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General Grievous vs. a ...droideka?

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K, My friend has been smoking too much of something (or he's been playing too muhc lego star wars , lol) and he thinks that a droideka is far superior to general grievous, I mean 1 droideka!! Neways can someone knoledgeable on general grievous please reply outlining the reasons why a droideka could not beat general grievous, or if i'm wrong tell me why it could...

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Maybe I'm not enough of a nerd, but what in samhail is a droideka?
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Maybe I'm not enough of a nerd, but what in samhail is a droideka?


And you call yourself a Star Wars fan.
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Maybe I'm not enough of a nerd, but what in samhail is a droideka?


And you call yourself a Star Wars fan.


LOL. I'm with Bossk- I was like "what the fuh?"
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To be fair, Droideka's are far cooler than the other battle droids in TPM. Though many might known them as Destroyer Droids. They're easy to kill in Republic Commando too. Just run up to it and use melee attacks. You'll be standing between their guns, and they can't back up.


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Me too, I didn't have a clue what the hell a Droideka was. Anyway, I don't really want to post this because it's way, way, too geeky, but I reckon Grievous would kick this Droideka's rolling ass with ease from what I've seen of him in clone wars. Man, I'm a geek.

War does not make one great.

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prequel fanboys know what droidekas are.
"A Jedi can feel the force flow through him".
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Me too, I didn't have a clue what the hell a Droideka was. Anyway, I don't really want to post this because it's way, way, too geeky, but I reckon Grievous would kick this Droideka's rolling ass with ease from what I've seen of him in clone wars. Man, I'm a geek.


You are on a Star Wars fan messageboard, you don't need to call yourself a geek here, its already presumed.
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Good point. At least I didn't know what a Droideka was until I looked it up though.

War does not make one great.

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Maybe I'm not enough of a nerd, but what in samhail is a droideka?


And you call yourself a Star Wars fan.


Bite me.

Well, I feel better knowing I wasn't the only one here who was clueless about it. I've heard of Destroyer Droids, but that's the only name I've heard them referred to as. Never as a "Droideka."
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Well, I feel better knowing I wasn't the only one here who was clueless about it. I've heard of Destroyer Droids, but that's the only name I've heard them referred to as. Never as a "Droideka."


I think *maybe* the garble-mouthed mock-Chinese accented Trade Fed idiots perhaps muttered something about "dwoydwdwwaaaa" somewhere in TPM but I couldn't make out what the hell they were saying. Now on the other hand when they and the Jedi kept repeating- 'send the destroyer droids', 'look there are destroyer droids', 'them there droids must be destroyer droids because we keep repeating the name destroyer droids so the kids will go buy destroyer droids and by the way Jar-Jar is funny he steps in poop...' and all the other stupid lines of dialogue I suppose for some reason the term 'destroyer droid' stuck in my head...

And speaking of- why in the PT do ALL little minor crappy characters have to have names? Why can't they just be credited as, for example, 'space bar slut' instead of 'Tittbag Sluttoni' or 'weird brown Jedi in background' instead of 'Pooter Scatla Turr'dlooker'???
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Because everyone wants to buy the 'third Jedi from the left in scene 43' toy.
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But what kills me about all these characters is that they never would have been considered for toys in the original run of toys from 77-85. Why now? They are useless characters.

RID OF THEM I SAY!!!!



But, if I could find a carded figure whose name was "Third Jedi From the Left in Scene 43", I would buy it just for kicks.
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Or maybe to really mess with kids and collectors they should have sequentially numbered something like 10,000 clone trooper figures and told everyone that each one represents one unique clone troop... collect 'em all!
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People do that already without any prompting. They're called Army Builders. It's pretty sick. But impressive when you see them all lined up in formation.
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Or maybe to really mess with kids and collectors they should have sequentially numbered something like 10,000 clone trooper figures and told everyone that each one represents one unique clone troop... collect 'em all!



Hell yeah. Charge 20 bucks for individual ones, and slap a sticker on the packaging that says "Betcha can't collect all 10,000!". That's some lucas....er I mean lucrative marketing right there.

Also do the same for the droid army. And have all of them say "Roger, roger".


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But what kills me about all these characters is that they never would have been considered for toys in the original run of toys from 77-85. Why now? They are useless characters.


Never be considered? How about Snaggletooth and the other random minor characters like that?

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