#bt-1 droid

[dollshobby]

Lord Starkiller, Darth Revan and BT-1: new Star-Wars action figures from Hot Toys

In a galaxy far, far away, where fantastic stories and legends intertwine, Hot Toys continues to recreate the essence of beloved characters from the Star Wars universe in the form of carefully crafted action figures. From the depths of the dark side to the chaotic realm of companion droids, fans are in for endless fun in the form of favorite characters Lord Starkiller, Darth Revan and droid BT-1.

Lord Starkiller

Darth Revan

BT-1 droid

These new Hot Toys action figures not only capture the essence of their respective characters but also elevate the art of collectibles to new heights.

[comicwaren]

From Star Wars: Dark Droids #001, “Scourge of the Droids: Part 1”

Art by Luke Ross and Alex Sinclair

Written by Charles Soule

[thebibliomancer]

Smh can’t believe they made R2 straight

[comicchannel]

Star Wars The Black Series BT-1 (Beetee) Hasbro E4079

Link para compra BR: https://amzn.to/473mpDV

Buy here: https://amzn.to/3X26IYR

[selcouth2013]

that FROOT looks familiar!

[tremendouskoalachild]

updated version:

thought of a way to include beetee in my crime against graphic design. i'm sure he'd love it

a Venn diagram of my B-babies from new canon 🥰🥰

[eruditegeek]

Gay Glup Shitto of the Day #30

Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra

Polyamorous lesbian rogue archeologist.

Doctor Aphra was an archeologist who specialized in weapons and droids. A morally grey disaster lesbian. She has worked for the empire, the rebellion, and every faction in between. However, in the end, she always put herself first and lived by the words, "Be gay, do crime."

Originally introduced as a supporting character along with two murderbots, 0-0-0 and BT-1, and bounty hunter Black Krrsantan in Darth Vader (2015) #3. She stole the show as the mercenary opposite the rebel smuggler Sana Starros. She did so well that her messy queer life took Sana, Santy, Triple Zero, and BT to her own spinoff comic series. Though along the way, she picked up a whole cast of other queer characters.

Her father was also an archeologist. He was an idealist who obsessed over his work to the neglect of his family. She got into the field both because of and in spite of him. While studying at the University of Bar'leth, she made frequent enemies of the professors.

She started off as a self-interested Imperial supporter. She believed in the Empire's peace through control because she didn't trust the idealist of the rebellion and believed that the galaxy was too full of selfish people. Her belief in the Empire was shaken after the destruction of Alderaan and even further while under the direct employ of Darth Vader.

She had a habit of backstabbing people for profit. Though even through all that selfish cynicism, she still found ways to do good for those around her... sometimes.

This would bring Aphra and Sana together when one day Sana defended Aphra's idea with their professor. Aphra fell in love right there with the way Sana fought for her. They started dating soon after, Aphra being recently single after the two women she was dating found out about each other. They dated monogamously, which was unsual for Aphra. They got very close before Aphra broke Sana's heart and ran away.

Aphra traveled the galaxy rediscovering lost weapons and reactivating old droids. She did many odd jobs. She beyrayed, profited, and failed her way to notoriety. She eventually made it too big and subsequently had to hide from Vader bu faking her death. This wasn't the first time and won't be the last.

Back to doing good old-fashioned "real" archeology, she came in opposition to Imperial Captain Magna Tolvan. They immediately became enemies and quickly afterward developed crushes on each other.

They fought, saved each other, and grew together. Both of them did horrible things to each other but also became better people because of it. The guilt and desire to do better pushed them both to better paths. Magna became a rebel officer, and Aphra became a slightly better person. Though their relationship would suffer for it at first.

Sana and Magna would drift in and out of her life. Helping her become a better person and eventually a better partner. She rekindled the relationships that were so important to her.

[thegeeksgarage]

I rarely get photos with my droids. The BT-1 photo is from several years ago at BeeTee's second event. The Chopper photo is from last month.

[phantomoftheshoppera]

Painted the new Imhotekh figure finally! Was pretty lukewarm on it when it got released, but seeing it directly compared to the old resin model really changed my mind and I quite like it now.

Also saw 0-0-0 and BT-1 when I was out and got them too. Have never done any Star Wars figures before, but they’re my favourite droids so I couldn’t resist. Pretty challenging just cause of the size of the models, but still very fun!

[cantsayidont]

March 2021. For a long time, I was very reluctant to investigate the DOCTOR APHRA series, put off by the overly cutesy covers and the grim mediocrity of most post-1986 SW comics, but I eventually got some of the trades from the library and was pleasantly surprised.

