Obi-Wan Kenobi in Rako Hardeen disguise (75024)

The ‘Marksman of Concord Dawn’, Rako Hardeen was a human male bounty hunter who was active during the clone wars.  Rako appears during a story arc of four episodes in the second half of Season 4 of the Clone Wars TV series.  The season originally aired between September 2011 and May 2012.

In an intricate, satisfying plot line the bounty hunter Hardeen is hired by an anonymous client to murder Obi Wan Kenobi.  After ‘successfully’ carrying out the assassination with a sniper rifle the mystery client is revealed to be the Jedi Council in the form of Mace Windu and Obi Wan Kenobi himself. From this point Kenobi uses nanotechnology to transform his face and a voice emulator droid and voice sample from Hardeen to impersonate the bounty hunter.  Why?  Kenobi uses Hardeen’s cover to infiltrate the criminal underworld to uncover a separatist plot against Chancellor Palpatine.

This minifigure is unique to the 75024 HH-87 Starhopper set released in summer 2013.

The minifigure is impressive.  The eye is immediately drawn to the head piece.  The head is light flesh coloured with light blue eyes and a dark red maroon tattoo around the right eye.  Other facial features include light brown stubble/scarring.  A beautiful print, on the reverse of the head piece is a small brown curve.

The Torso is predominantly dark grey in colour, with olive green arms and dark grey hands.  The Torso has an overlapping plate structure with light grey collars and metallic silver badge.  The rear is simply printed, mostly dark grey in colour with a reddish brown marking in the centre.

The legs have an interesting print being olive green in colour with metallic gold armour and knee pads with dark brown strapping.

The figure comes with a sniper rifle which is enhanced with a black lightsaber hilt to make an extended barrel.

Rako Hardeen is a great minifigure although it feels like something is missing.  Those that have watched the story arc will frequently see him wearing a helmet.  Admittedly, it is not the most eye catching or in fitting with the rest of the outfit.  You might also ask why would you want to cover that great face print?  However the inclusion of the helmet would have completed the minifigure. 

Those keen eyed viewers of the clone wars will have spotted the re-appearance of Hardeen’s outfit when Kenobi travels to Mandalore to rescue Duchess Satine during another epic Clone Wars story arc in season 5.   Those wanting to recreate scenes from Mandalore might want to switch in Kenobi’s head from the minfigure in the 75012 BARC Speeder with sidecar set.  Mix in the 2013 set 75022 Mandalorian Speeder and 7914 Mandalorian battle pack and you are a good way there.

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