{"id":10693,"date":"2013-03-07T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=10693"},"modified":"2013-03-07T08:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:04:38","slug":"toyguide-update-501st-legion-clone-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/03\/07\/toyguide-update-501st-legion-clone-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: 501st Legion Clone Trooper (Yakface &#038; JTA Collaboration)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW13\/basic_figures\/CW06.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10697\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" alt=\"2013CW06_preview\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013CW06_preview.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/tgmain.html\">Yakface Toyguide<\/a>\u00a0updates resume today kicking off a special series covering the 2013 &#8220;foreign exclusive&#8221;\u00a0assortment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/2013yoda_line.html\">Clone Wars<\/a> figures. At first blush, you may think that we were only missing out on some simple repacks and repaints, but that is not the case &#8211; there is a fair amount of &#8220;new&#8221; to be had.\u00a0We&#8217;ve teamed up with our friends at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeditemplearchives.com\">Jedi Temple Archives<\/a><\/strong> to run down the details and minutia of the final wave of animated series-style figures.<\/p>\n<p>We start things off with the addition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW13\/basic_figures\/CW06.html\">501st Legion Clone Trooper<\/a> (CW06) &#8211; a character design that debuted during the final arc in Season 5 of <em>The Clone Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROS:<\/strong> Hasbro has taken the opportunity to give us one new character offering for the sub-line&#8217;s swan song. The deco for the 501st &#8220;Jet Pack&#8221; Trooper (as I call him) is very distinctive with its vibrant blue unit flashes as well as red accents that truly set this figure apart from prior 501st Legion clones. Don&#8217;t be surprised if you see of few of these costumes make their way into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.501st.com\">501st Legion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONS:<\/strong> Availability. Availability. Availability. You&#8217;ll have to call in a favor to a friend from The Great White North (Canada) or across the pond (Europe) to obtain this figure unless you want to pay double (or triple in some cases) on eBay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW13\/basic_figures\/CW06.html\">Head to the toyguide<\/a>\u00a0for the full image gallery and to judge for yourself whether this figure is worth adding to your collection and be sure to check out JTA&#8217;s full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeditemplearchives.com\/content\/modules.php?name=JReviews&amp;rop=showcontent&amp;id=1384\">Research Droids Review<\/a> for this figure as well.<\/p>\n<p>You can also weigh in with your impressions on the figures we add to our toyguide on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Yakfacecom\/202559486798?ref=mf\">facebook<\/a>\u00a0and in our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/\">forums.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Yakface Toyguide\u00a0updates resume today kicking off a special series covering the 2013 &#8220;foreign exclusive&#8221;\u00a0assortment of Clone Wars figures. At first blush, you may think that we were only missing out on some simple repacks and repaints, but that is not the case &#8211; there is a fair amount of &#8220;new&#8221; to be had.\u00a0We&#8217;ve teamed up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/03\/07\/toyguide-update-501st-legion-clone-trooper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: 501st Legion Clone Trooper (Yakface &#038; JTA Collaboration)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[629,21,39,128,92,40],"class_list":["post-10693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-toyguide","tag-2013-yoda-collection","tag-clone-wars","tag-hasbro-2","tag-jedi-temple-archives","tag-jta","tag-toyguide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10699,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions\/10699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}