KX SECURITY DROID — HOLIDAY EDITION
STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES (HASBRO)
Okay, so it may not quite be Christmas yet, but you know what? I’m gonna do two Christmas-y reviews this year. Of course, since Christmas Eve falls on a weekend this year, I guess I’ll just observe it today, instead. That seems fair, right? Yeah, let’s do that! Last year, I took a brief look into Hasbro’s Black Series holiday offerings, and that feels like a pretty easy road to go back down. There’s even more of them this year, including today’s offering, the KX Security Droid!
THE FIGURE ITSELF
The Holiday Edition KX Security Droid is one of the six Holiday Edition Star Wars: The Black Series figures for 2023. This one in particular is the Walmart-exclusive portion of the line-up. As with last year’s Protocol Droid, the KX doesn’t get any sort of clever name or anything, which feels like a bit of a bummer, but it’s at least brand-consistent. The figure stands 7 1/2 inches tall and has 31 points of articulation. The KX is re-using the K-2SO mold, which makes sense, them being the same model of droid and all. It helps that it remains a really strong mold, even seven years after its original use. The only draw back to my personal 
copy is that one of his legs snapped off at the hip joint, which is a real bummer. The color scheme really mixes things up on this one, going for a predominantly white color scheme, accented with red and green, which is all appropriately festive. I especially dig the snowflakes swapping in for the Imperial Cog. The KX is packed with a small blaster pistol, done up in Nerf-style colors, which is fun. He also gets the requisite smaller companion figure that all of the Holiday Edition figures have gotten. It’s another BD-1, this time decoed up in white and blue. Not quite as overtly festive as the one that came with the Protocol Droid, but it’s still pretty nifty.
THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION
I’m a big fan of this mold, and of the Holiday Edition concept. That said, given how kitschy they are, I’m not hunting any of them down. With this guy being a Walmart exclusive, I figured I wouldn’t be getting one any time soon and called it a day, but when one turned up as a trade-in at All Time, I jumped on it. His broken hip is a real bummer, but he’s otherwise a fun, and I’m still very much a fan of this whole concept.
