Star Wars The Black Series Ahsoka Tano – Clone Wars review
I HATED Ahsoka’s debut in the Clone Wars movie with her annoying SkyGuy nickname for Anakin Skywalker and annoying bratty presence. The turnaround from then to the conclusion of Clone Wars was amazing as Ahsoka is now one of my favorite characters.
Maybe I should remember that every time I hit a serious eye roll when Omega pops up on The Bad Batch? Clone Wars Season 7 was an amazing experience and along with The Mandalorian Season 2 made me fall in love with Star Wars all over again. Then Hasbro got in on the fun with some amazing new Star Wars The Black Series figures.
One of the big reveals was a Season 7 Ahsoka as she reunited with Anakin just in time to see the end of the Jedi. Hasbro didn’t wait years to recreate this look for the Black Series, but decided to make things interesting by placing Ahsoka and other Season 7 players in an exclusive Walmart line.
After two failed attempts, the alert me when item is back in stock finally worked for me and the former Padawan takes her rightful place in my Clone Wars display. Let’s see if she was worth all the hassle.
Packaging: I really appreciate the new packaging was such a refreshing visual change of pace for this line. The Clone Wars has a strong yellow gold accent color.
The art bridges the gap from cartoon to how Ahsoka would look in real life. The bio is crafted with care explaining Ahsoka’s vital role during the Clone Wars.
Likeness: I really dig the head sculpt, which shows the maturation of the child Padawan that Anakin initially instructed to an older looking teenager.
This Ahsoka is still nearly 20 years away from hanging with Ezra, Kanaan and company and the figure still reflects a somewhat gangly, not fully adult Jedi. Her overall frame is slight like a teen still growing into her body with slender arms and legs.
Ahsoka never wore a traditional Padawan outfit, but it fit her. I do kinda wish this Season 7 outfit was worked in earlier as it ironically looks more like a unique Jedi attire.
All of the linework in the outfit is sculpted and not left up to the paintjob to handle, which I definitely appreciate. This attire would look far too flat without the sculpted elements.
Paint: I never had the luxury of being able to see this wave in stores so it’s been an exercise in trust with the paint work. There’s a stray white mark on Ahsoka’s chin, the left horn has some fuzziness with the grey and white areas and some of the silver from the paint is chipped.
These were mostly look real close to find any paint issue problems and they’re definitely not that apparent (save the belt section) from a reasonable distance.
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Scale: Even slightly older, Ahsoka was still noticeably shorter than Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bo-Katan. Hasbro has done a solid job of staying true to the appropriate heights of the characters so she lines up correctly.
I need to get the actual Hasbro Revenge of the Sith Anakin and Obi-Wan for a better comparison, but she’s shorter than Anakin and Obi-Wan.
Articulation: Ahsoka is more of a quick strike fighter who utilized her speed and lack of size to her advantage. Ideally her figure should allow her to hit deep crouch poses.
Ahsoka Tano has:
- neck
- ball-jointed shoulders
- elbow
- wrist
- wrist hinge
- torso
- hips
- thighs
- knees
- ankles
Accessories: Ahsoka comes with her two distinct lightsabers gifted from Anakin. While they’re the same sabers, the blade length is different for her fighting style.
The blades have the faint blue that looks truer to how they appeared in Clone Wars.
Worth it? All of this exclusive Clone Wars wave clocked in at $25 and that’s assuming you were able to find them in stores otherwise you were paying for shipping. That’s not exactly a bargain price and for an exclusive wave it would have been nice to get some unique accessory.
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Where to get it? Your main option to get Ahsoka is my approach of utilizing the notify me when item is back in stock option. I missed out on two restocks that came in went within a half hour.
The third time was the charm since it was super early in the morning, but apparently there are still some Ahsokas left in the system. You can also avoid the hassle and pay secondary prices on Amazon.