Hot Toys - 1/6 Episode II AOTC - Super Battle Droid

[medicomsucks]

after seeing the preview on justins channel, this looks kind of cheap.

 

[Daggoth]

Idk about y'all but $230+ feels too steep for such a bare bones figure

 

[freeze320]

https://www.sideshow.com/collectibles/star-wars-super-battle-droid-hot-toys-908856

 

[SOU7567]

https://www.sideshow.com/collectibles/star-wars-super-battle-droid-hot-toys-908856

About time!

Used my 20$ coupon and went with 1 for now.

 

[freeze320]

interesting detail…

no crappy cell batteries will be a welcome change. I guess the bigger body can fit AAA?

 

[Mike86]

I feel like $238 is fairly reasonable for this. Yes it’s bare bones but it’s fairly large and a unique figure. Plus it’s less than a lot of other figures now days. Anything under $250 is a bargain in my view.

I’ll get at least one of these. Have one standard Battle Droid pre-ordered and hoping to grab a second one. I’ll probably put them with Grievous eventually.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I thought it would be $265... so $238 is a good deal on the Wor-Gar meter.

 

[KerotanFrog]

Ordered! The battle of geonosis will be dope when it all comes together. I'm in for one SBD flanked by 2 reg BD. Throw Jango and Dooku in there and you have a nice separtist display to combat Yoda, Padme, Anakin, Mace, Clones, R2, C3, and hopefully Obi-Wan.

 

[kyekye]

So It has LED
I'll get one of each
Normal battle Droid (bone color one), Super Battle Droid, Destroyer Droid

 

[MyenShi]

I think the price is decent for what it is. It's pretty chonky and everything is all new.

Hopefully there'll be some metal reinforced joints.

Only thing I might've wanted to see would be a swappable arm that's destroyed/severed. Which could also be displayed on its own like the B1 parts with ROTS Obi-Wan.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Now HT is no longer including a way to operate its LED feature?

What's next? No stand? Or "Hands from another figure must be used"...?

 

[Mike86]

interesting detail…
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no crappy cell batteries will be a welcome change. I guess the bigger body can fit AAA?

I wish they would just move to all USB for light up features. Not a big deal for this one so much as it’s just a single light and I don’t care much if it’s on or not.

 

[Mike86]

Now HT is no longer including a way to operate its LED feature?

What's next? No stand? Or "Hands from another figure must be used"...?

They’ve never included AAA batteries for display stands that used them previously.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Why does that little light require a AAA battery?

 

[Mike86]

Why does that little light require a AAA battery?

They’re probably trying to avoid button batteries with the banning of those in Australia.

 

[Wor-Gar]

They’re probably trying to avoid button batteries with the banning of those in Australia.

I suppose they have the room for once on this thing.

 

[jedibear]

PO'd one. A bit surprised at the price. Not complaining mind you in this day of barely anything below $250, but it makes me wonder at this price point if the SBD is going to featured any die-cast parts (joints like the DT and/or legs like K2SO). Didn't list anything about it in the specs, but it would certainly help against warpage and for support. We'll see in about 18 months or so...

 

[Bo Shrek]

Why can’t the BD have the same base as SBD. Not a fan of them being different. I could care less about the footprint, as I would prefer the metal plaque on both.

 

[SOU7567]

PO'd one. A bit surprised at the price. Not complaining mind you in this day of barely anything below $250, but it makes me wonder at this price point if the SBD is going to featured any die-cast parts (joints like the DT and/or legs like K2SO). Didn't list anything about it in the specs, but it would certainly help against warpage and for support. We'll see in about 18 months or so...

Maybe we will? I don't remember if the K2 product page said anything about diecast, yet we ended up getting them in the legs.

SBD is pretty top heavy, so maybe they'll do the same.

 

[DCFett]

Why does that little light require a AAA battery?

(3) AAA = 7v I think. If they are using a 7v LED bulb, then we need all them damn batteries. I don’t want them to start using conventional batteries. I like button cell personally. My 49yr old eyes don’t, but something about the efficiency of them is nice.

Picked up one SBD. As someone once said “SS, you fool me once, shame on you. You fool me twice…well you’re not gonna fool me again
!”