Well finally got my Ig-88 figure…then found out I had a dead camera battery, so after a quick charge I got to getting it unboxed and figured out.1st the Packaging is very much like the other Sideshow 12″ figures except when opening the box you are not presented with accessories on the left, a brief story in the middle and the figure on the right. I just figures since he doesn’t have that many accessories they are all packed in the same tray as the figure. But Sideshow has take to stacking the accessories under the figure in a 2nd plastic tray.Accessories are very nice but minimal for IG-88, he has his long blaster, a shorter standard storm trooper blaster with holster, some mines and “instrument pins”(read small silver and easy to lose out of the box). All of the mines and Blaster holster have magnets in them that attach to his bandolier. VERY COOL His light up base is cool but not fitting for IG-88 I plan to switch it over to Vader when I get Boba so they both can have a carbon chamber base.
The figure is a bit confusing, he his many joints and parts that twist but without an x-ray style view to show where all the articulation is, its hard to tell what is supposed to move and what is just a seam between parts. He does feel light and fragile in hand. Some of his joints like shoulders and the extendable parts of the legs are very tight on mine. I can only move one arm at the shoulder without some real force applied and his legs were a bit of a scare to extend and retract. The hight of the figure with legs retracted is the same as the sideshow vader and just barely able to stand up in an Ikea Detolf, on his light up base. with legs extended its likely he would still barely fit on a normal base.
His colors are more of a warm rust/copper than the latest vintage collection figure, but they are not off putting. In details the hasbro has more detail but i think that may be more the detail is just more compact due to smaller size figure. One of the bigger complaints I have seen is his eyes just stand straight out form his head, and in ESB he has to look down and Vader and I understand that criticism but if you take him out of that scene the figure looks fine just looking forward.
I like the figure but at almost $200 I have let go the thought of having all the ESB bounty hunters, I can not justify $200 for a Dengar or 4Lom. I am glad to see Sideshow going away form the clone repaints, and get back to some OT characters. But most of all i;d like to see a staggered release schedule so that we are not getting 2-4 new figures at the same time. so I could afford more =-)
Some photos of the Figure here and more at my Flickr page.
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Tags: Figure, Ig-88, Review, Sideshow, Star Wars
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