Thanks for watching this video. Please comment below, as I am super interested in hearing what each of you think on how Hasbro should approach their Clone Trooper designs moving forward.
Gregor (commandos) will be absolutely awesome. Unfortunately most of the custom kits providers don’t ship to my part of the world, so yes I’m definitely in favor of an official release. And it will be awesome if they also release the entire delta squad while they’re at it.
Seconding the sentiment on Rex and Bly. The more durable and range double joints with cloth skirt/kama. If they must, i can accept the new knees but the knee pad misalignment just ruins the look. Some need better wrist hinges for guns.
@Ka-Bashed Figures, thank you for this video. I agree with your points. Definitely keep from gluing and distorting the helmets (all helmeted figures). Lastly, BALL joints. Ditch HINGE joints... So much more versatile than hinge...
agree! I think they were on to something there, though i appreciate them trying to develop the design further. incidentally, I just got the Hawk pilot figure, and I think that one is based off of the Rex and Bly design.
captain rex is definitely my white whale. Hopefully they'll re-release with modern clone trooper articulation. Update: last week, the pre-order for his re-release went up via fan channel sites. Got him from dorksidetoys. Now my clone trooper white whale is target exclusive echo Update 2: got echo, was luck and ordered him online for in store pick up from a target 30-40 minute travel.
The butterfly joints and most of them are amazing and they even make the puadrants really soft and you can post them in great ways that you could not the first mode, the reason is shoulder pads are small is to be able to move that arms back farther or forward, true story, they also have a elbows cutsin the head can move a lot better than any in the past they can look down and look up pretty high in from side-to-side very very big high-up grade quality in the new mold
The new ones are kinda weird because they're mixing the animated design with realistic design. When Black series' whole intention is to make Animated clones (Like Rex) in the Realistic format.
I prefer the old clone version, much more accurate to the live action movies. the new ones look weird especially the distorted visor and larger heads. Also, what shade of blue did you use for the clone lieutenant? it looks cool and much more accurate
@@ka-bashedfigures834 i see, do you have any tips to prevent paint chipping off, im currently painting commander ganch and his paintjob is not too satisfactory
@@hanif-pl5hd use Krylon matt sealer spray. Then go in and lightly hit the armor with a satin topcoat if you want the armor to shine a bit. If shine dont matter then just go with the matte spray.
Can't really comment about the old clone bodies as I've only started collecting the black series on 2019 but from watching this video, I can appreciate how proportionate and fun to play around. On a second note, Capt Rex is definitely hard to get, I'm planning on getting 2 echo arc troopers and customise the 2nd one into capt rex
The clones are all great, from beginning to now, probably been a learning curve for hasbro. I think they're all good, some better than others, but the small things don't bother me, it's a hobby and I enjoy it.
Well spoken. I agree it’s a nice hobby on the side of a hectic life. The very first ones are already nice. Only nitpick I have are the recent warped helmets, which I think they’ve fixed. 😎
My wishlist Shock trooper Shock trooper commander Hawk Kamino shock trooper Elite sqaud trooper Electorstaff trooper/purge trooper ( both are the same but with different weapons) I hope that Hasbro dose a remake of the star wars battlefront 2005 clone trooper pack
they're keeping it with the new mold that they made when you finally see echo they will do a million repaints of him so once you review echo you will see what every new clone and every lieutenant Commander will be repainted from, you will finally see what you have been asking4, and it is Truly a masterpiece,
Also the elite squad Trooper isn't accurately painted. In the show, they had different types of grey on their armor & they had a stripe on their helmet & down their chest.
yeah I realized that after making this video. I watch my shows on my tiny phone, so my old eyes did not pick up the details lol. thanks for the clarification.
Bly mold superiority. More accurate, better articulation. I don't understand why ppl think the new one has better articulation, just because it's newer. No bicep swivel really limits it, less elbow articulation, and the butterfly joints are so small they don't do anything for the figure. The biceps curve inward on the new one and look really goofy, the shoulder pads get ugly when u lift the arm instead of folding in like bly. Knees are bad. Elbow straps break. Rex and bly can pose about 1000 times better then the new mold. Also new mold too tall and helmet warping/bad helmets.
