Aw jeez... I would go to town on that.
Is it the deluxe crowd control guy from the POTF2 line? I had several of those when they were cheap and just had them without the backpack to be rank and file Sandtroopers back before I learned all the details of the Sandtrooper costumes.
Agreed on his look. I THINK it was based on unused McQuarrie art? But yeah, I always hope for that helmet at least to pop up somewhere again. I thought for sure on Rebels or something.
100% same. I gave mine pieces of one of the Jedi accessory packs and sort of envisioned him as a Kyle Katarn style ex-Jedi who had fallen on hard times and moved on to a life of crime. That figure was easily cool enough to have been a main character.
That's the one! Yeah I loved that guy. I think we're at a point in Black Series where, if they wanted too, they could try adding some to the galaxy far far away with additions in that vein. Make a specialized, 90's toy inspired trooper for some silly hyper specific mission, Hasbro! Give us some accessory packs. Heck, you're halfway there with some of the stuff coming from the Joe lines.
Yeah, like, I don't per se want to go back to the days of the '89 Batman toys with one mold in a thousand colors... but Stormtroopers and the Black Series are already there, so y'know, in for a penny, in for a pound. Go all the way to the hilt, y'know?
Absolutely to all of the above. We've even had one from Force Unleashed before. There was the Royal Shadow Guard or whatever (the black Royal Guard with the saber pike) in that one 4 pack. They keep toying with the idea, but rarely going farther than a straight repaint.Right, balls deep as it were. Yeah, concept, army building, background aliens, etc. Benicio Del Toro's figure from Last Jedi is another one you could probably repurpose with alien parts.
Then there's the troopers from stuff like Force Unleashed.
So, I realize that I picked up the carbonized Stormtrooper a while back just because it felt like one of those weird toy only troopers. They sold it under one gimmick, but for me it fit a different one. I grabbed a 3rd party black pauldron, painted it silver, and I've got him on my shelf as some specific trooper commander who had new armor fashioned of Beskar or something. A sort of pre Phasma silver trooper. Most of the other carbonized figures don't work as well for that sort of thing, but this one really nails it.
