{"id":18137,"date":"2014-07-01T01:10:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T06:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=18137"},"modified":"2014-07-01T01:10:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T06:10:01","slug":"toyguide-update-tbs-21-luke-skywalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/07\/01\/toyguide-update-tbs-21-luke-skywalker\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: TBS #21 Luke Skywalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS\/basic\/TBS_21.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18138\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TBS21-_preview.jpg\" alt=\"TBS21 _preview\" width=\"234\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/tgmain.html\">Yakface Toyguide<\/a>\u00a0updates resume with our next entry in the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS.html\">The Black Series<\/a>\u00a03-3\/4\u2033 line. Today, we take a look at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS\/basic\/TBS_21.html\">Luke Skywalker<\/a>\u00a0(#21).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><strong>PROS:<\/strong>\u00a0The most articulated Luke ever (albeit not the most attractive). Admittedly at first, I hated the mechanics and aesthetic\u00a0of this figure with all of the exposed joint pins in the elbows, but once I\u00a0started to physically pose and &#8220;play&#8221; with the figure, I found\u00a0that the arms are really quite functional, allowing for a huge array of posing possibilities that aren&#8217;t possible with\u00a0other figures &#8211; especially a two-handed lightsaber grip. Also features switch out hands that either aid in balance during handstand poses (which takes a bit of work to achieve) or allow him to reach out with the Force.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: rgb(68, 68, 68);\">CONS:\u00a0<\/strong>Deco again is an issue\u00a0as it took me 3\u00a0samples just to find something suitable for\u00a0<span style=\"color: #444444;\">photographing manly due to poor eye paint apps.\u00a0Also, be sure to take notice of\u00a0the lower legs of this figure should you decide to buy it. Two of my 3 samples each had a different assembly issue where either the left or right &#8220;shin&#8221; was facing backward\u00a0in the packaging. Elbow joints are a little loose and I can see these becoming very floppy over time. Skin colored plastic is used for the hip joints and it is really evident in profile images. Knee joints are surprisingly limited in their range of motion. Finally, the belt\/holster has no included hole to receive the peg from Luke&#8217;s lightsaber hilt &#8211; this oversight forces you to balance the hilt peg on a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">little sculpted tab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS\/basic\/TBS_21.html\">Head to the toyguide<\/a>\u00a0for the full\u00a0image gallery and to judge for yourself whether this figure\u00a0is worth adding to your collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">You can also weigh in with your impressions on the figures we add to our toyguide on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Yakfacecom\/202559486798?ref=mf\">facebook<\/a>\u00a0and in our\u00a0<a style=\"color: #198bff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/\">forums.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Yakface Toyguide\u00a0updates resume with our next entry in the\u00a0The Black Series\u00a03-3\/4\u2033 line. Today, we take a look at\u00a0Luke Skywalker\u00a0(#21). PROS:\u00a0The most articulated Luke ever (albeit not the most attractive). Admittedly at first, I hated the mechanics and aesthetic\u00a0of this figure with all of the exposed joint pins in the elbows, but once I\u00a0started to physically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/07\/01\/toyguide-update-tbs-21-luke-skywalker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: TBS #21 Luke Skywalker<\/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":[687,39,783,40],"class_list":["post-18137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-toyguide","tag-black-series","tag-hasbro-2","tag-tbs","tag-toyguide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137","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=18137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18139,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions\/18139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}