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Salacious crumb middle name9/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The Mandalorian Season 3 Wrap-Up Poster Available On DMI Today.Come September 5th, check back here and see.Ģ0 months to go. We are almost tempted to just buy a can of red spray paint and customize our own C-3PO’s. That will be the “Midnight Madness” sale for all new products in support of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens”. Surely, there will be a flood of new and re-released figures come September 4th at 12:01 A.M. Abrams and his crew have been keeping a very tight lid on plot details and any spoilers.Īnd with the recent jump in prices for basic 3.75-inch Star Wars action figures at retail (MSRP $13.00 in the U.S.), we have to re-think our strategy on which of the new action figures to collect. ![]() This latest mystery underscores Threepio’s absence in any part of the first two teasers released for The Force Awakens. Is C-3PO sporting a RED left arm? Was he in yet another battle, and why is the replacement arm red? And how did this soda can end up in Mexico, well before the September 4th official release date for new products? Now comes a clearer image from someone in Mexico who tweeted this image: Several weeks ago, was the first to leak grainy images of a possibly different-looking C-3PO on promotional products. As our golden droid readily admits: “We seem to be made to suffer. And then his eye was torn out of its socket by a hyena-laughing Salacious Crumb in Return of the Jedi (1983).ĭurability is not C-3PO’s middle name. He was nearly disintegrated by a stormtrooper in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). He then lost his head in Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). Recall that Threepio was cobbled together by a very young Anakin Skywalker (played by Jake Lloyd) in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999). The sometimes-bumbling droid that somehow manages to find himself in the thick of battle may have lost yet another limb – again! The C-3PO Special edition comic is now available at comic book stores or for purchase online (MSRP $4.99). Threepio wears OMRI’s arm as a replacement for his missing limb “at least for awhile” and, if droids can have feelings, as a reminder of his fallen colleague.īy the end of The Force Awakens, Threepio’s arm is restored to its golden glory again. C-3PO manages to save OMRI’s left arm (now red because of the acid rain) just as Poe Dameron and BB-8 come to his rescue. Before he expires, OMRI reveals Ackbar’s location. In a bit of heroics, OMRI sacrifices himself to save his new friend. Eventually, exposure to the acid rain turns OMRI’s metallic coat to a red primer color, and his arm falls off at the joint. While walking in search of a downed TIE fighter, it rains on both droids. “We could’ve been allies before,” they say to each other. (Sidenote: This act of violence seems to continue Star Wars’ proud tradition of severing limbs and body parts in nearly every movie.) Other droids are eliminated one by one.ĭuring their traumatic journey, C-3PO and OMRI begin to bond and develop a relationship as they discuss how their memories have been repeatedly wiped. After the droids’ vehicle crashes onto a hostile planet, a large, tentacled creature wraps one of its arms around C-3PO’s left arm and rips it off. OMRI has important intelligence information – the location of Admiral Ackbar, abducted by the First Order.Įn route back to the Resistance, C-3PO, OMRI and other droids run into big trouble. The golden protocol droid and other droids are escorting OMRI, a droid serving the First Order, to the Resistance. Marvel Comics has just released its C-3PO Special edition. Ap– One of the unanswered questions from The Force Awakens – how C-3PO ended up with a red left arm – has now been answered. ![]()
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