It's not really Hasbro's fault, it's Lucasfilms fault for the weird design for Captain Rex and informing them pretty late . A fix i could see is perhaps cutting the antenna with the whole and separating it from the flat antenna then sticking it on the peg then you cut the other peg(the left one) and you should have a good Captain Rex, if you want to go futher just swap the pauldrons with the single carded release
For Rex, slice of the left helmet peg, then slice off the visor leaving the peg hole and range finder as one piece, the attach the ranger finder/peg hole to right peg on helmet.
Hello Tim! I just noticed you haven’t made a review for TVC The Emperor (VC 202) and the Stormtroopers 4-pack. I know that in your recent videos you’ve been saying you have been having some family issues, I’m so sorry for that. BUT, when your available, do you think you could make them please. I love your videos, love your content, and I don’t want to open my Emperor and Stormtrooper pack until I see your review and check if it’s truly worth to open them or live them carded/on the box. Thanks for everything and Happy New Year!
Shame about Rex, but the visor is accurate if he was carded from the Clone Wars. There where a couple of episodes where he has it. Hopefully Hasbro release these figures individually, specially the Elite Squad Trooper.
I’d take a army builder pack with Imperial crosshair and elite squad troopers with different face sculpts. Don’t get me wrong I’d rather see other things in army builder packs and these single carded but just throwing out ideas.
I’ve had that version of Rex in 6” scale for a while now, and his head sculpt was not changed like they did here in TVC. Strange. What a mess that figure turned out to be. Grey and Ballast look great, no surprise since they’re new. And the elite squad trooper is just another scaled down 6” figure, but I like it a lot. However we need rogue Crosshair for him to command! Overall this is not that impressive, just average I’d say. I was really hoping that the first Bad Batch characters we’d get would’ve been the actual “Bad Batch”, not these background characters. Hasbro continues to leave us wondering who’s in charge there making stupid decisions. Anyway, thanks for the review. I also enjoyed the extended music that closed out your video! Such a great, catchy tune. Don’t ever change it!!! 😬
This hasbro, this is how you should have exclusive waves, even if its 3 or 4 in a white box! Way less hassle for preorder and less hassle for retailers, all while drastically reducing damaged product. Great review Bossk!!
Absolutely love this set!! I missed out on it in the summer so was thrilled to be able to order it at the beginning of December, for it then to arrive a week later. That’s a much nicer ordering experience than waiting a year for preorders!
Use a b.b. size piece of that stuff you can use to hang posters, it like a sticky putty. It is the pencil section of any drug store. I say that and a hot glue gun should be in every 3.75 collector’s arsenal..lol I use the hot glue on my battle droids to stand up. A drop behind the knees, a drop on the hips and a drop on his feet to stand up. And with all my sith and Jedi, I like to have them holding a saber and then I use a drop of hot glue to hold a hilt on the belt. It holds great but still comes off really easy. But ya on that Rex, which I ordered just Rex from someone on eBay I’m going to get my trusty razor out and cut those visor holders off and just toss the visor! Rock the casbah my friend! Happy new year!
Bought 2 of these sets, first thing I did is open Rex, cut off the visor and leave the rangefinder, then snip the little peg and swapped his shoulder pauldron for a perfect Rex. Worth the money I guess
Could you take the helmet from the other Rex in VC? That’s only if you wanted to display with the helmet on… but yeah, those little bits where the visor is shouldn’t be there, very irritating. Hopefully they’ll release another one down the road 🙏🙏🙏 Thanks for the great review mate 👍
Though what if you cut the macrobinoculer pegs off then carefully put a hole in the helmet and use the range finder they gave Jesse? It may be a better solution for those who just want the range finder only?
Still waiting on mine BB think it’s shipping In a few days so hopefully won’t be long also selected gift settings on purchase at Amazon so🤞 also with Rex they should do a definitive with helmet, a younger face and older Rex from Rebels in the one pack 👍
Tim, this set will hopefully make is way to my collection. The Hasbro arctrooper 3-pk sold out and went to the secondary market with no real chance for me to purchase it(opportunists smh). This is my best chance to get Rex and other fan favorite clones. Your gripes are understandable, definite planning awry. It makes you wonder if it's questionable engineering or cost cutting that keeps this line from it's full potential 🤔 could be both.. I will try to enjoy mine as it is an exciting addition, best wishes for the New year 🎉
the arms and such are good, helmet can be fixed super super easy, but the torse missing all the proper paint app's, can tell they didn't mean for his soft goods to be removed
I could easily see them rereleasing the Rex and Elite Squad Troopers in the main Vintage Collection line. For the EST, get him in the line for army building or even put him in those 4 packs that Hasbro has been doing recently. And for Rex, change a few things like the helmet design, the hair, and the pauldron and you have the best Captain Rex you could ask for (minus the Phase 1 helmet). Third times the charm as they say.
As long as we love clones, we will keep getting a rex till we get one we like. Personally I like this rex and anything I don't like from this one I can mod.
Great as always, Bossk. Hope you and yours had a happy and safe holiday season. Do you think that Hasbro with release more Throne Rooms on the pulse website?
Looks like a great set. Cannot wait for mine to arrive but we still have not got them in the USA yet. It's a pity about the Captain Rex figure but I'll keep these on card anyway and wait for my Black Series one to arrive from BBTS later in the year.
Frankenstein's monster 🤣 I get the impression you're a little unhappy with this Rex mate! (Just a vibe I'm getting)... 🤣 I have to say, I love the set, this is exactly what I love about TVC (cool looking troopers) never seen an episode of the show, just love the look of the figs and cardbacks! 👌
Idea... Army builder pack, elite squad troopers with Crosshair in his individualised elite squad armour. If no one else mentioned it, the Elite Squad are human recruits commanded by Clone Trooper Crosshair. The first step towards "modern" Stormtroopers and the first volunteers for the Empire.
