Well these guys were originally just called General Grievous' bodyguards. Now they are Magnaguards. Either way they are kickass droids that almost kind of beat the General himself in cool-lookingness. I got two of them when Sith came out though I think there are more updated sculpts with better articulation and the Clone Wars version is supposedly pretty great though I never saw one. Pretty great photo, eh? No photoshop, thank you very much! Just mad laser pointer skills.
Nowadays everyone calls them Gonk Droids which is a way funner name, but back in the day this was just plain old Power Droid. Though I had one as a kid this one is actually from an Ebay auction I won. It's in pretty good shape. Kind of a goofy looking guy, but cute too. I wonder if Hasbro ever updated it?
I'm sending these guys to the Outer Rim planet of Quebec today. Trading them away for a Spacetrooper and a Jawa. Darth Bane obviously doesn't actually wear Clone armour but I never really liked the yellowy gold translucent armour plates he came with. Kind of a lame custom. The droid came with Kit Fisto and is actually the only astromech I have with the swiveling antenna in out thing. And now I don't have any! Oh well. Sometimes you gotta make the trades.
FX6 isn't the kind of droid you need armies of, but I had to get one since it is such a cool throwback to FX7, a figure I had a lot of fun with in my halcyon years as a cub. FX7 didn't do much but he had all those little arms that came out and I spent an inordinate amount of time with those arms. FX6 has even more arms! And scary, creepy arms too. He's like a horror medical droid, fitting for a bot who worked on Darth Vader. He's a little spikier, a little darker, with those spooky red and green mystery liquids than sterile old FX7. He looks great. For reasons I can't fathom, though, he has three little nodules on his base so he has a hard time standing up straight. Uhh- if there's one thing a figure with a flat base should be able to do, it's stand up straight! Unless they roll . . . let me check. Nope. So not sure why they screwed that up. But otherwise, I dig it.
R2-D2 it is you it is . . . wait what? Sure it is! It's the McQuarrie concept versions of everyone's favorite droids. R2 looks like he's freaking out because of his flailing appendages but otherwise is very cool. I like his more metal-looking finish. Rolling garbage can for sure. Threepio looks like he wandered off the set of Metropolis. Which was the general idea that McQuarrie wanted to reference in his famous concept painting. Anyways these guys were packaged together as convention exclusives and probably fairly limited in numbers, but I bought them from a Snowtrooper. And opened them up! These were the droids I was looking for, you know. NOt all of us get to go to fancy conventions whenever they feel like it.
I guess this is Kit Fisto's astromech (at least he came with Kit Fisto in a Droid Factory 2 pack). As such you would expect it to be submersible. Well, why not? If they can fly I am sure they can zoom around like a little submarine! Too bad they never put that in that episode of the microseries. Which was the best episode ever btw. It would not have been improved by adding a little astromech to it, come to think of it. The best thing about this guy is the little antenna that comes in and out when you rotate his head. His coloring seems kind of strange for Star Wars but whatever. Yesterday I saw a puke green version of my car so these things happen.
It's hard to imagine a bounty hunter with C-3PO's awkward gait. But at least 4-LOM looks tougher than 3P0. And he's got a waaaay bigger blaster. As figures go, Lommy there is pretty decent. Got your basic protocol droid body with the waist swivel thing, which is fine. And the cool bug head looks great, as does the paint app. But all he did was stand there in Empire Strikes Back- I guess the same could be said about Bossk and the others. At least you can imagine Bossk chasing down an escaped convict. Oh well. I'm sure 4-LOM captured some bounties in his day. Maybe he does more of an undercover thing.
Too bad this guy doesn't transform into a roller droid. But otherwise it looks just fine. It has slots for laser missile firing action, but the laser missiles always detract from the realism of a figure so no thanks. Anyways, I wish the droids were all just a touch cooler and then I would invest more in building up an army to go against all the clones I have.
So here are a bunch of guys that are permanently stuck in a certain pose. Handy for dioramas and such, and for ambushing hapless battle droids. Because as if two troopers aren't enough look up! Oh no! Two more cloneys ready to do some sniping!
Anyways, I got these guys from a Snowtrooper and they were cheap- like 2 bucks each so can't complain about that. I didn't think they were all worth their own entry, and for that matter neither is a battle droid so here you go all of them at once! Even Pawlus didn't care for them that much.
I'm starting to acquire a whole mess of droids, and I have no idea what their names are. I had to look it up for this guy here- R7-T1. He's my favorite astromech so far, just because he's so bright and vibrant. Kind of like a concept R2-D2 or maybe when you have a biopic of people you know and they choose actors who are close but not quite bang on, that's what R7 is. "Now starring in A Droid's Life, R7-T1 as R2-D2!" He came in little bits packed in with the Legacy Wave 2 figures so I have a whole one and a few spare parts. Here's Pawlus' take on the character, looks like we agree on this one.
