TOMY Remote Control R2-D2 at SWS.com

[CrunchyNug]

Mine arrived yesterday.  It is so cool!!!  I cannot stress enough how well it works either.  With shipping and tax it comes to almost $30.  It seems a little high for just one figure, but I think it's worth it.

[CHEWIE]

CrunchyNug!  Long time no see!  It's good to see you are still hanging around these parts.  I remember making a trade with you for a POTJ Sandtrooper right when those things were impossible to find in the fall of 2001.   

 

[CrunchyNug]

CrunchyNug!  Long time no see!  It's good to see you are still hanging around these parts.  I remember making a trade with you for a POTJ Sandtrooper right when those things were impossible to find in the fall of 2001.   

 

That's right my friend, I haven't managed to kick this habbit yet.  I hope your Sandtrooper is happy with his new Evolutions recruits.

[SpudTrooper]

i got my lil R2 unit 2 days ago and this is so fun to play with. love to scare the dog with it. 

[DSJ™]

This is the coolest thing I have seen since the vinty wind up R2. I'll have to release him from his package of doom and have some fun.

[Morgbug]

I still haven't ordered one of these but imagine my surprise when I was looking through robby.jp's email list this morning and saw what appears to be two more versions of this little guy

I'm not clear about whether they are exactly this item or not, though they did show the Tomy R2 in the same picture for comparison.  I emailed Ryo for an answer on them and whether I interpreted the email correctly or not. 

What the hell am I rambling about?  It looks like they are doing two new versions of this RC droid:

R2-Q5 paint deco
R4-P17 paint deco 

Dale or Jeff can probably scavenge the image when they see the email and upload it.  I can't do that currently. 

Pretty neat though and I'll definitely be ordering these guys.

[Jayson]

Here are some shots I've taken of him and a short QT video of R2 in operation

http://www.yakface.com/TGuide2004/html/rots/exclusives/09.html

[DSJ™]

I received that e-maill Brent but the pictures are not showing in my e-mail. I went to RoBBy's site and entered the item codes to see them but I get a server right now. 

[Morgbug]

Thanks Dale,
I couldn't get the item to come up on the site but the pictures did come through for me in the email.  I'll post more when I hear back from Ryo.

[DSJ™]

Ahhhh, here we go. Thanks Brent. 





If there anything like the R2, I'll be getting them. 

[Morgbug]

Thanks Dale, those pictures help explain what I was rambling about.  My interpretation is there will be new versions of this beast as they are pretty much straight repaints.  I hope so, they look neat. 

[Morgbug]

I got a response from Ryo at Robby.jp and these are indeed more radio controlled Droids.  He hasn't seen them personally (release date 03/31/06) but his impression is that they are just the same as the R2-D2 but repainted. 

Sweet.

[DSJ™]

Both are showing up on his site now, maybe they were not entered earlier today. Me thinks I'll order a few of them. 

[JesseVader08]

R4-P17 is up for preorder at SWS.com.  Pretty slick looking!   

[Jesse James]

I love the RC-D2 so these two repaints are welcomed...  This little "sub-category" of figures is cool by me.  I'd even dig an RC version of other droids that rolled...  Not anything too small, but something they could do to-scale like the mining droids or whatnot.  R5-D4 would be cool too and you could make him do a donut and topple over just like the real droid.

It'd be cool by me other than the price, but being sorta "premium" items I'm ok with that price even.