Star Wars Advent Calendar - Day 8

In several years of buying Lego Advent calendars, this is the first day I've had an incorrect set behind the door. I've got a festive Palpatine instead though, which I'd rather have than a crappy battle droid so I'm not complaining!

@Links said:
"In several years of buying Lego Advent calendars, this is the first day I've had an incorrect set behind the door. I've got a festive Palpatine instead though, which I'd rather have than a crappy battle droid so I'm not complaining!"

"Gasp! It's a Life Day miracle!"

If these guys worked for Dooku, and the clones worked for Dooku’s boss…doesn’t that mean they’re technically on the same side? I mean, at the very end, the clones did kinda do what the droids had been trying to accomplish the whole time, which was to kill Jedi.

@jkb:
It would be worth it just to see how they manage to print an ugly sweater on a battle droid torso.

@Mister_Jonny:
Now, is that because you actually want a bigger army, or because people keeping shooting them faster than they arrive?

I’m always happy to get these. They’re useful army builders of which one can never have too many, and unlike so many of the true minifigure characters, the unchanging uniformity of these means we can still use the ones from as far back as 1999 with the ones we get today, and they all still clearly fit with one another (their blasters are another matter, of course…).

Today’s builds (in all five LEGO ACs, not just this one) finally open a box in the fifth column. At last, all six columns and all four rows of the calendar each have at least one open spot.

@MCLegoboy said:
"I'd like to know the logic behind changing Battle Droids' blasters to Pearl Dark Gray over Black. I'm not upset about it, it's a neat color, but why now? And given that these blasters are just generic enough to be used across all factions and eras, is the Gunmetal color meant to denote this as being the E-5 Blaster Rifle? It's always just looked Black to me, but I'll be okay with being wrong there."

Looking back at pictures of droids holding E-5's, they could be either gunmetal or black, so I can kind of understand the decision though the switch to them was certainly unexpected. However, when commando droids hold E-5's they clearly look black as they are darker than the gunmetal commando droids so in that case it's a downgrade.

@PurpleDave Thats' why it's a wondeful occasion to introduce a new droid body piece =D They'll find a way to use it for other stuff afterwards.

[Insert Airplane! reference here.]

I've probably only got 10-12 of these. I always sell any more I get these days, as I don't think I've ever used more than 4 in a MOC. And by MOC, I mean something actually built and I don't mean covering a 48x48 baseplate with them.

@PurpleDave said:
"If these guys worked for Dooku, and the clones worked for Dooku’s boss…doesn’t that mean they’re technically on the same side? I mean, at the very end, the clones did kinda do what the droids had been trying to accomplish the whole time, which was to kill Jedi.

@jkb:
It would be worth it just to see how they manage to print an ugly sweater on a battle droid torso.

@Mister_Jonny:
Now, is that because you actually want a bigger army, or because people keeping shooting them faster than they arrive?"

Yes.

@PurpleDave said:
" @donnyman1972 said:
"Top five Battle Droid quotes:-
1. "Roger Roger"
2. "Roger Roger"
3. "Roger Roger"
4. "Roger Roger"
5. "Roger Roger""

I mean…I get what you’re saying, but I feel like you’re missing _sooooooo_ many of the times R0-GR bemoans their impending death."

I must watch the Clone Wars animated series as clearly there are considerable gaps in my knowledge when it comes to Battle Droids based on your response and others above.
Thank you for the heads up as it were.

@TheOtherMike said:
"[Insert Airplane! reference here."]

Ha ha! Very good!
Still laughing.

@TheOtherMike said:
"[Insert Airplane! reference here."]

"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" Good they didn't opt for the initial draft!

@donnyman1972 said:
"Top five Battle Droid quotes:-
1. "Roger Roger"
2. "Roger Roger"
3. "Roger Roger"
4. "Roger Roger"
5. "Roger Roger"
"

6. “Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?”

The real ones know ;)

@donnyman1972:
Oh, R0-GR isn’t from either Clone Wars series. He’s from Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, which is considerably shorter, and considerably more packed with wailing about their impending death. He’s been reprogrammed, so he’s one of the good guys, which kinda helps in the impending death department. Basically, he ends up being the robotic Scooby-Doo of the group, minus the appetite, and with a hefty dose of extra pessimism.

"they are never exciting"

Ha! Ha!