February 26, 2023 • 26 mins
As we near the end of the original Kenner Star Wars line, we come to yet another Ewok. This time, it's all about Romba. Sure, his name may sound like a geometric shape, but there's nothing square about this guy. I apologize for that joke. Anyway, listen and find out what the guys think about this little guy!
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Welcome to Talking Toys with Taylor andJeff, where we go back in time
to discuss our favorite toys, onetoy line at a time. Lollo and
welcome to Talking Toys with Taylor andJeff. Action Figure Exclusive. I'm dying,
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I'm Jeff, and we're down toone of the last Star Wars versions
of the show. Yeah, thesefor now. It's weird to think that.
Yeah, well, you think abouthow long we've been doing this,
you know, it was just stillthinking. I thought about this on my
lunch hour at work on day Iwas like, Hey, what do you
think about doing this. It's kindof a supplement to the main show.
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And he said, oh, thatsounds cool. And we've been doing it
almost as long as we've been doingthe regular show. Yeah, it's ridiculous,
but we're we're here to talk aboutRamba, the next to last,
the penultimate ewalk m. We stillhave one more to talk about next month,
but we're talking about Ramba, whocame out on the Power of the
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Force card in nineteen eighty five.I had one of these, but I
had to rebuy it because I misplacedmine. Really, and this is one
of the ones Ramba and Warwick aretwo of the ones that are kind of
hard to find. They are veryhard to find. Yes, yeah,
because they're part of the final seventeen. And that's why Eman doesn't have my
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Ramba yet because honestly, I don'ttrust him with it. Um it's not
mine though, is it. MOh, maybe it's my Warwick that I
still have. You haven't given himmy wark yet, that's what it is.
Yeah, but I'm glad he stillhas the Ramba since he lost the
wicket that I gave him, whichmakes sense, ingreat, So I'm assuming
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you never had this one when wewere a kid. No, No,
even though even though I wanted allthe Ewoks, I loved it, the
e Walks I thought they were theywere so cool. It was one of
those that, um, I I'mtrying to remember if there was like during
this time is when my parents,you know, got all the land and
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you know, couldn't afford anything oror what it was. But I remember
passing by a lot of these,um these toys and not getting some of
these last few toys when they cameout, just because we wouldn't have the
money for it, and a lotof the e Walks we were on that
list because I, you know,I had um one of my favorite ones
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was low grade the Medicine Man,and I had Wicked, and I remember
wanting the other e Walks, soI could, you know, have the
whole batch of murderous bears. Butyou never did. But I never did,
poor guy, I know, Iknow, And I tried getting I
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tried, you know, going backand getting a lot of the vintage e
Walks, and I got as faras getting low grade Tebow another wicket,
and the low grad had was onethat I grew up with. I just
had to replace the parts. Butthen that was it. All the others
started pricing out. It's like ChiefCharpis started pricing out. Ramba and Warwick
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are both extraordinarily high, and itjust it became kind of one of those
things where it's like I wasn't ableto lou Matt and Populu were also very
high. It's sad it is andthese and these two Ramba and Warwick are
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the most expensive of them because theywere the final seventeen, so the distribution
was not as great and people justdidn't just didn't buy them as much.
No, that's just kind of sad. Yep, yep, I like the
ride up on rebel scum calls.It says that when compared to all of
his mates, he's alone that doesn'tlook like a creepy, pint sized rag
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wearing bear with a sharp stick,a fact that likely makes him pollicular with
all the ewalk hotties. So let'stalk about this guy. And again,
folks, this may be a bitof a shortest show because there's not a
whole lot to talk about with theseguys because we only have four points of
articulation shoulders and hips, and hishead does not turned but h and we
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don't have a whole lot of paintapp this was molded in this brown plastic
I'm assuming. Yeah, but thisis the first one that has we've seen
with teeth. And we see thisguy in the movie really pretty clearly a
time or two, and we knowhim because he's got those very prominent Yeah,
this is the one that really does, to me look like looked almost
like a teddy Bear. It reallydoes, doesn't It Like the version of
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them looks very much like a teddyBear. It's this the one that that
died that got I don't know them. We're not going to talk about that
I've purposely never never learned that.Really, yeah, I kind of want
to know that I might try.Well, you're morbid, you you learn
on you learn on your own andkeep it to yourself. I don't want
to know. I just it's Ithink for me, I want to know
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just because I want to know whoto mourn for the murderous teddy Bears down
the road. I really like thee Walks. I love them. And
this was like my first Star Warsmovie that I saw that I was,
you know, conscious, I wasseeing I'm not, you know, in
a little you know, carrier beingforced into the movie. I probably cried
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the whole time, but this onereturned. The Jedi loved it, and
I really felt like they put thebears or the little e Walks in for
the kids. So to me,that was a big thing. And that
that's scene, as I remember it, tore me up as a kid.
