This is a pretty cool offering for a Comic Con exclusive. I get why they would make this the SDCC 2018 exclusive. After all this is the year that they relaunched the Vintage Collection, so why not celebrate the Vintage Collection? And calling it a comic pack ties into the name of Comic Con. I know there are a lot of people that would like Comic Con to get back to its roots, and this at least plays to that sentiment.
I think that I had mentioned a while back that I'd like to see these droids offered up alongside Dr. Aphra. I don't know that they would have been great offerings for the general release line because of the somewhat narrower audience that the comics have. But they are some cool droids!
Correct it’s the only way to get the droids and I don’t think there are any BAD parts that come close to even 0-0-0’s colors and things. I have the Black 3po from the park and it looks really nothing like that. Clearly the astromech is equally impossible at the park too.
When I was at Disney I built an all black Threepio that was inspired by 0-0-0. But it's significantly different from what's being offered in this set. And I'm totally cool with that, because now the black Threepio I built can be an Imperial or First Order droid.