Recommended music: Arild Øren Wanvik – The Imperial Introduction (Christmas Version)
For this #StarWarsSaturday post, we’re still on a short break from The Empire Strikes Back, and taking a look at the Star Tours/Droid Factory R5-X3!
That’s right, we’re taking another week off from The Empire Strikes Back to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Episode VII, The Force Awakens. I didn’t collect as much from the sequels as I did from the prequels or the original trilogy, but I do have a few items from these films to share.
R5-X3 was an astromech droid in the Resistance about thirty years after the Battle of Endor. Its dome shows up inside an X-Wing on a couple of cards in the Star Wars: X-Wing The Force Awakens Miniatures Game. I also briefly spotted the droid in The Force Awakens, slotted into a T-70 X-Wing with an unknown pilot on D’Qar, just after the Millennium Falcon arrives. Sadly, the droid’s red body doesn’t appear in the film, which is too bad because its colors remind me of Christmas, so I added an extra one into my photo. 😄
Although R5-X3 appears only briefly, it was part of a Disney Parks-exclusive 4-pack in 2010 with R0-4LO, R2-Q2, and R4-M9. I was at the park for my 10th anniversary a few months before the movie came out, so I had no idea what role, if any, the character would play.
Since the droid only appears for a moment in the film, I’m not sure how closely the action figure’s colors match, but they are all painted cleanly, lacking the weathering typically seen in the films. It doesn’t have the usual astromech foot cables because it uses the Disney Build-A-Droid mold, but that means you can remove the dome and all three legs. Like the other droids in the set, the dome has a hole on top so you can add Mickey Mouse ears or another fun hat.
The Force Awakens turned 10 years old this week. Happy 10 years of TFA!
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