It's a good figure design, but the execution needs some work. The 'lava reflection' color choice is gorgeous, and it's consistent with the 'Credit Collection' IG-11 in The Black Series. Precious few parts are reused, but at least they made the deco interesting. It's a quickie retool, and Kenner was generally not keen on those outside of R2-D2 and C-3PO. Other than that, it's basically the same head in new colors. Hasbro also dropped a few painted dots on IG-11's head, which IG-88 does have. This is arguably far better than anything Kenner would have done - the same is true with the metallic shoulder joints. The newer droid's bandoliers are sculpted to the torso with significantly cleaner paint, and two colors to bring it to life. The torso is retooled, but is in a similar language to IG-88's. He's also pretty much the exact height as IG-88, meaning IG-11 won't fit in your vehicles. IG-11's limbs do not swing as cleanly as my old IG-88 figures (I have extras, you have to remember these things were worthless in the post-ROTJ, pre-Zahn era) but at least they move. IG-11's legs are largely similar to the IG-88 limbs, but the proportions and some small details are changed a bit. It would be nice if the hands all fit the weapons like a glove - there's no reason to not give them a perfect fit. He can hold the weapons fairly well, but the Kenner original does a better job holding the original Kenner blasters. The new IG-11 lacks those marks, adding in thicker and more substantial (but inaccurate to the show) hands. The arms are quite similar to the Kenner original, but the old silver droid had fake joints sculpted on the clawed hands. Hasbro's sculptors seem to be working from digital scans of the original Kenner figure, but with some flaws. Also note the final figure has two blasters - the original renders show but one. IG-11 isn't as good as the vintage IG-88, despite effectively being a retooled version of that toy. Kenner's original IG-88 is pretty spectacular, and served as the basis for the 1996 Shadows of the Empire IG-88 as well as this 2021 IG-11.

Commentary: Star Wars figures generally get better as they go, but IG-11 (and IG-88 before him) have struggled to get better.

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