Pic of the Day 27 - Star Wars Week 1 - Royal Guard

And thus ends Star Wars Week 1. My wife suggested a picture showing the sizes of the items pictured this week, but I wanted to get in the Gentle Giant Royal Guard statue, so I found a compromise. I'd also meant to have something slightly different this time, and shoot the special Royal Guard version of the TIE Interceptor, but that'll have to wait for another day.

For those interested, the tallest item is the aforementioned GG Statue, presumably 12 inches in height (I'm going to guess without the stand), since it's a 1/6th scale statue. The VCD from earlier this week is in a 9" scale. I believe the Kubrick is 2 inches tall.

My wife wanted another Star Wars week, or a Super Heroes week, but since I have so much more Star Wars stuff than anything else, we'll do that before moving into the Super Heroes. Since the bulk of my Star Wars collection focused on Clones you can expect to see a couple of those in the coming days..

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Pic of the Day 26 - Star Wars Week 1 - Royal Guard

Royal Guard Galactic Hero, by Hasbro.

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Pic of the Day 25 - Star Wars Week 1 - Royal Guard

Royal Guard Kubrick.

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Pic of the Day 24 - Star Wars Week 1 - Royal Guard

Senate Guard mini bust by Gentle Giant, and Senate Guard Kubrick. Both are chase variants of the Royal Guard version, though the GG mini bust was available in much higher quantities.

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Pic of the Day 23 - Star Wars Week 1 - Royal Guard

1:6 scale Mini bust and 1:18 scale bust up, by Gentle Giant.

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Pic of the Day 22 - Star Wars Week 1 - Royal Guard

Royal Guard, by Hasbro, from the Unleashed Battle packs, the set with Anakin and Emperor Palpatine (I think).

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Pic of the Day 21 - Star Wars Week 1 - Royal Guard

Royal Guard VCD

It's Star Wars Week for the Pic of the Day feature here at A Clone's Paradise. Since this blog was started for the purpose of talking about my Star Wars collection, I think maybe I'll do that this week. This week will be all about my favorite Star Wars character, the Royal Imperial Guards! Read on to learn more.

These robed warriors are the best of the best, the elite of the elite, the very finest the Empire has to offer, other than the two Sith, of course. They are the personal bodyguards of Emperor Palpatine, and occasionally accompany Vader.

I've always loved the look of the guards, the nice, deep, solid red. They're mysterious, all covered in robes, they have an intriguing weapon of unknown function, and they do absolutely nothing in the films. And yet, I love them. I owned a Royal Guard costume for a few months, and joined the 501st Legion, though shortness of funds required that I sell the costume, and shortness of time, uncomfortableness of wearing the costume, and caring about others in general caused me to stop trooping with the Legion. But it was fun while it lasted, I have a couple of pictures of myself in the costume, and my daughter Katie still says, "Look, it's Daddy!" when she sees a guard, so that's cool.

The above images is from Sideshow's Vinyl Collectible Doll series of Super Deformed figures, and cost way more than it should have, but I'd buy it again in a heartbeat.

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