Darth Vader’s TIE Advanced x1

Classic Galoob Action Fleet

Feaetures

  • Opening cockpit
  • Slide-out engine cover
  • Playset attachment hole (atop engine)
  • Poseable Darth Vader and TIE Pilot

Variants

  • Silver “SW” Logo box with large body
  • Silver “SW” Logo box with small body / “clean version”
  • Silver “SW” Logo box with small body / “dirty version”
  • Gold “SW” Logo box with small body / “dirty version” (pictured)
  • Avon mail-in exclusive (dirty version)
  • Hasbro 2002 battle-damaged version

Modifications

  • None currently

Toy Construction

  • Most of the body is glued together I believe. You can remove the wings via 4 screws (two are hidden behind glued-on circle things.

2 Comments

  1. I picked one of these up (sans stand and figures) in a bundle of loose stuff at this years JoeFest. After playing with.. uh.. I mean.. carefully observing it’s detail for a little while, I added it to my list of ships that Action Fleet got somewhat… more… goodee… and correctorer.. than Micro Galaxy; at least shape/proportions wise. (Along with the A-wing and Interceptor).
    Now Jazwares certainly has the fine detail that only computer aided design and manufacturing could achieve, but when I went back and watched the first Death Star trench run again, the AF ship has a better ball to length ratio…. Yeah I said it… And the curve on the back of the fuselage is correct. The cockpit glass is hideous though, kinda wonder if it’s the right size to swap with the the canopy from a fighter.
    Newer toys, regardless of manufacturer or scale (with the exception of the Bandai kit and Fantasy Flight), tend to be too flat, too wide, with too small of a cockpit. Like the opposite of the trend TIE interceptors took.
    Watching episode 4 makes it really obvious too, but it seems like All of these companies are using the same skewed illustration as reference material.

    • That’s a good point. The TIE Advanced is a beefy design, small, but more bulky that what Jazwares did. Altaya did the same thing with theirs, making it too slender and stretched.

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