I kind of wonder if it wasRumba. It's possible. But again,
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as I said, we're not goingto talk about that. Okay, you
you looked that up to your heart'scontent, but keep it to yourself.
So this guy, again, helooks the most like a Teddy bars kind
of like a teddy gram. Um, what color is this? Is this
sort of an umber? The brownthat he is, it's kind of more
of a it's more like what callslike a grizzly brown or a burnt seeing
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it, it's kind of a reddishbrown. The umber um is more like
the color of his belt and hisnose, which is kind of a grayish
brown. Okay. So I justthink of like I always think of when
I had crayle. Was the burntumber looked like this to me? Here
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Hookers, Well, I'll listen whileTaylor knots around his uh his office,
dickted my paint drawer. Let's see, it's really not that important, Taylor,
I think already. I think whatI'm thinking of is raw number.
So the belt in the nose ismore of a raw number. Okay.
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I guess a burnt number would bean Okay. Umber usually refers to more
of a grayish brown or brown thatis, has a darker human to it,
whereas I think the Siennas are morethe reddish tone type browns, kind
more of a rust brown versus agrayish or clay brown. So that makes
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sense. Yes, I guess someonesomeone at this point, it's probably typing
it up like raw yelling at theirphone. Yeah you're artist, so okay.
But but I will say the texturingon here on his fur I think
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is really interesting because it's it's almostlike it's matted in big sections. Yeah,
in big sections. Yeah, likelike it would be you know,
if he's been you know, rollingaround in the woods and things like that
and not bathing regularly. It makessense. This so the texture on this
e walk firsus some of the otherones that we have, feels more like
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some of the texturing and the furtexturing that came with Chebacca, where it
has you know, big tufts andpieces that roll over areas and are like
kind of extra fuzzy, where theothers feel like, you know, they're
fuzzy. But the hair is youknow, kind of more singular. The
most of it goes in one direction. This feels like it has a lot
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of movement to it. Like allthe other ewalks are pretty well kept,
this is the one ewalk that wakesup late, spills breakfast on his fur.
Instead of trying to change his furcleanman, he just brushes it in
there or off. He feels likethe unkept ewalk out of all the bears.
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Yeah, he does. It looksa little unkempt. And maybe that's
why I like him, because Imyself am unkempt. But but yeah,
and I like I like that it'syou know, it's it's not as pronounced
around his neck, you know,where he's where there's always a lot of
movement where he's looking around and everything, so it doesn't get matted. And
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and at his shoulders, you feelnoticed that matting all goes in the same
direction, yes, as he's movingaround and everything. But other than that,
and around his toes um, Ijust I think it's it's a really
nice touch. This is another onethat his eyes are that, you know,
sort of cold black, kind ofcreepy eyes. His nose you mentioned,
is sort of that what colored.It's an number number, like a
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charcoal. It's a raw number.The same color is his hood and his
belt. Yes, and and thebelt that that is attached to him is
up a little high. It seemsto me like he's he's got it cinched
to like it's I like that it'snot symmetrical around him, you know,
it's sort of waves up and downand some of his hair comes out over
it, and some of it istucked underneath it. But where he's got
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it tied, it's pulled up alittle bit like it would be if he
were tying it himself, right,Yeah, and that's not something we've seen
a lot from Kenner. I reallylike that. Yeah, and even the
even like the sculpting on the beltitself, Like you know, it rolls
from one area on the other side. It's a little high on one side
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versus where it's fallen as a littlebit low on the other. Um.
It just it has a very naturalisticapproach to it. It looks like whoever
sculpted this really took their time andwas check out the source material to give
us the best possible tooling that thatwe could ever have on an e walk.
And it looks out of all thate walks fairly amazing. Really really
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does? I like it all?Now? Is there a scabbard on there
or a holster of some sort onthere? Am I seeing that? Right?
I don't think so. If itwas, it would be on the
back. Yeah, No, itis. It's just it's just the way
he's got it tied, just wayhe's got it tucked underneath. Yeah,
it's almost like looped up and tiedround his waist. And this guy is
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a little little tubby. He's gota little junk in the trunk, doesn't
he. Yeah, we've lost Taylor, folks. He seems to have just
wandered off. I was trying whatare you doing? I was trying to
put my paint back. I washurt, and well, maybe wait till
the show is over to put yourpaint back. Didn't have anywhere to put
it. Um. Yeah, hedoes have some junk in the trunk,
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doesn't he. Yes, yes,he does. I feel like I kind
of relate this bear right in hisears. He get those cute little ears
that stick up, you know,just kind of the kind of like dog's
ears a little bit, but theydon't flop over. But but it's like,
okay, so he's got a lotof unkept hair, so he's kind
of like a teddy bear, andthat he's been loved on, and he's
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got mad at fur, and he'sgot the tide waist, he's got the
cute little teddy barriers, you know, almost a loss of chin. He's
kind of tubby, but then he'sgot a bit of a scowl sculpted in
around his eyes and his mouth.Are you seeing this too, Like if
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you look at the picture where he'swhere he has his hood off, he
has some arching in his eyebrow area, and then even at his mouth where
he's showing his teeth, the upperlip almost feels like it's pulled up.
