Today my Clone Army received a new intake.
My trusty Hong Kong-based Ebay dealer sent me some new figures, the new Legacy Commander Cody, the Gelagrub trooper and Commander Bly.
In this review I’ll focus on Cody, the Gelagrub trooper will be presented later.
Let me tell you. Cody’s got some balls.
Really.
Except for the swivel wrists, all other joints are either ball-jointed or ball-hinged.
I feel safe to say that articulation-wise this figure is the ultimate super-articulated Clone trooper.
It seems that Hasbro has re-used the old style Cody’s helmet, rocket pack and head,all other parts appear to be new sculpts.
The result is a very cool figure which I don’t hesitate recommending.
I’m not particularly thrilled by the now used rubbery plastic Hasbro uses on the removeable helmets and I think they used the same soft plastic in the rocket pack. This part doesn’t like to stay in place too well, so I’m going to glue it down.
The figure has a nice factory paintjob on the armor, the left shoulder guard on the new figure is missing the tiny white stencilling which the old figure had.
His head has a new paintjob with whitewall haircut, I’m not sure if that is movie accurate or not, though.
Re. accessories the figure comes with the bulky version of the DC-15 Blaster Rifle with painted butt, the hilt of Obi-Wan’s lightsaber and a holo projector with a projection of Chancellor Palpatine. On the belt there is a small hole to put the peg of the lightsabe hilt into, but the hole is a touch too small so you'll have to work it into place.
Thus equipped, the figure cries for a vignette of Cody handing Obi-Wan his lightsaber, Cody receiving Order 66 or giving his men the order to blast Obi-Wan.
This new Cody also has great potential to be used for custom paintjobs (Clint, Jay, do you hear the voices in your head calling?) or new characters from your own Star Wars universe.
