Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/20/darling-hasbro-the-child-w.html
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If I can’t pose them with the frog in their mouth, then I don’t want it.
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Remember the smell of a brand new Star Wars toy?
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raised by a person who disintegrates car thieves.
Oh yes - boo hoo, “My Jawa raiders didn’t do nothing!” Give me a break. 
Oh look - it comes with the chocking hazard (knob). Seriously, this show is going to end with the little guy blue and staring up into the void with glossy eyes and that knob lodged in its throat.
“Oh, damn. Well, the original bounty did pay out for a body…”
OMFG yes! They just use a different plastic because it doesn’t smell the same now.
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UTINNI!
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The figure is 1.1 inches tall. That knob has to be smaller than a grain of quinoa.
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(Relevant: Hasbro is hiring for a “Global Brand Manager” for the Star Wars line.)
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Jawas don’t conduct raids, that’s the Tusken folk. Jawas are better known for non-violent property crimes. Even after the Mandalorian killed a whole bunch of their tribe for dismantling his spaceship they used a non-lethal stunner to shoo him off their sandcrawler.
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I’m holding out for an actual product photo instead of a preproduction model. The Black Series figures have pretty consistently disappointed me with their quality level.
I’m also finding that Baby Yoda figures/sculptures/crafts have a very, very fine line between adorable and somehow… off, based on the balance between realism and stylization, with most falling on the wrong side. I would have thought this to be the most Funko Pop-able character ever created, and yet they somehow made it look bad by including too much detail. The series crew must have workshopped the ever-loving shit out of that puppet’s design to give it the effect it has.
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Plastic any thing is less than Darling. 
Yeah… killing someone because they stole from you seems like a bit of a disproportionate overreaction from my POV.
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Stealing is all the constant religious wars have left them if they want to feed their family.
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Agreed. I mean, it totally fit with the character, at least in that point on the moral journey he has been on over the arc of the series, but “engaging in mass slaughter because someone jacked their ride” isn’t the kind of thing a classic hero would do.
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Jawa Lives Matter, Too
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Now that I’m thinking about it we haven’t seen Jawas steal anything that wasn’t more or less abandoned in the desert. “Looky here, a perfectly good protocol droid! Oh, a spaceship someone just up and walked away from in our tribal territory! Welp, better call in the salvage crew, it would be a shame to let that stuff go to waste.”
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that looks like a cgi rendering. they make pretty good looking figures these days so im sure it will look good but I wouldnt take this image as exactly what youre gonna get.
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out of curiosity i measured my old school yoda. he’s
almost exactly 2 inches tall. thats obviously in the 3.75 inch scale of the old schol figures. im guessing this new “child” one is for 6” scale black series type figures?
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for comparison, heres old school yoda next to a modern black series 6” yoda. maybe this could be toddler yoda. ha.
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My uncle died after these so called “scavengers” stripped his speeder for parts and left him stranded in the dune sea with half a jug of blue milk and no shelter. We buried his desiccated remains in a goddamn shoe box.
So you’ll pardon me if I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Jawas who supposedly have no resources but always seem to have plenty of money for glitterstim when they go into Tosche Station.
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Star Wars had some of the best toys. Anyone remember?
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