Picked this guy up at my local Game Stop on 11-19-21.
I’ll keep things brief, this guy kinda sucks. He looks pretty cool, with the flame thrower and the pack, but he doesn’t stand well at all, which is why he’s on a display stand.
Now one thing I was excited about when I seem them is
I did get both the Star Wars The Black Series Gaming
Greats Darth Malak AND Darth Malgus!!
being I'm a Star Wars girl I was overly excited
to unwrap both of these
I have the smaller 3.75 inch scale
ones so I was happy to get these one to go with
my larger 6 inch Sith figures.
Got this figure the first week on June 2021 at a Game Stop near my job.
I think the Purge Trooper is from the Fallen Order game.
I’m not doing a full review today since I have done Storm Troopers, and Clone Troopers to death on here, but this is a solid figure.
The Purge Trooper stands well.
I’m seeing some original parts of this figure (most Storm Troopers and Clone Troopers tend to recycle parts a lot) but the shoulder guards and the knees are bit different.
I love the Purge Trooper’s helmet
The Purge Trooper’s electro staff is a solid piece of well sculpted dark gray plastic. I take no issue with the staff, however the Purge Trooper’s hands are a not the best type of hands to hold a staff.
His right hand is an obvious trigger finger, and his left hand is sculpted a bit too closed together that it makes opening his hands difficult. Hasbro should have sculpted some new hands for this figure.
The electro effects don’t really clip, or attach onto the staff. You just kind of wrap them around the ends of the staff and hope that gravity doesn’t take effect on them.
Over all the Purge Trooper is a fun figure, and makes a nice addition to the Galactic Empire.
Thinking again about how Suzanne esentially subverted the "beloved famous man that is actually a horrible person in real life" with Finnick, who is the complete opposite of that.
Finnick has this whole image costructed around him by the people that abused him for years: the Capitol's darling, their golden boy, the sex symbol of Panem, the man that has countless lovers but leaves them constantly and doesn't look back etc. And you would expect, initially, to meet a man that retains at least a part of that persona in his day to day life. But Finnick doesn't, not even one bit.
You see instead a man that is deeply in love and completely devoted to the one woman he quite literally adores, a man that protects Mags, his old mentor and his mother figure, as much as he can, a man that wouldn't leave Johanna behind, a man that gathers whatever strenght he has left to speak publicly about the abuse inflicted upon him at the government's hands; the opposite of what the Capitol's media and reputation made him out to be.