"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship."

As one of the most iconic STAR WARS characters, Yoda has not had a decent version of him made in the modern style. I own practically every figure that has been made from Vintage to Force Link and never have been satisfied with a definitive Yoda. What I ended up with was taking the saga version of Yoda as it had the best body with most detail, no softgoods to cause issues or damage and combined him with the black series 3.75 head and hands and cane and did a complete repaint. Sounds easy enough? No you NEED a dremmel for this or it is impossible. The way this worked was taking the ball joint off the figure and dremmeling in REALLY deep to be able to fit the black series collar in there and make it flush (no mistakes so looks factory made and doesn't require any MILIPUT). This was really difficult as you can possibly destroy the arms sockets and plugs but I got away with it thankfully. The old head was charataristic but huge and the wrong shade of green but his body was perfect to represent the puppet like nature of the characters body. The Black series head has some fantastic detail and is the right colour but the body he comes with is AWFUL and the cloth robe is bad and the bag is oversized and goofy. I wanted a DEFINITIVE Yoda: one able to do ANYTHING he did in the film basically. So perhaps I might change his lower body for a softgoods articulated one for the few poses needed but overall he is perfect to me. I repainted the robes brown parts to look just as it did in the film and his hands were cut off the rubbish black series body and articulated them by using the old hands joints. Then I repainted his eyes, eyelids, used shaders on his lips and forehead to bring out the detail, repainted the hair and nails and toe nails and bottom of the figure (feet and robes) went over the eyes with varnish to bring life to him and voila I'm satisfied at last lol!

I completed him a month ago but only just had time to do some proper set shots and I don't have a dirty R2D2 but used a rubbish one as the red light helped in shots and its a bit dirtier so looks the part more. The set outside I just dug a hole used a load of logs around the area and twigs and branches, used some tarpaulin and a hose to make the swamp, submerged the wings of my X-Wing and brought a lamp out for the right amount of light as it was a night photoshoot to get the dark dankness of the Dagobah Swamp. Obviously these scenes are to highlight the Yoda figure less so the entirety of Dagobah so no Vader Vision and no Hut as that would be a project to do not a figure custom.

I really like how at certain angles you can get different expressions of goofy Yoda upon meeting him and serious Yoda Training or contemplating.

Thanks for having a look!