Looks like he's got a mustache,like a mustache and a scale like he's
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showing his teeth he's about to biteyou. Yeah, this is like,
this is probably I love this ewalks so much. And the more I
get into this and talk about it, the more I like them, just
because the perma scal and the bearingof the teeth just makes him feel even
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more of a murderous bearer because muchlike what Star Wars and character I talked
about, what the e walks isthat they you know, they they ate
people and meet right hunted. Andso you're thinking, these are these cute
little things that probably eat mushrooms andand you know, vegetables and that's it.
But then you know, you're hitwith the realization that they are going
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to cook these people. And thisis like the representation of that que package
with a scowl and barring the teethbecause he's about to take a chunk out
of you, right, Yeah,exactly. I love these things. And
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one thing that I think is interestingon this one is if you look at
his left hand, the way thefur is mad and it almost looks like
there's no fur on his hands.You see what I'm talking about. Yeah,
it's his left hand. Yeah.And then of course we can see
his toes. His toes have beensculpted, like even his toenails have been
sculpted, which I really like,kenn I went through the trouble to do
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that, because again they're giving usanother bear that we've seen. I don't
think this is a reused sculpt Hedoesn't look enough like any of the other
e walks, and it would havebeen so easy for them to have reuse
the sculpts. So let's talk alittle bit about his hood. And you
mentioned his hood before, and it'svery very similar to the hood that Ramba
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has or that Warwick has rather andin fact, I don't think it's the
exact same sculpt but it's close.So let's see Warwick has. No,
it's not it's not because Warres onlyis one piece that comes down whereas Ramba's
is um has two pieces that comedown from it. But but I like
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it because you can see the stitchingon it. We've talked about this before.
You can see where that somebody hassewned it them by hand. And
on the very top there's a littlepiece that hangs down and it's got what
looks like teeth sitting on top ofit or something on that, like rocks
or something. Right you seeing whatI'm saying. It's it's almost like it's
almost like a bone, and itlooks like some sort of bead that's attached
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to a string and stitching on topit looks like another bone on the side,
so it looks like little bones,like almost like um by bones that
are like like sculpted into the hood, Like these are little ornaments that hang
off of his head. Right,I did that again, kind of kind
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of adding to the meanness of thisbear, Like it's just yeah, that's
cool. Yeah, they look likelittle bones hanging off of it. And
on the back where you have thestitching, You've got it was like,
as you said, at that rockthat's like tied into the stitching that that
would almost like bring all the materialtogether and then this rock is the piece
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that was turned in just to holdit all in place. It's a very
cool and this is unique as faras like all of the hoods that a
lot of them have, this isthe only one that fills quite as form
fitting on the figure than a lotof the other hoods that we have from
the Ewoks. Yeah, no,they really, it really does. Um
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and uh And like I said,I the only thing that I it's it's
a complaint I've had about these allalong is I wish that there have been
some paint app on it to differentiatebetween things. I understand whether there's not,
because it's a soft plastic. It'sstuff to do, but it would
have been nice. You could saythat it's salt plastic. But Worrick had
paint app and even um that's true. Poplo did as well. Polo and
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Low Grade both did. Yeah.Yeah, one thing that I do that
I will see the praises of thoseon the back you you mentioned, you
know you can we can kind ofsee how it stitched and tied together and
you can see how the fabric sortof cinches up around the scene there.
Yeah, it's it's nicely done,like it really it looks very realistic in
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nature, and like even the wherethe stone sits on top of the stitching,
it even you know, lends alittle bit increasing into the sculpt of
the fabric and it looks incredible.It does, it really really does.
And I like that the ear holesare a little big for his ears because
you wouldn't get that exactly right.Yeah, you assume that they're not going
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to get that exactly right. Andthe face on it is a little une
as well. The face hole isa little in even as well. And
then you know, we've got itcinches up at on the front, it
cinches up in the middle and thendrapes, but it drapes further down on
one side than the other. Yeah, there's a lot of like asymmetry,
but it feels like a very naturalasymmetry with what you think of as inexperienced
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crafters, which is what they are. And it looks apart. Like when
I think of the e walks andthem kind of stitching something together, creating
something, I'm not thinking that they'regoing to make something that's perfectly symmetrical,
because that's not their focus or focusis to have you know, this leather
good or this raw hide cover.You know, this part of their head
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or this part of their body functionover form. Yeah, so the function
of this it really does look likee walk, you know, native indoor
functioning. It's very cool. Itis, it is, it is.
And his spear looks a lot likethe one that came with Wicket. It's
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very difficult to identify one from theother if you don't have them together.
