The whole Anakin/Padmé symmetry death scene was an interesting one, where we see both of them “die”, but at the same time we see Luke/Leia/Vader being born.  Very symbolic.  You can only fully grasp this scene if you are French and wear a houndstooth beret while smoking a cigarette as you enjoy a baguette at a patio table in a Parisian bistro.  Or maybe it’s so heavy-handed that even a Cro-Magnon man would get it while he picks his teeth with a tusk from a woolly mammoth in a pre-French cave.  Probably one of those two are possible. 

For me, I was most interested in the goings on with all the droid attendants.  I had wanted to complete both medical scenes with figures.  For the Padmé side of things, we didn’t really get anything special, beyond the Polis Massan figure (review coming soon!), but for the Coruscant scene, Hasbro gave us the kind of terrible Anakin to Darth Vader on the Operating Table deluxe set.  The figure is crap, but the table was kinda cool.  And then we got this guy, which for some reason was just called “Vader’s Medical Droid” instead of being given a droid alpha-numeric designation.  According to Wookieepedia, this is a DD-13 Medical Assistant Droid.  I had always thought there were 2 of them in the scene, but after watching it more closely, it looks like there is only one.  It is joined by a 2-1B Medical Droid - and what looks like another 2-1B in the deep background, as well as FX-6 - which confusingly is an FX-9 Medical Droid.  According to Wookieepedia, there’s a second FX-9 droid in the scene, but I don’t see it.  Then there’s a bunch of floaty spider droids, one of which seems to be one that came with a Star Tours set that escapes me at the moment.  I think Tannith mentioned this in the comments somewhere along the way, which was news to me.

Anyway, I liked that this figure was released to help flesh out the diorama.  He was later joined by 2-1B and FX-6, which was very cool.  It isn’t otherwise particularly exciting, but I don’t have a whole lot to complain about, since I’m happy it exists.  There’s a swivel head, waist, and elbows, along with rudimentary ball joints for the shoulders.  The three “hips” are swivel joints.  You can coax a pose or two, but it’s fairly limited. 

The paint job is nice, as there are a lot of colors applied to the different wires and greeblies around the torso, and the rest of the figure has some nice detailing like the stripe that encircles the waist, the two colors applied to the legs, and the silver struts on the arms. 

My one complaint is that the thin legs can warp easily and lack knees to help with additional poses.  For a long time I had thought this guy hovered, and I had wished it came with a clear stand to help mimic this effect, but upon closer inspection, it seems his feet are in contact with the floor the whole time.  I must have been thrown off by the other many-legged droids that are floating around the operating room.

The figure isn’t really very good, but it’s one of those deep background droids that we all love, and it appears in an iconic scene.  It’s never been redone, and likely never will, so this is it.  I guess it’s good enough, but it’s still kinda weak.

In honor of Dixos Onoma, which translated from Greek means “I hate this ridiculous grading scale,” I give this figure:

5 Stars.
5/10.