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Star Wars Attack of the Clones Geonosian War Chamber 1 (1 of 2)

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....

Deep in the termite-like chambers of Geonosis, the leaders of the Confederacy of Independent Systems tensely look at a holographic battle display and watch in dismay as the Galactic Republic's new army of clones and a group of Jedi Knights appear to be on the verge of defeating the secessionists' army of battle droids. San Hill, leader of the Banking Clan, and Geonosian leader Poggle the Lesser stare helplessly at the conference table, while the more confident Count Dooku calmly retrieves the schematics of a terrible new superweapon as he prepares to leave for Coruscant.

Hasbro's Star Wars Saga Scene Pack: Geonosian War Chamber 1 vividly recreates a pivotal scene of 2002's Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones with the action figures of San Hill, Count Dooku, and Poggle the Lesser, with half of the holographic light table (complete with simulated holo displays of Republic gunships and walking "vulture" battle droids) in the foreground and a nicely rendered backdrop of the Geonosian underground chamber's wall. Poggle the Lesser leans on a cane that looks like it was carved from some beast's bone, San Hill looks properly terrified as he points at the light table, while the central figure, Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus, holds a finely detailed (considering its size) holo of the Death Star.

Although this little diorama can be displayed "as is" in its package, it can be connected to Geonosian War Chamber 2, another three-figure scene pack which features Nute Gunray, Passel Argente, and Shu Mai. (Unfortunately, collectors will have to head to their local Toys R Us "brick and mortar" stores to find both Geonosian War Chamber 2 and Jedi Council 2 Scene Packs; Amazon doesn't seem to carry them in their catalog.)

Considering that these are mass-produced collectibles and realizing that it is not very easy to capture fine detail in toys that are aimed at children 4 and up (but Hasbro suspects, I'm sure, that it's adult collectors who buy these things), these are really nicely rendered 3.75 inch figures. The poses capture the mood of the film's scene well enough.

My only gripe is that both War Chambers' light tables have the same simulated holos (two Republic Gunships very close to the central figure, a vulture droid in the extreme right foreground), which is repetitive and looks strange when you join both sets to create the illusion of a complete conference table. Other than that, the compact packaging and clear plastic top makes this -- and the other Scene Packs in the Star Wars figure collection -- an attractive collectible nice enough to show off in a collector's display shelf.

i just got this set and put it with set two which I already had, the tables join together. These figures are really well done, nice detail. Alone the set looks better in the box, but I had set two and put them together to make one big scene, along with the Wat Tambor figure, and looks really great.In this set you get Count Dooku holding the Death Star plans, San Hill of the Banking Clan, and Poggle the Lesser( he was the one that looked like the big grasshopper that ordered around all the smaller grasshoppers). These figures are more for display than play, San Hill is the only one who stands on it's own, you need stands for the other two if you take them out of the box. I'll agree with the last reviewer, you'd better get these because they will probably never be remade and you'll have to pay an unreal price on an auction site.

The only reason to get this set is to get the two characters not available elsewhere, namely Poggle the Lesser and San Hill. However, they don't hold up particularly well by today's standards. The Dooku figure is particularly bad as its hands can't even grab a lightsaber. I personally only bought this figure to make a custom Darth Plagueis figure out of the San Hill. The figure works well enough for that at least.

The Geonosian War Room is a must have for hard core star wars collector's. The artwork on the figure's are great but I must say it's more of a display piece than actual action figures. Side by Side with the Jedi Council set it looks awesome.

Striking while the iron was hot, Hasbro produced a bunch of scene/display type toys that were meant to recreate scenes in the various prequals. For a few years they also house exclusive sculpts of certain characters. That is true of the Geonosisan War room. This set has value in that it introduced at least one new character that probably would've never been bought and sat on the pegs till they were clearanced out at 0.98 cents or something similar and packaged them with a war table. The set goes up further if you can get a hold of Wat Tambor single figure because he came included with a holographic ship that could be added to the table's display. This set works slightly better than the Jedi Council scene in that it is smaller, included more unique and at the time first issue figures. I think overall Hasbro has only one or two more figures left to make to "complete" this scene, but it works for what it is: a nice way to recreate the break out of the Clone Wars. Or it can be used with other figures to make a war room display for either Republic or Separatists forces. The play value is pretty limitless with the table. The figures are a bit more limited because they are the leaders of banks, corporations, guilds etc, but they are done fairly accurate with descent paint applications that seem to plague the Jedi Council sets.

this is very nice because if you get both sets, youll have alot of figures that will probably never be remade. buy now before these skyrocket.