Wicket - TBS [P4] - Six Inch Figures (ROTJ11)

Wicket was the brave young Ewok who willingly joined the Rebellion and aided in the battle against the Empire on the forest moon of Endor.

Hey! This figure is the version of Wicket in “woke” packaging, a failed pious experiment that made their goodwill nothing more than filthy rags. Ha! The new Wicket figure for The Black Series 6-inch line has about the same plusses as it does minuses. It’s not a terrible figure by any means, but Hasbro took shortcuts with the figure’s deco, resulting in, in our opinion, an unfinished action figure. Hasbro worked in respectable articulation for a character with such short stature. But if you have any of the past Ewoks in the lineup thus far, you should know what you’re getting here. The sculpting is better than average here, but the ghastly white face meant to replicate the on-screen character’s fur doesn’t translate as well as we’d hope. The figure looks nice from a distance, especially while wearing its cowl. But when you remove the cowl, you’ll see what we mean when we say the deco doesn’t have a great interpretation. Hasbro also included a decent number of accessories with Wicket. In addition to the standard removable cowl and spear, we also get a bow, arrow, club, and torch. Hasbro needed to make up for the plastic saved on the character and apply it to its accessories. We don’t think Wicket is terrible, but we don’t believe you’ll be cheering for its final delivery. Maybe you will. The packaging is, of course, the icing on the cake here. Hasbro appears to have done their best recreating the card art of 40 years ago, but we don’t understand why they can’t better center the character in the limited space to the adjacent right where they place the figure. This time, Wicket comes in “plastic-free” packaging, as do most celebratory releases, to get them into the main line for the general marketplace. First released in early 2023 to support the 40th Anniversary of Return Of The Jedi, we now see this figure again as part of a standard case assortment. Wicket isn’t a disappointing action figure. It could use some tweaking, but it also feels like a fair addition to the 6-inch action figure line. And we’d like Hasbro to produce more Ewoks for this line soon.