"Battle Damaged" X-Wing Fighter

Continuing the last post's "battle damaged" theme, here is the Battle Damaged X-Wing Fighter. Unfortunately the box is pretty trashed (battle damaged?), but as you'll see, the toy itself is very nice, and the set even includes the cardboard insert. It's a good thing too, as without the insert the box would barely hold itself together without collapsing!

The box side has another nice tableau featuring some of the Hoth rebels, and a picture demonstrating the retractable landing gear.

Another side panel has a cool pic with Bespin Luke, Chewie and the droids.

Demonstration of S-foil deployment and retraction.

As noted above, this toy came with the cardboard insert. I'm always impressed with how cleverly designed these die-cut cardboard pieces were.

Here's how the X-Wing fits into the insert.

Tableau time! Bespin Luke waves a greeting to Chewbacca and the droids. Note the distinct lack of "battle damage" on the ship... I guess the original owner couldn't bring him- or herself to apply those stickers.

Luke popping up the canopy as in the tableau photo. Interesting that all of the tableaux show the X-Wing with S-foils deployed, even though the ship is sitting on the ground.

Here's the "Hoth" tableau, replicated. Nice usage of the Hoth-themed figures that by the Jedi era, had been in general release for awhile.

Close-up of Luke having a wave...

And of the rest seeing him off.

The box front tableau - Luke arrives on Dagobah, greeted by Yoda and the (ghost of?) Ben Kenobi. 

Interesting that while Yoda seems to have a plethora of variations (not only snake colour, but also eye colour, eye shape, etc. etc.), Ben only has three - grey hair, white hair, and double-telescoping saber. I have two out of the three variations in my collection, you can probably guess the one I'm missing :-)

A good look here at the main differences between the Battle Damaged X-Wing and the original - the BD version is cast in grey plastic (as opposed to the white of the original) and its canopy had a noticeable smoke tint, quite different from the clear (or more likely nowadays, yellowed) canopy of the original release ship.

I really enjoyed setting up the tableaux on this one, it seems like some boxed toys featured more "play images" than others and the BD X-Wing certainly does that. I've had this in my collection for awhile but have only just gotten around to featuring it, but despite not owning this toy myself as a child, I think I prefer it to the original, just for the more realistic grey colour and the cool smoked canopy. The battle-damage stickers would just be icing on the cake. An awesome toy all around!