@Jazwares Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron Series 3 Grevious Starfighter
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00:00You gotta appreciate the irony that the cyborg ship is known as the soulless one.
00:04Here's your look at the Jazzwares Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron Series 3 General Grievous' Starfighter.
00:10(*thunder rumbling*)
00:13(*explosion*)
00:16(*unpacking*)
00:23The Starfighter Class Series 3 box set is the best way to complete your Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron collection
00:29If you were unable to grab every vehicle and micro accessory when they first launched in stores,
00:33then this set was made perfectly for you.
00:36Hello there.
00:37Before we look at General Grievous' Starfighter courtesy of the Micro Galaxy Squadron Series 3,
00:42I'd like to thank, if I can, the folks over at Jazzwares that did provide the sample we could have a look at.
00:46This one is rare, but not maybe as rare as Poe Dameron's X-Wing, which I think was limited to 5,000 copies.
00:51This one actually goes for 15,000 copies.
00:54It might be a little bit easier to try to track one down.
00:56Still, though, if you haven't had any luck to find one in the wild,
00:59you can actually get this one as well as the remaining four Starfighters that make up Series 3
01:03over on Jazzwares Vault's site.
01:05It's limited to 1,500 copies, but at least you get yourself five vehicles for $100
01:10instead of trying to track each of these down individually.
01:13The set as a whole, again, it's $100.
01:16You can click the link down below in the video description.
01:18We're going to start from the back canopy section here of the Starfighter and we'll go all the way to the front.
01:22Grievous' ship of choice is actually five inches exactly in length, or it's going to be 13 centimeters long.
01:29Bringing in the Starfighters we've looked at so far,
01:32on one side, here's what General Grievous' Starfighter looks like along with Poe Dameron's T-70 X-Wing.
01:37On the other side, here's what it looks like, though, with Anakin Skywalker's Jedi Starfighter.
01:41From a size standpoint, I think Grievous' is a little bit more closer to the Jedi Starfighter.
01:46It maybe isn't, though, as pointy on the front, but it's almost about the same length.
01:50Grievous' has much more of a compact, almost car design for his Starfighter,
01:54and it certainly, though, isn't as sleek as, say, for example, the T-70 X-Wing.
01:59One thing also that's a little bit different, though, with Grievous' Starfighter
02:02is that while the other two on either end of him did also come with accompanying droids,
02:06Grievous' has none. It may not have a droid, but at least it has a Grievous.
02:10To come included, though, with the Starfighter, you do get yourself a little micro version of General Grievous.
02:14I've still kept him contained inside of his plastic prison.
02:17A nice little touch is the fact that they actually did put General Grievous down below here.
02:20He's fairly easy to remove. You're just going to take the back cardboard and just fold it down like this,
02:23and then just reach from the side and pull out the tray.
02:26Even if I just lose any of these, these only ultimately are going to be going into the recycling anyways.
02:30Either I'll have General Grievous displayed alongside of his Starfighter,
02:33or I'll just simply put the dear General inside.
02:36When you are, though, putting him inside, I'm not going to do it just yet,
02:39you want to make sure, though, that you remove his cape.
02:41Just because the way that they designed his feet, obviously they're going to be bending in
02:44the way that they're sitting inside the cockpit.
02:47Then you're going to have to remove the cape, because the cape doesn't really bend too much.
02:50It is the only unfortunate thing about having the figure with a cape like this,
02:53is while it does look good if you have the figure displayed on his own,
02:56if you do want to put him inside of his Starfighter, after all,
02:59you're going to have to remove the cape, and then you're just going to have to find a place to put the cape.
03:02Maybe if I have a little bag of extra accessories, I'll put it in there.
03:05But then, what's the off chance that I go back to it years from now,
03:08and I say, like, what's this tiny little cape? Who does it belong to?
03:11Anyways, though, the detail for General Grievous, get the cape back over his shoulders there,
03:14it's a decent painted figure for, again, its size.
