{"id":9311,"date":"2012-11-24T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T22:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2012-11-24T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T22:42:20","slug":"toyguide-update-vc105-emperors-royal-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/11\/24\/toyguide-update-vc105-emperors-royal-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: VC105 Emperor’s Royal Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\u00a0Yakface Toyguide<\/a>\u00a0updates resume today with the addition of the\u00a0Emperor’s Royal Guard<\/a>\u00a0(VC105) from the\u00a0Vintage Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PROS:\u00a0<\/strong>The Emperor’s Royal Guard gets a full retool for 2012 and the figure is, for the most part, perfect – aside from a few nitpicks of course. The all-new body is fully articulated with 14 POA and well-tailored soft goods robes. He is loaded with accessories as well, allowing it to be displayed as a Royal Guard or as a member of the Royal Guard Academy from the Crimson Empire<\/em> comic series.<\/p>\n

CONS:<\/strong>\u00a0While the new “ERG” succeeds on most levels, for me, it falls a bit short in a couple of areas. First, I think the color of underlying body is too red and would have looked better in a more maroon color, as used on prior versions, bringing it closer in appearance to the 1983 coloration. Second, despite the fact the figure is trying to pull a two-in-one here, I don’t necessarily like all of the Imperial logos plastered all over it. Finally, it’s a shame that\u00a0Hasbro didn’t go the full nine yards and give this figure a Kir Kanos-specific likeness -complete with lightsaber scar – but again opted for another\u00a0generic\u00a0bearded\u00a0sculpt.<\/p>\n

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

You can also weigh in with your impressions on the figures we add to our toyguide on\u00a0facebook<\/a>\u00a0and in our\u00a0forums.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Yakface Toyguide\u00a0updates resume today with the addition of the\u00a0Emperor’s Royal Guard\u00a0(VC105) from the\u00a0Vintage Collection. PROS:\u00a0The Emperor’s Royal Guard gets a full retool for 2012 and the figure is, for the most part, perfect – aside from a few nitpicks of course. The all-new body is fully articulated with 14 POA and well-tailored soft goods robes. … Continue reading Toyguide Update: VC105 Emperor’s Royal Guard<\/span> →<\/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-9311","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\/9311","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=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9314,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}