[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Frank Richards

Nice finds !
The Targets in my area have been a disappointment (aside from the Poe/Trooper 2-Pack) ever since the IG-88 wave.

I've scaled down my hunting over the past couple of weeks, knowing that this wave has been hitting stores, lol, because that Jango Fett is just far, far too tempting. I struggled with the same issue with his TVC figure a few years back.
As much as I dislike the character, he just looks so cool, and I know that he'll be impossible to pass up.

Back when Ep. II premiered, there was something inexplicably cool about his clean, sleek, streamlined armor, and that aesthetic made a strong, lasting impression on me, all those years ago.
However, I thought he was entirely unimpressive in the movie, and honestly, I can't recall any EU story, featuring him, that really impressed me either.

Lol, it's going to be a serious test of my resolve to leave Jango Fett on the pegs when/if I find this figure.

This is going to come off as sounding a little biased, especially being that I'm a fan of Jango Fett, but, honestly, outside of Commander Cody, he's easily my favorite Black Series figure so far. My main concern with him when I first saw pictures was the black wash over the silver parts, but upon getting the figure in hand, it's a lot more subtle and looks better in person. The head sculpt is a really good representation of Temuera Morrison, and he has some awesome articulation in his arms to make up for the lack of double jointed elbows that allows him to strike some ridiculously cool poses.

Most of Jango's EU stuff, I've only seen or read about through certain novels, but one of the cooler pieces of his history comes from the Darth Plagueis novel, where it tells of how Jango was selected to be the clone template by Dooku and Sifo Dyas. Apparently, while Dooku was still a part of the jedi order, he was sent along with his apprentice Komari Vosa to put down Fett and a group of Mandalorians who had been wrongfully accused by Death Watch as having been assassinating political activists and civilians. The Jedi were able to overwhelm the other Mandalorians, but Jango made a stand, and using his bare hands, was able to kill 6 jedi as they tried to subdue him. Dooku was so impressed by what he saw in Jango, that Jango ended up becoming his first contact when Dooku later put a contract out on his former padawan, who had turned to the dark side and became a crime lord. Fett was able to once again defeat the former jedi, signifying to Dooku that he indeed had the his man when it came to choosing the perfect clone template.