03:17You really, again, have to look at these, and you have to look at them with the sense that they are a small figure.
03:20I mean, like, there's the size of my thumb. I don't have a big thumb, by the way.
03:24And if just to even compare him with Anakin, I mean, bring back in Anakin Skywalker,
03:27they're about the same size. Maybe Grievous is just a tad bit taller.
03:30Painted, they haven't taken the time at all to paint the faces.
03:33But again, like, if you look at it from the side, you can still make out General Grievous has eyes.
03:37You might even be able to see the fact he also has teeth.
03:40For his articulation, he doesn't have anything in the way of the head,
03:43but he does have at least joined together arms that when you move one, the other one has to tag along.
03:47He also does have posability down below in his legs,
03:50although unfortunately with mine, the legs are really overly loose.
03:53If you did want to put him inside the cockpit, though, you will have to remove the cape.
03:56I'll just put it off to the side here. I want to make sure I put it at least in a place where I know where it is
04:00and who it actually belongs to. And then, of course, if you want to put him inside the Starfighter...
04:04Sad thing, unfortunately, about the Starfighter is they didn't call it the soulless one on the front of the packaging.
04:08I guess soulless one doesn't market as well if you want to have this on the shelf.
04:11Starfighter, I think, seems a little more kid-friendly than calling it the soulless one.
04:16Anyways, though, if you want to put him inside it, you're just going to take the cockpit
04:19and you're going to probably have a few times where you're going to have to grab something like a screwdriver.
04:23There's a little lip right there, but I just don't have the nails for it.
04:26Just get a screwdriver or something in there just to wedge that open.
04:29Get that open up. There's what the inside cockpit looks like.
04:32There's little joysticks there on either side.
04:34No paint applications, but again, for how small this is, I don't think it really necessarily needs them.
04:39Then you're going to take yourself Grevious and then just fold Grevious' legs and kind of sort of just tuck him down in there.
04:45There we go. Ultimately, he'll end up holding on to the handles of his joysticks. That's okay.
04:50And then we'll just fold down the canopy. Snap that in place.
04:54Now, at least Grevious isn't going to be going anywhere.
04:57We're going to be having to probably keep the screwdriver nearby
04:59because there's a few things on the vehicle that are going to have to fold out.
05:02The Solus one, I think, is like a feed-in auto, scalable, assembles.
05:07I think it's like a Bullet Bob, Bullet Bob 22, Starfighter, trying to remember all that.
05:11It's a decent vehicle. I never really was a big fan of the design of it in the movie, though.
05:16I mean, it sort of just is a stocky-looking, almost floating car.
05:19It kind of looks a little bit like the Batmobile from the 1989 movie.
05:23The things that I do like about it, though, is that there's things that actually move.
05:26Now, when we've looked at, obviously, the other ones from Series 3,
05:29they've all had landing gears that fold in on themselves.
05:32Grevious has to have one of the worst designed, and it's not really faulting necessarily Jazzware's,
05:37but just the design of the vehicle.
05:39He has landing gears on the front and on the back.
05:41You can fold these in, but unfortunately, when you fold them in,
05:45I'm just going to do it with one right now,
05:47you're, first of all, putting a lot of pressure against these.
05:49I feel like these would almost even snap.
05:51But you just push them down like that, and they sit inside the cavity there.
05:56Again, I don't want to say the car, but of the Starfighter.
05:58We'll do the exact same on the other side.
06:00Now, you can probably already see the problem that I'm going to be facing is now trying to retrieve this.
06:04I found the best thing to do, again, just grab yourself a screwdriver,
06:07grab something that isn't going to damage the plastic.
06:09And then instead of grabbing it from the front, I found if you just lip it on the back here,
06:14you can usually flip this back up.
06:16There we go.
06:17And then you can grab it by your hand.
06:19So those fold out.
06:20You know what? I'm going to do the other side as well.
