn't like is the back pack looks like it has a mount for the mortar to attach to but it doesn't. I think they should have had a way for him to store the mortar as well.
Maybe they want it to be more easily removable but a click would be better. Wish the yellow was more mustard colored. And the ankles isn’t a big deal but odd indeed.
You can CONTACT customer service and they are really good at replacing the defective ones. I had a death trooper that had super glue on two spots on the head. I contacted them and sent a couple of pics and they sent a WHOLE NEW 4 PACK free of charge and did not have to send the defective one back!!!
Great video as always. I'm pretty sure the shaved ball is a money saving issue. They started doing this with the Transformers peg sockets but kept the rounded peg. Instead of having all-around friction contact I believe now there are only five edges of friction contact. Since it is injection molding they can save money after producing a certain quantity. They like to play the numbers game but in reality it just weakens the product and allows it to wear down faster. Still a great looking figure except for the unpainted ankles.
Cracking looking firgure... very odd decision to use the shiny disco ball for the ball joint on the head!? Surprised (pleasantly that this isn't considered deluxe) 🤷♂️ I hope they are moving away from the boxed deluxe figures 🤞🤞🤞
Great review Bossk!! I will be picking this up! Wondering if the ball joint issue with the head is a factory error on your figure and if other figs will be okay?
Very cool Bossk. I'm really wondering why they've changed the ball joint design on those heads. I thought all the trooper bodies had a double "barbell" joint in the head/neck. They must have made a new head and torso for the versions with peg hole for the backpack. Odd choice. Hope that's not the version they plan to use for future trooper 4-packs and future releases.
Great video. Some good points about the negatives of this figure. I look forward to seeing the guy arrive the U.S but at least I know the issue I will have 😅 as always keep them reviews coming Tim!
Looks awesome, I can't wait for my pre order to arrive. Are the ankles painted black or are they moulded in black plastic? If it's paint, the old acetone/nail polish remover and cotton buds should sort that out. Silly mistake they made though. Edit: I just checked my gaming greats stormtrooper which is exactly the same mould, including the pauldron, and his ankles and boot soles are moulded in white plastic, so the black ankles should be an easy fix 👍🏻
@@BossksBounty no worries, just thought I'd mention it incase you'd 'pressed the wrong button!' Hope you both had a great time. My daughter has been and had a great time
Hey Bossk, like your video's but I am sad and angry that Hasbro is so greedy we have to pay more then 25% more for a figure these days! Specialy when it's ANOTHER Boba re-paint. I hope people speak up abd vote with their wallets or else Hasbro will make it the standard and wants more and more.
Love how this turned out. But really nearly 2 years later for a simple repaint? And still no Tusken Robe Fett. This episode was probably the best of the season after The Rescue it’s so disheartening to have to wait so long
Yeah bit of a wait, but I guess if they made him earlier he would have the bell bottom legs. Glad this figure wasn't a deluxe too!
Tuske. robe Fett coming with his “starship”, really sucks cause it’s 200 us dollars
Definitely getting a couple of these glad he comes with a blaster and that backpack shows someone made the effort to make him even more fun to play with
Absolutely beautiful card
Dude i was smiling when you got him in that pose, could probably get away with just the one, but I'm tempted get 2. Awesome
so so cool!
I can't wait until the 9 to 5 Stormtrooper is released. Complete with coffee cup and lunch box. Until then the artillery trooper is my new favorite Stormtrooper.
I really like this figure! The yellow really pops! Keep up the amazing content BB
Really like that card back ,and the figure looks great too.
The Rescue Mandalorians Head Post is like that as well.... I was noticing that last night when I opened it up and was playing with it....😎👍
Great review this really is a brilliant figure looking forward to getting this one & rest of the wave. Will have to pick up afew of these!!
Great review 🙂 I think the artillery trooper is the best figure in this wave. That head issue is unfortunate but still a great figure overall.
Some of the newer tooled figures have the geometrically shaped barbells, but first time seeing it that big. I think these are pieces that are 3D printed in bulk, but I'm just assuming since the geometry is something that comes out of 3D printing functional designing pieces when you want to save time and material. But as always, excellent video!!!!
Thanks man, I don't often pop the head off to check unless doing a human head swap, so this surprised me
You may be right, but since you can 3D print a near perfectly round/spherical shape, I have to assume this was a deliberate choice.
@@chrisworsley8836 Yes, in my comment I'm explaining that 3D printing geometric shapes instead of spheres saves a lot of time, money and material - this is very common practice, so when I saw Hasbro do this for the first time, I assume they are offloading some repeating tooling to 3D printing. Think of it like polygons in a video game. A perfect sphere would take a very long time and require many, many triangle vectors, rendering, easy to misprint.
Those polyhedron spheres are used all over modern Star Wars figures, from the head post, to the torso posts, so the hip joints etc. they are used for positional resting. Like “clicks”, so that the part is put into a position and holds it place. It makes the joint less likely to become loose over time. It’s an method used in engineering.
Can't wait for this to turn up.