Yes agree. I’m usually not one to bulk up a figure and prefer a more realistic proportion, but these are straying a bit far on the skinny spectrum. And the helmet I still prefer the old sculpts, though elite squad trooper is a nice fix.
Yeah, they are definitely pricey. I hope to god they really are going to re release them as archives for army building. But since I cannot wait for them to rerelease then all (probably take years), I just coughed up money for 3 loose ones, and then complete it with the 501st rerelease this year.
My wish is just for Hasbro not to make Troop builders as exclusives, if I can’t troop build, I pass ☹️ . Making Ahsoka troopers, 212, Shocktrooper, etc. I have 20 “new” Stormtroopers , and I’m done, moving on to GIJoe, thanks
Yes. I wonder why they just don’t do the white “shinies,” instead of having it locked behind an Amazon exclusive 4 pack, or the Phase 1 which is hard as hell to find. I would’ve support them, but alas I have to resort to bootlegs.
I think you're missing out on a great opportunity about the clone wars television series, if you truly love the clones in the action figures, they do an amazing job in the cartoon clone wars, maybe you just saw the first season but over season after season they got better at there craft, which made for the perfect clone war figures, I reconsider for you to watch the clone wars especially the final season, you seem biased against the TV series, if you strive for just movie-accurate you will be disappointed a lot, now that we have the mandalorian,that is truly the place to see clones at their finest, open your door to New horizons other than movie accurate, it seems like you didn't even give any of them a fair shake, or say more than one nice thing about the whole bunch, they are actually very articulated and impressive,and with your old ones I think you could put some hot water on them and straighten them shoulders out if it bothers you that bad bro I love the clones to and I'll tell you what go Google the new echo Target exclusive he is a masterpiece, now I say good day kind sir.......
Hey I definitely respect your opinion and I am happy you brought this up. While I personally prefer “realistic interpretation,” which came from just pure preferences, I watched clone wars and are definitely starting to have the animated aesthetic grow on me. Yes and I definitely agree how the recent seasons and even bad batch is absolutely beautiful the way they’d rendered it. Cheers bro and thanks again!
I'm sorry bro I forgot one thing, do some of the ones you have are not movie based they are different colors, the green puke one is off so is the orange only Cody had Orange, I think that's the four pack exclusive right? Anyhow I think it is, have you seen the mandalorian flamethrower? He is such a dandy 😍, I respect your review and I had time on my hands to point you in a real positive cool badass directions, watch season 7 of the clone wars, and there's another one called titled rookies I believe it was in their second season and make I have told you they got better and better as the seasons went on that artwork became masterpiece quality
Yeah rookies is a great episode. It’s amazing how now we are all watching the bad batch, but echo goes WAY back to being one of the undescript “shinies” of Rookies. He really came a long way as a character, and wonderful to see how he transformed throughout clone wars into the galactic empire. And also agree on the mandalorian flame trooper. It is an absolutely beautiful figure and one of my favorites in my collection!
If they go forward with the Bly/Rex body and the newer helmet sculpt, the clones will be perfect imo. I thought that the 332nd and kamino trooper helmet molds were a huge downgrade
Yeah agree on the 332nd clones. For some reason they ended up looking like they’re wearing PJs. I might do a Bandai model kit version of it just to rectify this.
I honestly like newer body so much i take off parts from old apply it onto them. They seem so short, you will Probably see alot pf old mold bodies on mercari soon
I disagree with the old clone trooper proportions being better. Absolutely❤ the new style of the new clonies. Some of the best action figures hasbro's ever made. Except for their knees. But do agree with your opinion on blye and the helmet of the elite trooper. Wish hasbro will redo all the clonies with the new designs. Would love to see a clone pilot and heavy gunner. As well as kashiek trooper and clone commandos👍😅
@@kadeneichhorn7370 how is it not? It looks better and can actually bend at the elbows the articulation all around is better on the old clone bodies I had to carve out plastic on the arms because the elbow bend was awful
@@alexanderfields9504 other than the lack of pins it looks much much worse. Like the armor bits aren't even shaped right. And idk what you're talking about, there's no arguing that rex elbows go farther than the new ones, it's just a fact
@@kadeneichhorn7370 yeah but that’s just Rex I’m talking about the old standerd clone body it’s articulation is awful, the new ones it’s really great, as for the look I guess that just comes down to preface so agree to disagree then I guess
@@alexanderfields9504 I consider rex the old body since it is no longer the newest. They're basically the same except the arms and overall feel. I mean the new one is 100% less accurate but if you like it go off I guess.
