Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

A 1/12 Yoda is included alongside the 1/6.

1/6 Yoda

You can mix and match 2 head parts and 2 different eye direction parts.

Two head options are included — a bald head and a white-haired head.

A total of 5 hand parts are included.

The cloak is made of soft flexible material, so it can be folded up.

A separate lightsaber holster for the waist is also included.

The staff fits into a dedicated hand part.

1/6 Yoda - Articulation of the limbs. Given that short, stocky build, it actually holds up pretty well..

Limb articulation.
Given that short, stocky build, it actually holds up pretty well..

There's also a gimmick that lets the shoulders swing forward.

Various poses

Lightsaber poses

You can get a nice variety of lightsaber poses out of it.

Alongside the 1/6 Stormtrooper.
Yoda is so small it's almost embarrassing to call them the same scale.

About the same size as the 1/12 R2D2.

1/6 Yoda - 1/12 Yoda. It's a fixed-pose figure with no articulation. (1/3)

1/12 Yoda.
It's a fixed-pose figure with no articulation.

View from below

Alongside the same-scale 1/12 Clone Trooper and Battle Droid.

Size comparison with the 1/12 Clone Trooper and the 1/6 and 1/12 Yoda figures.

Yoda, the Jedi Master, has been released by Bandai in 1/6 scale. It's actually a multi-scale kit that includes both a 1/6 and a 1/12 scale figure. Yoda is already portrayed as small in the films, but building him as a kit really drives home just how tiny he is. (See the various comparison photos.)

First off, two head options are provided — bald and white-haired — and you can combine either with two different eye direction parts. The sculpting on the facial expressions and wrinkles is really vivid and well done.

The cloak is made of a soft, flexible material, so you can fold or roll it up slightly. The short, stocky limbs are hidden underneath, but the articulation is actually better than it looks. In particular, being able to spread or fold the cloak like it's billowing open allows for a surprisingly wide variety of poses.

The 1/12 Yoda comes as a simple fixed-pose figure with no articulation, but it still shows off some charming little details. Since most of the other Star Wars figure kits have come out in 1/12 scale, it fits in nicely when displayed alongside the existing lineup. Sure, it's still incredibly tiny, but that's just how the character is, so there's not much you can do about it.

Anyway, I never really expected Yoda to get a plastic model kit, but true to Bandai form, it's come out looking really clean and well-made. On top of that, it can pull off more poses than you'd expect — making it a pretty unique kit that any die-hard Star Wars fan would have a hard time passing up. :-)

1/6 Yoda | 2017.3 | ¥3,000

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.