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Collectibles => Disney Parks Droid Factory => Topic started by: indysolo007 on September 1, 2017, 10:53 AM
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First saw this on a site yesterday and popping up on eBay today. Disney merchandise line would not sell it over the phone and not on the app yet. I really want one though!
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I suppose it was only a matter of time before we got 9 million BB droids... Looking at those four, none of them have the charm or visual interest that BB-8 does.
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NICE! I definitely like that BB-9E.
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I know at least 3 are in the movie from what I've read
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I know at least 3 are in the movie from what I've read
The lower right corner of the packaging implies that they all are.
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Too bad this kind of stuff isn't at retail. This is the kind of thing I go nuts for. Guess I'll get it on the app when they hit, whenever Disney gives us a break.
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Now I know why I got a sly smirk from the Disney Parks Merchandise team when I asked them about repaints of the build-a-droid BB-8 sculpt now that they had one.
Never thought we'd get two additional droids, I thought we'd be limited to just BB-9E and a version of BB-8 cast in translucent blue to be a "hologram" version like they did with R2 a few years back.
I think this 4-pack and the 4 WalMart TBS 3.75" figures are the items I'm most excited about getting this Fall.
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Glad I didn't pick up that single carded BB-8 now. :P
Definitely going to buy this... sounds like BB-9E (whose on-set name was BB-H8 :D) is going to be fun... between BBs and porgs, should be fun reading everyone hating on the cute factor of The Last Jedi! ::)
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Do we know how much this one costs at the store? Seems like they can be had for about $45 shipped on eBay and I'm trying to decide if that's a good way to go or if it's worth it to wait a little longer.
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Do we know how much this one costs at the store? Seems like they can be had for about $45 shipped on eBay and I'm trying to decide if that's a good way to go or if it's worth it to wait a little longer.
I don't with 100% certainty, but the past 4-packs have been $29.99 plus tax - I don't see why this one would be any different.
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These are the same four droids Bandai is releasing in special packs in their SH Figuarts line, so I assume they'll play prominent roles in the movie. Just need to find a way to get my hands on this set!
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Just grabbed one on eBay for $38.99. I figure that's only a dollar or two more than I usually pay if they're $30 on the app. Seemed worth it to be done.
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Received mine today via eBay. The interiors are all different which is nice.
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That's interesting IS... I wasn't real familiar with the sculpt they did, but I like the idea it self balances or whatever it is they did. I didn't realize they even had interiors.
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I got mine last night too. What do you mean they have different interiors? You can pop them open?
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You can pop them open?
Yes - Disney designed them to be part of the BAD line so they break down into 4 parts - head, upper outer ball half, lower outer ball half, inner ball. Here's a pic from Yakface:
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Awesome, I suppose.
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I'm waiting to see pics on whether you can stick BB-8's head on existing BAD R-units or 3PO sculpts. A Protocol Droid with BB head might be a nice 'junk' droid for dio filler.
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Hadn't considered that, but yes. I can't imagine they didn't make the pegs compatible? Hasbro would've done that though, so I guess I shouldn't count my chickens there. :-X
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I'm waiting to see pics on whether you can stick BB-8's head on existing BAD R-units or 3PO sculpts. A Protocol Droid with BB head might be a nice 'junk' droid for dio filler.
Nope.
I have Chopper, R2, C3PO and BB-8 on my desk and I just tried some head swaps - and the protocol droid head peg is too big to fit on the astromech body. The Chopper & R2 domes were interchangeable like I would have expected, but the BB-8 dome peg is smaller in diameter and therefore fits loosely on the astromech and protocol droid bodies.
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Bummer. :-\
I didn't realize the protocol droid parts weren't compatible with the astromechs too. Weren't all Hasbro's BAD parts compatible regardless of how stupid it looked? Go figure that Disney didn't do it.
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Yeah, bummer. Thanks Pete for checking that out.
I like the BAD stuff for the franken-droids you can create (one of my favorites combined MB-RA7 Head & Torso with FA-4 Arms & Legs). I was looking forward to trying a BB-unit head on a protocol droid... probably can still do it, just a bit more work.
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Pete_Fett: Jedidefender official product tester? ;D
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Bummer. :-\
I didn't realize the protocol droid parts weren't compatible with the astromechs too. Weren't all Hasbro's BAD parts compatible regardless of how stupid it looked? Go figure that Disney didn't do it.
To a degree, I believe so. I can experiment more tonight if folks want. But for example, I can put protocol droid arms & legs in the holes on an Astromech torso, but a protocol droid head doesn't fit into the socket of an astromech where the dome goes and an astromech dome would be loose/easily fall out of you tried to put one onto a protocol droid torso.
For simplicity, I'm referring to any droid that has a torso, two arms, two legs and a head as a "protocol" droid.
