If there’s one thing that was wrong with the last three Star Wars movies, it’s that Obi-Wan Kenobi was not a giant robot who could transform into a spaceship. Fortunately, that’s been rectified.
Wow. The Darth Vader one actually looks pretty good. The other two give me bad flashbacks to childhood nightmares of that chick in the Superman movies who becomes a robot.
She got better! 
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Atually, I had nightmares about that, too. That was a scary scene, albeit in a really dull movie.
Somehow, in the turning of Obi-Wan Kenobi into a giant transforming robot, he loses some defining point in what makes him Obi-Wan Kenobi. I find myself wondering at what point in his life would he have become a giant transforming robot. Was that while he was on Tatooine? And why did he change back? I would think the ability to transform into a spaceship would come in handy. Also, if he had big metal bones he might not have been defeated by Darth Vader so easily. This leaves me with too many questions. I hope George Lucas can answer it all in the next trilogy or whatever it is he’s doing now.
The idea that Darth Vader has been reimagined as having taken the step from “more machine than man” to “all machine, no man” is slightly less of an affront than being “more potato than man.”
I’m confused. The article states that each figure comes complete with a miniature pilot. Surely that would classify them as non-autonomous battlemechs, not Transformers* per se*?
For some reason these things remind me of the groovy **Star Wars ** custom van models from MPC. I’m not sure why; maybe it’s the inappropriateness of the movie tie-in. I could never really credit the idea of Darth Vader tooling around the universe in a themed black van, TIE fighter-style sunroof or no, and I similarly have a hard time imagining the Lord of the Sith taking the fight to the Rebels by piloting a larger robotic version of himself. Didn’t Mel Brooks already do that joke in Spaceballs?
The choice of featured characters also seems strangely arbitrary; where’s the Millenium Falcon/Han Solo Transformer? The Boba Fett/Slave I? The Sail Barge that transforms into Bikini Leia? The pod racer that transforms into Mason Reese?
The Obi-Wan mech, with its chunky elongated torso, blocky head and chicken legs, looks uncannily like my high school gym teacher. Just swap out the lightsaber for a Louisville Slugger and it’s him.