Hello, everyone! I've decided to do a sort of review of the first Stars set I got, the Rahkshi.
The build is really pretty simple, although the innovation of using an arm/leg piece to give the Rahkshi the bent-backed look was a cool one.
Here is the completed set:


Here is a side view:


And a back view, showing how the spine connects to the rest of the set:


Close-up of the front, showing the head's connection to the spine. This does make the head less poseable (it can't look up or down very well), but it does look pretty cool, I think.


The head and the spine, however, are rather . . . squishy.



The set is really not very poseable, due to the staff being connected as it is, so I made a very slight modification which works much better:


How does this fellow stack up to an older Rahkshi? Well, as you can see, he's a runt:

"Are you my mother?"


One of the things that stood out about the old Rahkshi, I think, was their intimidating size. They were taller than a Toa Nuva!


This Rahkshi, of course, isn't.


But comparing this yellow guy to Tahu Nuva isn't quite fair--after all, the new Tahu is only as big as an Agori/Av-Matoran, right? Sadly, the Rahkshi is even shorter than one of these:


Final thoughts: The set is a decent one. It may not be the tall, thin, intimidating Rahkshi of yesteryear, but it actually resembles the Rahkshi in Mask of Light quite a bit, I think, with its spine-head connection and its bulkiness. It looks more hunched and bestial than the old sets, as well, and it makes good use of the Agori construction. Nevertheless, I would only recommend it if you're getting the other Stars, and need a villain on the small scale (though I would recommend Nektann over the Rahkshi).