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It is really nice to have an R2-D2 action figure with drinks tray for Jabba's sail barge, but as with all such Star Wars figures which belong on the sail barge, once you've got them there's no real way to display them in context. Perhaps one day a sail barge diorama or vehicle will be released. For the same reason I'm never really sure where to put my J'Quille action figure or my Princess Leia with Sail Barge Cannon.
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Unfortunately the drinks tray which the Jabba's sail Barge R2-D2 carries holds no glasses on the Saga Series version of the action figure. We had to wait until the Vintage Collection version of this R2-D2 figure before the omission was rectified.
R2-D2's drinks tray raises an interesting question about Luke's using Artoo to hide his lightsaber in The Return of the Jedi. If it wasn't for C-3PO this plan wouldn't have worked. Only when C-3PO bumps into R2-D2 and accidentally knocks his drinks tray off his dome does Artoo have the ability to fire the lightsaber out of the hidden compartment. Otherwise it would have hit the drinks tray and gone off in the wrong direction or even backfired on him. The Force works in mysterious ways so it seems.
In fact C-3PO also unintentionally helps bring about victory on Endor as well. If the Ewoks hadn't mistaken him for a god then the heroes would have needed a different means of escape from being the main course at a teddy bears' picnic and would not have got the Ewoks onside to help them fight the Imperial forces on Endor. In this way, C-3PO subtely nudges things in the right direction throughout the course of the movie.
Update: shortly after writing this Hasbro released the tremendous limited edition 3.75 inch scale Jabba's Sail Barge (The Khetanna). See here.
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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