I think they might be. Thismight be the It's a slightly different sculpt
but his Ramba's is a little rounder, whereas wickets is a little narrower and
and comes to more of a pointas more triangular. Yeah, but it's
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very similar, and it's it's veryclose, and it's one of the simpler
ones you've just got. You've gotthe wood again, we've got the nice
wood grain on it. We don'thave as much nodding and things on this
one as we had on some ofthe others. Then it comes up and
when you get to the top,we've got one, two, three,
four or five, six, likesix or seven A rounds of stitching to
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hold that the rock on there,the stone to hold it in there,
and then the stone itself, whichyou know is textured pretty well. Again,
I wish that they would have givenus a little bit of paint on
the stone to show that it's different, and maybe painted the rope a little
different color to let us know thatit's a different material as well. I
could see that, and I wastrying to think if there there has been
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an accessory at this point in theline that was painted. There's not.
There haven't been. There hasn't been. I don't think there was any of
them done now. I know whenthey re released um Under the Kenner Slash
has run of toys for the PowtherForce too. A lot of that stuff
ended up becoming painted and painted inthe way that we would have wanted to
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do it. But it's like Icould see the want to have this painted,
but at the same time, itstill feels very much like in line
with what Kinner was doing. Oh, it's it's fine, It really is.
It's fine, and it's very muchin line with what they're doing.
This is just this. These aremy quibbles, you know. It's it's
such a well done toy that theseare these are my quibbles. The one
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thing that I would have done differentlybetween the wicket and the Ramba. It's
because they are so close in designand they're so close in sculpt one actually
looks like it's a almost like abootleg like he does of the original.
But I almost would have made itin like a dark gray or a different
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color of plastic than that light brown, or made it bigger, made it
longer, or made it longer.Yeah, since he's taller than Wicket,
make this one a little longer,so you can definitely tell the difference.
I could. Yeah, I don'tknow why why Canna would go that route
with it. I don't get it. I don't know either. So well,
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folks, that that's all there isto talk about about this figure.
Like I said, there's not awhole lot going on there. So so,
Taylor, here's a question. Whatis your favorite feature about this toy?
Scowling face, the face, andthe end. Okay, so beautiful,
that's good. I like the teeth. I like that he's showing some
teeth, but U but that thatcowl the hood is really I think the
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thing that impresses me the most,along with the I've got three things where
I'm turning into Taylor. But alongwith the fact that we have we have
some of the hair poking out overthe belt and some tucked into it.
I just the whole thing is nice. But but if I had to pick
just one, it would definitely bethat hood because again, the stitching on
it is great, the way they'vedone that, the fabric work on it,
it's just really really great. Sowhat is your least favorite feature about
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this toy? I think for me, it's it's down to that spear.
I would like to say that wasme as well. I thought you were
going to say that that's me aswell. Yeah, it's I'm sorry what
we're saying. I was talking overyou. Sorry, I gotta say,
just to have it colored differently.I mean, it's so close, yet
the differences are so subtled. Again, it looks like a bootleg spear,
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and it's one of those where thatcould have been easily fixed about just changing
the coloring on it. Well,and again I still think that um that
they don't even have to make adifferent color. It would be nice if
it matched his hood. But ifthey're not going to do that, just
make it taller, make it longer. Yeah, you know, because again
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he's it looks too small for himas it is, because of because it
is the same size as the onethat came with Wicked, and Wicked is
so much smaller. Yeah, soI'm with you on that one that that's
mine as well. What do youthink best exemplifies the kennerligne with this toy?
You know, at this point withwhat Kenner is doing, you know,
just that that level of detail andthe innovation and the tooling itself that's
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gotten so much better, but theystill have a certain simplistic field just giving
us exactly what we need in orderto understand that this is something that is
from the screen like it's it doesn'thave to be overly detailed. It's just
detailed enough to get what we needout of it. And you know,
even with all the new tooling,he still falls into that category as having
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us the right amount. Okay,And I think for me it's that um
kind of what you were talking about. I think it's Kenner has that capacity
of the penchant for giving us moreof something if we're getting less of something
in other areas, right, Andthat's we were talking about that the hair,
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the matting of the fur and thedetail on that on the hood as
well. So I think that's whatit is for me. Okay, So
is this toy cool? I thinkso. Pretty much any of the ewoks
I'm going to say that I thinkthat they're cool, and this one,
being the probably the meanest or maddestlooking one, I think he's extra cool.
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Yeah, you know, I thinkhe's cool. Again everything we talked
about, you know, your thingabout the scowl and the teeth in the
hood. Yeah, this is acool toy. And in fact that it's
kind of hard to find makes iteven cooler to me somehow. But yeah,
I think this is one of thebetter e walks that we got in
the line. Yeah, behind Idig aligned low Gray of course, as
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far as you know, right,all right, folks, that will do
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Welcome to Talking Toys with Taylor andJeff, where we go back in time
to discuss our favorite toys, onetoy line at a time. Lollo and
welcome to Talking Toys with Taylor andJeff. Action Figure Exclusive. I'm dying,
(00:37):
I'm Jeff, and we're down toone of the last Star Wars versions
of the show. Yeah, thesefor now. It's weird to think that.
