Star Wars Figure of the Day: Day 3,141: R3-RNBW (Pride Collection)

R3-RNBW Pride Collection Disney Exclusive
Star Wars Droid Factory
Item No.: ???
Manufacturer: Disney
Number: n/a
Includes: n/a
Action Feature: Comes apart
Retail: $14.99
Availability: May 2023
Appearances: n/a   

Bio: The Disney Pride Collection was created by members of and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community. The Walt Disney Company proudly works with nonprofits throughout the year to support the LGBTQIA+ community globally. (Taken from the packaging.)

Image: Adam's photo lab.

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Commentary: I missed and am still sore about R2-RNBW, but R3-RNBW is excellent It's colorful, it has a ton of paint applications, and it does a good job of capturing a vest with pins that you may see here and there. The crystal-clear dome uses the R3 one with the nubbin next to the eye, and it looks better than pretty much any R3 unit we've ever had. This is clear. It's absurdly good how much better it looks despite being a mold Disney has been kicking around for over a decade. I'm cranky about the higher price and shipping, but they were willing to put a lot more paint and a lot more color on it so I'll stop whining.

As always, the mold has removable legs and a dome you can pop off - but I've never seen so many colors on a single Disney droid. In addition to the rainbow, you get silver highlights in spots. The black feet and white "legs" look great, and the colorful boxes on a black droid may remind you of a lot of retro (and modern) computing things too - surely fans of the RGB light displays popular in keyboards, or the old Apple logo, or maybe even the colorfully painted Robo-Force toys of old will also appreciate this. Last year's Pride droid wasn't quite as awesome - BB-8 with some more color, meh - as this one. The extra paint around the bottom of the body looks great too, ensuring - I assume - it's another action figure that absolutely any robot toy fan is going to like.

The one thing about the figure I don't get - admittedly, as I am not an expert on the revisions of the colors as they're still evolving - is the color running down the "suspenders" of the figure. I'm not used to seeing a white or silver stripe between blue and purple - I don't know if this is a figure-specific choice or holds other significance, and Google failed to inform me of a revision. As far as I know it's not how the flags normally look, so if anyone knows of a designer desk article or just wants to school me on why the color is that way, I'm all ears. Is it artistic license? I don't know.

I really like this figure and recommend it because it's just so dang great-looking. Maybe next year we can get BB-BLAHAJ.

Collector's Notes: I got mine from Shop Disney.

--Adam Pawlus

Day 3,141: June 11, 2024