The titular Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra is an archaeologist (she does actually have a doctorate, even though she did end up blackmailing her thesis advisor to get it), treasure hunter, thief finder of rare antiquities, con artist, and all-around ne'er-do-well who thinks principles are for suckers. Naturally, she gets herself into a lot of trouble (including owing large amounts of money to many very dangerous people, like her sometimes-ally, the Wookiee mercenary Black Krrsantan), and many of her adventures revolve around her trying to get out from under the aftermath of her previous capers.

Aphra is also a lesbian, and kind of a fuckboy, leaving an ever-growing trail of embittered ex-girlfriends who aren't sure if they want to kiss her or shoot her. Much of her initial ongoing series deals with her on-again, off-again relationship with Magna Tolvan (the white cyborg lady pictured behind her above), an Imperial officer who eventually joins the Rebellion after Aphra ruins her career. Given the usual trajectory of online fandom, which is very eager to impute gayness to the most drearily hetero of media, I hadn't expected Aphra being gay to be more than a vague implication in the actual comics, but she does actually canonically sleep with women. Who'dathunkit?

Aphra's early appearances in Kieron Gillen's wretched DARTH VADER comic and the lackluster Jason Aaron STAR WARS book present her as pretty overtly villainous. When she got her own book, Gillen apparently decided that wasn't viable, so in her own series, Aphra acquires a bit of a conscience — never enough to keep her out of trouble, of course, but enough to distinguish her from her meaner allies, like Triple Zero (a protocol droid with the personality of a gleefully polite serial killer) and BT-1 (an astromech who's basically R2-D2 if somebody let him have way too many grenades). The latter part of her first ongoing, written by Si Spurrier after Gillen's departure, eventually threatens to soften her a little too much, but the current ongoing, written by Alyssa Wong, seems to have found a better balance in that regard. On the other hand, I find the current book a bit too episodic — it's more accessible, but a lot of what makes Aphra delightful is her increasingly frantic scramble to escape the accumulating consequences of her many, many terrible decisions.

The massive (1,200+ page) Omnibus pictured above compiles all of Aphra's early appearances and the complete run of her initial ongoing title in chronological order. While her early adventures are important insofar as they introduce Aphra and some of her major supporting characters, they aren't as much fun as her first ongoing series, so you could just as well start there. There's also an audio dramatization of Aphra's early adventures, adapted by Sarah Kuhn and featuring Emily Woo Zeller as Aphra. The dramatization is okay and Zeller is great, although Marc Thompson's Vader is completely unconvincing and a bit of a drag on the proceedings.

[spectres-fulcrum]

Sev(TK-421)????

Oh. OH. I've been playing around with the idea of Oliver Stark as my rough playby/faceclaim/mental image of TK-421/Sevastian(Again, my headcanon birthname for 421) under all his trooper gear for a couple months now. Oliver plays Buck on 9-1-1 and there's moments where he just. Gives Sev energy. It also is harder to describe his hair color. Sometimes he seems blond and sometimes he seems light brunet, which is basically how I see Sev. Maybe I just love both Buck and Sev and adore Oliver.

And this picture he posted today. Something in it just screams TK-421 and it makes me ache. I don't know if it's the B+W or the grin that makes me imagine Sev's about to start rambling about droid racing and all his wild hopes and dreams or making demands about how Tarkin has to redo his Coruscant penthouse because he likes this design better-

And Tarkin is just going to smile and say yes, gorgeous, because he loves that grin and he's falling so quickly. Or maybe he grins and calls Tarkin baby because he knows Wilhuff secretly loves being called that in the privacy of what they have it's okay(Which is fully my headcanon)

Maybe it's the curls? Maybe Sev actually has curls? There was another bts photo of Oliver grinning with curls and a grin that gave me Sev vibes. Maybe S8 Buck with curly hair is the right vibes.

Or maybe it is the blur and the B&W. Makes him feel so far away. Some forgotten part of history. Like he's secretly dating THE grand moff. But when the future heroes of the rebellion kill him, they don't know. He's just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that growing love dies. And this photo gives the vibes of something lost like that. Gives me "I could've spent forever with your hands in my pockets/ Picture of your face in an invisible locket" energy. This grin is in that invisible locket.

I go back and forth on if Dancing With Our Hands Tied is a Wil and Sev song because YES but they never get put through the whispers and paces-Sev is just killed. :( They skip right to Bigger Than The Whole Sky.

