Topless Toy Chest: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Black Series Finn
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With Jakku the world and Finn the human, the Force never ends, Awakening Time!
I went to at least eight stores on Force Friday and saw literally three action figures total. A 3.75 Bespin Luke at Kmart, and one each of the repaint Chewbacca and this Finn at Toys R Us. Some have speculated that Finn is easier to come by because of racism, but I think it’s more pedestrian than that – the other figures in the line are a heroine packed with the hugely popular rolling robot BB-8, the major villain revealed so far, and the new Stormtrooper…and Finn’s a regular dude in normal clothes. Even giving him the lightsaber might have jazzed him up a bit.
That said, this figure does not suck. Let’s take a look.
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First off, if you’ve seen Attack the Block, you should be honored to have a John Boyega figure.
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The tiny bit of bio on the box back tells us nothing we didn’t already know.
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The sculpt details are very nice, with the texture on his shirt really a nice touch. The face sculpt feels just a little soft, though – like those personalized Gentle Giant figurines you can get from scans at Comic-Con and Disney Parks. As if they scanned John but didn’t get a great sculptor to go in and harden the lines just a bit. The result is that his face sometimes looks slightly out of focus, just a hair.
Articulation varies with the Black Series, but Finn’s is standard and symmetrical, with ball-and-hinge neck, cut-and-hinge shoulders, cut-and-hinge elbows and wrists, ball mid-torso, ball hips, cut upper thighs, double-jointed knees, and hinge-and-rocker ankles. You can pose him most any way you’d need to.
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The little details are nice too. Finn’s shoes look appropriately dusty, and while his gun may look like it’s about to fire a Nerf dart, painted details on Star Wars weapons are rare and welcome.
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If you want Finn in his Stormtrooper armor, good news – the heads are interchangeable, though Finn, even more so than Luke Skywalker, is a little short for a Stormtrooper.
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Given that this Finn looks to be the easiest (relatively) to get, I would suggest picking him up sooner than later if you’re interested. I doubt he’ll be reissued in quantities as big as Kylo Ren and the Troopers.
I do hope, however, that we’ll get other headsculpts for later versions.