Hasbro’s Massive Ghost Replica Is a Great Love Letter to Star Wars Rebels

Over the past fewer years, Hasbro’s “Haslab” initiative has brought america an array of Star Wars vehicles and playsets that are dissimilar thing other the institution tin bash crossed either of its lines successful the postulation far, acold away. But possibly its biggest yet—a scaled replica of Star Wars Rebels‘ main ship, the Ghost—is starting to vessel retired to backers, giving them what mightiness beryllium the closest we person to an eventual enactment fig solemnisation of 1 of Star Wars‘ brightest stars.

What’s Included With the Star Wars Haslab Ghost?

Inside the monolithic box you’ll person the main assemblage of the Ghost itself, with immoderate assembly required: determination are six sections representing the outer hull for you to attach, arsenic good arsenic the ship’s engines, removable panels for the outer hull that includes the topside turret, and removable landing gears to for whether oregon not you’re displaying the vessel successful formation oregon docked. Good luck if you’re doing the former: the Ghost is 1 of the largest Star Wars vehicles Hasbro has produced astatine a whopping 28 by 34 inches, and the largest Star Wars Vintage Collection conveyance since the Khetanna sail barge that kickstarted the full Haslab task back successful 2018.

The Ghost wouldn’t beryllium implicit without the summation of its trusty shuttle, the Phantom. Included successful this case, to spell with the wide taxable of this being the Ghost arsenic it’s seen by the 4th play of Rebels and yet into Ahsoka, the shuttle included present is the bulkier Phantom II, which tin beryllium displayed either docked to the backmost of the Ghost arsenic it is connected the show, oregon separately connected its own. The Phantom includes a bonus “Accessory” successful the signifier the caput of Chopper, the Spectre team’s trusty droid, which tin beryllium slotted into the Phantom‘s droid socket (more connected the remainder of Chopper’s body, oregon deficiency thereof, shortly).

A bully vessel needs a bully unit to aviator it, and the Haslab Ghost has 4 members of the Rebels squad to assistance bash precisely that. Being backed by implicit 22,000 radical by the clip its run wrapped up, the Ghost unlocked each agelong extremity to travel with figures of Hera (included arsenic portion of the modular campaign), Kanan, Ezra, and Zeb. Each fig comes with a unsocial Vintage Collection cardback that uses creation pulled from the mural Sabine painted of the squad astatine the climax of Rebels (and seen concisely again in Ahsoka) to designate them arsenic exclusive to the Haslab Ghost. But they’re also, for the astir part, exclusive to the Ghost‘s merchandise successful different ways. Hera, depicted successful her Rebels-era flightsuit and aviator goggles, is simply a wholly exclusive fig truthful far, with the lone different Hera released successful this standard being based connected her quality in Ahsoka arsenic a General of the New Republic.

Kanan, Ezra, and Zeb meantime person each received akin capable retail releases successful the enactment already. Kanan is possibly the 2nd astir unsocial adjacent to Hera. The retail mentation of him is based connected his appearances successful seasons 1 and two, truthful the Haslab variant comes with an updated costume, arsenic good arsenic other accessories to picture Kanan aft he’s blinded by Darth Maul: 1 modular caput that includes a removable look mask, and a 2nd that depicts Kanan’s damaged eyes and his shaved haircut from the climactic episodes of play four. Zeb and Ezra meantime are the closest to their already-available retail releases. Zeb has alternate graffiti decos connected his armor to amended align with his quality successful Rebels‘ 4th season, arsenic good arsenic an alternate look sculpt, depicting him smirking. Ezra’s additions meantime are purely successful the signifier of a mates much accessories: his stolen Imperial scout helmet, painted by Sabine, and a Loth cat.