[comicwaren]

From Star Wars: Dark Droids #005, “Scourge of the Droids: Part 5”

Art by Luke Ross and Alex Sinclair

Written by Charles Soule

[bluntblade]

It's a relatively small thing, but I think I'd feel much more confident about the Ahsoka show if it looked different.

I understand why Rogue One's look has become the default look in live-action SW, at least the shows (to the point that The Acolyte having a different aesthetic is a moderate talking point). It's a great-looking film which is probably the Disney one that people agree on most as good (I have reservations but sure, I like it a lot). And yeah, it makes a decent amount of sense to have Mando adopt that look, while with Andor, it fits like a glove.

But leaving aside the fact that a large part of R1's visual appeal is that Edwards and Greig Fraser are both great at shooting scale (with the shows inherently operating on a considerably smaller scale), the thing is that R1 looks pretty different to prior Star Wars films. There's a reason for that. Jyn and Cassian are much lower-key characters than our usual heroes in the setting (and to be clear, this isn't a judgement of whether anyone's a good or bad character) and the whole idea of their struggle is that it's about the Rebel boots on the ground, the heroes behind the heroes.

Is Ahsoka really that? In a way, yes, but it's also set to be a show about larger-than-life characters, one a Jedi and the other a Mandalorian renegade who paints anything within reach, including her own armour, and of course the third-biggest war criminal droid of the era (Chopper might have the biggest body count but he bows to BT-1 and Triple-0 when it comes to sheer sociopathy). They have adventures with space whales, discover the World Between Worlds and encounter oddball wizard beings who speak with the voice of Tom Baker and laugh in the face of Thrawn. There's a reason they benefited from the exaggerated designs and colourful, kinetic presentation of an animated show (and comics, especially the excellent Kanan two-parter).

And an explicitly toned-down realist style kind of pushes against that vibe. The MCU and the current slew of Disney remakes show this off a whole lot - they generally feature larger-than-life characters but skew hard towards realism, as opposed to creating a heightened reality (see Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road) where those big personalities would feel more at home. Heck, other Star Wars films do that - there's a reason The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi went for bright, vibrant colours (and why Steve Yedlin brought that soulful expressiveness to TLJ in particular). Without it you tend to end up with an odd disjunct where things feel... a bit dull.

In a smaller way, I think we've already seen that with Kenobi, aside from the general trouble that show seems to have had in the area of cinematography. That show often ended up just rather bland - Tatooine is largely pale grey, while the Fortress Inquisitorius and Vader's castle come off more dingy than true halls of darkness.

To be clear, I'm really hoping that Ahsoka Tano gets a good show, and that I'm proven wrong on the visual front. But I worry that we're looking at another SW show which (leaving the whole Volume thing and its constraints aside) opts for an ill-fitting default look, instead of embracing how diverse Star Wars stories can be.

[gahmah-raan]

R9-C4 - Psychopathic Astromech Droid

One of the first of Industrial Automata's R9-series astromech droids and originally commissioned for the Toydarian crime lord, Girdretto, R9-C4 became free to claim when her commissioner died during the Forceless invasion of Sleheyron. Sometime after the Battle of Krantisi during the Valkoran War, Jedi Knight Zolph Vaelor decided to claim her as his own when he had Incom Corporation custom-build his own starfighter, if only to keep her from being claimed by more unsavory types. Seefor is unusually sadistic for a non-combat droid, possibly a result of Girdretto's original commission. She's developed a love for battle and bloodshed (literally too) comparable to some of the most deranged assassin droids in galactic history, and some of her most unusual equipment includes a flamethrower concealed in her dome and manipulators capable of tearing through battle armor and flesh. To her, combat is just a game, and she's known to kill her enemies in morbidly creative ways such as tearing a man's spinal cord out of his back. However, as much of a psychopath as she is and she likes to tease her own allies (including her master), she still values their lives. It isn't uncommon to mistake her gender-programming at first glance. Given the above, arguing with her about it is not advised.

Any similarities to Chopper from Star Wars: Rebels or BT-1 from the current Marvel Star Wars comics are completely coincidental as far as I know. And while I usually use gore for horror, this is one of those rare moments where it’s used for dark comedy.

[brutalgamer]

One of Marvel Comics' evil Star Wars droids gets an unboxing from Sideshow

Ripped from the pages of Marvel Comics’ Doctor Aphra is BT-1, a wicked little droid that’s the latest figure in Hot Toys’ Star Wars line.