#r5-d4

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They BOTH taught him that

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Silly droid doodles

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R5-D4 versus IG-88!!

Best Glup Shitto???

R5-D4

IG-88

Voting ended onNov 24, 2025

R5-D4 was the astromech chosen from the Jawas over R2-D2 in A New Hope. However, he was a force-sensitive droid that foresaw that Luke needed to take R2, and purposely malfunctioned.

IG-88 was an assassin droid and one of the bounty hunters called by Darth Vader alongside Boba Fett to hunt down the Millennium Falcon.

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Round One: R5-D4 vs. Vette

R5-D4

Vette

Voting ended onSep 25, 2025

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you sure, hon?

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Tampa Bay Comic Con 2025 Report

This will be a long-ish post. Please click the jump or whatever below:

Spent about three hours there. Got in 10,000 steps, apparently. Hooray for physical fitness!

Shout out to this awesome fully armored Heimdall; he even had the contacts in. (I think this is home-made? Must have been a ton of work.)

A Virtual Boy demo kiosk! How many of those do you think still exist?

Couple of booths selling capsule toys / gachapon from gachapon machines, including this gachapon machine selling mini gachapon machines:

Jack Burton from Big Trouble in Little China, with Beholder-looking-monster-guy-thing:

Aliens-style Colonial Marine:

Great likeness with this Steve Irwin cosplayer:

Ton of Star Wars droids:

Including this B2EMO from Andor:

Some wild, actual vintage movie posters:

And this crazy, huge Starscream ... costume? This thing was trucked in in pieces, was like 10 feet tall, and had a guy inside it:

Notable things seen but not photographed: A few Sailor senshi (yay), a Gandalf the Gray with Frodo, a Sexy Squidward, a Jyn Erso (yay), a Cassian Andor (yay!), a lot of fully-decked out Ghostbusters and a Slimer, an RC R5-D4 (the red droid that blows its top early in A New Hope), plenty of Marvel heroes, plenty of Mandalorians, even a few of the brand new Fantastic Four costumes (I guess I shouldn't be surprised), a really good Indy and Marion, a huge Big Daddy from Bioshock.

Also: an Amy Rose, a Tails, a few very nicely kitted-out Stormtroopers and Clonetroopers, and even a couple Rogue One rebel commandos! ... In retrospect, I don't think I saw a single Barbie or Ken – I thought that might have had more staying power. *shrug*

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Gang am I fucking stupid?

I always assumed that Chopper was an R5 series astromech... because he LOOKS like an animated, stylized R5

So I had a whole paragraph ready about how Disney made a mistake translating him into live action and used his animated propotions, but I kind of got curious how he got the name C1-10P. I assumed it was gonna be like ND-5, who's a BX battle droid, and his name isn't related to his series number. BUT NO. APPARENTLY, THERE IS AN ENTIRE C1 SERIES OF ASTROMECHS I JUST DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT.

And now I'm wondering why Disney created an entirely new series of astromechs if they were just going to design him to look like an R5 anyway? I always assumed he was just kind of wide because Rebels was a heavily stylized show. But no, that's what he's SUPPOSED to look like