I managed to score mine from Amazon Warehouse Deals for under $90, and at that price, I couldn't be more pleased with what I got. There's no way I would've paid $170 for a piece of plastic, but at like $87, it seemed more reasonable, if you can call anything about a married man in his forties collecting Star Wars toys "reasonable", that is.



Anyway...



I have a small recording studio in my home where I love to adorn the walls with Black Series stuff. I've been collecting it since early 2014, so I'm no stranger or noob to the line. When I saw the tie fighter in pictures at its announcement, I knew I'd have it someday. It was inevitable.



Amazon's Warehouse packed it well inside a brown box. The product box I got was minimally scuffed and scraped. I really didn't care about the box so much as its contents, which were fine - aside from some wing warp, which seems pretty much par for the course with these. I've seen worse examples of it than the tie fighter I received, so, again, at the price I got it at, I'm satisfied.



When people write in reviews that you can't appreciate how LARGE this thing is in pictures - listen to them. It's bigger than you think it is. It's HUGE. For my small room, my solution for displaying it was to suspend it from the ceiling. Word of advice: the wings can't hold its weight without buckling. If you look at the picture I included with this review, there's enough room where the wings connect to the fuselage to run wire through and the "gears" will keep it steady. I initially tried drilling out 1/16" holes in the corners of the wings to suspend it and found out the hard way it wouldn't work. Oh, I know, I ruined the resale value, right? Boo-frickity-hoo. I really don't care. I don't buy these toys with the blind hope of reselling at them at massive profits years later. I buy them because I like 'em. They're the toys I WANTED when I was eight years old and never got. The Kenner stuff was nice, but didn't have nearly the level of detail these things have.



Anyway, I digress.



Another flaw with the tie fighter is getting the figure(s) seated inside. Be prepared to partially disassemble and remove the seat if you want to display your pilots manning the controls of this beast. It's just easier to do it this way. And yeah, I bought an extra pilot to sit shotgun inside. It's almost a prerequisite with this thing.



Overall, I dig it. Even if I had more room in here, I'd probably still suspend it from the ceiling. It looks impressive as hell swooping down to strafe my desk!