Star Wars Black Series

They haven't made him yet, but Mace Windu actually had Ponds, until his death, and then Ponds replacement. They were brown. They actually showed Maces bad reaction to Ponds dying in front of him, and Anakin mentions how hard it must be. Wolfe definitely should go with Plo though.
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Ponds

Ponds, designated CT-411, was a clone trooper officer who held the military rank of Clone Commander. Ponds was bred from the genetic template of the human bounty hunter Jango Fett. During the Clone Wars, he served under the command of Jedi General Mace Windu in the Grand Army of the Republic. On...
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docsilence said:
Just got the Kenobi two pack, so I have my project tonight. Right now I've got:
Kenobi - Cody (stick the generic trooper in with them)
Yoda - Gree (with Luminara as well? I think she was the actual general)
Mace - generic purple-coded trooper
Anakin - Rex of course - could legit do a a whole squad with him
Aayla - Bly (add Galle to the mix?)
Ki-Adi-Mundi - Bacara
Plo Koon - Wolffe
Shaak Ti - I'm gonna put her with Fox because of color uniformity since I think he's the last clone commander I have with assigned Jedi (?)

Am I missing anyone? I just looked at this list of troopers and holy crap they've done a lot of troopers. I think minus Kit (whom I will, for humor's sake, put with Aayla) that covers all the prequel era Jedi they have too (?). I can put Snips with Anakin of course. I feel like I'm missing someone. (Kinda want to stick Baylan Skoll in there just to be subversive. Maybe put him with some unassigned troopers.)

EDIT: Was Appo REALLY hard to get? I think he's the only named clone I don't have one version of.
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Think you've got everyone. Fox with Shaak Ti is a good choice; could also do Fordo from that Clone Wars mini-wave if you have him, just for color coordination. Ahsoka also has her 332nd Troopers, and Jesse helped train her, so he could go with her as well.

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They haven't made him yet, but Mace Windu actually had Ponds, until his death, and then Ponds replacement. They were brown. They actually showed Maces bad reaction to Ponds dying in front of him, and Anakin mentions how hard it must be. Wolfe definitely should go with Plo though.
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Ponds

Ponds, designated CT-411, was a clone trooper officer who held the military rank of Clone Commander. Ponds was bred from the genetic template of the human bounty hunter Jango Fett. During the Clone Wars, he served under the command of Jedi General Mace Windu in the Grand Army of the Republic. On...
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Good point. I suppose you could always take that brown trooper we got from Walgreens a couple years ago and stick a painted phase 1 helmet on him. Though that link you provided also shows Ponds as the yellow trooper that talks to Mace on Geonosis, so I guess that could cover him too.

I'd forgotten I'd ordered the Veils Toys Commander Nero; I'm sure Stass Allie (and by extension Adi Gallia) aren't super high priorities, but it would be nice to have her to go along with him. Saesee Tiin and Agen Kolar are still my next choices, though (Barriss too, but she's rumored to be coming soon)
 
It's funny, I was trying to place that brownish Walgreens trooper last night, could not figure out where he belongs since they released the purple-armored trooper with Mace last month, forgot he had a more brownish armored battalion under him for a while.

I also realized that I never got helmetless Cody, saw he's in stock at Walmart but my preorder is in Walmart Preorder Limbo (TM) as always, so ordered him fresh and will cancel the preorder when the in-stock ships. Walmart is the worst at preorders, and I say that as someone who is actively mad at Target for canceling a preorder last week.

I am actively annoyed at how I've got more red-piping clones than I thought I had, or really need, but only one green and he doesn't match Gree.
 
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Spent the past couple weeks picking up the Andor and face printed Rogue One figures that I passed on before, so it’s been a Star Wars heavy handful of days.

But even after all that, when I saw Sebulba at GameStop yesterday, I couldn’t pass him up. I normally don’t like paying full price for Black Series, but man, what a great figure. The fact that they got his design to be this functional is amazing. Now we just need more pod racers and where the heck is Watto?
 
