Dash Rendar Action Figure

The main character from the Shadows of the Empire video game and major role in the novel, this is smuggler Dash Rendar. This figure comes with an unusual blaster that is supported by a back pack as seen below.

Prince Xizor Action Figure

Continuing with the Shadows of the Empire theme from yesterday's post I thought I would blog this Prince Xizor action figure tonight. Xizor was the leader of the Black Sun, a galaxy wide crime syndicate. Xizor plays one of the main antagonists in the story and is able to hold his own alongside Vader and the Emperor .

A pretty cool figure with a great face sculpt, however I don't recall the weird energy fan weapons he's holding being used in the book.

Shadows of the Empire Video Game

As mentioned in the previous post this is the game version of Shadows of the Empire. In the game you get to play as Dash Rendar and follow him through his arc of the story. The game includes flying sequences and ground based shooting as Dash.

I didn't play this game at the time, in fact I first played it only a couple of years ago and never really got into it. I'm a big fan of the book so maybe I ought to give this one another try.

EU: Shadows of the Empire

Easily one of the best Star Wars novels, Shadows of the Empire takes place between ESB and ROTJ, it was part of multimedia project similar to the Clone Wars that consisted of this novel, two comic series, a toy line, a video game and a soundtrack even though there was no movie.

The book follows Luke, Leia, Lando and Chewie and introduces two very popular new characters, Dash Rendar and Prince Xizor. I'll say a bit more about both of them when I come to post my action figures of them.

Titanium Venator-class Star Destroyer

Seen in ROTS and TCW, this is a Venator-class Star Destroyer also known as a Republic Cruiser or a Jedi Cruiser and is a fore-runner to the classic Star Destroyers seen in the original trilogy.