The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Review => Action Figures => Topic started by: Clonehead on September 12, 2009, 02:29:21 PM
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A walmart exclusive priced at around $36, this is the much sought after Octuptarra Droid as seen in the Clone Wars movie during the battle of Christophsis. The instructions are pretty straight forward and assembly of this beast will take you less time than getting all of the bread ties that secure the parts to the cardboard insert loose.
What a beast this one is! Featuring a turning cockpit, a top-opening cockpit door, each leg swivels on its under cockpit mount and has three joints in the legs and one joint in the third toe of each foot which also swivel on the end of each leg. This thing is mighty friendly for rough terrain as it is so posable. Along the sides of the cockpit, are three missile launchers that swivel up and down. The detail here is top notch and the size is impressive. That is a 11.5 inch shoe posed next to the beast and it's legs arnt even fully extended in the picture. Notice how the battle droid and Storm commando figures look posed next to the thing. Also, there is the curious 10 lb cat that this droid would obviously overpower. "naturally she thinks this belongs to her just like everything that is on the floor"
It's a bit pricey just like any other exclusive but what a great addition to any Separatist army.
I am out of time so I will have to post pics a bit later.
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9113/sept13013.jpg)
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Dang I didn't even see that when I was out earlier. Lucky. ;D
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At two local WalMarts - the "smaller" WM had 2 of these, the larger had none. (the larger store also has only three columns of figs on the new plan-sheet, so they are SW UNfriendly - the "smaller" store has 4)
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feel free to send any pics for contest entries to my email address and I will upload em and get em posted!
On the Octopus droid, I saw a ton of these today and put it back on the shelf three or was it four times? Daggone nice looking ship and just a heavy ole box.
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I was afraid of that. I will delete these last 3 posts but i hope you plan on hosting your pics for your contest entry elswhere.
I will - I plan to post the pics elsewhere as well, so shoving them onto photobucket seems a good idea.
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Here are the pics that I took of this bad boy. About that cardboard backdrop insert that was included. It's pretty cool but obviously too small to display with this beast.
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That thing is a monster.
Just too much money for it in my opinion.
Looks real nice and sturdy though...
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That is an awesome shot with your cat there Clint! Double lol.
On another note, it is time for us to ask the dreaded dio background question. Why in the world are they making these for ships that when assembled will not even remotely fit into the thing? It is just stupid and is probably driving up the ship pricies.
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Cutting costs again Hasbro? Tsk, tsk....
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Just saw a full end cap of these this morning at Wally World. Priced at $35 here, Liked it, would want one if it were 20 bucks for a dio but I had to pass at 35.
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Awesome!! it's huge!! I love it!! I wish it was $24.99 though :\
Thanks for the review!!
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Nice review.
I'm still on the fence with this thing. It just looks too "toy-ish" I think. (If that makes any sense.) I didn't realize this was a vehicle so the cockpit was a surprise. :o
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Same here! I had no idea that it was a vehicle for others. After seeing this review, I am now considering it...
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This one would be great for a Christophsis dio. My guess is that Hasbro felt it was big enough to add this feature to it. Were it an actual vehicle in the movie, I'm sure they would have shown Anakin cutting a droid driver out of one during his counter attack in that scene.
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huh... interesting with the cockpit feature, I as well wasn't expecting that. kind of funny addition to a droid...
as far as it looking too "toyish" that could be easily fixed with a wash of weathering and fresh paint that doesn't look so fresh.
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The only reason I probably won't be picking this one up is the ugly paint job. I think the whole Clone Wars color scheme for the separatists is crap. If it were the same color as the tri-droid that's packaged as a regular figure, I'd be all over it, though... not enough droid vehicles! I really don't like Wal-mart, though, but I guess I would get over it for a better painted version of that thing. Probably too big of a task for me to repaint, unfortunately... we'll see....
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as far as it looking too "toyish" that could be easily fixed with a wash of weathering and fresh paint that doesn't look so fresh.
You're probably right in that a custom paint job would really help, but I'm new to all this customization stuff. If I'm gonna destroy something I'll wait for that something to be on sale first. :)
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BR Steel, that is a good motto to stand by. I used to only customize items I had duplicates of or was able to get realy cheap... now almost everything I buy gets customized....
XV: the smaller legacy tri-droids colors would be perfect on this sucker! I might have to do that just to see how it would look and then sell it on e-bay! lol...unless one of you guys wants to foot the bill on a droid and let me paint it for you ;D I definately agree with you about the clone wars' sepratist color scheme... it sucks. But that's what you get in an animated cartoon... cartoonish colors... ::)
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that thing is really impressive.
I want one but I'm hesitant on it, no room or any really need for it except as a curiosity, but I really DO want one
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I figure that we will see this one go on clearance before all is said and done. It is a cool piece but, it is sizable.
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I also with they'd repaint in the color scheme of the Tri Droid from the Battle of Mygeeto battlepack.
sure it will likely never happen but if it DID there's no way I would hesitate for even a second, I'd preorder it if I had to. :)
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Well you could do that, NFC. It would be easy and look really cool.