The BAD BB units do consist of four parts, but three of those four parts are the weighted ball and the two halves of the outer "shell" of the droid. It's not like you can take half of the outer shell and use it with parts from another type of droid and cobble something together.
The BB-8 head/dome does have a socket on the top - I figured it was for one of those silly hats that Disney BADs come with can be inserted - I haven't tried one yet though.
One thing that is interesting about the BB-unit 4-pack is that while the bodies are all the same just with different paint ops - the heads/domes are all unique. So I can definitely see this as Disney's way of eventually transitioning to having build stations where you can build BB unit droids as well.
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Yeah I'd guess that joke is for when these become buildable in the parks and the hats go there or other potential plug ins. I'm fine either way. Droid factory is still one of my favorite things in modern Star Wars collecting. Don't have any protocol droids yet but I hope to get them all.
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Yeah I'd guess that joke is for when these become buildable in the parks and the hats go there or other potential plug ins. I'm fine either way. Droid factory is still one of my favorite things in modern Star Wars collecting. Don't have any protocol droids yet but I hope to get them all.
It has become the favorite part of my collection. I have been contemplating lately the idea of scaling back to just BAD and Vintage Collection.
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I'm almost there except for customizing fodder and vehicles and I can't say I'm unhappy at all. Frees up some funds for other toys. Not having to have a lot of the 5poa or waiting for sales to get them to customize is nice. Still buying beasts and vehicles tho.
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I'm trying to say this in the way I'm thinking of it for myself and not coming off as questioning other's collecting decisions (I hate when people do that).
I can't ever imagine being at a point where I'd rather have random droids over brand new characters from the movies. Even if they are 5 POA.
To each their own.
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I'm trying to say this in the way I'm thinking of it for myself and not coming off as questioning other's collecting decisions (I hate when people do that).
I can't ever imagine being at a point where I'd rather have random droids over brand new characters from the movies. Even if they are 5 POA.
To each their own.
You know what Nick? That's exactly what's keeping me "in the game" - the idea that, "hey that character was entertaining or has a cool design, if they never do them again, I will have totally missed out" - like Saw Gerrera from Rogue One - that 5POA figure as far as something that stands on a shelf, looks AMAZING - would I have preferred to get a SA Saw in the WM TBS 3.75" line of course! I'll settle for the 5POA one though.
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I'm trying to say this in the way I'm thinking of it for myself and not coming off as questioning other's collecting decisions (I hate when people do that).
I can't ever imagine being at a point where I'd rather have random droids over brand new characters from the movies. Even if they are 5 POA.
To each their own.
Same here, some of the 5POAs are rather good, especially those in the Rebels line and the RO 2 packs. Plus K2SO is sweet. More articulation would be great, but until Hasbro does many of these 5POAs will do the trick. Also the Droid Factory line from Disney is fantastic, can't say anything bad about it
You know what Nick? That's exactly what's keeping me "in the game" - the idea that, "hey that character was entertaining or has a cool design, if they never do them again, I will have totally missed out" - like Saw Gerrera from Rogue One - that 5POA figure as far as something that stands on a shelf, looks AMAZING - would I have preferred to get a SA Saw in the WM TBS 3.75" line of course! I'll settle for the 5POA one though.
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So I got these in the mail today - and wow - I'm totally shocked, I hadn't looked at any of the online photo galleries close enough, I had just assumed that the outer shell part of the droids' bodies were all the same - nope - BB-9E is completely unique, while 2BB-2 & BB-4 do share the same body shell, but they have unique "domes".
Additionally, BB-8 and BB-4 share the same weighted ball sculpt, where 2BB-2 and BB-9E have a new unique weighted ball sculpt.
So basically, in the BB-Unit Droid Factory line, we now have the following unique parts:
2 Different Weighted Interior "cores"
3 Different Top & Bottom Exterior "shells"
4 Different BB Unit "domes"
So A LOT more variation than I originally thought there would be.
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Available on the Shop Disney app this morning...
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Posted in the wrong thread before, but got these today.
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Just picked this up on the Parks App, along with the 25% off code. $27 total, so not too bad.
Is it confirmed that the BB-8 in this set is the same as the single carded Droid Factory BB-8?
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Just picked this up on the Parks App, along with the 25% off code. $27 total, so not too bad.
Is it confirmed that the BB-8 in this set is the same as the single carded Droid Factory BB-8?
Not sure if they made a running change on the single carded version or not, but my single carded version has silver highlights around the main eye that really shouldn't have been there and same goes with the secondary eye/scope (again, on the real droid it's all black).
Also, the smaller antennae on the single carded version is incorrectly silver, whereas the box set version is the correct white color.
So the Box Set version is more accurate than the single carded version.
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My package arrived today (no thanks to a UPS/USPS swap). Fun little set!
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Weebles wobble but they don't fall down. Hehehe.
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25% off orders on the Disney Parks app until November 12 for anyone who hasn't picked this set up yet.