Star Wars, Power of the Jedi, Bespin Guard (Cloud City Security) Action Figure, 3.75 Inches

The blue-clad Bespin guards commonly known as "Wing Guards" are the law enforcement officers of Cloud City. Under the supervison of Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian, they protect the floating metropolis from criminals and Imperial forces. Crap. So close but no cigar. That’s about sums up how we feel about the Bespin Guard (Cloud City Security) figure from the Power Of The Jedi line. The first basic modern interpretation of the character, Hasbro decided to not update either of the vintage Kenner figures and instead develop yet another character from a different nationality than the figures from 1980 and 1982. That’s all fine and dandy. But it’s what they DIDN’T do to the figure that has us somewhat disappointed. Don’t get us wrong, we are indeed fond of this action figure, but Hasbro got a little bit sloppy with their decisions and didn’t replicate all of the important details perfectly. We will itemize them shortly. But this time Hasbro brings us a Bespin Wing Guard of Asian descent, a character that is very much in the background. In fact, every scene that we found him in was blurry. We couldn’t find a good facial shot of the character until we rooted through some behind the scenes production stills, in black and white no less. He is absolutely visible in The Empire Strikes Back. He stands behind Lobot as Lando confronts Han Solo on the Cloud City landing platform. But the shot is blurry and we haven’t noticed him in any other scenes after that. (That doesn’t mean he isn’t more visible in other scenes. It means we missed it.)