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Hasbro took 2007’s TSC Combat Engineer Clone Trooper (SAGA 068) and repainted him in the colors of the 501st Legion. For good measure, Hasbro throws in what they call simply a Clone Trooper, but we know him much better as a 501st Legion Clone Trooper. Hey, now you can pretend you have a clone captain or commander for your army. This white clone with blue hash marks looks fantastic and nicely compliments 2006’s TSC Clone Trooper Fifth Fleet Security (SAGA 059) figure that was part of the last few Repack & Repaint waves in that line. 07) figure, but this time the figure has been repainted in the colors of the Fifth Fleet Security battalion. The Clone Sharpshooter is a rework of 2007’s TAC Airborne Trooper (No. The Clone Pack sold out significantly quicker than the Droid Pack for clearly obvious reasons.)

(Editor’s Note: These multipacks were rereleased in 2008’s The Legacy Collection as Toys R Us exclusives separately and sold out very quickly.

The video game programmers clearly were inspired by some of George Lucas’ rejected clone concepts from Episode III, and it’s so wonderful to know that they didn’t go to waste and are now officially part of the Expanded Universe. This multipack adds a great deal of depth and variety to your already growing clone army, and we’d even go so far as to say it contains one of the best versions of the 501st Legion clone trooper. Inside you’ll find six “never-before-made” (this depends upon your point of view) clones that utilize sculpts we have seen before, but have been completely repainted to represent all-new characters, or characters we haven’t seen in that specific particular sculpt yet. As you’d expect, most of the gems can be found in the Star Wars: Battlefront II Clone Pack. Not a bad and clever bit of guaranteeing complete sell through of both sets on Previews’ part, huh? Actually, depending upon who you are, you are going to find this bittersweet, aggravating or just plain annoying. For one, they’re separated by clones and droids, but in order to get one or the other, you have to buy both. But what makes this slightly tragic is that the marketing of the two multipacks have been cleverly orchestrated. Between the two separately packaged bunches of figures, collectors are treated to 13 very unique Star Wars characters, but not all are that wonderful. Hasbro has released two multipacks based on characters from the Star Wars: Battlefront II video game, although we feel some of the characters are represented across the first video game too.