Welcome back to Custom Spotlight! Today we have for you a custom Clone Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi made by Jeff Jongko. We asked Jeff a few questions about his custom.
Why did you decide to make a custom of Clone Wars Obi-Wan?
“The imagery of the Clone Wars cartoon showing Obi-wan in Clone Trooper armour has always been a strong image; a melding of the classic white trooper look with the Jedi robe aesthetic. I had seen the large scale toys of this version and given that most Star Wars Pops did not cover this particular era, I wanted to bring those images to life as pops. I hope I get to do some of the other Clone Wars characters like Anakin, Ahsoka Tano. I certainly would love to make the villains such Darth Maul with cybernetic legs, Asajj Ventress and maybe even General Grievous. It would be nice to have a villain to pose against Obi-wan and the other heroes. A Pop-scale battle scene.“
How did you come up with this idea for Obi-Wan?
“I saw the large scale figure of this concept and I knew all I needed was a stormtrooper or clone trooper to make a Pop version happen. Also I had a Thor pop that had some damage on it, and I noticed he looked a lot like Obi-wan so the moment I got a Stormtrooper I got to work on it.
Matt Norris