Original review by Chris, 10/27/2014

Fans titled this figure the “Apartment” Jango to represent that scintillating scene in Attack of the Clones where Obi-Wan chatted up Jango in his apartment on Kamino.  You would think that the Kaminoans and the clone army’s benefactor would have set up Jango in fancier quarters given his importance, but when your apartment can’t be any bigger than a green screen stage, you end up with father and unaltered clone living in 200 square feet.  Everything about that movie is terrible. The truth is that this Jango Fett figure doesn’t really fit any one scene.  Normally that would cause me to say very hurtful things about a figure, but I can’t help but love this one.

The reasons this doesn’t truly satisfy an “Apartment” Jango figure are twofold and they are rather nit picky, but that’s why the internet was invented: to pick nits.  The first is that the holster belt and armored cod piece are not truly removable.  As near as I can tell from examining my sample(s) is that the fastening point on the rear of the belt is glued in place.  It could easily be removed, but I’m not willing to sacrifice the integrity of my figure to do so.  The other reason is that while the armor pieces on the shins and torso can be removed, the armor on top of the boots cannot.  Technically speaking this is an “almost apartment” Jango.  Again this type of thing typically bothers me, but this figure is so versatile and fun to display that I just think of it as a slightly off-screen Jango Fett.  Another aspect of the figure that could be considered iffy is the included jet pack.  It is the one Jango Fett wore during the Geonosis Arena conflict.  If this is truly a Kamino Jango Fett, it should have the come with the blue, orange and white jet pack that the Vintage Collection Jango Fett featured.

If you decide to place the removable armor on the figure. you still don’t arrive at something that is supported on-screen since the figure is missing gauntlets and the sleeves are rolled up.  I just don’t care.  The figure is just great fun to configure with various display options.  If something like this was released during the vintage Kenner era, I can promise you it would have been hands down the favorite figure of my youth.  As it stands the vintage Boushh Leia and Jabba’s palace Lando are two of my favorites largely for the removable helmets.  I would have fainted with this level of play value.  When the figure dons the poncho is where I personally think it hits its stride.  Boba Fett was modeled heavily on Clint Eastwood’s characters form Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns.  It is with the poncho slug over its shoulders and the two pistols hung low on its hips that this figure truly recalls that image, and why I had to own not only one, but two.  This isn’t the perfect on-screen Jango Fett by a wide margin, but it is a perfect example of how imaginative the 30th Anniversary Collection was.  This imperfect figure earns a near perfect 9 out of 10.

Updated review by Bret, 2/10/2020

Chris called this an imperfect figure, and gave it a near perfect 9.  I would generally agree with that, but there is one thing wrong with it that drives me nuts.  Unfortunately, I’m not really sure there is a reasonable solution that I could recommend Hasbro do differently to make it perfect.

In a general sense, the figure hits all the major points.  It’s sculpted well, has very good (not perfect) articulation, it can be posed in a number of ways, and it comes with a tremendous amount of accessories which interact nearly flawlessly with the figure itself.  There’s not a lot to complain about here.  Hasbro has given us Jango Fett in the most boring outfit possible, but except for the actual fight scene in the rain on Kamino, I actually enjoyed his weirdly suspenseful dialogue exchange with Obi-Wan in the apartment.  It wasn’t Oscar-worthy writing, but somehow it kind of worked.  It’s kind of a shame that after the encounters that Obi-Wan and Jango had throughout AOTC, that Obi-Wan wasn’t the one who finally bested Jango.  That honor somehow fell upon Mace Windu, who had no relationship with the bounty hunter.  I mean, it wasn’t as big a snub as Leia blowing off Chewbacca after Han’s death, but still.  Obi-Wan should have gotten the call there.

The real achievement of this effort by Hasbro is the incredible interactivity you get between the figure and the accessories.  All the armored pieces attach nearly perfectly, with very little difficulty.  Getting the holster assembly on and off is a bit of a challenge, but the tradeoff is that it looks great, and doesn’t appear to be too loose in an effort to make it more easily removable.  It looks natural.  The blasters fit well into the holsters, as well as Jango’s hands.  The helmet sits nicely on the head, and the poncho isn’t overly large, as these soft goods pieces often can be.  When all of it is removed, we have a perfect apartment Jango. 

The problem is that when all the pieces are attached, we do not have the perfect Mandalorian armored Jango.  The main giveaway is the rolled up shirt sleeves.  There’s also a lack of thigh armor, but that’s a bit less jarring.  Given the success of the rest of the design, I feel Hasbro probably could have solved that problem rather easily with some well fitting thigh pads.  But the sleeves are another story.  Short of a complete set of interchangeable arms, I’m not sure if there was anything Hasbro could have done to address this issue and still keep the figure reasonably priced and fitting into a standard basic bubble.  Maybe interchangeable forearms (with gauntlets and gloves) would have been okay. 

In the end, we have a perfect casual Jango, but an imperfect armored Jango.  The benefit is that there’s still a lot of display/play value offered by the figure.  But since we have some excellent armored Jangos in our collections, I’d almost rather Hasbro skipped some of the wearable accessories, and instead went for something more screen accurate.  Maybe keep the chest armor and helmet are fine, but adding gauntlets (which can be seen in the closet) instead of the shin guards and poncho would be more true to the film. 

I don’t know.  It’s all very picky, I admit.  It’s a fun figure that is very well executed, but I feel that the extras just give you some off-screen stuff, rather than some movie accurate stuff.  For me, I felt that takes some of the luster off this figure.  8 out of 10.