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Star Wars Toy of the Week, Week 44, 2020
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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 537124" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>Sand People... or Sandpeople... or Tusken Raiders... Kenner never could quite decide on what to call this figure, so they gave it many different names, which might perhaps explain why they made so many different variants of it! It was one of the original 12 figures released of course, and for that reason alone it will always hold a special place in my heart, but it was never exactly a great likeness. Not that that mattered one jot to the 6 year-old me when I first got my grubby little paws on one back in 1978 :-D. Back then, I remember thinking the sandy colour looked a little off compared to the famous still image they used on the card back (which always looked more greenish than sandy to me), but I loved the figure itself! With its unique Colonel Gadaffi, sorry, Gaderffii stick weapon which it could hold with both hands, and its sandy coloured removable cloak, this was a winner in my eyes :-D</p><p></p><p>As an adult, I recognise it's not such a great likeness of the character, but it's still a good figure, and the variants!!! If you don't like variants, you're going to despise this figure! LOL. In addition to the now pretty well known (although it wasn't so when I first got back into collecting back in the early 90's) 'hollow tubes' variant, there are very probably dozens of different paint jobs available for this figure. The hands, belt and mouthpiece all come in a wide range of different shades of brown, sometimes all on the same figure! The paint on the mouthpiece can either cover just the front of it, or the sides as well, and the Gaffi stick also has a few variants of its own too! All in all it makes for an awful lot of variants, and I have by no means got them all. I do have a good selection though (although it's always tricky finding ones with good silver paint, hence some of mine are a little bit ropey in that regard), plus a nice Palitoy 12 back.</p><p></p><p>Here they are:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]70580[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]70581[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]70582[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]70583[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]70584[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]70585[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 537124, member: 7379"] Sand People... or Sandpeople... or Tusken Raiders... Kenner never could quite decide on what to call this figure, so they gave it many different names, which might perhaps explain why they made so many different variants of it! It was one of the original 12 figures released of course, and for that reason alone it will always hold a special place in my heart, but it was never exactly a great likeness. Not that that mattered one jot to the 6 year-old me when I first got my grubby little paws on one back in 1978 :-D. Back then, I remember thinking the sandy colour looked a little off compared to the famous still image they used on the card back (which always looked more greenish than sandy to me), but I loved the figure itself! With its unique Colonel Gadaffi, sorry, Gaderffii stick weapon which it could hold with both hands, and its sandy coloured removable cloak, this was a winner in my eyes :-D As an adult, I recognise it's not such a great likeness of the character, but it's still a good figure, and the variants!!! If you don't like variants, you're going to despise this figure! LOL. In addition to the now pretty well known (although it wasn't so when I first got back into collecting back in the early 90's) 'hollow tubes' variant, there are very probably dozens of different paint jobs available for this figure. The hands, belt and mouthpiece all come in a wide range of different shades of brown, sometimes all on the same figure! The paint on the mouthpiece can either cover just the front of it, or the sides as well, and the Gaffi stick also has a few variants of its own too! All in all it makes for an awful lot of variants, and I have by no means got them all. I do have a good selection though (although it's always tricky finding ones with good silver paint, hence some of mine are a little bit ropey in that regard), plus a nice Palitoy 12 back. Here they are: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Sand Raiders - 01.jpg"]70580._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Sand Raiders - 02.jpg"]70581._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Sand Raiders - 03.jpg"]70582._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Sand Raiders - 04.jpg"]70583._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Sand Raiders - 05.jpg"]70584._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Sand Raiders - 06.jpg"]70585._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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