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The Bantha with Tusken Raiders Battle Pack comes with a Tusken Raider rider, a Tusken Raider with a masiff and a Tusken Raider mother with child. The complete ensemble is more of an AOTC toy than an A New Hope one and together creates something along the lines of the Tusken Raider camp on Tatooine which Anakin ambushes in the dead of night to save his mother Shmi.

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I am cheating here as strictly speaking I don't own this 30th Anniversary Collection Bantha with Tusken Raiders Battle Pack. There is also a Power of the Force Bantha with Rider which is essentially the same Bantha but with a more primitive Power of the Force figure and this is the one that I own. I also have the figures from the Battle Pack however including the 30th Anniversary Collection Tusken Raider rider, the Saga Series Tusken Raider with Child and Tusken Raider with massiff. It's admittedly a bit cheeky of me to include this amongst the 30th anniversary Collection figures I'm cataloguing, but what the hell.

The Power of the Force rider is rather firmly attached to the Bantha so I've just stood the 30th Anniversary Collection Tusken Raider rider at the side of the Bantha for illustration purposes. He's very well articulated and you can put him into the classic Tusken Raider rage position from A New Hope quite convincingly.

Whichever of the two Bantha sets you happen to possess the real pleasure of them resides in the recreation of scenes from A New Hope. I can quite happily put the Saga Series Tusken Raider mother and child and the Tusken Raider with massiff to one side and just imagine the Bantha with the rider about to dismount as they appear in the sights of Luke's binoculars as he is about to be attacked by the angry wailing Tusken Raider and given a good old thrashing with a Gaderffii stick.

Note: The Bantha on its own with just a rider has the old 1996 mould figure with the right hand not tooled out. This figure has a flowing beige cloth cloak front and back. The Bantha Battle Pack with mother and child and the Raider with masiff has a more detailed rider with a big brown cloak and far superior mould and articulation.

The Tusken Raider rider that comes with this Battle Pack is a vast improvement over its Power of the Force predecessor and what's more with the extra articulation you can position him in a really convincing emulation of the Tusken Raider wailing and shaking his arms in the air from the scene in A New Hope. The Tusken Raider has really good detailing especially on his bandolier and belt.

See my article on Banthas, Sand People, Gaderffii Sticks and Lucas's Sources for Tatooine here.

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