2018 Droid Factory R4-BOO18 (Halloween Event)

[Jeff]

I went ahead and bought one for $24 shipped... it's $6 or so more than the app would be, but it seemed worth $6 to just be done thinking about it.

Thanks once again to Rob jumping early and the rest of us benefitting - 


Props to Jayson for the heads up - this little guy is on the ShopDisney app now.  Search 'halloween droid' and he pops up.  Ordered mine for just under $18 shipped to my door.

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[Rob]

Thanks once again to Rob jumping early and the rest of us benefitting - 

I had feeling that was coming.

At least this time I was pretty sure of what I was doing. 

[Phrubruh]

Just received mine R4-Boo18. I think he could use a little weathering. The white top makes him look a little unfinished. He includes a removable candy corn just like the mistletoe from last year.

[Nicklab]

I normally like just about ANY astromech droid.  But this paint scheme was just too much for me.

[Rob]

Yeah it's a dud.

Which kind of adds to the candy corn authenticity if you think about it.

[Jesse James]

Disagree totally.  The fact it’s a Bespin droid and it has these goofy yellow orange white colors and simplicity makes it so awesomely Bespin to me!  It’s clean, it’s retro colors...  I love it!

Candy corn sucks though.

[Nicklab]

Candy corn is most definitely The Suck.

The only way that I could find a way to put this R4 unit into a Bespin diorama?  If the Cloud Car had a droid socket.

[Rob]

Disagree totally.  The fact it’s a Bespin droid and it has these goofy yellow orange white colors and simplicity makes it so awesomely Bespin to me!  It’s clean, it’s retro colors...  I love it!

Candy corn sucks though.

What do you mean the 'fact' that it's a Bespin droid?  This thing doesn't actually appear in the movie does it?

[Jeff]

What do you mean the 'fact' that it's a Bespin droid?

Disney gives all these droids a back-story.  Last year's Halloween droid worked for Darth Maul on Dathomir.  This year's Halloween droid works for the residents of Cloud City -

[Rob]

Ah, so it's like fake canon.  Got it.

I just opened mine and tossed the packaging without reading it. 

[Matt_Fury]

Finally Willrow Hood has a droid companion.  If the screen was just a little wider, he would have been on screen!

[Jesse James]

No clue if it is canon or not.  Disney made it so it may well be canon now. 🤷‍♂️

[Nicklab]

If they do that?  Do an updated Twin Pod Cloud Car with a droid socket!!!!

[Jesse James]

Hmmm I have a mountain of Saga CCs...  that might be an interesting CC variant?🤔

[Jayson]

They have made the droid only available for purchase in store now. (No longer through the site or app).