"Intruder alert. Open fire"
The New Republic Security Droid, as featured in The Mandalorian Season 1 in ‘The Prisoner’, was released in 2022 in the Black Series Galaxy Collection, number 23 in The Mandalorian Series and part of the general release Wave 8. The Security Droid comes in the slanted window box with a burnt umber accent colour on the box front and across the side artwork.
This N5 Sentry Droid is a brand new sculpt, whilst taking some level of inspiration and functionality from previous figures with similar joints & articulation such as K-2SO and the original IG-88 figure. The body is cast in grey for the most part with a flat grey used for the main body parts and a more metallic gunmetal finish used on the inner workings as visible at the neck, chest and waist. Paint details are limited with some orange indicators & panels on the body, a blue panel on the figure's back, and a yellow painted visor on the head. A New Republic orange decal is applied on the left side of the chest unit and again on the back of the figure's back.
The articulation is built in with the actual design of the droid with circular pinned joints at the ankles, knees, wrists and elbows that bend as well as rotate. More traditional joints exist at the hips and shoulders - including butterfly joints - and there are ball joints at the neck and waist. The shoulder armour panels are a flexible plastic and have a rubberised hinge so they can move up and down with the arms. All in all, this gives 19 points of articulation allowing our awkward-looking droid some pretty extensive movement and posing options.
Our Droid is armed with a single blaster, a DH-17 that has seen previous releases with the Rebel Troopers on Hoth and the Tantive IV. The blaster includes a reasonable level of detail in the grey cast body and also includes silver painted detail on the barrel and the sights. It fits into the Droid's right hand where a trigger finger just and so fits into place.
The New Republic Security Droid is a solid release, without being remarkable. The figure is a few extra paint apps away from looking its best - but what we get is neat, tidy and reflective of what we see on the show just quite flat in the finish. The weapon is exactly as we see them wield on screen, with no other items I’d expect to have seen included. With the droid's subsequent appearance in Season 3 of The Mandalorian and potential appearance in upcoming New Republic-era content like Ahsoka, this is a welcome addition to the Black Series collection.
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