KPR Security Droid

[deathproof]

though I haven't made many toys throughout my career, I can tell you that very often, especially with things that were made this long ago, they don't give the toy sculptor any more information or reference than we're digging up.  I can pretty much guarantee no measurements were provided. Toy sculptors and other professionals that make these sorts of things after the fact are forced to guess or make a lot of it up in a lot of circumstances.  But that's all right, 'cause if the people who made it don't even remember what it looked like, no one will know if you get it wrong!

That does make me feel oddly better.

I used Uncle Owen (the actor stands a little over 6 feet tall) as a basis of measurement and based on that, this is what I'd come up with so far:










A couple years ago when I was thinking about doing a Mysterio costume for Halloween (until realizing my sizeable girth wouldn't exactly look flattering in green spandex) I had found this site that has plastic globes and hemispheres. By my measurements, the KPR's dome is about 15" in diameter, which they do make:

http://www.complexplastics.com/BALLS/HEMISPHERES.htm

A standard R2 droid head is about 18" in diameter.  Even if my measurement estimations were a little off, it still looks like the KPR has a smaller head than an R2 unit does.


Since this project is some time aways in getting started I haven't bothered getting a price on the dome, but it's a good thing I saved the site.