Luke Skywalker
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In order to restore balance to the Force, Luke Skywalker must confront and defeat Darth Vader. Young Skywalker travels across the galaxy to face Vader and uses his attunement with the Force to convert his X-wing Fighter to a combat mecha. Luke battles the Empire's starfighters and ruthless bounty hunters as he embarks on his quest to confront his destiny.[1] He also has a transforming T-47 Snowspeeder.
It is almost certain that Luke Skywalker using one of his transforming vehicles would be an extremely powerful opponent for typical Cybertronians, since he's known to have held his own fighting the Unicron Trilogy's Megatron... on foot! Intriguingly, the only other "star warrior" known to have done so is Darth Vader, a.k.a. Anakin Skywalker, no doubt a relation. Perhaps someday we will get to see this powerful family in action in a story.
He bears a striking resemblance to a young Mark Hamill.
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Fiction
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Luke Skywalker is a hero to Buddy. Buddy felt as though he was emulating him when he got to fly around in Cosmos for a little while. Desert Flight
Toys
Attacktix
- Intergalactic Showdown (Multi-pack, 2006)
- Luke Skywalker comes in a set with Darth Vader, an AT-RT non-humanoid piloted robot with clone pilot, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Omega Sentinel.
- You can also get some other Attacktix figures of him, if you really want to.
Star Wars Transformers
- Luke Skywalker / X-wing Fighter (2006)
- Accessories: 4 missiles, lightsaber, Luke Skywalker figure
- Known designers: Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)
- Luke Skywalker's mech can transform from an X-Wing starfighter into a robot crafted in his likeness. The placement of the cockpit in robot mode gives it a see-through chest in which the small pilot figure can sit. Due to the transformation scheme, the arms have a good deal of articulation, including rotating wrists. The shoulders, however, can only rotate backward, making some poses difficult (lightsaber duels are out of the question). The legs are attached to a ball joint and the hips may be raised or lowered. The X-Wing has pressure-launch missile launchers located on the end of each wing which can be removed and held in the robot's hands, as well as a lightsaber that can clip onto the robot's belt or also be held in its hands.
- Later releases of this mold saw a running-change variant wherein the ball-jointed thighs were replaced with smaller universal joints. These joints were less versatile and give the figure an awkward stance. The change was made due to many units' thighs snapping off at the ball-joint because of a design flaw.
- Luke Skywalker / Snowspeeder (2007)
- Accessories: 2 missiles, 2 missile launchers, lightsaber, Luke Skywalker figure
- Part of the final wave of Star Wars Transformers (before the line was merged into the Crossovers franchise), Luke Skywalker changes from a Snowspeeder into a robotic Luke Skywalker. The lightsaber is recolored from the X-Wing/Luke toy, and the two vehicle side cannons can detach to become huge handheld guns, each of which fires a projectile. Included is a new mold Luke pilot mini-figure which can be seated in the vehicle cockpit. The harpoon gun is non-removable, but can rotate 360 degrees in vehicle mode.
- Mostly a shellformer, this figure only uses the cockpit of the vehicle in robot mode, storing the rest in a giant backpack. The vehicle mode was not designed with storage of the lightsaber in mind, though three opening panels in the underside reveal enough empty space underneath in which to slide the weapon.
- In all stock photography of the toy his legs are not extended and backpack not quite folded away properly—he's supposed to be taller! Luke's shoulder articulation is also weirdly restricted, preventing his arms from sitting flush and only rotating backwards, not forwards. So good luck posing him with those massive guns of his.
Crossovers
- Snowspeeder to Luke Skywalker (2008)
- Accessories: 2 missiles, 2 missile launchers, lightsaber
- The above toy was repackaged for the Crossovers line, identical to the previous release but lacking the pilot mini-figure.
- Luke Skywalker to X-wing Fighter (2009)
- Accessories: 4 missiles, lightsaber
- The X-wing toy was also repackaged for Crossovers without its pilot figure.
Notes
- The character Red Five is named after the call-sign Luke used in A New Hope.
- Outside of the live-action films and television shows, Mark Hamill also voices Luke in a small amount of animated projects, while Eric Bauza voiced him in the LEGO Star Wars series.
- Corey Burton based his voice for Spike Witwicky after Luke.[2]
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