Boy Wonder said:
Spent the past couple weeks picking up the Andor and face printed Rogue One figures that I passed on before, so it’s been a Star Wars heavy handful of days.

But even after all that, when I saw Sebulba at GameStop yesterday, I couldn’t pass him up. I normally don’t like paying full price for Black Series, but man, what a great figure. The fact that they got his design to be this functional is amazing. Now we just need more pod racers and where the heck is Watto?
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I've been only sporadically picking up SWB figures after being pretty much all in until a couple of years ago. The only ones I've even bought in the past year were the Luke and Leia redo, Padme, and Episode 1 Anakin. I haven't even been following the line but looked up the Sebulba figure which led me down a rabbit hole of adding other prequel figures that I didn't realize had been made to my cart on Amazon. So THANKS A LOT, I guess.

I haven't clicked buy yet, but I'm watching them.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Sebulba is 💯 in the “character I don’t care about from a movie I outright loathe that is, indeed, a magnificent action figure” category for me.
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That is a very specific category! Curious about which other characters fit in that category.
 
I don't even know who most of these prequel characters are by name. I had to look up Sebulba to find out and that's what led me to think that he was a cool action figure. Honestly outside of the big ones (Han, Luke, Leia, the droids, Lando, Obi-Wan, Vader, etc), I don't know any Star Wars characters by name. I almost always have to look them up and then I don't recognize them and then I find out it was some background character in one scene of one movie. Which was why I decided I needed to cut back on my Star Wars collecting but damn if they don't all look cool together on the shelf.
 
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That is a very specific category! Curious about which other characters fit in that category.
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For me it's the BAF Cassie from Quantumania. Such a cool figure and a great job with the details - the helmet and face inside. I have fun with her and Ant Man and Wasp on a shelf being meta about their scale. I think Hasbro knocked it out of the park with those,, even if the movie was just white noise to me. But maybe that's not enough for a loathing.
 
I bet if I looked through my collection I'd find a few more Sebulbas in there, the "I should hate this character but daaaaamn, the designers killed it!" category. That happens a lot to me with Marvel Legends and occasionally with GI Joe Classifieds (there are fewer characters in classified I DON'T want, but with Legends at least once every other wave someone I buy to complete a BAF is like: this is a fantastic action figure, who has no right being this good.)

I feel like Black Series is consistently conscientious though so most of the figures are just well crafted. I suppose folks like Momaw Nadon, the Inquisitors, or any of the Acolyte / Skeleton Crew figures might fall into that category because the demand for the figures wasn't super high but the designers put 110% into making them REALLY GREAT figures. Like I feel like if you handed someone who knows nothing about Star Wars a box of Acolyte Jedi and Inquisitors, they could have a really great time posing and playing with those. This line really does inspire imagination. Makes me hope they go deeper into ugly old aliens in this line. Give us Watto and Yakface and and and...

Bazil. Bazil has never left my desk. He just hangs out there. He's fricken great. Absolutely Z-list character.
 
Watto is definitely nearing the top of my most wanted list. Especially now that Sebulba got me to finally order little kid Anakin.

Honestly, at this point my top 10 most wanted is primarily Glup Shittos. Give me all the weird aliens, they seem to be the figures I like the most. Cantina patrons, Jabba’s Palace, podracers.

I popped in Super Return of the Jedi on SNES the other day and I got reminded how they turned so many background aliens into enemies or even bosses in that game and how half of them inexplicably shot lasers or had some wild physical attacks. That game really inspired a TON of my playtime as a kid with my old POTF figures.
 
Boy Wonder said:
I popped in Super Return of the Jedi on SNES the other day and I got reminded how they turned so many background aliens into enemies or even bosses in that game and how half of them inexplicably shot lasers or had some wild physical attacks. That game really inspired a TON of my playtime as a kid with my old POTF figures.
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Oh man I love those games!! And yes, I had so much fun seeing the various aliens get wild combat upgrades. I definitely want every single OT alien done in Black Series.
 
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