Recommended music: Ville Vannemaa Cassiopeia – Bacta Tank Blues
Back at it this #StarWarsSaturday, from The Power of the Jedi line, it’s Luke Skywalker in Echo Base Bacta Tank!
After Luke is rescued during The Empire Strikes Back, he is placed in a Bacta Tank to help heal his recently sustained wounds. In the Star Wars universe, bacta is a magical fluid that treats injuries and speeds up the healing process, so dumping a medical patient into a huge tank seems to be the way to go.
Luke and the Bacta tank were released in the POTJ line way back in 2001, for what seems like a stellar price now – $9.99. Hasbro has yet to make this set for vintage-style figures, or Black Series scale, but you’ll never need another one as far as 1/18 scale goes.
While the Luke-in-his-bacta-diaper figure isn’t anything too impressive, it doesn’t need to be, and will look just fine if you decide to submerge him in water or any other clear bubbly liquid. Hasbro had the foresight to include a small hose so you can literally blow air into the tube to simulate Luke’s underwater breathing.
There is also a small platform attached to the tank that is meant for an FX-7 figure (who had yet to receive a modern figure at the time of this set’s release), though it is technically too far away for the medical droid to attach whatever he does to the tank as seen in his brief seconds of screen time. The Medical Diagnostic Computer [see last week’s 2-1B post] came from this set but should not be placed on the platform, even though that is what Hasbro showed on the package.😜
The Empire Strikes Back turned 45 years old last month! I “figure” there’ll be a new Episode V figure to share here for the rest of the year. Happy 45 years of ESB!
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