{"id":31797,"date":"2015-09-01T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=31797"},"modified":"2015-09-01T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:23:34","slug":"bounty-hunter-week-star-wars-black-series-15-ig-88-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=31797","title":{"rendered":"Bounty Hunter Week!
Star Wars Black Series #15 IG-88 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> “We think, therefore we are. Therefore we will propagate. Therefore we will remain. <\/em> – IG-88A & IG-88B “Star Wars: Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88” (1996)<\/p>\n

To me, the most fascinating thing about IG-88 is that he was played by Paul Klein. I\u2019m guessing Mr. Klein is a puppeteer because he also worked in the background of ROTJ as BG-J38. I say it\u2019s fascinating because I swear I don\u2019t notice IG-88 moving in that one scene where all the Bounty Hunters except Dengar are miraculously granted badassery. I figure that just means that the puppet work was so fluid that I didn\u2019t even notice? I\u2019m not sure. <\/p>\n

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Much like Boba Fett, I\u2019m not really sold on IG-88 being this super cool assassin. It\u2019s cool that he\u2019s a droid that kills people I guess \u2013 and that no one cares, you\u2019d think someone in Star Wars might draft something similar to the three laws. I like him more because he\u2019s a pile of junk \u2013 and he\u2019s a pile of junk all over the place, or at least parts of him are. He\u2019s in the trash room on Cloud City, he\u2019s a beer dispenser in Mos Eisley, and he\u2019s got parts hanging out with Luke\u2019s charred step-parents. Oh, and he\u2019s also got the head of a Rolls Royce jet engine part in real life. See, that\u2019s cool. Cooler than a prop turned assassin droid anyway\u2026 <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s cool if you\u2019re into him. I am too, just for the wrong reasons. If you are into him, you might like this figure \u2013 I can\u2019t quite decide if I do. There\u2019s a lot to like, he\u2019s relatively on-model (but strangely not entirely on model) so the visual is there. He\u2019s got a lot of fun little panels and wires running around that, like Bossk, just makes him a fun looking figure to add to the collection regardless of if you love him for being a badass assassin droid or a pile of random junk throughout the trilogy. <\/p>\n

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The real concerns with the figure set in on the articulation. I want to think that his unique design just presented a real problem when it came to adding joints and that they did the best they could with what they had. There is a lot of smart bits here. The shoulders being on swivels with a ball-joint nestled in side is great as is the center of the chest being on a large ball & socket joint (this also doubles as the \u201cwaist\u201d swivel). From there, we kinda run downhill. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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The elbows are hinges covered in a rubber sleeve with limited movement. The hips are the ever-popular 80s T-crotch before descending into some decent points like thigh & ankle swivels, double-hinge knees, and single-hinge ankles. Despite having all this articulation, the legs don\u2019t do a whole lot. The \u201cknee\u201d is very low on the leg and limited by how far you willing to stretch the soft plastic wiring on his legs. <\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t want to get as annoyed fiddling with it as I do. I want to think his joints are approximately where they are in the fiction and that if I just try hard enough I can get some great poses. I haven\u2019t had a lot of luck yet, but there\u2019s still time. The paint work is fine. He\u2019s mostly gunmetal with some shading and airbrushing here and there. It works. <\/p>\n

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Technically, IG-88 has four accessories if you count his bandolier. The accessories are one of the best parts of the figure as they took his weirdness into account. The bandolier pegs into his shoulder and has a spot to hold his blade and his pistol securely. His hands have tiny little delicate pegs sprouting up that correspond with holes in the guns to allow those strange pincer like arms to still hold his gear and let him be as deadly as his namesake. <\/p>\n

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Overall, I want to like him more than I do. He\u2019s a funny novelty in Star Wars, both in canon and behind the scenes, and they did seem like they tried with the figure, but he\u2019s just a let down in a lot of ways. Am I expecting too much? Probably. But his articulation kinda drives me bonkers and makes me want to leave him just standing there. Which would be fine if that\u2019s all ever he did, but now I know he has a puppeteer\u2026 <\/p>\n

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For more Star Wars Black reviews, check out our
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