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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

Another Question: What's the articulation like on the Commando Droids? I was pleasantly suprised at the really great articulation on the Aqua Droid and am hoping the Commando is done as nicely...now that I've ever seen one in stores outside the box set (and those sets such for articulation as a rule).

At this point, I can only dream of seeing new Star Wars toys at retail. The last "new" product we got was the VC Phantom Menace wave. Not sure if any new CW or Legends figures showed up recently, but everything I saw the other day has been there for months now.

I'd love to pick up one of the Commando Droids, though. Just the idea of it is hilarious. I mean translator, manual laborer, cannon fodder - even assassin (if you think of it in terms of a sleeper agent) - those make sense. But a Special Forces Droid?

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Man. Lucas really dropped the ball making the normal Battle Droids suck so hard- if the'd used IG-88 droids they would have conveyed the sense of threat the script seemed to call for...untill you see their idiot dialogue, that is!

See the thing is, the standard Battle Droids are not a threat to Force-wielders, but can be to those who aren't, especially if they are in large numbers. Basically, the only threat they were ever meant to pose was that they were a large, cheap and easily-replaced army and the Galactic Republic didn't have anything on the same scale for defence (until the Clone Army came into play).

So basically, the Battle Droids were never meant to be anything but cannon fodder for the Clone troops and the Jedi.