Random figure of the day: sw0395

9496 is a nostalgic one for me; it was one of my first LEGO Star Wars sets. I still have it up on my display next to 75020.

I just built the set that he came in last week.

Part of me is left wondering if this minifig design is, in any way, a nod to the Tan Vested Luke of Hasbro action figure infamy.

…something feels very off about seeing him in grey like that

Matching theme in random set and minifig again… Whatsapp are the odds..

This is a really generic face, right? I’d say moreso than even the yellow head era. Somehow, the eye catchlights seem to make him less Luke, more random man in Lego City.

I find this head nostalgic because my brother used it in a classic sigfig and the torso is interesting for not being all-black and I randomly ended up with one, but the combo is very 'the forgotten years of Star Wars' (ca. 2006-2015) for me.

@Brickalili said:
"…something feels very off about seeing him in grey like that"

To be fair, he did wear an additional garment over his torso during the Jabba scenes that was not worn during the Endor scenes (can’t remember offhand if he shucked it before or after Dagobah), because everyone knows you should add more bulky, close-fitting layers in a shade-free desert with more than one sun than in a temperate forest with a very high canopy, to create a buffer layer that shields you from the heat particles. So basically the Igloo Cooler of overgarments. More effective, even, than wearing pants with short legs and sleeves with holes in the sides that allow those same heat particles to just fall out while wandering around on a different shade-free desert planet with more than one sun. And that sweater vest wasn’t the same black as the outfit he wore facing the Emperor. It wasn’t this light, though. More of an off-black, if you will. Hasbro did get it right, but not before they go it very, very wrong. TLG just screwed it up even more, because 7201 had already given us a decent Luke for the Jabba scenes…in a set that occurs on Endor, after he’d gotten rid of the vest entirely. And unlike Hasbro, neither of these sets got running changes to fix the mismatched outfits.

@CapnRex101 said:
"The original Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker minifigure was designed for 7104 Desert Skiff and I am sure they decided it would work for all Return of the Jedi scenes at the time, rather than re-using it being any kind of mistake."

Yeah, probably. They started off the first wave by putting X-Wing Pilot Luke in both the X-Wing and this Snowspeeder, and look how long it took them to get the two outfits straight. Print economy is a thing. And now SW sets cost more. Can’t have it both ways.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"…something feels very off about seeing him in grey like that"

To be fair, he did wear an additional garment over his torso during the Jabba scenes that was not worn during the Endor scenes (can’t remember offhand if he shucked it before or after Dagobah), because everyone knows you should add more bulky, close-fitting layers in a shade-free desert with more than one sun than in a temperate forest with a very high canopy, to create a buffer layer that shields you from the heat particles. So basically the Igloo Cooler of overgarments. More effective, even, than wearing pants with short legs and sleeves with holes in the sides that allow those same heat particles to just fall out while wandering around on a different shade-free desert planet with more than one sun. And that sweater vest wasn’t the same black as the outfit he wore facing the Emperor. It wasn’t this light, though. More of an off-black, if you will. Hasbro did get it right, but not before they go it very, very wrong. TLG just screwed it up even more, because 7201 had already given us a decent Luke for the Jabba scenes…in a set that occurs on Endor, after he’d gotten rid of the vest entirely. And unlike Hasbro, neither of these sets got running changes to fix the mismatched outfits."

If I'm remembering right, Luke wears the vest up through the "... and my sister has it" scene on Endor and only loses it in the scene 7201 is based on (it's just mostly hidden under his poncho). As a kid who spent more time with Lego Star Wars than the actual movies, though, the vest standing out so much on this minifigure is what made me register that his Tatooine and Death Star Jedi costumes were different at all.

@RogueWhistler said:
"If I'm remembering right, Luke wears the vest up through the "... and my sister has it" scene on Endor and only loses it in the scene 7201 is based on (it's just mostly hidden under his poncho). As a kid who spent more time with Lego Star Wars than the actual movies, though, the vest standing out so much on this minifigure is what made me register that his Tatooine and Death Star Jedi costumes were different at all."

Okay, I don’t see the vest here when he visits Yoda:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=byUAS-_5ncM&pp=ygUQTHVrZSBjb3VudCBtZSBpbg%3D%3D&ra=m

Or here, when he crashes the briefing:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFadMn0EuO0&pp=ygUORW5kb3IgcGxhbm5pbmc%3D&ra=m

Nor when he talks to Leia in the Ewok village:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYX_PgorRY&pp=ygUWTXkgc2lzdGVyIGhhcyBpdCBlbmRvcg%3D%3D&ra=m

I’m pretty sure he never wears it again after leaving Tatooine. But remember he did add a camouflaged poncho during the initial Endor insertion.

not going to the sarlac today

@CapnRex101 said:
" @RogueWhistler has it correct. Luke wears the dark grey tabard up to and including the scene with Leia at Bright Tree Village, but it is not nearly as apparent in the later scenes as those on Tatooine."

Really? Didn't look like it in the clips I just watched, but I guess the timing is nearly the best it could have been on this. Tomorrow is the day I watch Ep6 (Ep1 on May 4th, and each chapter one week apart for the next five weeks puts Ep4 on Actual Star Wars Day, being May 25th, and wraps up Ep6 before we get too deep into the June show schedule). I'll have to pay closer attention, when I'm not watching the footage on a postage stamp with delusions of grandeur.

@pumpkinwashingmachine said:
"not going to the sarlac today"

In Star Wars: The Old Republic, you can go to the Sarlacc pit if you're on Tatooine. If you jump in, you get the achievement "Worm Food."

@TheOtherMike said:
" @pumpkinwashingmachine said:
"not going to the sarlac today"

In Star Wars: The Old Republic, you can go to the Sarlacc pit if you're on Tatooine. If you jump in, you get the achievement "Worm Food.""

In Yoda Stories, they just pimp-slap you with their tentacles. Also, they're small enough that they'd probably choke on your corpse if they tried to swallow you.