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R5-D4 Star Wars Mini-Land Figure
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Date: 
Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:21:02 GMT
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Was it sabotage? Was it The Force? Was it that extra spicy bean & Greedo burrito he had for lunch at Watto Bell back in Mos Eisley? No one really knows for sure what caused R5-D4’s motivator to smoke and explode, but one thing’s for sure: if it hadn’t, Luke would have bought him, Artoo would have stayed back with the Jawas, and the stormtroopers might not have even bothered to make the trip to the Lars’ homestead and turn Owen and Beru into crispy critters. While that would have been a good thing from Owen and Beru’s perspective, Luke might never have left Tatooine, the storyline would have ended there, and Star Wars LEGO sets would never have existed! So, thanks to R5-D4’s explosive indigestion and Owen and Beru’s spot-on impersonations of Cajun blackened chicken, I present...

my R5-D4 Mini-Land Figure

He doesn’t explode or smoke, and he absolutely refuses to eat the microwave burritos I’ve been cooking for him, but he’s still pretty cool nonetheless. :-)

-Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley




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  Re: R5-D4 Star Wars Mini-Land Figure
 
(...) The body design is outstanding as well; it's probably useful for quite a few things besides malfunctioning droid bodies. Derek (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
  Re: R5-D4 Star Wars Mini-Land Figure
 
(...) Nice Moc Mike but you obviously never listened to the Star Wars Radio Saga where R5's "troubles" were explained. BTW the radio saga is considered canon by Lucas. Simply put, R2, in an effort to get his message to Obi-Wan made some (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)

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