Yeah, well, you think abouthow long we've been doing this,
you know, it was just stillthinking. I thought about this on my
lunch hour at work on day Iwas like, Hey, what do you
think about doing this. It's kindof a supplement to the main show.
(00:58):
And he said, oh, thatsounds cool. And we've been doing it
almost as long as we've been doingthe regular show. Yeah, it's ridiculous,
but we're we're here to talk aboutRamba, the next to last,
the penultimate ewalk m. We stillhave one more to talk about next month,
but we're talking about Ramba, whocame out on the Power of the
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Force card in nineteen eighty five.I had one of these, but I
had to rebuy it because I misplacedmine. Really, and this is one
of the ones Ramba and Warwick aretwo of the ones that are kind of
hard to find. They are veryhard to find. Yes, yeah,
because they're part of the final seventeen. And that's why Eman doesn't have my
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Ramba yet because honestly, I don'ttrust him with it. Um it's not
mine though, is it. MOh, maybe it's my Warwick that I
still have. You haven't given himmy wark yet, that's what it is.
Yeah, but I'm glad he stillhas the Ramba since he lost the
wicket that I gave him, whichmakes sense, ingreat, So I'm assuming
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you never had this one when wewere a kid. No, No,
even though even though I wanted allthe Ewoks, I loved it, the
e Walks I thought they were theywere so cool. It was one of
those that, um, I I'mtrying to remember if there was like during
this time is when my parents,you know, got all the land and
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you know, couldn't afford anything oror what it was. But I remember
passing by a lot of these,um these toys and not getting some of
these last few toys when they cameout, just because we wouldn't have the
money for it, and a lotof the e Walks we were on that
list because I, you know,I had um one of my favorite ones
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was low grade the Medicine Man,and I had Wicked, and I remember
wanting the other e Walks, soI could, you know, have the
whole batch of murderous bears. Butyou never did. But I never did,
poor guy, I know, Iknow, And I tried getting I
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tried, you know, going backand getting a lot of the vintage e
Walks, and I got as faras getting low grade Tebow another wicket,
and the low grad had was onethat I grew up with. I just
had to replace the parts. Butthen that was it. All the others
started pricing out. It's like ChiefCharpis started pricing out. Ramba and Warwick
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are both extraordinarily high, and itjust it became kind of one of those
things where it's like I wasn't ableto lou Matt and Populu were also very
high. It's sad it is andthese and these two Ramba and Warwick are
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the most expensive of them because theywere the final seventeen, so the distribution
was not as great and people justdidn't just didn't buy them as much.
No, that's just kind of sad. Yep, yep, I like the
ride up on rebel scum calls.It says that when compared to all of
his mates, he's alone that doesn'tlook like a creepy, pint sized rag
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wearing bear with a sharp stick,a fact that likely makes him pollicular with
all the ewalk hotties. So let'stalk about this guy. And again,
folks, this may be a bitof a shortest show because there's not a
whole lot to talk about with theseguys because we only have four points of
articulation shoulders and hips, and hishead does not turned but h and we
(04:42):
don't have a whole lot of paintapp this was molded in this brown plastic
I'm assuming. Yeah, but thisis the first one that has we've seen
with teeth. And we see thisguy in the movie really pretty clearly a
time or two, and we knowhim because he's got those very prominent Yeah,
this is the one that really does, to me look like looked almost
like a teddy Bear. It reallydoes, doesn't It Like the version of
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them looks very much like a teddyBear. It's this the one that that
died that got I don't know them. We're not going to talk about that
I've purposely never never learned that.Really, yeah, I kind of want
to know that I might try.Well, you're morbid, you you learn
on you learn on your own andkeep it to yourself. I don't want
to know. I just it's Ithink for me, I want to know
(05:30):
just because I want to know whoto mourn for the murderous teddy Bears down
the road. I really like thee Walks. I love them. And
this was like my first Star Warsmovie that I saw that I was,
you know, conscious, I wasseeing I'm not, you know, in
a little you know, carrier beingforced into the movie. I probably cried
(05:53):
the whole time, but this onereturned. The Jedi loved it, and
I really felt like they put thebears or the little e Walks in for
the kids. So to me,that was a big thing. And that
that's scene, as I remember it, tore me up as a kid.
I kind of wonder if it wasRumba. It's possible. But again,
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as I said, we're not goingto talk about that. Okay, you
you looked that up to your heart'scontent, but keep it to yourself.
So this guy, again, helooks the most like a Teddy bars kind
of like a teddy gram. Um, what color is this? Is this
sort of an umber? The brownthat he is, it's kind of more
of a it's more like what callslike a grizzly brown or a burnt seeing
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it, it's kind of a reddishbrown. The umber um is more like
the color of his belt and hisnose, which is kind of a grayish
brown. Okay. So I justthink of like I always think of when
I had crayle. Was the burntumber looked like this to me? Here
(07:05):
Hookers, Well, I'll listen whileTaylor knots around his uh his office,
dickted my paint drawer. Let's see, it's really not that important, Taylor,
I think already. I think whatI'm thinking of is raw number.