That brings america to the elephant successful the room: the Haslab Ghost doesn’t travel with the afloat unit of the Ghost. To observe the run reaching all of its agelong goals, Hasbro announced that it would marque versions of Sabine and Chopper to spell with the set, but lone arsenic an further purchase, alternatively than arsenic portion of the campaign. On the 1 hand, this meant anyone, whether oregon not they backed the Haslab, could get these peculiar figures, which travel with a mural cardback to necktie them into the Haslab figures. On apical of that, Sabine is astatine slightest an astir wholly caller sculpt and overgarment occupation compared to her Ahsoka merchandise successful the Vintage Collection, coming with a clump of other accessories (including a fewer much Loth cats, to commencement your ain pride).

On the other, Hasbro sold this set—emphasis connected sold, it’s nary longer directly disposable from the company—for a whopping $50. That is simply a lot for what is, ultimately, 1 and a fractional 3.75″ standard figures. Chopper really comes with less than his standalone retail counterpart, adjacent if helium does person a brighter overgarment strategy much aligned with his quality successful Rebels. A afloat tenth of the $500 outgo of the Haslab Ghost itself for what is, essentially, an astir mandatory acquisition if you really privation a complete Rebels unit is simply a genuinely chaotic ask, nary substance however large the figures are.

What’s Inside the Star Wars Haslab Ghost?

Once you’ve finished really putting each the sections of the Ghost together, it’s clip to really region immoderate of that each implicit again to get entree to the interior of the ship. A mates of apical panels tin beryllium removed to spot what’s inside, including a conception that houses the Ghost‘s apical gunner turret, itself a standalone “tube” slotted into the apical of the vessel erstwhile closed up. As good arsenic being movable (just similar the chin turret beneath the main cockpit), this apical turret besides has an adjustable seat, truthful whether you’re cramming idiosyncratic arsenic large arsenic Zeb oregon idiosyncratic arsenic tiny arsenic Ezra into it, they acceptable comfortably.

Once you get each that retired of the mode though lies the 4 main sections depicted wrong the Haslab, each packed with a ton of tiny details. First disconnected there’s the cockpit, which includes 4 main seats, laid retired conscionable similar they are successful the show, and a 5th little spot astatine the beforehand to picture the seldom shown guardant gunner position. Every sheet is covered with amusive greebling and small details, with the abstraction to compression successful each 4 included figures (it’s an adjacent tighter compression with Sabine and Chopper). The cockpit besides houses a fun, but hard to truly use, diagnostic from the show: a tiny ladder astatine the backmost of the country to descend into the Ghost‘s main loading bay (more connected that later).

Moving done the hallway that connects each conception of the interior, the adjacent conception is 2 unit cabins. The starboard broadside depicts Hera’s quarters, implicit with a bunk furniture with a removable apical portion (which has curtains connected to springiness the Ghost‘s skipper immoderate privacy) to amended airs figures lying successful it, portion the larboard broadside depicts Ezra and Zeb’s shared room, with a ladder to ascent up to the 2nd bunk. Lastly, astatine the aft of the vessel is the lounge and room area. The roomiest portion of the interior, it’s besides the 1 spot with immoderate bonus included accessories successful the signifier of a fewer bits of furniture: a dejarik array that tin beryllium plugged successful adjacent to the lounge’s sofa, a fewer stools and a woody chair, and a picnic array to enactment successful the kitchen. Only the archetypal of those bits of furnishings tin really beryllium locked into spot though, truthful you volition inevitably person immoderate rattling astir if you determination the Ghost around—but it’s a large spot to airs the unit relaxing and hanging retired with each other.

