{"id":6516,"date":"2012-04-25T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2012-04-25T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:03:18","slug":"toyguide-update-cw13-captain-rex-phase-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/04\/25\/toyguide-update-cw13-captain-rex-phase-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: CW13 Captain Rex Phase II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW12\/basic_figures\/CW13.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6518\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"CW13_preview\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CW13_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 next addition for\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/maul_line2012.html\">2012 &#8220;Darth Maul&#8221; product line<\/a>. We continue with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW12\/basic_figures\/CW13.html\">Captain Rex<\/a>\u00a0(CW13) donning his Phase II armor in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/maul_line2012.html#tcw12\">The Clone Wars<\/a>\u00a0line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROS: <\/strong>On its face, this version of Captain Rex is probably the best <em>looking<\/em> version yet. The Phase II design simply looks awesome and it&#8217;s nice to see Hasbro pull out the weathering brush to give Rex that battle-hardened look (though it doesn&#8217;t quite make up for the figure&#8217;s short-comings). The paint job overall is very good and I love the tick-marks that are scattered about his armor. Could this be for battle droid &#8220;kills&#8221; that Rex is keeping track of or could they have a more somber meaning &#8211; one for each of his fallen brothers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONS:<\/strong>\u00a0Where to begin. Obviously, the bantha in the room is the unforgivable lack of articulation in the legs and wrists. Their absence make for some pretty non-actiony poses. Why Hasbro didn&#8217;t repurpose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW12\/basic_figures\/CW02.html\">Phase II Clone Trooper<\/a> (CW2) mold is baffling considering it is already using its torso? The non-removable helmet (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW12\/basic_figures\/CW07.html\">Commander Cody<\/a>\u00a0got one, why not Rex?), while an excellent sculpt, is a bit oversized for the body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TCW12\/basic_figures\/CW13.html\">Head to the toyguide<\/a>\u00a0for the full image gallery and to judge for yourself whether this figure\u00a0is 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 next addition for\u00a0the\u00a02012 &#8220;Darth Maul&#8221; product line. We continue with\u00a0Captain Rex\u00a0(CW13) donning his Phase II armor in\u00a0The Clone Wars\u00a0line. PROS: On its face, this version of Captain Rex is probably the best looking version yet. The Phase II design simply looks awesome and it&#8217;s nice to see Hasbro pull &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/04\/25\/toyguide-update-cw13-captain-rex-phase-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: CW13 Captain Rex Phase II<\/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":[288,21,39,40],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-toyguide","tag-2012-darth-maul-collection","tag-clone-wars","tag-hasbro-2","tag-toyguide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","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=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}