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C-3PO Figure (Protocol Droid) – Saga Series, 2002 Action Figure Star Wars...

C-3PO (Protocol Droid) figure Saga Series

C-3PO (Protocol Droid) Action Figure: Overview

This Saga Series iteration of C-3PO (Protocol Droid) is a good transition figure representing him somewhere between The Phantom Menace Episode I and The Attack of the Clones Episode II as we have him naked and unfinished as in the first movie and then completed but still rather rough around the edges and with a rather imperfect outer shell as we first encounter the protocol droid on Tatooine in Episode II.

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C-3PO's body plates and the front of his head come on and off in a way that feels very much like shelling peas. Since C-3PO spends half of his life being dis-assembled and reassembled the removable parts of the action figure do feel quite in keeping with him.

If you turn the Saga Series C-3PO figure's head whilst the outer head casing is on, you get a very slight optical illusion that his eyes are moving (although they are actually not).

Interestingly, we get no explanation as to why Anakin suddenly decides to reclaim the protocol droid (which he had abandoned so casually in The Phantom Menace) and take him on the adventure to Geonosis with them. C-3PO is removed from the Lars Homestead and re-joins the action with very little comment at all. This might actually have more to do with Padmé since in Episode One her first reaction to C-3PO is that 'He's perfect' and by Episode III she has taken on Threepio in the role of something like a live-in companion. Whereas the ties between Anakin and C-3PO are severed rather quickly, those between Padmé and C-3PO seem rather strong. The full significance of C-3PO's symbolic role within the Star Wars movies doesn't emerge until he arrives on Geonosis and starts to shed body parts for the first time chronologically (see my article here: C-3PO and the Amputation Motif in the Star Wars Films.

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C-3PO Figure (Protocol Droid) – Saga Series, 2002 Action Figure Star Wars...

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