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It's very easy to underestimate the impact of the humble Battle Droid with STAP when it first landed on the shelves in 1999. As a Sneak Preview toy for The Phantom Menace the Battle Droid with STAP was the first new figure (alongside the Sneak Preview Mace Windu) and new ship for a brand new film that we'd had since 1983. If you happened to have picked one of these up before seeing the trailer then this raised an awful lot of conjecture: what was a Battle Droid, what was it's role within the film, would it be a minor or major character and so forth?

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The STAP itself feels rather inconsequential with hindsight, and its unfortunately one of those vehicles where the laws of physics are never going to let it stand up on its own for long without it toppling over and taking down a lot of surrounding action figures with it.

The Battle Droid's elbow and knee articulation is very loose on my copy which makes posing him fairly difficult.

There is a button underneath the bottom of the clear plastic stand which fires the STAP's missiles. As a firing mechanism it's a bit impractical as you have to be holding the STAP in one hand in order to fire the missiles with the other.

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