5:06 they are movie accurate?? Byl yes, Rex, noo. We can literally see in tcw that Bly has the exatc same pauldron and kama as Rex, so in movie style Rex should have the same ROTS style pauldron and kama too, and what he has? Straight up animated pauldron and kama on a realistic body. It is anything but movie accurate.
And the elite squad trooper is a mess, it is a completely wrong colour, also where are the stripes from his helmet, arms? It is totally inaccurate, he just has a regular blaster, while they all had unique, modified ones. And for the Shock trooper commander, he also has the animated pauldron for some reason and missis the black brow above the visor aswell as the kamino security, 332th trooper. In animation that brow doesn't exist (unless in some cases like with Grey or Bly) but in realistic style it should be there, black.
Movie accurate in terms of how they were portrayed on screen. Rex was never on movie screen but tv show screen. So it wouldn’t make sense to give him the Revenge of the Sith style pauldron and kama when that’s not his correct form. Of course he’d look good in it however and many have made ROTS style Rex customs
@@xotwodty That's not true, becouse in this case they should have gave him an animated bidy, face too, like in the good old 3.75 line. If they make a realistic figure they must translate the animated proportions to realistic, in this way it is anything but accurate.
@@xotwodty I actually have a theory why they screwed up this design. It's probably becouse in tcw the p1 and p2 armor and it's accesories look completely different, but in the movies they look exactly the same exept the helmets of course. And for a long time Rex was the only one in tcw with a pauldron in p2 armor, and becouse his pauldron looks different than his p1 pauldron, they probably tought he had a unique pauldron like Grey, but since than we have already seen p2 Bly in tcw and he had the same accesories, so in a rots style figures Rex should have the same Rots style accesories as Bly, now it's just an animated - realistic mix. Now they should correct this mistake in the next Rex figure.
I totally agree with the articulation and the shoulder pads sizing issues! I would just say if they decide to keep the latest redition with the sculpted head glued in then they should totally make them removable with the flesh tone casted color that's a perfect solution! Otherwise the simple solution to correct the warping/casting issues of the helmet would be to make a removable head! Have a sculpt for the helmet and a sculpt for the head! And the lanky torso issue too definitely should be addressed since these guys should all be the same height!
Thanks for watching this video. Please comment below, as I am super interested in hearing what each of you think on how Hasbro should approach their Clone Trooper designs moving forward.
Have you seen the 212th clone wars figure
@@zacksmith2893 you mean the new release? Unfortunately not yet. Super curious what it is like in hand.
Top 5 wishlist for me would be:
1. Fives (I know basic)
2. Commander Thorn
3. Commander Doom
4. Gregor
5. Commander Bacara
Gregor (commandos) will be absolutely awesome. Unfortunately most of the custom kits providers don’t ship to my part of the world, so yes I’m definitely in favor of an official release. And it will be awesome if they also release the entire delta squad while they’re at it.
I'm looking forward for ARC Trooper Echo
Seconding the sentiment on Rex and Bly. The more durable and range double joints with cloth skirt/kama. If they must, i can accept the new knees but the knee pad misalignment just ruins the look. Some need better wrist hinges for guns.
Thank you for making this video! Constructive and informative! Hello from Hong Kong ! Regards, Bryan Lo
Hey Bryan! Thank you. Love your videos! Especially listening to it in 廣東話!
@@ka-bashedfigures834 i think you can do Cantonese too!
@@BryanLo haha I can try. My Cantonese is very basic. (I don’t know enough sweat words 😂)
Look forward to more videos from you!
@Ka-Bashed Figures, thank you for this video.
