For the love of Astromechs!!

This week I purchased the new Wal-Mart Exclusive Royal Starship Droid Pack form the Discover The Force collection. These were pretty tough to come by, and without the help of my fellow collector's from KSWCC (Kentucky Star Wars Collector's Club) I would not have this set in my possession at the moment. These seem to be kind of hard to come by right now! I guess I'm not the only one who has a soft spot for the little droids.

These droids were featured near the beginning of Episode I "The Phantom Menace," as they were called into action to fix the queen's royal starship when it had become damaged by blaster fire. Each droid was seen scurrying to the top of the starship, while it was flying in space, to service the ailing ship.

  One by one each of these droids, heroes all, were blasted off of the ship "into oblivion" by blaster fire from The Trade Federation, with the exception of the hero-of-them-all - R2-D2 - who once again saved the day!

Each droid in this set is made from B.A.D. (Build-A-Droid) parts that was originally a concept that was offered a couple of years back by Hasbro wherein you could collect one piece of a droid per regular action figure to create one standard droid. For instance, an astromech was usually broken down into five parts : the dome, the body canister, left leg, right leg, and center foot). If there was a wave of action figures (usually five in a given wave), and you collected all of the figures from that wave, you were rewarded by being able to build an astromech, and creating a sixth figure for the wave.

Ummmm....did that make sense??

I hope so. :)

One of the great things about this set is that we now have the long awaited R2-D2 utilizing the B.A.D. concept! There have been many others, but never R2, so it's great to add him with his brothers in the B.A.D. mold!