“Clean” was straight out of the Trade Federation foundries. There were four paint variants of the the figure. The Battle Droids were a new kind of pain that Hasbro tried to inflict upon the collecting community, although if I recall correctly, it ended up not being that much of a challenge. ![]() As such, I missed much of the POTF2 nonsense about card variants, freeze frame rarities, and other oddball things that drove collectors mad. Despite having defeated the Gungans in open combat, they quickly collapsed like wet noodles thanks to the heroism of Anakin Skywalker.Īs I’ve recently mentioned several times here, I started collecting shortly following the launch of these Episode I figures in 1999. Once that silly kid tried his spin move, the Trade Federation was doomed. However, they had an Achilles heel, which was that the entire Trade Federation droid army was controlled by a single mother ship in orbit above Naboo. As the battle progressed, the droids got the upper hand, and eventually defeated the Gungans. They quickly defeated the Gungan shields, and then faced off in close quarters. The droids weren’t particularly menacing, but in such large numbers, backed by tanks and other heavy weaponry, they could be formidable. The unmarked Battle Droids were seen throughout The Phantom Menace, and in large numbers when they faced off against the Gungans on the plains of Naboo in what turned out to be a diversionary battle. ![]() The B1 Battle Droids were the main infantry droid utilized by the Trade Federation. It seems, as best I can tell, that they are roughly interchangeable, although it may also be that the OOM designations are left to the specialized units, and are a subdivision of the entire B1 army. ![]() There’s also some inconsistencies in the canon history and differences between the OOM line of droids and the B1 line of droids. Now, the Droidekas were another story…Īs a quick point of order, the droids that appeared in the scene described above were actually Security Droids, as denoted by their red markings. Just in case there was any doubt, a few seconds later, the Jedi emerged from the room, and dispatched the battle droids with what can almost be described as nonchalance. The first instructions from an OOM command droid were met with the now ubiquitous “Roger Roger.” At that point, we should have known these guys were chumps. I believe the first time we see them in action is when they are given instructions to “destroy what is left of” Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan after they were thought to have died in a cloud of poison gas. The Battle Droids were kind of silly almost from the get go.
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