Classics Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO

Well it's not even on D+ USA, and we tend to get these things earliest, so not surprised you guys don't have it yet.

 

From what I can tell, Droids hasn't been announced for D+ US, but it's coming to several other markets on June 18th, so it's likely that that's when it'll be released in North America as well.

 

It was included in the original announcement, though nothing more specific than coming "later this year".

 

Ah, yes, I meant that I couldn't find an announced release date for the US.

 

The Vintage Collection is out in Sweden now, finally!

A couple of things differ from the release announcement though - on the positive side, both Volumes of Clone Wars are there (the announcement specified Vol 1, but left out Vol 2), but unfortunately there's no sign of Droids yet.

 

We have Droids now in America, the full season and The Great Heep! So it should make its way overseas hopefully sometime this year.

 

Yes. Which is why Droids, unlike Ewoks, worked so well as "movies" on the home-video releases, both on VHS and later on DVD.
The show consisted of three arcs, which were -- according to Wikipedia -- titled "The Battle Against Sise Fromm" (episode 1-4), "The Pirates and the Prince" (one of the 'movies' on the DVD; episodes 5-8), and "Unchartered Space" (called "Treasure of the Hidden Planet" when released as a 'movie' on the DVD; episodes 10-13). Apart from these arcs you had episode 9, which was a relatively self-contained episode called Coby and the Starhunters; and The Great Heep, which was a one-hour special aired after the show had ended, but that works as a direct prequel to Unchartered Space.

Fun fact: the Mungo Baobab episodes (ep. 10-13) has a "story by" credit for Ben Burtt, and The Great Heep was written by Burtt. Burtt later appeared as Ebenn Q3 Baobab in The Phantom Menace.

 

I'm so, so happy that we finally have the Vintage Collection here. Too bad there's still no sign of Droids, even though it was supposed to have been released with the rest of it.

 

Yes, it's on there in some countries, but not in Sweden, where I am. We just got the Vintage Collection a few days ago, but not Droids.

 

The thing is that Droids was included in the announcement that we'd get the Vintage Collection. It's just... not there.

 

Started this, finished the White Witch arc. It's fun, and curious to see an expressive Threepio. I definitely dig the heavy 80s-ness, especially the liberal use of synth in the soundtrack. It's also a bit of a 180 coming off Ewoks which is so self-contained to get into a show with much deeper connective tissue to the greater SW universe.

 

Um... According to a Swedish site that's generally reliable, we're getting Droids this month, only... season 2 will air with a new episode each week.

What the hell?!

 

For a brief moment I thought we might get a season 2, but alas, I think I've figured it out.
I believe it's a misunderstanding, as technically, the made-for-TV movie The Great Heep was produced as "season 2 episode 1", and the site I got info from probably just misunderstood that, and figured there would be more episodes in season 2 coming later.

 

That trick was used in an old Marvel SW comic from the 80s as well - rain forming tears on Threepio's cheeks. Interesting.

 

I'm slowly working my way through, but this show's so ****ing weird, I love it. It's also surprisingly progressive with its use of not only strong female characters but strong POC characters as well.