MANDALORIAN WARRIOR Unite the Clans
Epic Hero Series Amazon Exclusive Figure 3-Pack
Item No.: No. G0311
Manufacturer: Hasbro
Number: n/a
Includes: Mandalorian Warrior, Paz Vizsla, 2 blasters, fire gauntlet, blade gauntlet
Action Feature: n/a
Retail: $19.9
Availability: September 2024
Appearances: The Mandalorian
Bio: These Star Wars toys feature design and detail inspired by The Mandalorian live-action series on Disney+. (Taken from the Amazon description.)
Image: Adam's photo lab.
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Commentary: Unite the Clans
Mandalorian Warrior is one of very few figures in
Epic Hero Series that's
only in Epic Hero Series. She's a redeco of Bo-Katan Kryze, but on the show she had a mix of her armor and some Stormtrooper bits, and a cape, and possibly other changes. There aren't many great pictures and I don't even think she has an actual name, but you can see her hanging around the Children of the Watch caves in season three of
The Mandalorian. She is also the reason you should buy this set.
The figure is not a perfect match for the show, but it looks pretty good. Heck, for all I know there's another, similar costume and I missed it - but there is a costume with a gold chest (the figure is yellow), a green left shoulder pad (figure is also yellow), and a very similar helmet and similarly colored boots - but differently shaped - with the same new blaster, and a cape. I would not necessarily say this figure is good enough that Hasbro shouldn't do a
Vintage or
Retro one, but it's definitely better than nothing and more brightly colored than almost any other figure in the line.
Star Wars toys typically come in muted tones, so a red, yellow, green, white, and gray trooper really pops on a shelf of toys. If Hasbro just made up this figure from the ground up, I'd say she's great and a must-have. Because she doesn't quite match the show, I assume a lot of you will just shrug and wait for something better... and I don't know if something better is guaranteed to be coming anymore.
Since she's made from the body of a good figure, she is also a good figure. She stands and sits, the arms and legs all swivel well, and her ball-jointed head works great. The hands can hold the all-new blaster, and the Sabine Wren knifey gauntlet - now cast in red - fits perfectly well on her arm. You may poo-poo the colors, but the engineering is perfectly executed. Nothing falls off and nothing is stuck. These are low bars to pass, but that was normal in the 1980s and 1990s - action figures were simple, but they just worked. You got your 5 (and sometimes more) joints, and if they didn't move you cried and threw it at the cashier. Well, OK, maybe nobody did that but there was also none of this "use boiling water or a hair dryer so your figure's arm moves" that's more or less accepted these days.
I bought this 3-pack because I wanted this figure. Right or wrong, she looks different than anything else I already own and that is sort of what I like about toy collecting. The set isn't bad for Amazon's $20 price, especially given some of us suckers paid $20 for Deluxe Wal Maul before they cut the price. Sure, she's a repaint - but she's wildly different than Bo-Katan and has a new (technically) blaster. If Hasbro wants to do more colorful Mandalorians, I'll buy one or two. Or several thousand. Goodness knows I've done it before.
Collector's Notes: I got mine from Amazon.
--Adam Pawlus
Day 3,198: December 17, 2024
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