I usually collect 6 inch scale, super-articulated action figures, but I make an exception for the 3 and 3/4 inch scale figures based on my favorite TV show currently running, Star Wars Rebels. Lately Hasbro has been mixing the new Rebels characters into waves of their The Force Awakens 5 Points of Articulation line. Today we’ll look at one of the latest Rebels figures, Captain Rex!
Captain Rex is one of the main characters from The Clone Wars cartoon and managed to survive the Clone War and make his way into the early days of the Rebellion against the Empire on Star Wars Rebels.
Rex’s design has changed quite a bit from his Clone Wars days, you see it’s been 15 years since that conflict and clones age at twice human rate, so he’s physically about 60 years old.
I love that they gave him a great big beard and he’s thicker around the middle. Even war heroes’ metabolism slows down with age.
The figure captures the design well and has an appropriately simple sculpt without a lot of texture detail. The head sculpt looks like Rex, but there is a bit of awkwardness in the design that affects the overall look.
He has a ball and socket neck, but it really can only look up. The head can’t look down, so he kind of looks like he’s constantly at attention. I suppose it’s not horrible for such a soldier born and bred, but it’s a little limiting for posing.
The paint is also fairly simple with a bit of dirt weathering the only attempt at realism.
In the show Rex’s armor is in a sorry state, very scuffed and dirty with hundreds of tick marks on the armor for war-time kills, so this paint job falls a little short, but it’s not surprising.
The figure comes with two blaster pistols, a strange staff, a fire effect that fits in the staff and removeable helmet. The guns are super tiny and fit nicely into the holsters on his thighs.
The helmet fits the head snugly and looks proportional to my eye. The staff is part of a build-a-weapon pack in scheme Hasbro has worked into The Force Awakens figure line.
The build a weapon staff is kinda neat, if completely extraneous. I suppose it might be useful to give to a custom character or a random Jabba’s palace guard.
Overall, Rex fits well with the rest of the Rebels crew Hasbro has released for this line. The sculpt is accurate, but the paint is a little plain.
