Star Wars The Black Series Aayla Secura review
Aayla Secura was one of those visually cool Jedi who was largely just a background character in the Prequel Trilogy. Thankfully, her character got featured in Clone Wars giving her a more prominent role and a chance to be in the spotlight.
Packaging: I really dig the new packaging and the unique accent color for each distinct brand. Attack of the Clones gets a deep, dark red.
Aayla’s bio is written to reflect her role at the start of the Clone Wars.
Likeness: Ayala has a terrific head sculpt. It captures the character’s inherent beauty with a calm, thoughtful expression.
As a Twi’lek, Aayla has two long tails stemming from the back of her head. Aayla wears a head dress with various wraps around her tails. The head dress sports a leather-esque style material and is wrapped in a manner like actual clothing.
As a less demure Jedi, her attire wasn’t nearly as conservative as her peers. Hasbro didn’t shortchange it however giving her leather sports bra/full sleeve left arm top a commendable leather-like texture pattern throughout.
Her skirt piece continues that leather texture appearance while her boots have a solid amount of detail as well.
Paint: Aayla doesn’t have the most complex attire so her paint job isn’t as intricate as some other figures. Her lipstick and eyeshadow are applied subtly to not be too obnoxious.
It would have been nice to see some bit of a wash to her outfit, but that would probably make her stand out from every other Black Series Jedi.
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Scale: Aayla wasn’t often around a lot of fellow Jedi to make for a good scale comparison.
She was most frequently paired with Commander Bly during the Clone Wars and she scaled properly to him.
Articulation: Aayla was one of the more nimble, quick striking Jedi and benefits from the extra articulation with the double-jointed knees.
Aayla has great articulation though she really needed butterfly joint shoulders for better lightsaber wielding poses. The lack of double-jointed elbows is mitigated due to the deeper cut of the single joint, but it still would be welcome. Aayla has a ball-jointed torso that allows her better range of motion and makes her more expressive.
The biggest issue is her ankle joints, which are ridiculously weak making some poses that should be easy harder than necessary. It’s a fixable issue, but one that shouldn’t be a continuing problem with this line.
Aayla Secura has:
- neck
- ball-jointed shoulders
- elbow
- wrist
- wrist hinge
- torso
- hips
- thighs
- knees
- ankles
Accessories: Aayla didn’t tend to wear the traditional Jedi robes so she only has one obvious accessory — her lightsaber.
It’s got the standard highly accurate detail from the source material and comes with a removable blue blade so you can attach it to her belt. I’ve gotten real gun shy about removing them as the blades seem like they would snap off.
Maybe I just need to get some heat on it, but that seems to defeat the purpose of a removable blade.
Worth it? Aayla varies in price now as some retailers charge $22.99 and others charge $24.99. Clearly the $22.99 option is a better price although the lack of accessories hurts with the overall value.
Rating: 9 out of 10
Aayla really needed butterfly joint shoulders, which should be essential for all Jedi. Her weak ankles aren’t helpful either, but otherwise this is a solid figure and long overdue member to help flesh out the prequel era Jedi.
Where to get it? I haven’t seen Aayla at Target, but her wave is showing up in stores. You can always go the online route and grab her from Amazon and Entertainment Earth and Target.