Disney Droid Factory: The 'final" tally.
Between several official sources, I've taken some time to tally up all the shown "Droid Factory" parts. Here's what I count...
Yeah, that's more than the news reports have said (71 parts), but I'm going by the pics provided. Supposedly some parts won't be in the bins til later in the summer, which may explain the discrepancy. We'll see.
You can buy your droids as a single or a two-pack, with sources putting the pricing at $12.95 for a single (ouch!), and $18.95 for the two-pack, which is not bad really, considering that normal Star Wars figures average $9 at retail. But that's STILL a lot of cash to plunk down if you want everything. Especially since this currently ONLY going to be at Disney's Hollywood Studios park in Orlando with its $90 ticket price (by the time it hopefully moves to the free-to-enter Disney Downtown shopping place, well, parts may have been cycled out and replaced with new ones).
Now, there is some good news. A lot of the parts can be considered redundant with stuff already out, therefore are skippable unless you really must have every minor variant. As there are a lot more heads than bodies, even if you only buy the the non-redundant ones, well, you're pretty much forced to get a couple duplicate bodies and legs. What might you be able to skip? Let's break everything we've seen down so far by part! Heads I consider "skippable" will be italicized.
Did you get the Queen's Starship Droids set? Then you have four of these five domes. Or close enough, most likely. One can quibble over shades if you must.
Both of these domes use -for the most part- the R3-A2 dome deco layout.The nubbins aren't painted, and oddly the frame around the eyeport is painted silver. But when I'm looking to trim my spending, such concerns are trivial.
The green/white head is basically the same as R4-J1, only done in brighter tones and without the grime-wash. I consider this skippable then. The other two, interestingly enough, use more or less the same deco layout as the Star Tours R4-M9, a very old figure, but in totally new colors.
The red-accented R5 head looks like R5-D4's, but we don't have the best look at it right now, so this may change. The black/yellow head is basically R5-J2 with brighter accents, and so far we don't even see a similar-deco body to put it on. And I will continue to point out that this deco belongs to a binocular-eyed R5, not a triclops.
The two domes deemed skippable here are not exact matches for R7-Z0 and R7-T1, but they're very close. The Disney Park versions are just lacking a few panel/line details from the retail versions.
Wow, new parts! As such, none of these are redundant.. as of this moment that we know of. There are some potential redundancies, as some of these domes match up with the "sample" droids as seen in the New Essential Guide to Droids, and Hasbro used that book's colors to make R7-Z0. The yellow-accent R6, black-accent R8, and green/silver R9 all line up pretty well with the sample droids for each type from that book. It's been claimed that the 6/8/9 heads are exclusive to this venue, but... well, we'll see.
So at the moment, there are ten "confirmed" redundant heads in the set. Which means, if you must buy a complete figure to get a head-part, we still got 15 to buy. 16 if you want to take advantage of 2-pack pricing.
Standard Astromech Body (11)
Now, some of these bodies are redundant with retail, but considering the sheer number of non-redundant heads... well, odds are you're gonna end up with duplicates if you want each head anyway. The white/red and white/yellow bodies look to use the R5-A2 layout, with the yellow being potentially redundant with A2 (depending on how orange it actually is in person). The dark-blue/white body comes from R3-M3, but a lot darker blue than that droid's. And the red/white one is close-enough to R2-R9, seemingly only lacking the topmost white strip.
None of these are immediately redundant, but the white/black one could be, as it perfectly matches the sample R8 from the aforementioned New Essential Guide to Droids. The yellow one looks to be a much brighter shade that R7-T1 almost pea-soup yellowish accents, enough to where I don't feel bad getting it.
Not a lot to say here. The legs are pretty plainly matched up to the body decos, and nothing outrageous.
Again, not much to add. Unadorned and color-matched to the bodies.
This is pretty awesome. Mind you, the black Mickey ears are not totally redundant with the ears you got from R2-MK, as these hats have a central pegs for added stability (which also sadly makes them unusable with non-Star-Tours droids)... plus MK's hat has his name stamped on the back.
So there you have it. A hefty rundown. If you're after just the heads, you're looking at 12 to 15 figures, depending on what we learn of future retail plans. Me, I'm already planning out which parts to get, with an eye towards the bodies/legs best suited as custom fodder for the duplicates. And we'll keep you updated as we discover more parts.
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