While oft used, you better believe that “these are the droids you’re looking for” is the perfect lead-in to this new exclusive Star Wars action figure set.
Happy Force Friday, everyone! My, there is a LOT of new Star Wars product available as of today, did you stay up until midnight to get what you wanted? Well, while most of the new items focus on Rogue One, we have an early look at some slick new droids that are exclusive to our pals at Entertainment Earth. Shipping in November, this sextet of Astromechs is gunning to make your SW collection more colorful, while finally giving us some very in-demand R2-lookalikes.
Here are the details, straight from the Entertainment Earth product page:
Star Wars Astromech Droids 3 3/4-Inch Figures – EE Exclusive
Entertainment Earth Exclusive!
Among our most beloved exclusive action figure sets were two classic packages of droids, so on the 10th anniversary of their release we conspired with Hasbro to bring you even more robot action!
Six awesome robots from Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, and The Clone Wars!
These figures come packaged in a huge R2-D2 shaped box – it stands over 16-inches tall!
Both Jabba’s bartender and R2-C2 include a drink dispenser, drink tray harness, and seven glasses for your alien figures!
All six robots boast fantastic rolling wheels!
Entertainment Earth Exclusive! These figures will make your diodes tingle! The droids you are looking for are here. Celebrating the entire Star Warssaga and the 10th anniversary of our super-popular, sold-out, 2006 exclusive astromech droid sets, this amazing new Star Wars action figure gift set will knock your socks off! The sextet of astromech droids comes to you in a specially designed R2-D2-shaped box featuring these six 3 3/4 -inch scale action figures. Each droid sports multiple points of articulation, similar to the collector-favorite figures of The Vintage Collection. Dating back as early as the 1977 version of the original Star Wars movie, and all the way to the recent The Clone Wars animated series, this set has robots with personality you won’t want to live without. Each figure includes rolling wheels on their feet, plus jointed domes, ankles, shoulders, and maybe even a few other surprises.
Jabba’s bartender was never given an official name in the books or movies, but his design may remind you of some Earth-based beverages. With his drink dispenser, seven glasses, and a tray harness, this never-before-fully-seen droid served aboard Jabba the Hutt’s sail barge. Also, if you look to the shadows, you may find him in Return of the Jedi. We recommend skipping the shadows and getting one of our droids to keep on your desk and another in your Jabba’s palace dioramas and playsets (sold separately).
Serving the Shadow Squadron during The Clone Wars,R7-F5 appeared briefly in the episode “Shadow of Malevolence.” Ideally suited for a Y-Wing bomber, this diminutive orange droid will look fantastic with the rest of your Grand Army of the Republic, or in your droid pool.
Think pink with D-Squad’s own QT-KT. Aayla Secura’s pink droid had a special magnet and was sent into enemy territory to recover a secret encryption module for the Republic. Take special note of the top of her dome, as there are yellow and black markers indicating where special upgrades were placed during her time as a spy. You can meet her during several episodes of The Clone Wars.
Plo Koon’s R7-D4 makes his movie action figure line debut here! He’s a dark maroon color with a gray and white highlights. This droid makes six appearances on The Clone Wars.
Everything’s gonna be all right with R2-C2 and a moon pie. We expect you may find both in the home of Black Sun crime lord Ziro the Hutt. This dapper dispenser of potent portable potables is decorated with Black Sun tattoos in gray, blue, and red. There are no other robots quite like him in the galaxy, plus he includes everything you need to help aliens get their drink on at a snazzy underground party. You’ll find him in The Clone Wars movie, but the toy can only be found here.
Rounding out the collection is R2-A5. If he looks familiar, he should. You first saw him in 1977! This white and green robot was seen rolling around Mos Eisley near Luke’s landspeeder when the Imperial Sandtroopers and Stormtroopers came to ask about various droids they were looking for. You know how that story ends, but did you also know that this figure represents a droid design that was removed from the movie during the Special Edition edits of 1997? It’s true! Bring home a lost piece of movie history with this remarkable figure and the entire exclusive action figure set.
I really like the overall variety in color and background for the droids in this set as there really is something for just about everyone. Visually speaking, QT-KT and R2-C2 are my runway favorites, but my four year-old daughter flipped her wig over R2-A5 because she loves green and has been asking me for a “green R2” for quite awhile now. However, the serious 3 3/4 Star Wars collector gets a lot of mileage out of this because there is ANH, ROTJ, and Clone Wars representation here, so the Astromech gamut has certainly been run.
Plus, the R2-D2 Astromech droid design is so iconic at this point, and while BB-8 was definitely as scene-stealer in The Force Awakens, his design has not permeated the full SW universe yet, so the R2 units still reigns supreme. Sure, these all share the same sculpts (though, R2-C2 and Jabba’s bartender also get the appropriate drink servers), but the sculpt itself is really nice, and the functionality is great for such small pieces with limited opportunity for complex movement due to the Astromech design. I continue to LOVE the wheels on the feet of these guys and that feature should be present on all mechs going forward.
What is really cool about this set, at least to me, is the color variety, and it is not just because I like colorful toys with interesting paint schemes. This set helps to remind me that Astromechs are a blank palette so to speak, and I equate the X-Wing flyboys customizing their droids to how jet pilots get paintings on the nose of their planes. Sure, the color might be there to be uniform to their function, but creative Astromech owners make sure their personal droids and unique. So, in essence, I can never have enough of these and I welcome any new paint schemes.
Finally, Hasbro has been upping their game lately with their figure packaging, and this set is a good example of some of the coolest they have done for a non-convention release yet. Modeled after the Astromech form and it is about as endearing as cardboard and plastic can be. Now, due to the odd shape, I can see while this *probably* would not work at a store like Target or Toys R Us, but for this release it is really pretty perfect. I am glad that EE has given us the full detail on each of the figures (as quoted above) because there is not enough room on the back for all of the bios, but the full lineup is featured via pictures.
So what are you waiting for? Head on over to EE and get your set pre-ordered today, and come November, these are the droids you will be looking for!
I’ll probably see if my local comic shop has it at some point.
Now I really want some taffy.
Hey Veeb… this set’s been available at EE for quite a while.