06:22I'm going to fold these back out.
06:24He does also have a landing gear in the back.
06:26Now, this doesn't seem to move at all.
06:28But he does have the little fin on the back that folds up.
06:31I'm trying to remember if in the movie it folds up when he's flying it.
06:34I think it is the case, because if you put it down as it is right now, it doesn't sit flat.
06:39If you, though, bring this down, because this comes down at 90 degrees,
06:42it does give him a little bit of extra height, where now it sits more leveled.
06:46The other thing that the vehicle also does have as well is that he's got these little side cannons.
06:51The cannons, for all intents and purposes, do also lift up.
06:54But it's really hard to kind of get anything in there in the way of fingers.
06:57Fingernails would be your best friend this time around.
06:59Once you basically just flip the lip up or flip the little cannon there on the front,
07:06you just kind of grab it on either side, and then you just kind of wiggle it up.
07:09So he's got these cool little side cannons,
07:11which, again, kind of reminds me of the 1989 Batman movie, Batmobile.
07:14And, again, you just pop these back down.
07:17Though the plastic being so thin,
07:19I'm just really worried that these side cannons, these little guns that he has on either side, would break
07:23if you're pulling them up and popping them back down.
07:25But I do like the fact that, from a playable standpoint,
07:28there's a lot of things that you can actually move around on Grievous' Starfighter.
07:32Getting a closer look, though, at the details,
07:34first of all, it's kind of molded in an almost bluish purple.
07:37I really like the coloring scheme for this.
07:39It also has some additional striping here that doesn't seem to be sticker applications.
07:42I think they've actually—well, again, like, if you're looking at this,
07:44they clearly have painted this in a different bit of paint,
07:47and then they've also striped these off as well.
07:49Sort of gives them a tribal look to it.
07:51I really like the design of it, but, like in the movie,
07:53it really was a very underwhelming Starfighter.
07:55He's got some nice detailing there also on the side as well.
07:58Kind of like an off-green.
08:00The green and the blue work pretty good together.
08:02And he's got a little bit of silver there on the back.
08:04The only other thing is, again, I probably would have gone in there and painted the thrusters,
08:07just because it doesn't look like it actually is moving.
08:09On the bottom there, he's got some additional paint there added with the silver.
08:13Little vents on the side, that's also done there as silver.
08:15One of the unfortunate things about vehicles like this
08:18is that they have to take, like, a top half and a bottom half and sandwich them together,
08:21and then in order to keep everything together, they have to add these screws.
08:24You're never really going to see it when you're looking at it this way.
08:27You certainly would never see it when you're looking at it this way either.
08:29The only time that you really see the visible screws
08:31is when you look at the undercarriage of the ship.
08:33It's the only thing I really don't like about it.
08:35The plastic—obviously, these are plastic vehicles,
08:37so they're a little bit lighter than if they were, say, die-cast.
08:40Obviously, it keeps the cost really low if they're also molding these in plastic versus the die-cast.
08:44I like it, though, but I don't know if I would say I like it as much, though, as the other two vehicles.
08:48I would certainly say, like, comparing it with, say, the X-Wing.
08:51Got to go back to the X-Wing.
08:53X-Wing is so far my favorite vehicle from Series 3.
08:55Again, we also had a look at Anakin's Jedi Starfighter.
08:58I like a look at that one as well.
09:00General Grievous, from a standpoint of an actual Starfighter he has in the movie,
09:04I'm glad at least we got one in Series 3.
09:06While I feel like the vehicle design is a little underwhelming,
09:09I do like that at least, like with all the other ones,
09:12that there are things that at least you can move around on it.
09:14The only thing, unfortunately, that I have gotten about it
09:16is that the landing gears are struggles to get back out.
09:18I would always probably just permanently keep these on display with the landing gears out,
09:22especially, obviously, to have these strutted like this.
09:25You can at least have the vehicle leveled and flat on the shelf.
