Wasn't it just the other day I was bemoaning how long we'd been waiting for a certain overdue Battlestar figure (see side column)? Well, thank you, comic book shop!!! Because at long last, Diamond Select's Colonel Tigh has seen the light of day. Pretty decent sculpt! One thing, that eyepatch is sculpted right onto the head and will not come off, so we can either hope DS makes a non-eyepatch variant or customizers will have a heck of a job on their hands. This is probably all we're gonna get for Colonel Tigh, I suspect, much like this spring's promised "mustache" Admiral Adama. DS seems to want to make a perceived definitive version of the characters, rather than do variants, a sign that the line may be nearing its end. But as usual with this figure line, the details are superb. He's seven inches of surly, hard-drinking, bald fury...
And if you think that shoulder patch is detailed, check out the label on that bottle of Ambrosia - it's an exact replica in some kind of crazy flea-circus font, so small only Burgess Meredith could read it...
Plus, you get a bonus (because this is a two-pack) a second figure of Lieutenant Gaeta. Not a very good likeness, sorry to say, more square-jawed than sniveling, but still nice to have. "Uh, sir, I need you to sign off on these Dradis reports..."
"Get the frak away from me, I'm the XO!!!"
So a nice surprise! Can it have anything to do with Tigh having just appeared in this blog?! We'll have to test that little theory. One last shot of good old Saul Tigh. Now if they'd only make an Ellen Tigh, complete with removable shoes...
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