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Hasbro Will Address Super-sized Bucket Issue On Phase II Clones

Posted by Paul | February 17, 2014 at 09:03 PM ET

This post is for Justin Cook, my good friend and the voice of reason against all things five points of articulation at Yakface.com (love you Jayson). And honestly it's for all of you too. If you read any posts on our site about how much someone hates the phase II helmets on the TVC quality Clone Troopers, those comments likely were generated by Justin. Anyway, he sent me a custom sample Shock Trooper with a revised helmet (he used the 2013 Saga Legends figure just to illustrate a more accurate scale for the figure). I brought my own trusty TVC Shock Trooper with huge bucket for comparison, placed them both in Derryl DePriest's hand where he performed his own shocking (pun intended) analysis of the ghastly issue. Are you curious to read what his conclusions are? Then click through for more.

Derryl couldn't agree more that it is out of scale and much too big for the TVC body. Derryl actually appeared shocked to see how disproportionate the bucket is on these clones. He said he honestly had no idea. Why he had no idea is beyond my comprehension (maybe he thought I have been whining for the last 3 years unnecessarily. I honestly don't know), but he did jot this down (next to the list of TVC re-releases we want to see) and said that he will work on addressing this issue as soon as possible. Hope is indeed on the horizon!

Derryl DePriest is a good man, a collector and someone who cares about the Star Wars line, despite always hitting a wall with ever seemingly good move he tries to make (with regards to budget constraints and negative answers from upper management. Derryl and I don't see eye to eye on all decisions, but when it comes to stuff for collectors, I can tell you he does intend to impress us all.

Justin knows I make a concerted effort every year to bring up the huge bucket issue with Hasbro's TVC quality phase II clones. This year we thought a visual demonstration would drive the point home, and for the first time I feel it has. I truly believe that Derryl will do something about this. So to Justin and our readers I say: Hasbro now knows about this and there is no excuse anymore. If they don't fix this issue, it's on them. Start crossing your fingers and pray that change comes soon!

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