davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

You getting any “bad gateway“ errors? Again.

Yeah, lots.

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20 May - A Doll A Day 2025:

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New Arrival: Star Wars Action Figure

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This 1/6-scale Hot Toys Star Wars TMS047 Artillery Stormtrooper action figure was a spur of the moment purchase. I was looking at a discussion about a newer Star Wars figure on one of the action figure forums, which got me feeling all nostalgic and stuff about the original Star Wars movie and how fun the Star Wars franchise was before Disney took it over and saturated the market. I ended up surfing through Star Wars action figure listings on various retail sites and ran across this one, which was apparently somewhat unpopular when it was released in 2022. It was listed at a "good price" relative to what new Star Wars figures cost now. For a number of years I've been kinda-sorta thinking about maybe someday adding a "classic" storm trooper figure to my action figure crew, but it's never been a priority. Now I have a Star Wars storm trooper figure.

This isn't a "classic" trooper, because, duh, yellow stripes, but it's pretty close. Apparently this figure, if what I read is accurate, is based on a variant of the troopers that appeared for a total of five seconds in one episode of The Mandalorian animated series. (Yes, somebody timed the appearances: 2 seconds plus 2 seconds plus 1 second, three shots for a total of 5 seconds.)