I agree with your points. Definitely keep from gluing and distorting the helmets (all helmeted figures).
Lastly, BALL joints. Ditch HINGE joints... So much more versatile than hinge...
Good video they should
Keep the Rex and Bly body mandatory
agree! I think they were on to something there, though i appreciate them trying to develop the design further. incidentally, I just got the Hawk pilot figure, and I think that one is based off of the Rex and Bly design.
captain rex is definitely my white whale. Hopefully they'll re-release with modern clone trooper articulation.
Update: last week, the pre-order for his re-release went up via fan channel sites. Got him from dorksidetoys. Now my clone trooper white whale is target exclusive echo
Update 2: got echo, was luck and ordered him online for in store pick up from a target 30-40 minute travel.
Phase 1 Clone commander yellow, Cmdr Blitz & Jet would be nice additions to our collections for sure
i love discussion videos of figures and the black series like this , great vid man
thank you! great to reach out to fellow enthusiasts!
The butterfly joints and most of them are amazing and they even make the puadrants really soft and you can post them in great ways that you could not the first mode, the reason is shoulder pads are small is to be able to move that arms back farther or forward, true story, they also have a elbows cutsin the head can move a lot better than any in the past they can look down and look up pretty high in from side-to-side very very big high-up grade quality in the new mold
The new ones are kinda weird because they're mixing the animated design with realistic design. When Black series' whole intention is to make Animated clones (Like Rex) in the Realistic format.
yeah. as much as i appreciate Hasbro beginning to ramp up their clone releases, they are a bit all over the place.
I prefer the old clone version, much more accurate to the live action movies. the new ones look weird especially the distorted visor and larger heads. Also, what shade of blue did you use for the clone lieutenant? it looks cool and much more accurate
Hello! The blue I used is Tamiya spray paint called “French Blue.” Hope that helps and thanks for commenting!
@@ka-bashedfigures834 i see, do you have any tips to prevent paint chipping off, im currently painting commander ganch and his paintjob is not too satisfactory
@@hanif-pl5hd use Krylon matt sealer spray.
Then go in and lightly hit the armor with a satin topcoat if you want the armor to shine a bit.
If shine dont matter then just go with the matte spray.
@@christopherfowler3269 i see, thanks for the tip, looking foward to testing it out
@@hanif-pl5hd find me on Insta @ c_and_ccustoms
Follow me and send pics of your project
I hate the new clone body. The seperate shoulder knee and elbow pads are flimsy and snap really easily
Can't really comment about the old clone bodies as I've only started collecting the black series on 2019 but from watching this video, I can appreciate how proportionate and fun to play around. On a second note, Capt Rex is definitely hard to get, I'm planning on getting 2 echo arc troopers and customise the 2nd one into capt rex
Yes! I picked up two, one to keep as echo, and one to customize. I cannot decide on what I will customize that one as though 😂
Looks like hasbro has listened! The new Arc Fordo has the heads cast in fleshtone
Yes! It is awesome too, as most of it is blank white, which means great for customizing!
The clones are all great, from beginning to now, probably been a learning curve for hasbro. I think they're all good, some better than others, but the small things don't bother me, it's a hobby and I enjoy it.
Well spoken. I agree it’s a nice hobby on the side of a hectic life. The very first ones are already nice. Only nitpick I have are the recent warped helmets, which I think they’ve fixed. 😎
They need a battle pack that includes different hands, or a create your own trooper. They will eventually rerelease all troopers.
My wishlist
Shock trooper
Shock trooper commander
Hawk
Kamino shock trooper
Elite sqaud trooper
Electorstaff trooper/purge trooper ( both are the same but with different weapons)
I hope that Hasbro dose a remake of the star wars battlefront 2005 clone trooper pack
The new body in my favorite. Just my opinion.
they're keeping it with the new mold that they made when you finally see echo they will do a million repaints of him so once you review echo you will see what every new clone and every lieutenant Commander will be repainted from, you will finally see what you have been asking4, and it is Truly a masterpiece,
I want new 6 inch Airborne and Barc troopers
So you said that the bly was movie accurate. It's mostly. But it's missing the head stripe or at least part of it
yes, you are correct! :-D
Also the elite squad Trooper isn't accurately painted. In the show, they had different types of grey on their armor & they had a stripe on their helmet & down their chest.
yeah I realized that after making this video. I watch my shows on my tiny phone, so my old eyes did not pick up the details lol. thanks for the clarification.
