SWTOTD SWTOTD 07 - We Got Grievous 8:07 PM | Zeroplate The first wave of Revenge of the Sith merchandise is hitting store shelves now which means we'll see an onslaught of tacky Darth Vader items between now and the end of the year, but none of that matters because I GOT A GENERAL GRIEVOUS FIGURE! The preview wave of figures is a lot of fun because it signals with physical evidence the coming of a new movie. This time, the figrue choices were the aforementioned General of the Droid Army, a Wookie warrior (cool), an astromech droin (yawn), and Tion Meddon (creepy.) I have cut my Star Wars toy buying down considerablly since I started with this madness in about 1996. I sold off all my Hoth figures and playsets, my Tatooine figures and creatures, my kind-of enormous battle droid army, and all of my 12" figures so that now, all I have left are the Jedi figures and the Vintage Original Trilogy figures that are just too cool to pass up. Well, you can add to that a General Grievous figure that has taken his place in the newly-organized Jedi Diorama on my dining room table. Crass commercialism it may be, but I love me some General Grievous. Lucas always has a way with the villains, and Greivous is no exception. From his ridiculous name (Sidious, Tyrannus, Maul--check!) to his excellently evil design to the surefire promise that he'll be a badass on screen--Greivous is a character I think we'll wind up wishing was in Attack of the Clones in place of Dooku or the bug people. Since we all know there's no Grievous in the original trilogy, I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say he probably doesn't make it to the end of Sith, which will make him the second wasted villain in the prequel trilogy. When I went to the midnight toy sale for the Episode I toys, the absolute hottest thing on the shelves was Darth Maul. There were a million and one discarded C3P0s, but I saw people getting vicious and foaming at the mouth over the Mauls. Luckily, I got one that night and had tons of fun imagining how he was going to be the Darth Vader of the prequels--some sick, evil Sith Lord that would whoop up on people with a double-bladed lightsaber. That was all fun until he got split open like a peanut and suddenly the facial tattoos and horns didn't seem so menacing. On the one hand, Obi-Wan got to establish himself a bit as the guy who killed Maul, but on the other hand... it would have been cool to see more of Ray Park on screen. I think Greivous will suffer a similar indignity, but I've got my figure and he's surrounded by 20+ jedis on a lazy susan, so EAT THAT LUCAS! Back to Top {0} Comments

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