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Comic Pack R2, originally uploaded by rdeetz.

I recently picked up the "comic pack" version of R2-D2. These figures are included with a comic book (which I don't really care about), and are painted in the style of their comic book representations.

This is a good sculpt (based on the modern R4-G9 astromech sculpt), even those it still uses the stupid rubber legs.

The paint is, well, comic book-y. I don't really know why the comics don't use a closer representation of the regular R2 colors, or why the paint on this figure doesn't really even match what's in the comic. But oh well.

In the end, it's kind of a cool take on R2, and if you want you can pretend it's a completely different droid, like R0-D9 or something. But why won't they just make a regular R2 on this sculpt??? Please???