There's not been alot of new media enemies for my Mando collection.
I'm glad these are hitting now. Hopefully I'll be able to find them at retail!
I still need to get this guy. He was such a cool trooper.
On any other day, a 'Deluxe' figure. Thank the maker it wasn't!!
Awesome figure. I just checked my 4 pack stormtroopers for the one with the pauldron because mine his head pops off too easy, but its completely round unlike the artillery trooper's dumbbell.
Looking forward to this one. I think I have 4 coming in
Awesome Review! You really show the firgures inside out, which helps so much before we have them in hand.
You are KILLING ME bossk !!! Cal is right there 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
Looks awesome!! Looked like there was a peg hole on the blaster to fit onto the backpack? 🤔
Will have to check!
Awesome review. Because of that head issue. I'm getting tbs version.
If you are a Mandalorian fan and you love this episode ("The Tragedy") you must love TVC. Now we have almost EVERYTHING from this episode. Mando, Grogu, Fennek, Morak Boba (unfortunatelly not 100% accourate for this scene) Hopefully tusken outfit boba soon (for now it's just slave1 extra). We got new standard stormtroopers, we got new E-Web heavy repeating blaster stormtrooper (nevarro cantina stormtrooper deluxe) . New Artillery Stormtrooper, we have dark toopers, we have Slave 1 and some lucky people have the razor crest. I think we also need a stormtrooper with red pauldron. I really loved this episode Boba was absolute badass. Nice review as always. Really happy for this figure even with the small mistakes :). I really like this concept of having complete scenes. Took them some time but better late than never. Good Job Hasbro.
Hopefully my cat stops trying to climb onto the display case my Razor Crest sits on, or it's going to look like the Crest at the end of The Tragedy.
@@speedmastermarkiii Better find another episode to recreat with your cat. My cat does the Krayt Dragon
I can never get my figures to display like you great work
I am usually pretty poor at posing the figures but I am getting better lol
Lots of new figures have the multifaceted ball at the top of the neck barbell, but none of them are loose-fitting. Usually you need heat or pliers to pull them out of their sockets. Maybe if there's no "pop" sound when you put the head on it could be that the ball isn't going into the socket at all, because it's too tight? I'd advise soaking the head in hot water for a few minutes and see if that makes any difference. Otherwise it could just be that you have a defective sample but I'm pretty sure it's not an issue with the shape of the ball
Looks amazing for sure! Thanks!
Great review. The color really looks good
Thanks for the review BB! The "Craft bead" barbell neck joint is actually old stock it seems... those are similar/the same as the TVC Range Troopers from SOLO barbell neckjoints (and a few others from around that time 4 yrs ago), I suppose they had that barbell piece to reuse from 2018.
Thanks for the info, I don't often pop the heads off my figures so it really surprised me.
Great review as always thank you.
awesome figure despite the « helmet thing » thanks BB keep up the great work
And also got this 4 days ago! And I haven’t opened the other one mate! I wonder what would be the next trooper colours in the season 3?
Hands down my favorite type of storm trooper. Already started making a home made board games based on this figure. Even though I don't have it yet. I Have one put on back order online.
Great review! That ball joint for the head with the flat sides is so bizarre.
Omg I love this figure looks awesome great video
Those ankles jumped out at me first time I saw the promo pics. Really a baffling choice there.
Great video as always. Yourself and OOK are my go to for any figure or vehicle reviews. I have just got the Carbonized Incinerator Trooper myself last week,fantastic figure. I have had the same issue with my Lobot. The head pops off so easily!! And that was straight out the packaging as well. Thanks for the great video👍
Oh yeah! Definitely want this figure! Great review Tim!
Already pre ordered last month mate!
they all have that ball, it normally stuck in the head, they used the ball joint, from heavy trooper, they have a different size, and the ep4 one has a shorter one, think he has the ep4 ball rod instead the heavy which should have, swapping em i found this out
Great review! Like the feature on the backpack, hopefully the loose head joint isn’t a widespread issue…
It’s great that they are making more vintage figures from black series, for example the bad batch: vintage collection has only or is about to release hunter, with black series having all the bad batch group. Great review!
Great review! I just got mine and was bothered that there’s no weapon storage for the mortar or his blaster. Then I figured out that if you don’t put the legs in the mortar, it can fit into the tab sticking off the backpack. Then you hang the legs over it. A holster for the gun would be nice. Why don’t they include those on every trooper?
I think they should’ve used a slightly dirtier yellow but it looks like a great figure!
Looks great can’t wait to get mine
the black on and the ankle is screen right, he does have black on his boots,
Great review as always.
Looks like a disco ball
So strange!
If you take the pauldron off and put the head on without the pauldron, does the head snap on to the ball?
Does the motor gun conect with the pack? Looks like there is some kind of hook on the side.
Great review as always BB. The mortar trooper looks great, can’t wait to get this one into the collection! 🙌
My Black Series is in the same pose 👏👏👏
Thanks Tim, great review. Question for you, this wave was always labeled as coming this month, but now it’s saying it won’t ship until May 2023. Any idea what’s happening?
