L3-37 was one of the various members of Beckett’s evolving crew throughout Solo.  First we had Beckett, Val, Rio, and Korso.  (If you read our figure reviews daily, you’ll know that we’ve been over this already!).  Korso was quickly killed on Mimban, and was replaced by Han and Chewbacca.  During the failed heist on Vandor-1, Val and Rio were both killed.  Qi’ra, Lando, and L3-37 joined the group.  On Kessel, L3-37 was destroyed (mostly).  Finally, on Savareen, after a brief alliance with Enfys Nest’s Cloud Riders, Han shot (first) and killed Beckett, essentially disbanding his crew once and for all.  The remaining former members went their own separate ways, with Han and Chewie the only ones staying together.

L3-37 was a somewhat controversial character, and not all fans were….fans.  Her short arc on screen had her start off as Lando’s copilot, then go a bit rogue in order to liberate droids on Kessel, and then finally mind-meld with the Millennium Falcon.  She was meant to provide some comic relief, but not everything about her arc went over well with all viewers.  In the end, we’ve been given the answer to the question nobody really asked, which is “where did the Falcon learn to communicate, and why, according to Threepio, did it have a most peculiar dialect?”  Now we know.

As for the figure, it’s decent looking, but is once again another sad example of the misery that is Hasbro’s 5POA strategy.  As with most of the Solo figures reviewed to date, this one is sorely in need of the collector treatment.  The figure is technically 6POA.  This is because it has a double jointed “barbell” neck.  Due to this feature, the head is a little more dynamic than it would be on most other figures, however the range of motion is still not particularly awesome. Otherwise, the figure has standard swivel joints at the shoulders and hips.  The sculpt is quite good, capturing the look of the character nicely.  I actually didn’t realize it until I had the figure in hand myself, but this droid seems to be made up largely of various astromech parts.  According to her entry in the Solo sourcebook, she is essentially “self-made”, which apparently also applies to her personality. 

Hasbro opted to have the wires and cables that connect the legs to the torso attach via a couple of small square-shaped pegs.  You can see how the cables attach to the inside of the legs in images 8 and 9 in the gallery above.  The reason for this, I suspect, is so that the cables don’t hinder the leg articulation.  This, of course, is almost folly, because the leg articulation without knees or ankles is basically useless anyway.  One exception, and perhaps an important one, is that the figure can sit, so it can go into the Falcon (OT-era, of course) cockpit.  It’s not a great fit without knees, and it took a little work to pull off the cockpit shot in the gallery, but it can be done. L3-37 is painted fairly well.  It’s not the sharpest application of paint you’ll see on a figure, but it gets the job done.  L3 has plenty of color, despite having a generally off-white appearance. 

While L3 was a rather dynamic droid in the film, it’s quite difficult, if not straight up impossible, for this figure to convey any of that dynamism.  It’s simply painted, has minimal articulation, and comes with no accessories.  It would have been nice if there was an included neural core accessory, which was the part salvaged from L3’s destroyed body and then integrated into the Falcon.  Hasbro could even have tried to be clever and sculpt the part in such a way that it could be affixed somewhere inside the body or cockpit of the BMF Falcon.  That actually would have been a nice treat. 

L3-37 doesn’t offer much, other than what will probably be the only 3.75” figure ever made of this droid.  If you like the film, you may want to pick this up.  It earns the baseline 4/10 for a 5POA realistically styled figure.