09:29Unless you're one that likes to have these things hanging from the sky,
09:32that might be the only time, in fact, you may want to fold these in.
09:35But I'm really happy and more just content to have them displayed with the landing gears always out.
09:39Just because I did blunder a bit in the review,
09:41the Soulless one was actually a Theathen Autra Scalable Assemblies Belbelob 22 Starfighter,
09:46for the obvious reasons not being able to fit that all in the packaging.
09:48I think Jazzwares maybe was smart just to simplify that a bit
09:51by calling it instead General Engravious Starfighter.
09:53You know, though, I would argue the point
09:55that this line is clearly geared towards adult collectors
09:57to have the available, disposable income to start buying up these things.
10:01I would have just called it the Soulless one.
10:03Even if the marketing team behind Jazzwares is thinking,
10:05you know, Soulless doesn't really resonate if we're really hoping
10:08to reach the demographic of young collectors.
10:10I say no. Call it the Soulless one.
10:12Boba Fett's ship was slave one.
10:14Let's just stick with what works.
10:16I don't know if I would say the design of this vehicle works as well from a movie standpoint.
10:20It's a very bulky, cumbersome-looking vehicle.
10:23It doesn't have the sleek design, perhaps, of an X-Wing,
10:26but maybe it fits quite well to the kind of character that General Grievous is.
10:29One nice little touch, though, is that General Grievous is included with this,
10:32whether you decide to display him on his own with his cape,
10:35or you decide to remove the cape and put it in some place
10:38where you're not going to lose it, and then put Grievous sitting inside the cockpit.
10:41I love, again, the fact that this line of galaxy squadrons,
10:45micro-galaxy squadron vehicles, all have included accompanying pilots
10:50that can sit inside their vehicles.
10:52It adds to a little bit of playability,
10:54whether it be geared towards the demographics of young collectors,
10:57or it's more clearly geared towards the adult collectors instead.
10:59The colors are good.
11:01Obviously, the landing gears are a bit of a struggle to get fished back out.
11:04Once you get them in there, don't want to push them too far in,
11:06because you're only going to have to fight to get them back out.
11:08I like the fact that the little cannons pop out from the sides.
11:11That's a nice little touch.
11:12It's a nice little vehicle.
11:13It's just not my favorite, though.
11:15Now, again, if you guys are interested and would like to get your hands on this,
11:17and maybe don't want to pay the prices that maybe this particular Starfighter is going for online separately,
11:23you can, of course, do the simpler thing of going simply to Jazzware's Vault site.
11:27It's limited to 1,500 pieces, granted,
11:29but the Starfighter Class Series 3 box set is available as of right now for $100,
11:34with three of the Starships we've looked at so far, with the other two on the way.
11:38The other two, by the way, is going to be the V-Wing Starship at Starfighter,
11:42and we're also going to be going back a bit by looking at Poe Dameron's X-Wing.
11:45Not the one we looked at before, a white variation.
11:48All of those are going to be part of the five-vehicle set,
11:51and it's, again, $100 right now on Jazzware's Vault,
11:53if you guys are interested to get this one for yourself.
11:55Big thank you, once again, to the folks over at Jazzware's
11:57that did provide the sample of one of the five vehicles from the Starfighter Class Series 3 box set,
12:02where today we were looking at the General Grievous Starfighter.
12:05Soulless one, soulless one.
12:07What do you guys think of this? Let me know down below in the comments section.
12:09Let me also know, let me just throw this out as a viewer question for you guys.
12:12What's your least favorite designed Starfighter from the Star Wars trilogy?
12:16You know what? Not even just the trilogy.
12:18What's your least favorite Star Wars Starship, Starfighter,
12:22in all of the Star Wars films and series?
12:25Let me know down below in the comments section.
12:26I know some people don't like Y-Wings.
12:28I don't mind a Y-Wing, but what's your least favorite?
12:31Let me know down below.
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