'05 | #08  Dannik Jerriko - Cantina Encounter (Reviewed 03-02-2005)

Includes:
• Removable Proboscises 
• Hookah Pipe 
• Blaster
• Base

Ok, it's the third time you used the card Hasbro, better than the figure I guess! Click thumbnail for large image
Spice: It is a Trilogy grand slam. For years we all wondered his name, although standing at the bar with Bo Shek , we all could hardly wait to acquire this piece. I honestly thought it would have come back in the Power of the Jedi series. Even though it's the third time Hasbro scrimped and used the cardback picture, I'd much rather see this instead of the third time seeing the action figure. I can live with a rehash card picture! Dannik Jerriko is the third in a series of Mos Eisley fresh blood, and they most definitely saved the best for last.



Don't knock it until you try it! There's more to it than drinking your life away, you can smoke it away too! Click thumbnail for large image
It really makes you wonder who could win the $10 second place Monopoly prize in the beauty contest? Perhaps only second to Dr. Evazan, there is nothing pretty about Dannik Jerriko. There is some definite drawback to the removable proboscises, as I found out when I let Trooper Matt Large handle him ever so briefly. The pink blended in wonderfully with the brown of my carpet, and you'd have thought someone lost a contact for the next twenty minutes. They spared no expense on the articulation. His elbows, knees, wrist, head and waist all move. I really like the holster, another thoughtful, great touch.



Don't try the Nancy Reagan on me Hammerhead! Click thumbnail for large image
It's just makes me wonder how they ran out of black paint and couldn't do the weathering effect. I'm also baffled how they couldn't make a firing rocket pack in 1978 but they can pack up a guy with a Hookah pipe in the politically correct world of today. First two guys packed up with booze, now illegal drugs? What's he smoking, Spice? We all know how crazy that might make someone! I guess they are right when they say one leads to another. I really think this could be my favorite of the bunch. They really didn't miss a trick except on the paint job.



FINAL THOUGHTS:
Spice - This has to be a all new record, I can't remember the last time I had a thumb down! This Cantina wave was a great way to give Troopers the Tri-fecta, YOU Betcha, if I may borrow a quote from the great Stu Scott!

 

Grades

-
Visual Impact

9.8
Detail & Paint

9.7
Accessories / Weapons

10.0
Articulation / Function

9.9
Overall

9.9

 

+    The best three figures we have seen in a long time when you look at Cantina Encounter.
-    They could have had the perfect 10 and soiled him up a bit.
-    They could have attached the proboscises, wouldn't have hurt the score either way.
+     Having the nerve to make the character as is, instead of just throwing in a blaster.

(Figure '05 | #08, Asst. No. 85325, Item No. 85172, Backing Card P/N 6385280800, Window Insert P/N 6385290800, ) 

 

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Anyone else observe his name has DAN in it? Sounds like an observation!