So the belt in the nose ismore of a raw number. Okay.
(07:26):
I guess a burnt number would bean Okay. Umber usually refers to more
of a grayish brown or brown thatis, has a darker human to it,
whereas I think the Siennas are morethe reddish tone type browns, kind
more of a rust brown versus agrayish or clay brown. So that makes
(07:48):
sense. Yes, I guess someonesomeone at this point, it's probably typing
it up like raw yelling at theirphone. Yeah you're artist, so okay.
But but I will say the texturingon here on his fur I think
(08:11):
is really interesting because it's it's almostlike it's matted in big sections. Yeah,
in big sections. Yeah, likelike it would be you know,
if he's been you know, rollingaround in the woods and things like that
and not bathing regularly. It makessense. This so the texture on this
e walk firsus some of the otherones that we have, feels more like
(08:35):
some of the texturing and the furtexturing that came with Chebacca, where it
has you know, big tufts andpieces that roll over areas and are like
kind of extra fuzzy, where theothers feel like, you know, they're
fuzzy. But the hair is youknow, kind of more singular. The
most of it goes in one direction. This feels like it has a lot
(08:58):
of movement to it. Like allthe other ewalks are pretty well kept,
this is the one ewalk that wakesup late, spills breakfast on his fur.
Instead of trying to change his furcleanman, he just brushes it in
there or off. He feels likethe unkept ewalk out of all the bears.
(09:18):
Yeah, he does. It looksa little unkempt. And maybe that's
why I like him, because Imyself am unkempt. But but yeah,
and I like I like that it'syou know, it's it's not as pronounced
around his neck, you know,where he's where there's always a lot of
movement where he's looking around and everything, so it doesn't get matted. And
(09:39):
and at his shoulders, you feelnoticed that matting all goes in the same
direction, yes, as he's movingaround and everything. But other than that,
and around his toes um, Ijust I think it's it's a really
nice touch. This is another onethat his eyes are that, you know,
sort of cold black, kind ofcreepy eyes. His nose you mentioned,
is sort of that what colored.It's an number number, like a
(10:03):
charcoal. It's a raw number.The same color is his hood and his
belt. Yes, and and thebelt that that is attached to him is
up a little high. It seemsto me like he's he's got it cinched
to like it's I like that it'snot symmetrical around him, you know,
it's sort of waves up and downand some of his hair comes out over
it, and some of it istucked underneath it. But where he's got
(10:26):
it tied, it's pulled up alittle bit like it would be if he
were tying it himself, right,Yeah, and that's not something we've seen
a lot from Kenner. I reallylike that. Yeah, and even the
even like the sculpting on the beltitself, Like you know, it rolls
from one area on the other side. It's a little high on one side
(10:48):
versus where it's fallen as a littlebit low on the other. Um.
It just it has a very naturalisticapproach to it. It looks like whoever
sculpted this really took their time andwas check out the source material to give
us the best possible tooling that thatwe could ever have on an e walk.
And it looks out of all thate walks fairly amazing. Really really
(11:15):
does? I like it all?Now? Is there a scabbard on there
or a holster of some sort onthere? Am I seeing that? Right?
I don't think so. If itwas, it would be on the
back. Yeah, No, itis. It's just it's just the way
he's got it tied, just wayhe's got it tucked underneath. Yeah,
it's almost like looped up and tiedround his waist. And this guy is
(11:37):
a little little tubby. He's gota little junk in the trunk, doesn't
he. Yeah, we've lost Taylor, folks. He seems to have just
wandered off. I was trying whatare you doing? I was trying to
put my paint back. I washurt, and well, maybe wait till
the show is over to put yourpaint back. Didn't have anywhere to put
it. Um. Yeah, hedoes have some junk in the trunk,
(12:00):
doesn't he. Yes, yes,he does. I feel like I kind
of relate this bear right in hisears. He get those cute little ears
that stick up, you know,just kind of the kind of like dog's
ears a little bit, but theydon't flop over. But but it's like,
okay, so he's got a lotof unkept hair, so he's kind
of like a teddy bear, andthat he's been loved on, and he's
(12:20):
got mad at fur, and he'sgot the tide waist, he's got the
cute little teddy barriers, you know, almost a loss of chin. He's
kind of tubby, but then he'sgot a bit of a scowl sculpted in
around his eyes and his mouth.Are you seeing this too, Like if
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you look at the picture where he'swhere he has his hood off, he
has some arching in his eyebrow area, and then even at his mouth where
he's showing his teeth, the upperlip almost feels like it's pulled up.
