Artemis sez:
You probably know that I only collect female action figures. Now obviously neither Jawas nor droids are women, so let me explain. As you probably don't know (unless there are some very committed OAFE fans out there who've been taking notes) I make exceptions to my girls-only rule for specific mini-collections:
the five Autobots from the Transformers movie, the
three marks of Iron Man movie armor, and the
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and
Doctor Who lines being the main examples. LIN-V8K marks the beginning of another such mini-collection within my larger figure range - this time, I'm aiming to amass the entire roster of droids featured in
The Essential Guide to Droids.
Yes, I know there's a
New Essential guide out, but I've got the old one, and I love it dearly. Unlike the majority of
Star Wars, which is pure fantasy-in-space, droids are genuine science fiction, and I'm enthralled by their designs and functions, and the sociological effects of this ability to custom-build a servant class. Sure, there are "hard sci-fi" novels out there that explore such matters a hundred times more thoroughly than my dear droids book, but it's the combination of that scientific fascination with the childhood fun of
Star Wars that gets me.
So I'm after all 108 droids featured in the
Guide. Probably a futile quest - some of them probably won't be remade, and I'm not paying eBay prices for vintage figures; some of them likely won't ever be made into figures; some of them
can't be made (one of them is a droid freighter, which to 3¾" scale would be about twice the size of my room)... but like Don Quixote, I'm tilting at this windmill anyway. So that's why you'll see a number on any droid reviews I contribute to OAFE from now on, showing how far along the list I've got. And
LIN-V8K is the first.
--Artemis
- LIN-V8K
- R7-T1
- C-3PO
- CZ-4
- R2-D2
- R5-D4
- R4-D6
- FX-6
- IT-0
- 5D6-RA7
- R3-Y2
- IG-88
- 4-LOM
- MSE droid
- ASP-7
- 2-1B
- WED-15-ST68