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R5-D4 is a lovable character purely because he doesn't work very well. I don't think the bathos of him rolling forwards for a few feet and then blowing up before he can be sold to Lars was missed on anyone. The early scenes of A New Hope establish in the audiences's eyes that droids provide much of the lighter comic moments, and R5's faulty motivator is among my favourite. R5-D4 is also the second astromech droid we encounter close-up after R2-D2, establishing that he isn't just one of a kind but part of a series of manufactured robots (there are other astromechs on Tantive IV).

R5-D4 is such a nice looking droid action figure and one that somehow captured the spirit of A New Hope as well as any of the action figures for the most commonly seen characters. R5-D4 suggests to us that technology in A New Hope isn't all shiny and state-of-the-art. It is broken down and secondhand. R5-D4's malfunction is both amusing and tragic and it is perhaps this bathos which draws us to him.

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The original R5-D4 figure is very collectable indeed and among the rarer figures. He was not part of the first 12 but from the second wave of A New Hope action figures.

Like vintage Kenner R2-D2's poor old R5-D4 does suffer quite badly from sticker loss.

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