Bly mold superiority. More accurate, better articulation. I don't understand why ppl think the new one has better articulation, just because it's newer. No bicep swivel really limits it, less elbow articulation, and the butterfly joints are so small they don't do anything for the figure. The biceps curve inward on the new one and look really goofy, the shoulder pads get ugly when u lift the arm instead of folding in like bly. Knees are bad. Elbow straps break. Rex and bly can pose about 1000 times better then the new mold. Also new mold too tall and helmet warping/bad helmets.
I find the new figures are way more animated in their design
Yes agree. I’m usually not one to bulk up a figure and prefer a more realistic proportion, but these are straying a bit far on the skinny spectrum. And the helmet I still prefer the old sculpts, though elite squad trooper is a nice fix.
Why are the order 66 ones so expensive? I love the design of the clones, but I can’t get all of them because for some reason they’re expensive af.
Yeah, they are definitely pricey. I hope to god they really are going to re release them as archives for army building. But since I cannot wait for them to rerelease then all (probably take years), I just coughed up money for 3 loose ones, and then complete it with the 501st rerelease this year.
I want commander stone in 6 inch.
Yes! Phase 1 definitely need some love!
My wish is just for Hasbro not to make Troop builders as exclusives, if I can’t troop build, I pass ☹️ . Making Ahsoka troopers, 212, Shocktrooper, etc. I have 20 “new” Stormtroopers , and I’m done, moving on to GIJoe, thanks
Yes. I wonder why they just don’t do the white “shinies,” instead of having it locked behind an Amazon exclusive 4 pack, or the Phase 1 which is hard as hell to find. I would’ve support them, but alas I have to resort to bootlegs.
I think you're missing out on a great opportunity about the clone wars television series, if you truly love the clones in the action figures, they do an amazing job in the cartoon clone wars, maybe you just saw the first season but over season after season they got better at there craft, which made for the perfect clone war figures, I reconsider for you to watch the clone wars especially the final season, you seem biased against the TV series, if you strive for just movie-accurate you will be disappointed a lot, now that we have the mandalorian,that is truly the place to see clones at their finest, open your door to New horizons other than movie accurate, it seems like you didn't even give any of them a fair shake, or say more than one nice thing about the whole bunch, they are actually very articulated and impressive,and with your old ones I think you could put some hot water on them and straighten them shoulders out if it bothers you that bad bro I love the clones to and I'll tell you what go Google the new echo Target exclusive he is a masterpiece, now I say good day kind sir.......
Hey I definitely respect your opinion and I am happy you brought this up. While I personally prefer “realistic interpretation,” which came from just pure preferences, I watched clone wars and are definitely starting to have the animated aesthetic grow on me. Yes and I definitely agree how the recent seasons and even bad batch is absolutely beautiful the way they’d rendered it. Cheers bro and thanks again!
I'm sorry bro I forgot one thing, do some of the ones you have are not movie based they are different colors, the green puke one is off so is the orange only Cody had Orange, I think that's the four pack exclusive right? Anyhow I think it is, have you seen the mandalorian flamethrower? He is such a dandy 😍, I respect your review and I had time on my hands to point you in a real positive cool badass directions, watch season 7 of the clone wars, and there's another one called titled rookies I believe it was in their second season and make I have told you they got better and better as the seasons went on that artwork became masterpiece quality
Yeah rookies is a great episode. It’s amazing how now we are all watching the bad batch, but echo goes WAY back to being one of the undescript “shinies” of Rookies. He really came a long way as a character, and wonderful to see how he transformed throughout clone wars into the galactic empire.
And also agree on the mandalorian flame trooper. It is an absolutely beautiful figure and one of my favorites in my collection!