Another flaw, is that the belts seem very small. The whole body is rather dainty. And even moreso with that big helmet. I hope they bring back the 2005 clone trooper mold and articulate it a little more and it's good to go.
Great review. The Elite Squad Troopers weren't Clones as I think one of them was a female. Weren't these the guys that Crosshair commanded? I have this set and I'm pretty peeved about Rex.....other then that the other 3 look awesome.
I finally was able to get one yesterday, bought a second this morning and I'm gonna modify the helmet and fix the pauldron on my duplicate, and have one as the original. Don't really care to buy a third carded tho..
It might be better if you have a mint box just to keep them all in that. That way if there are some that may be bent inside so no one will know and you can still sell it as mint! As long as the tape isn't broken on the seal!
Hopefully we will have another chance to get this pack in the US. It's not been available after the initial pre order. C'mon Hasbro we need a proper Rex figure. Thank you, love your channel.
It stinks that he's missing the welding lines on his chestplate but, if it would works, it could be worth it to buy a regular Rex and swap the helmet and pauldron over to this one.
I know it's off topic from this video but does anyone know if the stormtrooper 4 pack is out of stock on Hasbro pulse because it says it's been restocked but I still see it out of stock
Thoughts; A SAD state indeed. *COULD ALL The BAD BATCH FIGURES BE ANY HARDER TO FIND ???* I Know 3 of 6 local Walmart's (an staff) well, NONE. NOTHING. EVER !!! And I Live in A Major Metropolitan City area. Why even try to collect anything not in A standard wave (includes All BAD BATCH figs). This goes for both VC & BS. No offense Tim Bossk, but it's hard watching/ seeing all these figs- most of us will never be able to purchase. Outside of paying highly inflated Ebay prices for.
they claim the concept lie but hair is comeplete wrong color, its not blonde, its white ish, but there is a 212th trooper with this head, you can see him for a moment in rots, and think he shows up in cw
Excellent review. Some suggestion if u may allow. The white background makes some figures not easily seen and felt a bit uncomfortable when watching for some time. May be just me.
I don’t understand Bossk, how do you think the macros would go on without those notches? The macros were part of the art given to Hasbro by Lucasfilm so they were of course going to be included.
tie to another video about ender bunder play se...back drop... maybe the removeable helmet is a hint at ezra and rebel rex, wonder tho if it means thats no longer rex in the scene canon wise, thought it was made canon
I feel like we need a definitive Clone Wars Rex figure released in 2022 (accurate head sculpt, good helmet, correct paint apps, etc.), what with Hasbro putting out both 501st and 332nd troopers this year. I have the repack Rex and to be honest it just doesn’t look good with the rest of my clones
To bad I can never own that four pack because I refuse to pay scalper prices and missed out on the pre-order. Honestly I can live without them until the scalpers go bankrupt.
Hey BB. I got mine from Amazon as well. Noticed a lot of these on Ebay for cray prices, but Amazon had it on for like $90 Canadian so that's a bit more reasonable. Was kid of on the fence about buy these and when I got them they were pretty disappointing. Wish I had seen this video of them out of the box because I probably wouldn't have got them. I don't like the skinny bodies. They look pretty rediculous with the helmets on. Anyways thanks again for the video
hey questions: 1. do you get sponsored by hasbro at all or do you buy these straight up and review them. 2. do you get them from hasbro Paulse or just buy them anywhere?
Great review as usual, I have them on my Amazon wish list but there is no price and I have seen them for sale for £85.00 but not sure if that’s a lot more than what Amazon had them on for.
Agree with you on Rex. That is an awful error with the helmet. I missed this collection and amazon don't seem to be getting anymore, but I'll keep checking their stock. £100+ on ebay now.
To be honest. After all these new totally perfect new TVC figures. All These repurposed clones with all the dated defects on scale and proportions leave me cold on this one. Thanks for an honest review.
Just released on Amazon Australia yesterday so we are finally able to score this awsom set, great review as usual and hope they fix Rex's helmet down the line for another release
Check Amazon you guys! I gave up hope but checked randomly today and found one for retail. Almost spent $100 on eBay but I’m glad I checked when I did.
I’m assuming your both in the uk where you really have fight and fuck about to get the vintage collection figs, some of the retro collection have been in supermarkets, but with the absenc of toy shops, scalpers and supply problems , you end up getting off eBay eventually and if that’s something that’s been sought after ( droids boba for me) you know you’re paying at least twic the odds
I’m going to say with Rex they were going with a live action Rex, of course he has really only been in the clone wars cartoon. But I think they wanted him to match the 3 pack from last year. And with him only a cartoon they had to just make the other head sculpt and gave him blond hair. I fell you with the helmet! I mean look at the picture on the card! He has no visor! Come on hasbro! They missed him with the tall fixed helmet version. And they made this as a redo and they still got it wrong!
I was also disappointed with Rex’s helmet, although I still do love the figure. I thought there would be pegs on the visor/rangefinder and holes in the helmet like every other figure (even Lego do that) not the other way around. It also disappoints me that they clearly knew it was a bad decision, because they hid it in the promo photos (in the only photo where you see the helmet without the visor, it isn’t on his head and the pegs are obscured behind the Kama/legs.
Can anyone explain to me why the hell my rex was missing that piece on his neck. Once I started removing the cloak i noticed that it was not there. There was no way in hell I would have lost it.
@@BossksBounty Damn it. Why did they have to mess uo my order?! I just started collecting star wars vintage collection figures and this is how they greet me.
