Star Wars Figure of the Day: Day 3,320: Shaak Ti (The Vintage Collection)

SHAAK TI It's Been a While
The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch Action Figure
Item No.: Asst. G2611 No. G2613
Manufacturer: Hasbro
Number: #384
Includes: Cloak, scarf, lightsaber, hilt
Action Feature: Hilt plugs in hip
Retail: $19.99
Availability: January 2026
Appearances: Attack of the Clones

Bio: A wise and patient Jedi Master, the Togruta Shaak Ti fought at the Battle of Geonosis and supervised the training of clone cadets on Kamino. (Taken from the figure's cardback.)

Image: Adam's photo lab.

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Commentary: Absent from the line for over a decade, it makes sense that Hasbro wanted to do a new 3 3/4-inch Shaak Ti. (It's been almost 30 years since the last EV-9D9, just putting that out there.) With a focus on Geonosis this Jedi is a distinctive figure that, despite many other releases, probably benefits from some of the upgrades. Generally speaking alien figures do not benefit from the new technology as much as humans, mostly because make-up appliances and inhuman colors help to mask a lot of imperfections in the toymaking process. Getting a tiny peanut-sized Natalie Portman head to look perfect took some time, but the 2002 Shaak Ti head looked pretty great the first time. Each figure has its pros and cons, but this is currently queen of my world when it comes to mega-articulated takes with all the trimmings.

Let's start with the head. With no hair, her lekku piece seems to be the molded-on toupee. It seems fit perfectly, with excellently painted stripes. The make-up around the eyes looks excellent, and the pink skin color seems a little brighter and more saturated than stock photography or scenes from the movie. The eyes look good, but seemingly wrong - at this size I can't be sure, so maybe it doesn't matter. The movie costume seems to have contacts to make her eyes big and black, hiding the whites. This figure has a hint of the whites around the sides, which oddly does make her face look a little off. I'm sure anyone working on this figure will say "oh come on, you have got to be kidding me" but in the age of the $20 collector figure I'm going to nitpick facial details. Everything else seems pretty good, with her face trapezoids and red painted lips. The face doesn't look goofy, either.

Much like the face, the rest of the figure seems like someone cranked up the brightness. The brown soft goods cloak is lighter than most previous toys and the film, seemingly closely matching The Clone Wars. The hood is sewn down - which would be a complaint on another figure. Due to her massive head, here it doesn't really matter. She'd never use it, so sewing it down was a good call. Oddly like other recent Jedi, her sleeves are very small. In the movie, they were these giant, wing-sized things that you could smuggle an Ewok or at least a Hoojib inside. Here, they're just reasonable sleeves. I don't know why they're going in this direction given older figures had it right. Maybe it's mobility, but I don't think anyone ever complained about the sleeves with previous Attack of the Clones releases. Probably not coincidentally, this is also how her robes look in The Clone Wars.

The rest of the figure's costume is similar, with tattered soft goods "skirt" that actually looks pretty amazing. The fabric is thin and crinkled just-so. Is it a perfect match for the movie? Honestly I can't tell, but it looks good as a figure. Her scarf isn't as dark as the movie, but it hangs well, and it looks fine. Her tabard is incredibly detailed, and surely where a lot of money went. There are lots of sculpted and painted elements, and getting them sharply detailed is difficult. The same can be said about the gray lekku markings. It's a complex figure, with a lot of details to get just right. They did a generally good job, plus or minus questions of color temperature.

Articulation is fine, but not amazing. Getting both hands on the lightsaber hilt is no easier than most existing figures, and that's the kind of thing I really need out of a modern, otherwise excellent Jedi. For card ed collectors? She's amazing. To stand around in a collection? Probably perfectly fine, but still not the scene-perfect Attack of the Clones costume. When looking at The Clone Wars it would seem that robe and colors may have inspired the deco and robes, while the rest of the costume is pretty much what we saw in the movie. While this wave's Padme may be as perfect as she ever gets, Shaak Ti is one where Hasbro has ample reason to try again. If new colors and a new robe wouldn't cost a slot that would go to an actual new figure, I'd probably be happy to see it - but in this $19.99 environment I'll just say we can deal with it and move on. It's fine, just not perfect or particularly accurate to the movie photo on the cardback. But I don't make another one, we have been at "good enough" for a while and this, too, is probably good enough for most fans.

Collector's Notes: I got mine from Entertainment Earth.

--Adam Pawlus

Day 3,320: February 17, 2026