Padme Amidala
Gah.
I’ve been avoiding the Star Wars section of the toy stores for the longest time. For a guy who is currently collecting five different toylines and dabbling in countless others, this line is torture; great looking sculpts, huge fun factor, awesome playsets, and a built-in army building potential.
It’s the baby beauty pageant to my Pedobear.
This here is the figure that finally got me to cave and take the plunge into the Hasbro Star Wars universe: The Star Wars Legacy Collection Build-A-Droid Factory No. 12, Clone Wars Snow Bunny Padme Amidala.
“Build-A-Droid” is the Star Wars equivalent of the old “Build-A-Figure (BAF).” There’s also “Collect-n-Connect (CNC),” “Build N’ Brawl,” and a bunch of others that took the collect ‘em all mentality of the BAF and made them their own. I have to say that Star wars does better than most since their bonus figures are relatively small, leaving room for other accessories and not driving the price up astronomically. Plus there are endless variations of the droids in Star Wars. Mattel is quickly running out of ideas for their CNC figrues.
But that’s not to say that Hasbro’s sold me on the idea that I should collect 4 or 5 more of these figures in order for me to build R7-T1, who is really just a repaint of R2-D2. That’s the down side; aside from R2 and C3PO, droids are throwaway characters in Star Wars, there to simulate the kind of carnage that would earn the movies and cartoons an NC-17 rating at best. Unless you’re really into the franchise, no one wants another astromech droid.
But forget about the gimmick. I for one didn’t buy this for the gimmick. I bought it because it’s Natalie Portman in a SKIN TIGHT BODY SUIT.
I’m gonna let that sink in for a second.
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So got that picture locked in your head? Good. Read the rest of the review HERE.
