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My Last 17 R2-D2 figure with Pop-up Lightsaber took an awfully long time to get hold of. I'd been scouring eBay for a Last 17 R2-D2 that was hidden away in a job lot knowing that if the photos didn't give away the angled hole in his dome for the lightsaber I might find one that no one else spotted going by the smaller circle under his torso. Other Kenner versions of R2-D2 have a visible ridge at the bottom of the barrel but this one doesn't and that can enable you to identify a Last 17 R2-D2 without even needing a clear look at the underside.

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Eventually when this happened my Last 17 R2-D2 figure was for sale amongst a bunch of Episode One Collection figures and a Tazo Collectors Pack which turned out to be almost complete. There were also a couple of Action Fleet ships in there and a couple of very beaten up Kenner Stormtroopers. This wasn't the sort of job lot where you'd expect to find an R2-D2 with Pop-Up Lightsaber figure, so I got lucky. No one else noticed Artoo hiding away in there (or if they did they missed that he was the Last 17 version of figure) and I got the job lot at a steal. See photo above of the R2-D2 with Pop-up Lightsaber underside.

My Last 17 R2-D2 did need a bit of work once I got him. I already had a repro lightsaber for him and replacement stickers so I peeled off the remnants of the old stickers and replaced them and popped in the lightsaber. I might need better stickers at some point in the future and there's a fair bit of blue paint loss on his dome but Artoo's head still clicks and the lightsaber moves up and down very nicely as the astromech's head turns.

Now all I need for a full house for my Kenner R2-D2's is the Droid Factory version. Watch this space, or so I was about to say, but just a few days later I picked up both the dome and the body for the Droid Factory R2-D2 and pretty much managed to customise myself one. See my Droid Factory R2-D2 here.

The next thing to decide was where to display my Last 17 R2-D2 figure. I already had the Saga Series Jabba's Sail Barge R2-D2 with drinks tray hanging around my Jabba's Throne Room scene and an old Power of the Force R2-D2 which is used for my droid torture chamber scene. I really can't decide where to put this new R2-D2 figure at present so I've just taken a few photos of various scenes for now and I'll find a permanent home for him later.

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All Star Wars action figures, vehicles, collectibles and Star Wars toys shown on this website are the 3.75 inch scale and from my own private Star Wars collection unless otherwise stated. Where possible original vintage accessories have been used but in some instances I have placed Kenner Star Wars figures with either reproduction weapons and accessories or for Hasbro figures close approximations have been used. This is mostly the case for modern Star Wars lightsabers where the correct item can be very difficult to identify on some ocassions. Vintage Star Wars action figures are shown with their original weapon or accessory when I have them. When a vintage Kenner action figure is shown with an accessory which is not original I have tried to point this out where possible.

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