This weekend Liz and I went to Orlando with her parents!
While cruising around Orlando, we found a massive comic shop called Coliseum Of Comics. I picked up a trio of "Bones" miniatures to add to my menagerie of alien critters.
Assembled and awaiting paint:
At Downtown Disney, I picked up some great Astromech customizing fodder at Wish Apon A Toy in Downtown Disney.
The R6, R7 and R8 heads were never offered as part of any regular Hasbro products and are only available at the parks and Wish Apon A Toy.
I also grabbed a trio of the R7/R8 torsos for the R8 heads to reside on as I didn't have any spares in my Astromech Droids box.
I also picked up a very striking purple detailed R3 head.
Last time we were at the park, I picked up all of the various color combinations of the R6, R7 and R8s available as well as some of the more striking colored R5s and R7s but didn't buy every single droid I wanted due to my budget at the time. I wanted to get a few of the ones I missed out on last time but none of the pieces needed to complete a single one were present. They did allow me to buy the same number of parts that would make up completed droids (6 each) so I was able to get fodder instead of figures that would go into my collection as is.
Liz surprised me with this Disney exclusive Astromech 4pk she bought while I was photographing the various exclusives at Wish Apon A Toy for Imperial Shipyards!
She had offered to buy me it when we saw it in the airport store but I had declined as I really dislike the new legs that are missing some pretty obvious details (shoulder doodads and the wires from the front of the feet).
During our first night at the hotel she asked me again why I didn't care for the new legs and how I would make them better. I told her The shoulder doodads were a lost cause as I cannot sculpt such tiny details at my current skill level. I did mention that I had about a couple of spare Astromech feet that I could transplant the foot wires from but that I could not justify paying $30 for something I had to "fix" right out of the box.
So, being the awesome wife she is, decided to buy it for me when I was not looking and give it to me on the ride back to the hotel.
She is definitely a keeper
When we got back home, I discovered my NYCC Press Pass was waiting for me!
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