Post by NFC on Nov 10, 2009 16:55:56 GMT -5
the AT-ST has always been a very popular OT vehicle, it's one of the most memorable aside from the Falcon, the AT-ATs, the Tantive IV, and the Death Star itself. And with good reason, it's an odd design that's unique in the world of most sci-fi IMO and that's one of the coolest things about it. I always loved it in ROTJ and I always liked the toys. Sure the vintage ones and all its modern repaints has never been accurate to the model of the vehicles on screen but it captured the essence. But it's never been updated with a new sculpt. Of course the Falcon had wait 31 years to get the same treatment too.
And now that an all new "chicken walker" is availible, it'll probably make a lot of fans wonder why the hell the toy ever seemed cool to them. The Kenner walker has NOTHING at all on the new sculpted... The details, the articulation, the scale, the functionality, it kicks the shit out of the old one in every way.
I don't know if the "actual" Imperial specifications for the ST-ST make it so it's supposed to be able to crouch down or collapse into a cube or fold down for transport about the Star Destroyers for deployment or what this toy sure as hell has a LOT MORE interactivity than I figured it would. IF this crazy compacting legs this IS a Hasbro engineers' ideas for the toy then he needs to be assigned to more vehicles in the line to make more of them THIS playable.
Click the THUMBNAILS and just LOOK AT THE MOVEMENT ITS CAPABLE OF!!!
now I DO HAVE A COMPLAINT: it's flimsy. In a lot of poses it has trouble standing on it's own because the legs ARE lithe and the pilot station is bulky, so it's really top-heavy. Basically all the poses it CAN hold standing on its own are the ones I took the pictures of, most the other cool poses just knock it down. Plus moving the legs around like I did for these pictures loosens the joints up a LOt, I need to find a way to tighten the joints up so it can retain the sturdiness that it does have left.
It also needs a new paint job is it's BLAND out of the box at the touch dirth weather looks rididculous, it needs a customizer's touch badly.
And the driver sucks ass but tht is because it's a repack of one of those crappy Ultimate Battle Pack Hoth AT-ST drivers so the articulation is negligible.
At $43 the price tag on Walmarts new exclusive All Terrain Scout transport seems a bit steep, I mean that ain't totally reasonable though, because it's not nearly as overpriced as the new ARC 170s go for.
and finally the comparisons to the Hoth repaint of the old AT-ST
And now that an all new "chicken walker" is availible, it'll probably make a lot of fans wonder why the hell the toy ever seemed cool to them. The Kenner walker has NOTHING at all on the new sculpted... The details, the articulation, the scale, the functionality, it kicks the shit out of the old one in every way.
I don't know if the "actual" Imperial specifications for the ST-ST make it so it's supposed to be able to crouch down or collapse into a cube or fold down for transport about the Star Destroyers for deployment or what this toy sure as hell has a LOT MORE interactivity than I figured it would. IF this crazy compacting legs this IS a Hasbro engineers' ideas for the toy then he needs to be assigned to more vehicles in the line to make more of them THIS playable.
Click the THUMBNAILS and just LOOK AT THE MOVEMENT ITS CAPABLE OF!!!
now I DO HAVE A COMPLAINT: it's flimsy. In a lot of poses it has trouble standing on it's own because the legs ARE lithe and the pilot station is bulky, so it's really top-heavy. Basically all the poses it CAN hold standing on its own are the ones I took the pictures of, most the other cool poses just knock it down. Plus moving the legs around like I did for these pictures loosens the joints up a LOt, I need to find a way to tighten the joints up so it can retain the sturdiness that it does have left.
It also needs a new paint job is it's BLAND out of the box at the touch dirth weather looks rididculous, it needs a customizer's touch badly.
And the driver sucks ass but tht is because it's a repack of one of those crappy Ultimate Battle Pack Hoth AT-ST drivers so the articulation is negligible.
At $43 the price tag on Walmarts new exclusive All Terrain Scout transport seems a bit steep, I mean that ain't totally reasonable though, because it's not nearly as overpriced as the new ARC 170s go for.
and finally the comparisons to the Hoth repaint of the old AT-ST
