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Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« on: September 12, 2009, 02:29:21 PM »
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.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2009, 03:13:25 PM by Clonehead »

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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2009, 02:41:43 PM »
Dang I didn't even see that when I was out earlier. Lucky. ;D
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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2009, 03:56:01 PM »
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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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2009, 05:11:44 PM »
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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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2009, 05:13:44 PM »
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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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2009, 07:55:24 PM »
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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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2009, 07:56:42 PM »
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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2009, 07:57:58 PM »
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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2009, 07:59:21 PM »
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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2009, 08:00:26 PM »
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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2009, 08:40:24 PM »
That thing is a monster.
Just too much money for it in my opinion.
Looks real nice and sturdy though...

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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2009, 05:50:41 AM »
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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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2009, 06:03:59 AM »
Cutting costs again Hasbro? Tsk, tsk....

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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2009, 07:11:30 AM »
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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Re: Walmart Octuptarra Droid
« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2009, 10:35:20 AM »
Awesome!! it's huge!! I love it!! I wish it was $24.99 though :\

Thanks for the review!!

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