VC17 - General Grievous

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Reference

Banthapedia article on General_Grievous
He had bubble guts constantly, due to having a spastic colon, and most of his innards stowed in a mason jar in his rib cage. - Banthapedia

Major Variants
*This figure is one of 12 that has a silver foil cardback chase variant which shipped concurrently with the regular version.

Notes
*This figure is part of Wave 2 of the 2010 Vintage Collection. 

Roundtable Reviews!

nomadscout

There’s two ways to look at this figure.  A really nice display piece if you can get it to stand, or one of the worst figures as a toy made in recent memory.

The main issue is the plastic, which is VERY VERY soft an makes it nearly impossible to have him stand up without bending and tipping over, no matter what you do.  It’s really a travesty that this figure is made of such soft plastic, because it could be infinitely better just based on the material.  To compound everything, there’s no pegholes in the feet, so you can’t even enlist the aid of a stand.  Booo!

Anyway, the sculpt is pretty good.  At first glance, it’s just like the TLC version, but it adds very important wrist articulation, especially for a character that is scene wielding his lightsabers by twirling his writsts.  However, the writst will pop out of their sockets way too easily, so that is too bad.  The problem with the hands is that they don’t grip the lightsabers well at all.  Maybe two of his claws do a marginally acceptable job at this, but not well enough. 

I feel the headsculpt is a little too small, and the range of motion is restricted.  The real problem with the sculpt itself, is that Grievous spends most of the movie hunched over, with his neck and head jutting forward.  This figure does not make that pose, which is too bad. 

He’s got a lot of articulation, but he could really use ball jointed hips.  As has been pointed out in our forums, Hasbro hit a home run with the leg sculpt/articulation on the recent cyborg Darth Maul.  This should be a launching point for a new and better Grievous.

Really the only outstanding thing about this figure is the cape.  It’s terrific, has 4 pockets on both sides of the inside to place trophy lightsabers, two of which are included.  Grievous comes with only two lit sabers, which is also a bit silly.  Just give him all 4!  Grrrrr....

Bottom line, if you can get this figure posed, and able to stand, he looks really nice.  If you plan on playing with it, or giving it to a kid, forget it.  It’s horrible.  My recommendation, if you buy this figure, is to take the cape and add it to the TLC version.  Otherwise, you may want to avoid this like the plague.  Boo Hasbro.  Boo.

7/10 Banthaskulls if you can get him to stand and then you can just stare at him on your shelf.

1/10 Banthaskulls if you plan on actually trying to pose this figure or play with it as an actual toy.