BD36 - Wioslea
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Reference
Wookieepedia article on Wioslea
Major Variants
*None reported
Notes
*The “BD” numbering system is the abbreviation for “Build-a-droid”. This figure comes with the head and middle foot of R2-N6.
Silliness
From nomadscout
Roundtable Reviews!
nomadscout
7/10 Bantha Skulls
This is one ugly Motherf****er. Seriously. I had no idea she was this hideous on screen. Her head is a tangled mess of mouths, noses, and eyeballs. But, it’s done well. The head is painted well, with lots of wacky detailing. Her torso, is pretty straightforward, looking like she is clothed in a jedi outfit. Interestingly, (or perhaps not), she has breasts. She has a soft goods skirt, which allows you to view her wacky alien legs.
She is SA, except for lacking knees. She comes with a robe, that has a large enough hood to fit over her huge ugly noggin, and sports two holes that her antennae can poke through, which is kinda neat. She comes with a pistol, but she has a bit of trouble gripping it, which is sucky.
It’s an interesting figure, and it’s never been done before. She lacks a cool accessory, like a couple of the others have in this wave, but she’s good to fill out the bunch. Good for background filler in the “Luke complaining about the price of used cars” scene.
Pick one up!
Phantom-Like Menace*
5/10 Bantha Skulls
I may have buyer’s remorse for the first time ever with a Star Wars figure.
I’m an astromech completist, so I grabbed her for the part, and I didn’t really look at her, because I thought to myself, “They’re [Wioslea, Trinto, Pons] cantina background. I’ll just buy them and chuck them there, never to be scrutinized again.”
I’m looking at this figure and . . . merciful Quetzalcoatl, I bought that damned thing with money I had to work for? Save yourself the money, and make a custom any child can make. Take any body, PotJ Boba Fett from the ‘90s for example, and wrap the damned thing in more cloth than you are currently wearing so you can’t see the body. Feed your dog tan thread, and pour some tan paint into its water bowl. When it craps, take one of its tan, threaded terds, slap some little beady doll eyes onto it (optionally just feed them to your dog). Hollow out a hole for the neck, slap the head onto the neck, and there’s a very good possibility you’ll be less disappointed with the resulting figure than I am with this one. Right, I forgot, there is some sculpting that needs to be done. Don’t forget to sculpt a lopsided, stretched out, wrinkled vagina you can call a mouth into it. If this custom is hard for you to make, because you don’t have a dog, just befriend a neighbor’s dog and come up with a really good excuse why you’re feeding it random crap.
I can’t say screw this figure. Screw me for buying it.
I’d be disinclined to try to rank it. The only two criteria I’d go on would be accuracy and the need for it to have been made when anyone could have sculpted that head with a minimum of scatologic expertise. I’d give the first a nine or ten, and the latter a one or two, so . . . I don’t know . . . average of five?
Some of these characters are simple because they weren’t meant to stand up to scrutiny. The initial lack of effort for a character meant only to appear in an out of focus shot into the corner of a dimly lit room translates into a figure that is too simple to be worth making.
*This review was edited from the original’s harsher language - for the sake of the kids.
