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I bought this Vintage Collection R2-D2 and honestly it's a disappointment. The head can't turn unless you yank the periscope out which leaves one of the tiles on R2's head empty, the panel for his little mechanical arm doesn't shut all the way unless you tape it down (it has a hair-thin rubber band around it in the package just to make it look like it stays shut), he can barely stand up on his center leg, and the wheels on his main legs are useless because he falls on his face if you try to roll him. If you push his center leg up his periscope goes up and if you push it down his foot goes down, and it's not attached so it will get lost very easily. There's no easy way to extend his leg without the periscope piece either. It's a bad desing feature.
Basically this thing can't make up it's mind whether it's for collectors or to play with and it kind of sucks at both. I can only conclude that it's meant to look nice in the box. Maybe with some modifications I could fix it at the expense of losing of the play gimmicks, but overall I think there must be better R2 figures out there. The whole thing feels very fiddly and delicate. The one thing it's good for is simulating the scene where R2-D2 goes haywire in Return of the Jedi, because if you shove his center foot in fast enough all his accessory panels go flying out (and you can spend a few minutes combing the carpet to find his parascope).
Overall impression: nice sculpt and paint apps, shitty half-baked play features / accessories, pain in the ass to pose. Not worth it unless you are going to modify it and are willing to lose the periscopes and arm hatch. It's disappointing, don't buy it unless you literally can't find a better R2-D2 without paying more.
