{"id":62008,"date":"2018-09-14T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T23:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=62008"},"modified":"2018-11-16T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:18:31","slug":"toy-of-the-week-podcast-star-wars-the-black-series-admiral-piett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/toy-of-the-week-podcast-star-wars-the-black-series-admiral-piett\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy of the Week Podcast: Star Wars The Black Series Admiral Piett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200x630_toyofweek_91418-640x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200x630_toyofweek_91418-640x336.jpg 640w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200x630_toyofweek_91418-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200x630_toyofweek_91418-660x347.jpg 660w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200x630_toyofweek_91418-380x200.jpg 380w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200x630_toyofweek_91418-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200x630_toyofweek_91418.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Piett, please! This online exclusive is a knockout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know that the actor who played Admiral Piett was the only Imperial officer to appear in bot<em>h The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> and <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>? As one of the most hated (or loved, depending on how you feel about the Galactic Empire) characters in the <em>Star Wars<\/em> canon, this guy\u2019s finally getting his own exclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s right! This week Adam takes a look at the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/hse2813?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=product?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Admiral Piett 6-inch figure<\/a>. As an online exclusive, this guy comes in the patented black-and-red box and features a removable hat and a blaster, which may actually be an entirely new design. While the lower body is taken directly from Grand Moff Tarkin, the upper torso, hands, and head are entirely new sculpts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in proper Black Series style, the likeness is spot on. Featuring a highly detailed head sculpt, fine line work, and tons of poseability, this figure is proof positive that the <em>Star Wars<\/em> line has come a long way. In fact, Piett here sports roughly 26 points of articulation, putting him on par with the latest Tarkin release &#8211; only this one ditches the droid for a cool hat and blaster. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an online shared exclusive, Piett is only available at specific retailers. And because he wasn\u2019t mass produced, he may not be available for long. To learn more about this awesome admiral, be sure to have a listen to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/podcast?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Toy of the Week Podcast<\/a> below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62010 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Star-Wars-The-Black-Series-Admiral-Piett-6-Inch-Action-Figure-Exclusive-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Star-Wars-The-Black-Series-Admiral-Piett-6-Inch-Action-Figure-Exclusive-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Star-Wars-The-Black-Series-Admiral-Piett-6-Inch-Action-Figure-Exclusive-380x380.jpg 380w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Star-Wars-The-Black-Series-Admiral-Piett-6-Inch-Action-Figure-Exclusive-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Star-Wars-The-Black-Series-Admiral-Piett-6-Inch-Action-Figure-Exclusive.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-62008-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.entertainmentearth.com\/assets\/audios\/edd30e9eecc244b1b7c258388ff0fc8f.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.entertainmentearth.com\/assets\/audios\/edd30e9eecc244b1b7c258388ff0fc8f.mp3\">https:\/\/media.entertainmentearth.com\/assets\/audios\/edd30e9eecc244b1b7c258388ff0fc8f.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piett, please! This online exclusive is a knockout. Did you know that the actor who played Admiral Piett was the only Imperial officer to appear in both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi? As one of the most hated (or loved, depending on how you feel about the Galactic Empire) characters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":62015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,158,1197,390],"tags":[419,755,5530],"yst_prominent_words":[42152,42150,36721,9152,31700,5986,5979,15646,6936,5949,7056,42755,42151,5780,5779,42756,5781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62008"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62276,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62008\/revisions\/62276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62008"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}