These aren't the ones that say funny things.
For a prequel defender, except Attack of the Clones the only movie worse than The Last Jedi, I am missing a ton of droids. Let's fix that! Here's the
Super Battle Droid for starters, and, spoilers, maybe someone else will be coming home this March!
Well, the Super Battle Droid has an
awkward design, but I don't think it's quite a perfect likeness. For starters, I'm more partial to the
exaggerated proportions of the Clone Wars show, because in that show they looked like hulking chunks of Metal ready to rain down pain on their enemies. A lot of the detail from the movies is here, it's just that it doesn't look as sharp as he does in the show, and I think the grey they chose to cast him in doesn't make him look as metallic as he did in the movies, so he ends up looking like a
toy and not like a droid. Since he has so little paint already, maybe a black wash could've helped highlight all the edges in his design? Maybe. He comes with a single blaster accessory for his right arm. It's pretty cool.
I accidentally realized that you can take off his head, and I
didn't notice at the time, but you can also take away the front of his chest, like in the Republic Commando game! Pretty cool feature. I feel like once I removed it for the first time, the chest piece never stayed in place very firmly, but once you put the head back in it locks it in place, so no worries there. And for such a little gimmick... his insides are very nicely sculpted, and he has some added paint apps in there too... so I can't be
too hard on the guy. The Black Series team
did try.
He has a small ball jointed ab-crunch, but he doesn't get much range beyond turning around. His elbow joints are a circular joint that can be rotated, and the forearms can be rotated too for extra articulation. The knee joins have similar engineering, but due to the way the legs are sculpted you can't turn them, so don't try. The pegs on the elbow joints are
TINY, so be careful! His right elbow is a bit tight, so I can tell the forearm peg is getting stressed, but since the thing swivels, I don't think I'll loose much beyond the arm bend if I have to superglue it back on. While the articulation isn't spectacular, it's not like this android was very nimble anyways, so I
can't fault it for that.
In my figure's case, his hip joint is slightly off centered. I've managed to push the right hip back in, but it eventually goes out again. Bummer, I know it's not a big deal, but I just can't ignore the
off-centered legs! He is a bit taller than Bucky Cap.
He is alright, y'know? I honestly don't think much else could've been done with him. Maybe cast it in a more appropriate grey, make the pegs a bit thicker? I think they did the
most that they could with him, and even added the extra innards for battle damage. So while it's not the most exciting action figure ever, he gets the job done.
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