Original Review by Chris, 2/28/2014:

So I kinda feel like I shot my wad with the other Jedi Knight Battle of Geonosi set. I don’t know how much more I can add, good or bad, with this set.  The same pros and cons are here.  My biggest complaint is having to pay for an old style clone that I don’t want.  Adding insult to injury, my sample of Clone Commander Ponds seems to suffer from a sever case of scoliosis.  Why this clone couldn’t have used the VC45 body is mystery especially since Hasbro seems to be bent on upgrading every style, shape and shade of clone to that template.  Instead, Clone Commander Ponds uses tooling that is ten years old.

Lets start off with Sarirssa Jeng.  I KNOW HER!  Unlike the other five Jedi between these two sets, I actually know when she appears on screen.  She is sometimes known as the screaming Jedi.  My hair started thinning out at 19.  But I’m a man (physically, mentally I’m a 12 year old boy).  If I were a balding twenty something woman, I’d be yelling at every Battle Droid I saw too.  From the second I saw the plastic skirt on the Sarrissa Jeng figure, I suspected it would limit the leg movement.  Those suspicions were correct.  As with the other set, the Jedi are hampered by plastic lower tunics. Adding some soft goods to the lower tunic would have solved this and its something that commonly done in the basic line.

I have no idea who the other two Jedi are.  I feel like I should know who Roan Shryne is.  He seems like a pretty big deal.  But alas, I have no idea who he is and at the time of this review, Google hasn’t been invented, so there’s nothing I can do about that.  Don’t judge me as nerd.  I’m good at other things.  You want to challenge me on a Sandtrooper / Stormtrooper belt debate?  Yeah, I didn’t think so.  I also don’t have the foggiest idea when Sophjet Josall appears on screen, but his Wikipedia image sure suggest that he did.  The fact that one appears to have been retconned into Attack of the Clone and the other is a blink and miss him character doesn’t mean that I don’t like them.  I love getting a bunch of scene fillers in one box.  I’d much rather get some new Jedi figures that I’m not ever sure exist than the 50th version of an Episode II Anakin. 

So while the Jedi, by virtue of the plastic tunics and lack of saber hilts, are a half step behind the basic line and Ponds is an ancient mold, I appreciate this set for it’s newness.  Just like the other set, I give this an 8 out of 10.  Hasbro should be encourage to do more thing like this and less things like wave 1 of the Black Series.

Updated Review by Bret 4/14/20

Yesterday we reviewed the sister set of these figures.  Actually, there is no differentiation of “1 of 2” or “2 of 2” in the box text or artwork, so we took it upon ourselves to do this.  It annoys me a bit, from an OCD standpoint, that these both share the same title, but not nearly as much as the box art itself.  The Creepy Pedophile Vader logo (He’s obviously reaching for a kid, since this line was largely aimed at them) always bothered me.  It’s meant to be the third iteration of the “celebration” of the 3D releases of the PT films.  As you know, only The Phantom Menace made it to theaters this way, but Hasbro chugged forward with the sad Yoda (AOTC3D) and Vader (ROTS3D) lines.  These sets were the some of the very few memorable releases for collectors during this miserable time of confusing transition at Hasbro.

The set is the same concept at the one we reviewed yesterday, so I won’t cover much of that here.  The inclusion of the “old” clone mold, while distasteful to some collectors, was fine by me.  The character of Ponds was retconned into the film, as the yellow Commander that told Mace Windu, after disembarking from his rescue gunship outside the arena, he had five special commando units awaiting his orders.  That’s a big plus, as we have this named clone that had actual screen time and a spoken line.  Ponds’ character was expanded upon during The Clone Wars cartoon, and he even had an animated-styled figure made of him based on a later appearance during the war.  But unlike Deviss, this is his only realistically styled figure.

Commander Ponds

Sephjet Josall was briefly front and center.  Along with Nicanas Tassu, Sephjet met up with Anakin and Obi-Wan (and Padmé) as the rode the Reek upon the opening moves of the battle between the Jedi Strike Team and the Separatist battle droids.  Sephjet and Tassu tossed Anakin and Obi-Wan spare lightsabers so they could join the fight.  The figure itself is decent, although the lower body articulation is hampered by the hard plastic tunic.  It’s great figure to have, and is a welcome addition to the arena battle.

Sephjet Josall

Then we have Sarissa Jeng, who also was featured with a front-and-center-shot of her giving it the ol’ Jedi Scream as she cuts down an unfortunate battle droid.  Again, the figure is hindered by the plastic skirt, but it’s another nice addition to the arena battle.

Sarissa Jeng

And finally we get Roan Shryne.  Much was written in the EU about this guy, as he survived the battle of Geonosis, although he probably did not get any screen time.  He eventually faced off against Darth Vader, and was killed during The Purge.

While Shryne is the only figure in the set based on a character that seemingly didn’t make the final cut of AOTC, the other three are “important” additions to the line.  Ponds had a line of dialogue, Josall tossed a lightsaber to Anakin, and Jeng made a noise.  All three had focused, albeit brief, shots in the film.  That makes this set a bit better than the one we reviewed yesterday, but not really enough to elevate the score.  Both sets together are pretty great at fleshing out you arena scene, or for providing random background Jedi for whatever display you might want.  7/10.