Luke Skywalker (Bespin Fatigues) (Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back) Review

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Luke Skywalker (Bespin Fatigues) (Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back) Review

Luke Skywalker (Bespin Fatigues)
Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back (Kenner)A really nicely detailed figure with really impressive sculpting on his legs and waist with the utility belt showing the Lightsaber and holster and the light brown or tan hair suits Luke more realistically than the cartoon like yellow hair in my opinion. I believe they dropped this colour with Jedi as he seems to only have light brown hair in the ROTJ line. What let's this figure down is not the yellow Lightsaber(which yes we know Luke had a blue one and they continued their mistake from the original STAR WARS figure of Luke, most likely due to the concept art of Luke with a Yellow saber or a desire to differentiate Luke from Obi-Wan perhaps?), the issue is the hands. Luke comes with a blaster and a saber and yet he can only really hold the saber in his left hand and the blaster in the right. This becomes an issue as Luke, like most people in the Star Wars films, appears to be right handed (check his duels or anytime he uses a blaster, his dominant hand is his right). So getting Luke to duel Vader would be difficult for children and putting him on display would also require widening the right hands grip with the smuggler blaster he carries. 2 accessories is cool for a figure in this time but the fact that he can barely use his lightsaber is more of an issue than it's colour in my opinion and I imagine it would be easy to lose. So whilst I own this figure and do like it, Bespin Fatigues Luke doesn't work great as a toy but has a lot of nice detail and goes nicely next to a Vader or Yoda.