>>10207364I mostly pick up armybuilders but I also gotta give it to the new Vader, it's an awesome figure that really deserves the praise it's getting. As far as what I was personally most happy about though, it was a great year for troopers so there's quite a few;
>Deathwatch AirborneAll of the new Mandalorian stuff has been nice, but I'm giving the spotlight to this one because I like the colorscheme on it the most and it doesn't suffer from the bad crotch cut of the other new Deathwatch figure.
>Viper Probe DroidThe detail and articulation on this thing really make it worth mentioning, it's incredibly nice. It's too small to be the original probe on Hoth, but nearly every appearance of this droid has been about this size, so I'm fine with it.
>Juggernaut PilotNot the best articulation but the look and detail more than make up for it, as a vehicle pilot he doesn't need to hit too many poses anyway.
>Phase II Purge TrooperAmazing trooper design that got stuck doing nearly nothing in its show, hope it gets to appear in other stuff, maybe Survivor? Sucks that it was locked to a 3-pack though, and also sucks that they gave it a regular E11 instead of the E11-Ds they seemed to have onscreen. Biggest 2023 wish for me is that they give us the other purge troopers from JFO, there's not much else left that I really want other than some of the Imperial Army guys from Andor.
>TVC Dark TrooperWish it was just a tiny bit bigger but otherwise it's absolutely perfect, excluding price of course. Posing it feels great, having a bunch of them lined up looks great, I would argue as far as new sculpts go this easily rivals the new Vader, shame it's held back by its ridiculous cost.
Honorable mentions to the Shoretrooper Captain and Squad Leader, Force Unleashed Stormtrooper Commander, and the various other Stormtrooper repacks that all felt worth picking up that I'm not including here since they're all nearly zero new scuplting compared to their past releases.
