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On this #StarWarsSaturday, we’re in Echo Base during The Empire Strikes Back. From Star Wars: The Legacy Collection, it’s R3-A2!
This Build-A-Droid is a nice upgrade compared to Hasbro’s 2003 Toys’R’Us exclusive version, with improved paint apps and sculpt. The unique thing about R3 is a clear dome that reveals cables and other mechanical parts sculpted inside. The toy dome does not click when turned or control the middle leg.
In the film, the droid can be seen just a few frames after R5-M2, when Han passes by an X-Wing. There is technically another orange and white clear-domed astromech that is seen earlier in a zoomed out shot when Han is riding his tauntaun into Echo Base, but that one has a slightly different deco, and has not yet been made in action figure form (though it would be an easy custom using this R3-A2 as your base figure).
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