Expanding My Collection: Sideshow Premium Format

I have recently taken an interest in Sideshow Collectible's range of products, starting off from their 12' inch Star Wars products and after much consideration, i felt that the amount spent on getting 12' inch figures and the somewhat ''margin of diminished returns'' with each subsequent figure i got, made me choose to turn to something much more substantial and definitive. A figure which would stand the weathering and test of time and yet be the center of awe in a collector's shelf.

So i chanced upon this Premium Format figure of Yoda and a 501st Clone Trooper, depicting the intense battle where Clone Troopers actually get decapitated and stabbed outside the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in Episode III, revenge of the sith.

Ever since i saw clone troopers on the big screen, or Stormtroopers for the matter, i always wondered to myself why there never was a scene with Luke Skywalker facing these troopers in close combat? to flaunt the intensity and danger of getting on the wrong end of a lightsaber...or jedi dicing up the Clone troopers...

Basically Clone Troopers for all their skills, training and bravado, would be no match to a trained jedi with a lightsaber, and to see limbs and arms flying around just like say, Jedi Academy the video game, or Jedi Outcast, would be every Star Wars fanboy's Nerdgasmic dream. seriously, in my opinion, star wars has been too downplayed and ''clean'' so as to appeal to all ages, hence losing much of the potential it could have had, to do something way darker and gritter...say like the video games '' force unleashed...though THAT too doesn't have much graphic violence.

So here it is, in my opinion, the definitive moment of the ferocity of Yoda, captured in premium format. Demonstrating how the force is something not to be underestimated, and that this little, and often calm Jedi Master can indeed be a formidable opponent.



Running through a clone with a lightsaber like a hot knife through melting butter! YODA For The Win!



I am still considering my options and finances to get this figure. Would appreciate any comments and or opinions to a definitive Star Wars display ....


Priced at around $600 +/- it isn't something to take lightly, but then again, its almost the cost of 2 12' inch figures. and pretty worthwhile too considering its made of polystone and handpainted, with yoda featuring tailored costume, and an eventual light up lightsaber...












well guess that's my take on this, any opinions or suggestions for a better figure before i settle on this?