Past the shock of Ariana Greenblatt showing up during Ahsoka as a live-action interpretation of the Star Wars character’s animated youth was a very stark reminder Clone Wars by no means really offered: holy hell, that’s a little kid they gave a pair of glowsticks to and caught on the entrance strains of the deadliest conflict the galaxy had seen in hundreds of years.
And now you could be reminded of the Jedi Order’s hubris—through wallet-induced ache—because of Hot Toys!
The corporate’s newest Star Wars motion determine goes again to the Clone Wars through Ahsoka with the Padawan Ahsoka Tano. Though Scorching Toys has finished a number of Ahsoka figures previously—largely based mostly on Rosario Dawson’s older version of the character, though one based mostly on Clone Wars’ last season did give her a “realistic” makeover seemingly loosely impressed by voice actress Ashley Eckstein’s likeness—that is the primary time the corporate has been in a position to do a model of Ahsoka throughout the Clone Wars with an official live-action interpretation to go off of.
And it’s actually good, after all—Ahsoka has rolling eyeballs for posing, an artificial physique that hides the articulation in her uncovered arms, her unique singular inexperienced lightsaber, and even a pair of goggles to go together with the sandy base depicting the grounds of Ryloth, as seen in one among three key flashback moments in Ahsoka’s journey into the World Between Worlds. However actually that accuracy and element simply actually reminds you starkly and admittedly simply how younger Ahsoka was throughout Clone Wars, and the way really evil the Jedi Order’s recalcitrance was in permitting itself to be thrown into Palpatine’s machinations so wholly and so willingly that it despatched generations of youngsters to go be snuffed out on the entrance strains of a horrific interstellar battle.
However it does nonetheless make for a really cool costly motion determine. Padawan Ahsoka will set you again $255, and is currently due to release a while within the first half of 2025—a maybe poetically correct excessive worth to pay for good little troopers following their good little orders. Earlier than the existential malaise units in too onerous, click on by way of to see extra footage.
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