Hondo Ohnaka’s Slightly-Used Droid Depot
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Times must be tough when Disney starts selling park exclusive merch to us fly over fans without us having to leave the state...or even the couch! Some of these droid sets I have picked up at a local Disney Store, others on their website. Some of them were deals...what?! Who would have thought merch from “The Last Jedi” wouldn’t fly off the shelves? Oh, Rian...still subverting our expectations....Anyway, Hondo Ohnaka (a recent Vintage Collection pick-up that I only really bought because of his neat animatronic at Galaxy’s Edge) is here to showcase these new droids...along with my entire collection of astromechs from years of collecting!
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| Two Frankensteined droids from extra droid parts. Droid: “Kill Meee....” |
Let’s get Last Jedi out of the way...here are the all green and white resistance bots that came sold as a set. Not sure where they appear in the movie. Trailing Holdo, carrying her royal highness’s matched luggage in the background while she is scolding Poe, no doubt.
Next, some of the very few figures produced for Rise of Skywalker. (Thanks, again Rian...you too, Kathy!) The blues aren’t that exciting, but the metallic sheen is nice. Red and white has my fave color scheme...reminiscent of R5-D4. D-O is a nice pack-in, but not when he’s taking the place of what should be a droid with more plastic to it. Outside of these and returning characters, I think the only other new figure from this movie was Zori Bliss? Sad...at least we have The Mandalorian, right?
BB-H20 was a Disney Shop online pick-up. He’s different than the previous BBs from Target. He has a port for customization on top of his head, but not much head motion due to a peg system. The ball splits in two to reveal a removable silver do-dad. This is his “Weeble-Wobble” system: a weight that allows him to weeble and wobble but not fall down. Because of this, he doesn’t have a flat spot on his ball for support like the others do. Interesting...I wonder if this is the set up they have at the Disney parks’ build a droid area?
After complaining about missing out on them at Target in my area, two more Target stops way outside of town nabbed me the rest of their current exclusives. Red has an extra dome I have misplaced. Both the jets and serving tray have been borrowed from older R2-D2 releases. The Halloween Special, as I call him, is obviously my favorite. I dig his colors and his semi-translucent dome.
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| The doomed crew of the Royal Naboo Starship - Red: “Wait, you have the wrong Red!!!” |
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| The guy with the triangle eye in the front might be my fave. |
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| “It’s not the years, honey...it’s the mileage.” |
Bucket was missing from the group because I covered him previously...and he’s on Star Tours Duty with Captain REX:
And you can look back at my ever-growing BB unit collection:
