{"id":5466,"date":"2012-01-21T10:09:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T16:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2012-01-21T17:52:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T23:52:38","slug":"toyguide-update-republic-troopers-battle-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/01\/21\/toyguide-update-republic-troopers-battle-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: Republic Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW12\/battle_packs\/republic_troopers.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5467\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"republictroopers_preview\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/republictroopers_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 our first entry for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/maul_line2012.html\">2012 &#8220;Darth Maul&#8221; product line<\/a>. We kick things off with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW12\/battle_packs\/republic_troopers.html\">Republic Troopers<\/a>\u00a0Battle Pack from\u00a0The Clone Wars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROS:\u00a0<\/strong>This set provides collectors with 3 new clones not offered previously, making it the real attraction of this particular assortment (the other two case mates are are laughably bad). The paint apps for each clone are well done (aside from Hardcase&#8217;s helmet deco being off slightly). The game cards get a refreshed design for 2012 and now invoke more of a trading card feel with large character portraits on one side with the game matrix on the reverse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONS:<\/strong>\u00a0The figures themselves are great, some might protest the utilization of the &#8220;Stone&#8221; mold for 2 of the troopers but it is what it is. It is a bit disappointing that the Bomb Squad Trooper doesn&#8217;t include any actual bomb accessories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW12\/battle_packs\/republic_troopers.html\">Head to the toyguide<\/a>\u00a0for the full image gallery and to judge for yourself whether this set 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 our first entry for the 2012 &#8220;Darth Maul&#8221; product line. We kick things off with the\u00a0Republic Troopers\u00a0Battle Pack from\u00a0The Clone Wars. PROS:\u00a0This set provides collectors with 3 new clones not offered previously, making it the real attraction of this particular assortment (the other two case mates are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/01\/21\/toyguide-update-republic-troopers-battle-pack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: Republic Troopers<\/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":[21,39,40],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-toyguide","tag-clone-wars","tag-hasbro-2","tag-toyguide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","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=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}