Luke gets the face print set-up in place of the original paint scheme, which is in some ways better, but not quite as hefty an improvement as it usually is. The belt buckle’s slightly misaligned and the skin tone of the the neck doesn’t quite cover the whole area it’s supposed to. There’s some slop on the edges of a few spots. It could probably stand to have a little extra accent work, to bring out some of the sculpted details a little better, bit everything important is there. Luke’s paint work is generally pretty basic. His head scarf is a cloth piece this way, which works better from a posing stand point, though it does wind up looking a bit flat and devoid of detail. The detail work on the gear is passable, though a touch softer than more recent releases tend to be. The face has a pretty decent likeness of Hamill, especially for earlier in the line. Luke’s seen here post-wampa attach, so his goggles are missing, and he’s got some sculpted scarring on his face. The actual sculpting work’s not awful, at least. Moreover, Luke is unfortunately from the line when it was kind of at is lowest, before Hasbro really found their footing again. A lot of this is due to the figure’s nature, beign built out of parts that are over five years old at this point.

The arms in particular suffer from both a lack of proper elbow movement, and from a curious lack of anything beyond cut joints for the wrists, which is just unheard of for the line. The range on a lot of the joints is far more restricted, and they tend to break up the sculpt a lot more than on recent figures. Luke’s articulation scheme is rather on the archaic side compared to newer offerings. The figure stands about 5 3/4 inches tall and he has 25 points of articulation. Luke is from the third assortment of The Black Series Archive, re-releasing a figure that was originally put out in 2015, packaged alongside the Wampa in the deluxe portion of the Blue Line iteration of the brand. One of the more notable looks that gone without a follow-up was Luke’s cold weather gear from Hoth, which is the Luke variant for the latest round of Archive figures. Fortunately, with the introduction of the Archive sub-line, Hasbro’s got an okay way of getting them back out on the market. That has a tendency to drive the prices of said matching looks up a bit. His major variants largely hit earlier in the line’s run, generally a good deal before the rest of the others in their matching attire. As a rather major character in the franchise, I guess that’s pretty fitting. Luke has been no stranger to variants in Star Wars: The Black Series. The creature hangs Luke upside-down in its cave, but Luke uses the Force to escape.” “While on patrol, Luke and his tauntaun are attacked by a vicious wampa. LUKE SKYWALKER - HOTH STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES ARCHIVE (HASBRO)

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