Looks like he's got a mustache,like a mustache and a scale like he's
(13:05):
showing his teeth he's about to biteyou. Yeah, this is like,
this is probably I love this ewalks so much. And the more I
get into this and talk about it, the more I like them, just
because the perma scal and the bearingof the teeth just makes him feel even
(13:28):
more of a murderous bearer because muchlike what Star Wars and character I talked
about, what the e walks isthat they you know, they they ate
people and meet right hunted. Andso you're thinking, these are these cute
little things that probably eat mushrooms andand you know, vegetables and that's it.
But then you know, you're hitwith the realization that they are going
(13:50):
to cook these people. And thisis like the representation of that que package
with a scowl and barring the teethbecause he's about to take a chunk out
of you, right, Yeah,exactly. I love these things. And
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one thing that I think is interestingon this one is if you look at
his left hand, the way thefur is mad and it almost looks like
there's no fur on his hands.You see what I'm talking about. Yeah,
it's his left hand. Yeah.And then of course we can see
his toes. His toes have beensculpted, like even his toenails have been
sculpted, which I really like,kenn I went through the trouble to do
(14:33):
that, because again they're giving usanother bear that we've seen. I don't
think this is a reused sculpt Hedoesn't look enough like any of the other
e walks, and it would havebeen so easy for them to have reuse
the sculpts. So let's talk alittle bit about his hood. And you
mentioned his hood before, and it'svery very similar to the hood that Ramba
(14:54):
has or that Warwick has rather andin fact, I don't think it's the
exact same sculpt but it's close.So let's see Warwick has. No,
it's not it's not because Warres onlyis one piece that comes down whereas Ramba's
is um has two pieces that comedown from it. But but I like
(15:15):
it because you can see the stitchingon it. We've talked about this before.
You can see where that somebody hassewned it them by hand. And
on the very top there's a littlepiece that hangs down and it's got what
looks like teeth sitting on top ofit or something on that, like rocks
or something. Right you seeing whatI'm saying. It's it's almost like it's
almost like a bone, and itlooks like some sort of bead that's attached
(15:39):
to a string and stitching on topit looks like another bone on the side,
so it looks like little bones,like almost like um by bones that
are like like sculpted into the hood, Like these are little ornaments that hang
off of his head. Right,I did that again, kind of kind
(16:03):
of adding to the meanness of thisbear, Like it's just yeah, that's
cool. Yeah, they look likelittle bones hanging off of it. And
on the back where you have thestitching, You've got it was like,
as you said, at that rockthat's like tied into the stitching that that
would almost like bring all the materialtogether and then this rock is the piece
(16:25):
that was turned in just to holdit all in place. It's a very
cool and this is unique as faras like all of the hoods that a
lot of them have, this isthe only one that fills quite as form
fitting on the figure than a lotof the other hoods that we have from
the Ewoks. Yeah, no,they really, it really does. Um
(16:51):
and uh And like I said,I the only thing that I it's it's
a complaint I've had about these allalong is I wish that there have been
some paint app on it to differentiatebetween things. I understand whether there's not,
because it's a soft plastic. It'sstuff to do, but it would
have been nice. You could saythat it's salt plastic. But Worrick had
paint app and even um that's true. Poplo did as well. Polo and
(17:15):
Low Grade both did. Yeah.Yeah, one thing that I do that
I will see the praises of thoseon the back you you mentioned, you
know you can we can kind ofsee how it stitched and tied together and
you can see how the fabric sortof cinches up around the scene there.
Yeah, it's it's nicely done,like it really it looks very realistic in
(17:36):
nature, and like even the wherethe stone sits on top of the stitching,
it even you know, lends alittle bit increasing into the sculpt of
the fabric and it looks incredible.It does, it really really does.
And I like that the ear holesare a little big for his ears because
you wouldn't get that exactly right.Yeah, you assume that they're not going
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to get that exactly right. Andthe face on it is a little une
as well. The face hole isa little in even as well. And
then you know, we've got itcinches up at on the front, it
cinches up in the middle and thendrapes, but it drapes further down on
one side than the other. Yeah, there's a lot of like asymmetry,
but it feels like a very naturalasymmetry with what you think of as inexperienced
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crafters, which is what they are. And it looks apart. Like when
I think of the e walks andthem kind of stitching something together, creating
something, I'm not thinking that they'regoing to make something that's perfectly symmetrical,
because that's not their focus or focusis to have you know, this leather
good or this raw hide cover.You know, this part of their head
(18:44):
or this part of their body functionover form. Yeah, so the function
of this it really does look likee walk, you know, native indoor
functioning. It's very cool. Itis, it is, it is.
And his spear looks a lot likethe one that came with Wicket. It's
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very difficult to identify one from theother if you don't have them together.
