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'06 | #014 Power Droid - Battle of Hoth (Reviewed 02-2-2006) 

Includes:
• Treadwell Droid
• Removable Accessories 

A battery with feet, what you've always wanted! Click thumbnail for large image
Spice: Now we are being flat out tortured. While seeing glimpses of Commander Cody and the Firespeeder Pilot, one can only think what could have been. Any die-hard collector will spot the Power Droid that came with the green Commtech Jawa back in 1999. However we get a special bonus. The Treadwell Droid that was packaged with Aunt Beru, so we get two accessories for the price of an action figure. This is a flat out shame, and only a figure a loose collector could love.



Notice the droid can't bend over? But YOU can! Click thumbnail for large image
There were a few necessary changes made to this Power Droid. The life-preserver and other effects were made to create the variation of the Droid we saw inside of the Rebel base on Hoth. There are also several changes in the paint, along with a wide blend of details and colors. The package describes it as a battery with feet, oh yes, I'd much rather pay six dollars for this vs. a decent action figure. Why Hasbro? Why?



About a cent worth of plastic and WHAA LAA, A NEW figure! THANKS HASBRO!! Click thumbnail for large image
While the Power Droid doesn't offer much in the way of articulation, at least they did put the action feature by pressing the small gray button on the right side. I'm just curious as to how they select exactly what is going to be made. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have something like this opposed to another Darth Vader or Han Solo but for some reason it just seems like Hasbro is doing very little to please the people who buy the bulk of these. For every three new figures, you get bombarded with roughly five previous molds in new wrappers.



FINAL THOUGHTS:
Spice - While at the current time, this is one of the rougher finds in the Hoth wave, I just can't see why we should pay our hard earned money for junk. I find it hard to believe they couldn't think of anything better to put out there than this! There are much better things you could spend your money on.

 

Grades

-
Visual Impact

5.0
Detail & Paint

6.0
Accessories / Weapons

0.0
Articulation / Function

4.2
Overall

3.3

 

+   It's not Chewbacca with white sprinkles again
-   The Saga collection is becoming quite a disappointment. 
+    Loose collectors could find value in it.
-    Is the guy in charge paralyzed from the neck up? Do people really want this?

(Figure '06 | #014, Asst. No. 85971, Item No. 85770, Backing Card P/N 6495801300, Window Insert P/N 6518330000) 

 

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