2022 Droid Factory - Mandalorian Set

[Matt_Fury]

A website I wasn’t familiar with called MDS collectibles has these for $46.99 plus shipping.  It was $58 all in so I bit. 

Now on to those mystery crates…

Got a link Rob?

**Edit** Nevermind found it!

[Ryan]

A website I wasn’t familiar with called MDS collectibles has these for $46.99 plus shipping.  It was $58 all in so I bit. 

Now on to those mystery crates…

Got a link Rob?

**Edit** Nevermind found it!

Thanks fellas, I bit on this one too. $59.11 total for me.

[Matt_Fury]

It breaks down to about $15 per figure.  Not a bad price.

[Matt_Fury]

This set arrived yesterday so naturally, I made a review.

You can watch it here.

[Ryan]

Got mine the other day too. Still have it boxed, but overall looks to be a pretty nice set.

Great review Matt! Except for the part where you said you are moving to Florida. 

[Matt_Fury]

Got mine the other day too. Still have it boxed, but overall looks to be a pretty nice set.

Great review Matt! Except for the part where you said you are moving to Florida. 

The company I work for is expanding and if I don't move my family to Merritt Island I'll end up getting divorced!   

[P-Siddy]

And so close to Orlando!

[Matt_Fury]

My kids get a two week break in October so we went to Merritt Island to check it out.  We fell in love with the place and the kids even saw the launch of the Lucy probe!

We did take a couple of trips to Orlando to go to Lego Land and a day at Disney Hollywood studios so we finally got to go on Rise of the Resistance (it wasn't open in 2019 when we went to Disneyland).  I went to school at UCF for a while and it was fun to go back.

[Jeff]

The way these sets are "hit or miss" when it comes to ShopDisney is so frustrating.  I'm never sure if I should just grab one on ebay and be done or wait for ShopDisney to maybe get them posted someday. 

I watched the price on these slowly creep up on ebay and still no sign of ShopDisney ever getting them, so I finally pulled the trigger on a set for about $63 with tax/shipping.  Glad to have this set secured and en route, but frustrating that these continue to be such a crap shoot on whether they will come to ShopDisney or not.

[Matt_Fury]

I share in your frustration Jeff.  Hopefully Rob gave us another way to get these types of figures with MDS Collectibles.

[Rob]

Totally agreed.  Constantly having to flip a coin about whether I should overpay now to avoid REALLY overpaying later, or wait to get it at retail pricing is pretty obnoxious. 

[Ryan]

I share in your frustration Jeff.  Hopefully Rob gave us another way to get these types of figures with MDS Collectibles.

Looks like the Mando set is already sold out at MDS. I wonder how often they go to the park to stock up?

I finally got mine open tonight. I would have loved a clear stand for the security droid, rather than the silver one. And even though I never will likely display him this way, I wish they included two extra regular astromech legs for the barge droid. But all in all it's a nice set. I'm glad I was able to grab this one.

[Jeff]

Got my Mando set and man, that MA-13 droid is way taller than I was thinking he'd be. 

Also interesting that the new droid dome (N0-AH) seems to have some sort of panel in the side of his head that looks like it could be removable... wonder what that's for or where we will see this dome design again down the road?

[Nicklab]

I've been re-watching The Mandalorian and finally spotted NO-AH in "The Marshal" on the sandcrawler.  After you mentioned the panel, I popped off the dome, Jeff.  It looks like there might be a couple of different things that can be done with this particular dome - the possible panel on the side is one, and there might be a port for another manipulator / tool near the top of the dome as well.  I'm just not sure what the plan is for either of those, but it looks like they're trying to keep their options open.

[Jeff]

Also interesting that the new droid dome (N0-AH) seems to have some sort of panel in the side of his head that looks like it could be removable... wonder what that's for or where we will see this dome design again down the road?

It looks like there might be a couple of different things that can be done with this particular dome - the possible panel on the side is one, and there might be a port for another manipulator / tool near the top of the dome as well.  I'm just not sure what the plan is for either of those, but it looks like they're trying to keep their options open.

I guess we didn't have to wait long for our answer... looks like the new SK-620 has the new dome with a side antenna on his head.