{"id":7044,"date":"2012-06-05T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2012-06-05T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T18:02:46","slug":"toyguide-update-vc97-odd-ball-clone-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/06\/05\/toyguide-update-vc97-odd-ball-clone-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: VC97 Odd Ball (Clone Pilot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/basicfigures\/VC97.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7045\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"VC97_preview\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/VC97_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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/basicfigures\/VC97.html\">Clone Pilot Odd Ball<\/a>\u00a0(VC97) from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/tvc_SL.html\">The Vintage Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROS: <\/strong>We&#8217;ve seen many iterations of the Episode III ARC-170 pilot since 2005,and with this latest version, I think the word definitive is applicable. Gone are those funky looking &#8220;moon boots&#8221; as he now sports full ankle articulation.\u00a0Not surprisingly, Hasbro has recycled many of the previous pilot parts but has tooled up new lower legs and helmet which, thankfully, is well-proportioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>CONS:<\/strong>\u00a0Oddly, he features Imperial emblems on its shoulders where I would think they should be Republic symbols. With distribution the way it is it might be some time before folks see this figures in the wild let alone its other Wave 5 case mates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/basicfigures\/VC97.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 Clone Pilot Odd Ball\u00a0(VC97) from\u00a0The Vintage Collection. PROS: We&#8217;ve seen many iterations of the Episode III ARC-170 pilot since 2005,and with this latest version, I think the word definitive is applicable. Gone are those funky looking &#8220;moon boots&#8221; as he now sports full ankle articulation.\u00a0Not surprisingly, Hasbro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/06\/05\/toyguide-update-vc97-odd-ball-clone-pilot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: VC97 Odd Ball (Clone Pilot)<\/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-7044","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\/7044","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=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7086,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions\/7086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}