Star Wars Count Dooku
October 23, 2007
It's a nice product for the money. Ok details, and the cape is real cloth.
"You still have much to learn, my old Padawan."---Master Yoda
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July 10, 2007
Christopher Lee has had a long and storied career playing such villains as Dracula, Dracula, Dracula, and, of course, Dracula. He also played Scaramanga, the man with the golden gun in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (he's Ian Fleming's cousin and had dibs on a movie role from Day One of the Bond Franchise). In latter years he's had an autumn career playing such corrupted heroes as Saruman The White in LORD OF THE RINGS and here, Count Dooku aka Darth Tyranus, in ATTACK OF THE CLONES and (very briefly) in REVENGE OF THE SITH (where he lost his head).
You can see why Christopher Lee was a natural for the role of Count Dooku. The character is a Count with a cape (like Dracula), carrying a one-off lightsaber with a scimitar grip (much like Scaramanga's unique 24-carat pistol), and who, with his arcane powers, has gone over to the enemy (like Saruman). Like Dracula, Scaramanga and Saruman, Dooku is a one-of-a-kind name. See? This role was just made for Mr. Lee.
Less a committed Sith than a thoroughly disaffected Jedi, Dooku works closely with Darth Sidious to destabilize the Republic, but the two are natural rivals, not true allies. Dooku definitely wants to be the Sith Lord, not the Sith Apprentice, and so Palpatine maneuvers him into a corner (literally) before having Dooku done in by his "new apprentice" Darth Vader aka Anakin Skywalker. Just to give Dooku butterflies they packaged him with a blue plastic hologram of the Emperor.
This is a really great 3.75 inch action figure that reasonably resembles Christopher Lee. The figure comes with "slashing action" (he will make a chopping motion with his lightsaber when his legs are pressed together). He comes armed with two lightsabers, one in Jedi green and one (with the scimitar grip) in Sith red (I gave the green one to the weaponless Darth Sidious figure as a trophy).
The one drawback to this figure is that THE CAPE JUST WILL NOT STAY ON without making some modifications to the figure. This seems to be a universal gripe among Dooku's reviewers and fans on this page.
Nevertheless, he's very cool, and it makes you wish Dooku'd retired from the Sith business and decided to go hang with his old teacher Yoda and the Good Side Gang. After all, he still has his old school lightsaber in the closet (but maybe the fact that they called him "Ducky" in the First Form has something to do with his career as a Denizen of Evil-type guy). Who wouldn't go Sith on you with a nickname like that?
Not bad, but could have been a lot better.
March 5, 2003
These built in action features are ruining quite a few of Hasbro's new Star Wars figures. Case in point: Hasbro gives up quite a bit of play value for Dooku's slashing feature. His arms are stiff, and only one wrist can move. While the feature is indeed one of the better ones to be found, I am wishing for a figure with better articulation as opposed to a swinging arm. Dooku comes with a cape that won't stay on, a green lightsaber from a scene that was cut, a small Darth Sidious Hologram, and his own curved saber -however, it is the only saber in this line without a removeable blade, plus the hilt is plastic. This makes sense however, since this is the saber used to chop away at opposing action figures. The removeable sabers would become damaged quickly, as seen in the Mace Windu figure. Off course, the saber doesn't stay in his hand half the time, and flies out while he chops away. Use one of those clear rubberbands found in the packaging of these figures to keep the weapon from flying out. It's a decent figure, but looks better on a wall as opposed to opened and on display. For real play value, pick up the new Darth Tyranus figure coming out in 2003.
count with his cape coming off
February 20, 2003
This action figure is very cool. First of all, he comes with two lightsabers: one green, one red. Secondly, he also comes with a very cool hologram of Darth Sidious. Third, a fantastic slashing action that's very durable (I've been repeating the action about 400 times so far, and it hasn't worn out yet.) The ONLY drawback is THE CAPE; it keeps falling off, but I figured out a solution: just use a knife to cut two tiny holes in his cape (one on each side), then slide a twist tie through the holes and tie it together in front of him. Other than that one complaint that's easy to fix, it a great toy.
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January 5, 2003
He's a pretty neat figure, star wars figure! Neat slashing action! Almost the tallest figure in my collection! Face has great likeness to C.L.! I think it's funny because I have a Saruman LOTR figure! He is a great villain! ...
