Action Figure #663: Star Wars The Black Series Moff Gideo(Dark Trooper Armor)

  Los Pollos Hermanos isn't paying the bills anymore, time to break bad. In Space.

 Having watched the Mandalorian season 1, I've been wanting a Moff Gideon for a while now, and just as I was about to buy the original release, this Moff Gideon (Dark Trooper Armor) got announced, which looked much cooler, so I decided to wait... which is the reason it took me so long to add Gideon into my collection.

 Let's start off with the good. The headsculpt is just perfect, he looks a lot more like Giancarlo Esposito than the previous figure, so that's a huge plus. I can't say how accurate the rest of the figure is to the show because I haven't started Season 2 yet, but I do think he looks like a badass cross between a Storm Trooper and a Mandalorian, all clad in black and red. I particularly love the two-tone cape that is black on the outside and red on the inside. He comes with a helmet, a spear-like weapon, a collapsed version of that weapon and a tiny gun.

 My biggest gripe with this figure is the helmet. It's made out of very soft, pliable plastic, so it doesn't stay as tight as I would like. Even worse, part of his chin tends to show from under the helmet, so unless you have Gideon looking down, with the helmet on, you'll have to play around with his torso to get the angle right so that his chin isn't showing. It's such a dumb oversight, because they've done figures with removable helmets before, like Jango Fett and Pre Vizla, and those worked perfectly, so there's no excuse here.

 On the articulation end, he has single jointed elbows and knees with great range on each. He has a ball jointed ab crunch and a ball jointed waist. He also has the new peg-wrists they have been using. Also, he is a bit of a.... let's call him a Short King, because he is super short! About a head and a half shorter than Bucky Cap.

 Well, 90% of the figure is really good. Great sculpt, great accessories, great articulation... it's just that the issue with the helmet is such a bummer, because the helmet could make him look SO cool.

7.5