VC Top 25 in 2025: Number 15

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MY 15th RANKED FIGURE: 


VC 316 PRINCESS LEIA ORGANA 


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WHY I LIKE THIS FIGURE: It was a near 20 year wait for Hasbro to update Leia as seen in Star Wars, aka A New Hope (ANH). And it was well worth waiting. An excellent face sculpt, modern articulation, and options to display her with her hood both up and down. Plus she some with her targeting pistol and you get a bonus Stormtrooper blaster rifle. If you have the Tantive IV Playset, she can easily be displayed there or getting ready to swing across the Death Star Bridge with Luke, or the scene when Alderaan is destroyed. Plus the card is the same as her 1978 version, and another Original 96 comes off the checklist. 


WHY SHE'S RANKED 15th: 

2 words: plastic skirt. More words: the plastic skirt limits her leg articulation. There is a cloth skirted version coming soon for displaying her in the detention block or in a Legacy Millennium Falcon. She's an enjoyable figure and while Hasbro has rarely gotten Leia right for the Vintage Collection, they finally do here. 


COLLECTOR'S CHOICE 15th RANKED FIGURE: 


VC 332 SABINE WREN 


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WHY I THINK COLLECTORS LIKE THIS FIGURE: 

The Deluxe Sabine figure had the horrifying removable helmet that was so out of scale it almost fit my Sixer Sabine. But she's got everything she needs, including a jetpack and swappable helmeted head. This shows Sabine from S3/S4 of Rebels, and while I hope she gets a standard release on a basic VC card, this is the best we got. And she's on the Mural Cards from the Ghost HasLab figures, although she was in a 2 pack with Chopper and available to the public through Hasbro Pulse. The card though is what I think made this figure popular as well, so she's got the best of both worlds: a great card and a great figure. 


WHY SHE'S RANKED 15th: 

I expected her to win the coin toss, but she fell just short to the 14th figure. I do like this figure but personally I'm keeping her in the 2 pack box because I will likely sell that, and my Ghost HasLab figures one day to a carded collector who doesn't have either. She does share Bo Katan's buck, so I think she didn't rank as high because of that. Watching Rebels again, Sabine really doesn't stand out as a character until near the end of S3, where we finally learn about why she's distanced from her family. After that, she's one of the best characters on the show. 


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