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Hot Toys' New Ahsoka Figure Is Weird for All the Wrong Reasons

Hot Toys’ eerily accurate action figures always have something a bit uncanny about them. Sometimes the accuracy goes beyond detail and into almost homunculus-esque territory; in others, it asks us to question some of the weirdness of these fantastical characters when rendered in such realistic action figure flesh. But its latest dispatch from a galaxy far, far away has people talking about eeriness of a very different sort. Over the weekend Hot Toys marked Star Wars Day with a slew of reveals of new high-end 1/6 scale figures from across the saga. Maul from Shadow Lord, Luke from The Last Jedi, and even a figure of Anakin Skywalker based on early concept art from Revenge of the Sith were all on the docket. But only one figure has gotten people talking, for better or worse: Ahsoka Tano. The new figure depicts a realistic take on Ahsoka’s debut appearance in the 2008 Clone Wars movie. Featuring her early Padawan outfit, the figure even comes with a backpack containing the young Rotta the Hutt (aka Stinky), fortuitously timed with his own upcoming live-action debut in The Mandalorian and Grogu, as well as the usual things like alternate hands, light-up versions of her lightsabers, and

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Hot Toys' New Ahsoka Figure Is Weird for All the Wrong Reasons

Hot Toys’ eerily accurate action figures always have something a bit uncanny about them. Sometimes the accuracy goes beyond detail and into almost homunculus-esque territory; in others, it asks us to question some of the weirdness of these…

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Hot Toys' New Ahsoka Figure Is Weird for All the Wrong Reasons

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