{"id":4625,"date":"2011-11-04T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2011-11-16T22:45:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T04:45:25","slug":"toyguide-update-vc70-ponda-baba-walrus-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2011\/11\/04\/toyguide-update-vc70-ponda-baba-walrus-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: VC70 Ponda Baba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/basicfigures\/VC70.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4626\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"VC70_preview\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/VC70_preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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 with the addition of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/basicfigures\/VC70.html\">Ponda Baba<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Walrus Man&#8221; (VC70) from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/tvc_SL.html\">The Vintage Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROS: <\/strong>Hasbro has again rendered all previous versions useless, not to mention laughable, with this ground up rework of fan favorite Ponda Baba. Great sculpting details in the jacket. The inclusion of both style of hands and the switch out severed arms is what playing with toys is all about! Paint operations are minimal, but well done (kudos to Hasbro for painting that little snap on the jacket pocket).<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONS:<\/strong>\u00a0Nothing major, his head seems a tad under scaled, jacket could use a dirty paint wash and Hasbro gave him the wrong blaster and he&#8217;s missing the yellow stripes down each of his pant legs. Also, too bad his partner in crime, Dr. Evazan, isn&#8217;t on the pegs at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/basicfigures\/VC70.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.<\/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 with the addition of\u00a0Ponda Baba\u00a0&#8220;Walrus Man&#8221; (VC70) from\u00a0The Vintage Collection. PROS: Hasbro has again rendered all previous versions useless, not to mention laughable, with this ground up rework of fan favorite Ponda Baba. Great sculpting details in the jacket. The inclusion of both style of hands and the switch out severed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2011\/11\/04\/toyguide-update-vc70-ponda-baba-walrus-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: VC70 Ponda Baba<\/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":[39,86,40,160,16],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-toyguide","tag-hasbro-2","tag-kenner","tag-toyguide-2","tag-tvc","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","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=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}