One thing that I didn't like is the back pack looks like it has a mount for the mortar to attach to but it doesn't. I think they should have had a way for him to store the mortar as well.
someone said you can if you take the bipod off
So then where will the biped go? I would like for them to send me a picture.
Just curious does the backpack take the blaster or motor? It would be awesome if he could carry all of his gear!
Bizarre the black on the boots! Early concept or sloppy research? Great figure though, with nice accessories 😀
Another great video bb, good to see hasbro nailing it with these stormtroopers, hopefully they have a new sandtrooper in the works🤞
Maybe they want it to be more easily removable but a click would be better. Wish the yellow was more mustard colored. And the ankles isn’t a big deal but odd indeed.
Great review BB, so sad for the English team they played an amazing game
You can CONTACT customer service and they are really good at replacing the defective ones. I had a death trooper that had super glue on two spots on the head. I contacted them and sent a couple of pics and they sent a WHOLE NEW 4 PACK free of charge and did not have to send the defective one back!!!
Can you use the head peg from the deluxe Boba fett storm trooper to switch the pegs???
Great video as always. I'm pretty sure the shaved ball is a money saving issue. They started doing this with the Transformers peg sockets but kept the rounded peg. Instead of having all-around friction contact I believe now there are only five edges of friction contact. Since it is injection molding they can save money after producing a certain quantity. They like to play the numbers game but in reality it just weakens the product and allows it to wear down faster. Still a great looking figure except for the unpainted ankles.
Does his e11 blaster hook onto the backpack? It looks like it might.
I thought it might but couldn’t see how
The ankles are the way they are it’s designed so you’ll buy the upgrade. The yellow is again the incorrect shade like the 6-inch one.
Cracking looking firgure... very odd decision to use the shiny disco ball for the ball joint on the head!? Surprised (pleasantly that this isn't considered deluxe) 🤷♂️ I hope they are moving away from the boxed deluxe figures 🤞🤞🤞
Could this be the beginning of the sand trooper, jedha patrol and magma trooper 🤔
Great review Bossk!! I will be picking this up! Wondering if the ball joint issue with the head is a factory error on your figure and if other figs will be okay?
Nope, Cassian has it too! But clicks just fine.
@@BossksBounty strange???
I gotta get him for the imperial energy drinks
Very cool Bossk. I'm really wondering why they've changed the ball joint design on those heads. I thought all the trooper bodies had a double "barbell" joint in the head/neck. They must have made a new head and torso for the versions with peg hole for the backpack. Odd choice. Hope that's not the version they plan to use for future trooper 4-packs and future releases.
Great video. Some good points about the negatives of this figure. I look forward to seeing the guy arrive the U.S but at least I know the issue I will have 😅 as always keep them reviews coming Tim!
Looks awesome, I can't wait for my pre order to arrive. Are the ankles painted black or are they moulded in black plastic? If it's paint, the old acetone/nail polish remover and cotton buds should sort that out. Silly mistake they made though. Edit: I just checked my gaming greats stormtrooper which is exactly the same mould, including the pauldron, and his ankles and boot soles are moulded in white plastic, so the black ankles should be an easy fix 👍🏻
Awesome Bossk, but 7.30 pm Sunday, where's Ask Bossks Bounty?
Took my daughter the Stranger things experience today so didnt have time to record
@@BossksBounty no worries, just thought I'd mention it incase you'd 'pressed the wrong button!'
Hope you both had a great time. My daughter has been and had a great time
How much less plastic is on that new ball joint for the head? Maybe they save 1mil shaving off those pieces. Same with the ankle paint😂
Awesome review, you should try comparing it to the Lego one? If you’d like to search the figure up it’s called Lego Star Wars imperial mortar trooper
Overall looks pretty good 😌
B to the O to the E
Awesome review BB now back to Ask BB (I think)
Next week.
I think my Canon stormtrooper has the same head literally comes off desd easily
Woah
Weird?!!! Why would they not paint the ankles? That head barbell is terrible too. Such a weird, simple oversight
Where’s the q&a
I took my daughter to the Stranger Thing experience today so didn’t have time
Hey Bossk, like your video's but I am sad and angry that Hasbro is so greedy we have to pay more then 25% more for a figure these days! Specialy when it's ANOTHER Boba re-paint. I hope people speak up abd vote with their wallets or else Hasbro will make it the standard and wants more and more.
Still something almost unnaturally tactile about the concept of this figure coming to life in the Star Wars universe.. am I crazy?
Penny loafer trooper
want you think about the frozen female with razor crest being omega??
You didn’t answer questions?
Ask Bossk is back next week. Had a family outing
A stormtrooper before Andor??? Sigh.
I was governed by which figures my son was taking from me.
@@BossksBounty haha!! Well, that's about as good as an excuse as there is! Hope you and Lil' Bossk are enjoy the new figures! Happy holidays, mate!
@@LaurenceQuint Luckily for me he isn't interested in the Andor figures! Hope you have a great Holidays too!