Quinlan Vos

Ronon Dex, is that you? While on a mission to kill Count Dooku, expert tracker Quinlan Vos fell in love with assassin Asajj Ventress - leading to a perilous dalliance with the dark side. If you don't remember that episode of The Clone Wars, don't worry: the show was (originally) cancelled at the end of Season 5, but the writers had plans through Season 8, and production was already underway, to varying degrees, on several of those arcs. Rather than let the work go to waste, some of them were adapted into other mediums. Bad Batch is the most famous, but another was the novel Dark Disciple, which is what that bio is describing. This is not the first Quinlan Vos action figure, but it is the first in The Black Series, so naturally it's going to be popular. While Vos has typically been shown with a rather long face and a strong chin, the head on this figure is rounder, and his dreadlocks are shorter. So for a first effort, we're already off to a slightly disappointing start; because he doesn't look like you expect him to look. But you have to remember, this is technically a Clone Wars toy, and the pumpkin head and shorter hair are just untooned versions of the way he was animated there. The outfit he's wearing is very "Clone Wars," too. The character is based on a nameless extra who appeared in Episode I, so originally he dressed like someone from Tattooine. By the time he appeared in the show, he was wearing a normal Jedi tunic, but kept it sleeveless, and had a little bit of Clone-inspired armor over top, like Anakin and Obi-Wan wore. His only has one pauldron, though. He's got wraps around his forearms and hands, and wears boots that come up to his knee. The colors are brighter now, too. Like, yes, his boots, pants, forearm coverings and even his armor are various muted shades of grey, but the robe he's wearing as his outermost layer is a light yellow - it's not a bright color on its on, but compared to everything else, it comes across that way. The stripe of yellow across his nose and cheeks is painted well, and they've even given him some stubble to make him look rugged. Articulation is average. The figure moves with a barbell head, balljointed neck, pectoral hinges, swivel/hinge shoulders, swivel/hinge elbows, swivel forearms, balljointed wrists, balljoint waist, balljointed hips, swivel thighs, swivel/hinge knees, and swivel/hinge ankles. It's unclear why anyone would think you need a swivel in the thigh and a swivel in the knee, since those both provide the same range of motion; move one of them down to the shin where it could actually do some good. On the plus side, his shoulder armor turns with the arm instead of just flexing out of the way The new thing for 2026 is using the fact of removable lightsaber blades to add a little action to the figures: we get the normal straight blade, but then a second "motion blur" blade, a big narrow triangle of translucent green plastic. There have been Star Wars figures in the past that have offered similar things, and honestly it's never worked great. The lightsaber hilt gets a few paint apps to keep it from being plain gray plastic, and can be hung from the figure's belt when not in use. It's cool to get our first Black Series Quinlan Vos, but the fact the animated appearance was so physically different from his standard look means a lot of fans are going to be slightly let down by this one, and will have to wait for a "real" version to come later. -- 05/02/26 When you think of Quinlan Vos, what head-shape do you picture? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.