>>9688043It is admittedly annoying, yeah. If it had been a straight 1:1 repack of VC54 with PhotoReal, I assume we'd have gotten those extra pieces of plastic.
>>9688061Eh, you have a point, although I think the arm joints aren't quite as obnoxious as the diaper crotch or the torso joint. Besides those, the headsculpt looks somehow ever so slightly...off. Not as in bad painting or printing, but rather the face looking a bit younger than what the actor was, or something like that. Quite unusual, given that historically Hasbro's only struggled with human female characters, they've usually nailed most human male likenesses effortlessly.
That said, it's been 18 years since we last had a Lobot. My OTC one from 2004 is literally *the* stickiest figure in my collection so I'm happy to get rid of it in favor of this one, but I'd be lying if I said that this new sculpt is obviously superior in every aspect: it's not.
One thing I wish they'd have kept from the 2004 OTC version is the accessories: the datapad and comlink were sooooo cool, and I don't think we've ever had those precise accessories released with any other figure? There have been datapads and comlinks similar to those, but not exactly the same, right? Giving Lobot a blaster is...very lazy, but it works.
Somehow, though, I still expect poor Lobot to pegwarm in the US at least.
Meanwhile Bib Fortuna here is another great and more than welcome upgrade over the 2006 TSC version, which I never opened up, because it was such a saltshaker. While the plastic "skirt" piece is very flexible and bendy and won't get much in your way, you probably don't want to have your Bib permanently seated. Which is fine, since he was standing up all the time in ROTJ anyway, and this isn't an accurate Mando/BoBF version anyway.
Annoyingly, though, Bib's head seemed to be just big enough that I wasn't able to seat him in Palpatine's throne. Oh well, had to try that out anyway.
