Star Wars Figure of the Day: Day 3,395: KP-1 (Droid Factory)

KP-1 (Figure Debut)
Star Wars Droid Factory
Item No.: ???
Manufacturer: Disney
Number: n/a
Includes: Card, RX arm
Action Feature: Comes apart
Retail: $19.99
Availability: October 2026
Appearances: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Bio: KP-1 was a masculine K-series astromech droid associated with the Hidden Path. In 9 BBY, the droid was found on the planet Jabiim. (Taken from the figure's trading card. This is literally the exact same bio on Wookieepedia. Coincidence?)

Image: Adam's photo lab.

Availability: Click here to buy it at eBay now!

Commentary: Not a Christmas Tree, but also not entirely not a Christmas Tree. It's small and expensive with few moving parts, but it's also a weeble and a rare new droid body type.

I don't know if I even need to say that KP-1 as a $20 figure is expensive, and at $33 delivered after tax is just a miserable price. But I probably do need to say it's a rare new mold, and I'd rather pay Disney $33 for an all-new droid with gnashed teeth than buy another variant Anakin from Hasbro. (Did you know they've reused those same Anakin legs on six Anakins over the past year so far?) Collecting Star Wars usually ha you balancing nostalgia with novelty, and if it feels you're not getting anything new, you might not want to keep going. Disney's droid program was getting a little long in the tooth, but new molds like this little guy probably mean we'll start seeing new holiday droids down the road, too.

Disney made a droid that does... well, not much. There's a telescoping neck platform under the dome, which is removable. The flared, green base is removable and has the same connector as the middle leg on an R2 unit. You can swap domes and legs, but will the figure remain standing? Probably not. I appreciate the consistency in connectors, though, and Disney added an added hole in the bottom of the Weeble base which I assume could have some future function. I wish it had some added feature, like a pop-out tool or something, but this guy is pretty much only good at standing and not falling down. If you collect droids, this is a new one, and new ones are pretty scarce.

So, how is it? Pretty good. Disney did not pull out all the stops for this one, but you can see a few extra pennies went into the paint. The green base is molded in color with some off-white panels and a gunmetal gray bottom which has some unfortunately painted and possibly visible copyright writing printed on it. Mercifully, it's dark, so you likely will not notice it unless you pick him up. The dome has a lovely silver painted on it, which looks great. All the green panels and various lights and eyes are painted well, too. Every element isn't perfect, but they're all very good. The body is painted in that off-white color too, giving it a more realistic look than a molded-in-color figure. It looks expensive, with decently painted panels matching the show. So what's missing? Grit. Other Disney droids employed various levels of grime to bring it to life, and this model is factory fresh in opposition to the TV show. It's not bad. Actually it's pretty great - it's just something they opted to not do. All of the little lights and vents look pretty good, and the panels show up as well as you can get without a dirt wipe.

I think this figure would have been better as a part of a boxed set, or even as a two-pack with another droid only because there's not much here. It looks like roughly four molded parts and that telescoping neck doesn't really add a lot of fun to the toy. It's something, and it is good to have any sort of fidgety play feature on a droid. Back in the day we had clicky domes, clicky legs, removable limbs, snap-in arms, even moving mouths - Kenner made sure to give you something fun. Hasbro has been short on that lately, and so has Disney - but removable parts and stretchy necks makes me want to recommend this to you if you're accepting of the asking price. I don't have any other droids that look like this, and Lucasfilm's droid shop did a nice job coming up with something that looks like a 1980s design while also not being literally the same R2 body again. You can also spin it like a top. It's fun. If the mood strikes, get one of these.

Collector's Notes: I got mine from Shop Disney. It sold through quickly but might still be in a theme park gift shop.

--Adam Pawlus

Day 3,395: November 5, 2025