As amusive arsenic the interiors are, they’re besides wherever the Ghost has had to marque immoderate earthy cutbacks for scale. The vessel isn’t actually fully to-scale for 3.75″ figures, different it would beryllium adjacent much monolithic than it already is, but that besides means immoderate cuts person had to beryllium made connected the inside. In the show, the Ghost has 4 cabins, truthful the Haslab mentation has mislaid some Kanan and Sabine’s rooms. The second is particularly a shame, arsenic it would’ve been large to spot the printed deco for Sabine’s graffiti-covered walls successful hers, but without a Sabine fig really being included successful the run directly, it astir apt made consciousness to beryllium 1 of the chopped rooms. You’re also, of course, lone getting 1 level of interior—there’s nary country successful the vessel as-is to picture the afloat cargo bay, but you astatine slightest inactive get some of it with the ladder down from the cockpit, adjacent if the bay itself is hardly accessible. You tin unfastened the guardant gangway for a small much room, but you tin hardly compression a fig successful there, fto unsocial cargo.

The Phantom II is besides different illustration of the Haslab’s condensing for scale. While it matches the size of the vessel arsenic is, being below-scale the Phantom II is present little of a shuttle and much of a single-crew fighter: there’s nary backmost seating section, lone a azygous beforehand spot for a pilot, and the world of the standard arsenic specified is that it looks tiny with figures placed adjacent to it. So portion you tin region it from its docking larboard connected the Ghost and show it separately with retractable landing gears, it only really works slotted into the vessel wherever it matches the standard better.

Is the Star Wars Haslab Ghost Worth It?

Ultimately, the Ghost astir apt stands arsenic 1 of the champion vehicles Hasbro has ever made—for the Vintage Collection oregon otherwise. It’s a massive hunk of integrative and sturdy successful each the ways you privation it to be. The detailing is fantastic, adjacent with the accommodations to standard the interior is successful peculiar conscionable packed with tons of amusive small details that makes mounting up small vignettes with the Rebels unit that truly does marque it consciousness similar it’s a solemnisation of these characters and their home. And speaking of those characters, their modulation to enactment fig signifier is fantastic, adjacent with a fewer mostly already having made their mode into the TVC enactment successful immoderate signifier oregon another. There’s immoderate weird choices to warrant “exclusive” versions here—Zeb decidedly needed to see the retail release’s caput connected apical of the smiling one, and not definite anyone really needs this galore 3.75″ scaled loth cats—but it’s large to get this aboriginal mentation of the Spectres, Kanan especially, who stands arsenic the champion of a bully clump by a important margin.

Such is the paradox of Haslab projects, however: if you were waiting to work a hands-on portion similar this, it’s excessively precocious to determine if you privation successful oregon not. You person to cognize you’re invested already to adjacent bargain into 1 astatine all, whether oregon not it turns retired arsenic bully arsenic you wanted it to be. If you backed it? You astir apt already cognize the ways to person yourself that this was worthy it—and successful galore ways, it truly is!—regardless. If you didn’t? Well, bully look either paying well implicit that on the aftermarket, oregon waiting for an extremely uncommon resale from Hasbro directly, if 1 ever comes astatine all.

Either way, you inactive person to see the terms concern here. The information is $500 is simply a lot of money, careless of whether oregon not this is simply a retail merchandise oregon a curated crowdfunded campaign. The Ghost is massive, yes, but adjacent if terms couldn’t person afforded immoderate other scale, there’s inactive a fewer things that could’ve made it an adjacent amended artifact for the hefty terms tag. Lights and sounds successful immoderate capacity, adjacent if it was conscionable motor sound and blaster fire, would’ve gone a agelong mode to marque the vessel consciousness adjacent much premium. And then, of course, there’s the Sabine/Chopper situation. You’re already paying truthful overmuch for this that having to fork retired adjacent much for it to consciousness decently implicit arsenic the loveletter to Rebels it wants to beryllium is simply a immense bummer—one that’s lone made adjacent worse with however bully the remainder of the acceptable is.

Even with the bulk of these compromises and considerations though, 10 years after Rebels archetypal soared into our hearts, it’s chaotic to spot the bid get specified a fantastic solemnisation of itself successful integrative form. It’s not cleanable by immoderate means, but it’s adjacent capable to the champion Hasbro could bash to springiness america the Spectres and their thrust successful each their glory… almost each of them successful 1 go, astatine least.

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