If they go forward with the Bly/Rex body and the newer helmet sculpt, the clones will be perfect imo. I thought that the 332nd and kamino trooper helmet molds were a huge downgrade
Yeah agree on the 332nd clones. For some reason they ended up looking like they’re wearing PJs. I might do a Bandai model kit version of it just to rectify this.
I honestly like newer body so much i take off parts from old apply it onto them. They seem so short, you will Probably see alot pf old mold bodies on mercari soon
Repainted kamino trooper.. more like the kamino trooper is a repaint of the shock trooper that came out a few years ago
I disagree with the old clone trooper proportions being better. Absolutely❤ the new style of the new clonies. Some of the best action figures hasbro's ever made. Except for their knees. But do agree with your opinion on blye and the helmet of the elite trooper. Wish hasbro will redo all the clonies with the new designs. Would love to see a clone pilot and heavy gunner. As well as kashiek trooper and clone commandos👍😅
Ok but the og is literally the exact same proportions as the movie. There's no disagreeing?
the new bodies are not perfect but still a very good improvement
But how is it an improvement?
@@kadeneichhorn7370 how is it not? It looks better and can actually bend at the elbows the articulation all around is better on the old clone bodies I had to carve out plastic on the arms because the elbow bend was awful
@@alexanderfields9504 other than the lack of pins it looks much much worse. Like the armor bits aren't even shaped right. And idk what you're talking about, there's no arguing that rex elbows go farther than the new ones, it's just a fact
@@kadeneichhorn7370 yeah but that’s just Rex I’m talking about the old standerd clone body it’s articulation is awful, the new ones it’s really great, as for the look I guess that just comes down to preface so agree to disagree then I guess
@@alexanderfields9504 I consider rex the old body since it is no longer the newest. They're basically the same except the arms and overall feel. I mean the new one is 100% less accurate but if you like it go off I guess.
5:06 they are movie accurate?? Byl yes, Rex, noo. We can literally see in tcw that Bly has the exatc same pauldron and kama as Rex, so in movie style Rex should have the same ROTS style pauldron and kama too, and what he has? Straight up animated pauldron and kama on a realistic body. It is anything but movie accurate.
And the elite squad trooper is a mess, it is a completely wrong colour, also where are the stripes from his helmet, arms? It is totally inaccurate, he just has a regular blaster, while they all had unique, modified ones. And for the Shock trooper commander, he also has the animated pauldron for some reason and missis the black brow above the visor aswell as the kamino security, 332th trooper. In animation that brow doesn't exist (unless in some cases like with Grey or Bly) but in realistic style it should be there, black.
Movie accurate in terms of how they were portrayed on screen. Rex was never on movie screen but tv show screen. So it wouldn’t make sense to give him the Revenge of the Sith style pauldron and kama when that’s not his correct form. Of course he’d look good in it however and many have made ROTS style Rex customs
@@xotwodty That's not true, becouse in this case they should have gave him an animated bidy, face too, like in the good old 3.75 line. If they make a realistic figure they must translate the animated proportions to realistic, in this way it is anything but accurate.
@@xotwodty I actually have a theory why they screwed up this design. It's probably becouse in tcw the p1 and p2 armor and it's accesories look completely different, but in the movies they look exactly the same exept the helmets of course. And for a long time Rex was the only one in tcw with a pauldron in p2 armor, and becouse his pauldron looks different than his p1 pauldron, they probably tought he had a unique pauldron like Grey, but since than we have already seen p2 Bly in tcw and he had the same accesories, so in a rots style figures Rex should have the same Rots style accesories as Bly, now it's just an animated - realistic mix. Now they should correct this mistake in the next Rex figure.
LMAO! If you actually watched TCW during ROTS Rex was on Mandalore in specific armor guess what type! This exact scheme😭☠️
I totally agree with the articulation and the shoulder pads sizing issues! I would just say if they decide to keep the latest redition with the sculpted head glued in then they should totally make them removable with the flesh tone casted color that's a perfect solution! Otherwise the simple solution to correct the warping/casting issues of the helmet would be to make a removable head! Have a sculpt for the helmet and a sculpt for the head! And the lanky torso issue too definitely should be addressed since these guys should all be the same height!