I think they might be. Thismight be the It's a slightly different sculpt
but his Ramba's is a little rounder, whereas wickets is a little narrower and
and comes to more of a pointas more triangular. Yeah, but it's
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very similar, and it's it's veryclose, and it's one of the simpler
ones you've just got. You've gotthe wood again, we've got the nice
wood grain on it. We don'thave as much nodding and things on this
one as we had on some ofthe others. Then it comes up and
when you get to the top,we've got one, two, three,
four or five, six, likesix or seven A rounds of stitching to
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hold that the rock on there,the stone to hold it in there,
and then the stone itself, whichyou know is textured pretty well. Again,
I wish that they would have givenus a little bit of paint on
the stone to show that it's different, and maybe painted the rope a little
different color to let us know thatit's a different material as well. I
could see that, and I wastrying to think if there there has been
(20:14):
an accessory at this point in theline that was painted. There's not.
There haven't been. There hasn't been. I don't think there was any of
them done now. I know whenthey re released um Under the Kenner Slash
has run of toys for the PowtherForce too. A lot of that stuff
ended up becoming painted and painted inthe way that we would have wanted to
(20:34):
do it. But it's like Icould see the want to have this painted,
but at the same time, itstill feels very much like in line
with what Kinner was doing. Oh, it's it's fine, It really is.
It's fine, and it's very muchin line with what they're doing.
This is just this. These aremy quibbles, you know. It's it's
such a well done toy that theseare these are my quibbles. The one
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thing that I would have done differentlybetween the wicket and the Ramba. It's
because they are so close in designand they're so close in sculpt one actually
looks like it's a almost like abootleg like he does of the original.
But I almost would have made itin like a dark gray or a different
(21:17):
color of plastic than that light brown, or made it bigger, made it
longer, or made it longer.Yeah, since he's taller than Wicket,
make this one a little longer,so you can definitely tell the difference.
I could. Yeah, I don'tknow why why Canna would go that route
with it. I don't get it. I don't know either. So well,
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folks, that that's all there isto talk about about this figure.
Like I said, there's not awhole lot going on there. So so,
Taylor, here's a question. Whatis your favorite feature about this toy?
Scowling face, the face, andthe end. Okay, so beautiful,
that's good. I like the teeth. I like that he's showing some
teeth, but U but that thatcowl the hood is really I think the
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thing that impresses me the most,along with the I've got three things where
I'm turning into Taylor. But alongwith the fact that we have we have
some of the hair poking out overthe belt and some tucked into it.
I just the whole thing is nice. But but if I had to pick
just one, it would definitely bethat hood because again, the stitching on
it is great, the way they'vedone that, the fabric work on it,
it's just really really great. Sowhat is your least favorite feature about
(22:23):
this toy? I think for me, it's it's down to that spear.
I would like to say that wasme as well. I thought you were
going to say that that's me aswell. Yeah, it's I'm sorry what
we're saying. I was talking overyou. Sorry, I gotta say,
just to have it colored differently.I mean, it's so close, yet
the differences are so subtled. Again, it looks like a bootleg spear,
(22:48):
and it's one of those where thatcould have been easily fixed about just changing
the coloring on it. Well,and again I still think that um that
they don't even have to make adifferent color. It would be nice if
it matched his hood. But ifthey're not going to do that, just
make it taller, make it longer. Yeah, you know, because again
(23:10):
he's it looks too small for himas it is, because of because it
is the same size as the onethat came with Wicked, and Wicked is
so much smaller. Yeah, soI'm with you on that one that that's
mine as well. What do youthink best exemplifies the kennerligne with this toy?
You know, at this point withwhat Kenner is doing, you know,
just that that level of detail andthe innovation and the tooling itself that's
(23:36):
gotten so much better, but theystill have a certain simplistic field just giving
us exactly what we need in orderto understand that this is something that is
from the screen like it's it doesn'thave to be overly detailed. It's just
detailed enough to get what we needout of it. And you know,
even with all the new tooling,he still falls into that category as having
(24:00):
us the right amount. Okay,And I think for me it's that um
kind of what you were talking about. I think it's Kenner has that capacity
of the penchant for giving us moreof something if we're getting less of something
in other areas, right, Andthat's we were talking about that the hair,
(24:22):
the matting of the fur and thedetail on that on the hood as
well. So I think that's whatit is for me. Okay, So
is this toy cool? I thinkso. Pretty much any of the ewoks
I'm going to say that I thinkthat they're cool, and this one,
being the probably the meanest or maddestlooking one, I think he's extra cool.
(24:51):
Yeah, you know, I thinkhe's cool. Again everything we talked
about, you know, your thingabout the scowl and the teeth in the
hood. Yeah, this is acool toy. And in fact that it's
kind of hard to find makes iteven cooler to me somehow. But yeah,
I think this is one of thebetter e walks that we got in
the line. Yeah, behind Idig aligned low Gray of course, as
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far as you know, right,all right, folks, that will do
it for this edition. So affordtalking toys with Taylor and Jeff Action figure
exclusive. I'm Taylor and I'm Jeff. I remember they're not dolls, they're
action figures, action figures of murderousteddy bears. He's very cute, but
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it'll eat you in your sleep orwhile you're awake. Night, folks,
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