Star Wars Advent Calendar - Day 13
Posted by CapnRex101,
While I was quite pleased with BD-72 yesterday, days offering a single piece should be balanced with more substantial brick-built droids or other items.
I hope we find something like that today...
This vehicle is unlike anything we have seen in the Advent Calendar so far. Although the lack of functional wheels is not ideal for play, this design resembles the treads on a Sandcrawler, which seems appropriate for a droid-themed calendar. However, the model is otherwise very bland and the 2x3 brick on the back seems particularly strange.
Overall - I am happy to see something different in the Advent Calendar, but this vehicle is quite plain.
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Lucky 13:
0 points (+ 20 from yesterday = 21): MC - maybe a training dummy, maybe a pile of pieces.
1 (+ 21 = 22): Dy - festive, that's all.
2 (+ 41 = 43): SW - The shopcrawler is made to lift heavy objects, thus its engineers didn't opt for energy-consuming repulsor lifts. Can be outfitted with tomorrow's gift. Best built-up gift today!
3 (+29 = 32): Fr - Churro ist too well fed for a box - no fit, no sit! Hence, the grumpy expression.
4 (+36 = 40): HP - 3rd 4th place in a row? But you have to admit, the HP minifigs are solid!
5 (+32 = 37): Ct - One of only three gifts in the City Calendar this year I actually want! the alien plushie would actually win 5 points by itself!
Peter: You remember last night when you called me the lowest-class alcoholic in the world? Well, I found one rung lower. I'm a party bus guy now. That's got to be way better than when I drove a Fiat.
( Muzak playing over radio ) Hey! You cut me off!
Truck driver: What? Turn down your radio.
Peter: I can't. My stomach's pressed up against the dial. You want to go? Get me 17 shoehorns and some canola oil, and we'll go! ( Tires screech ) Get back here!
But seriously, these Star Wars calendars have to stop with vehicles given the constraints of 10-15 brick builds. The only decent AC build ever was the STAP for the battle droid in 2023.
Disney: 3/5p
Friends: Churro is here, but Churro has no empire or anything. 2/5p
Minecraft: 2.5/5p
Harry Potter: Nice, and it's okay if it's reused, but I'd rather choose to reuse a torso outside this calendar. 3.5/5p
Star Wars: 3.5/5p
It's probably pareidolia, but I'm seeing a spider-duck there that simply DOES NOT CARE what you might think of it, and I kind of love that.
For some reason, my mind went to ride-on MTT before ride-on sandcrawler.
Did everyone get two extra black LEGO Games spider eyes instead of one?
Not bad. I thought I wasn’t going to like this when I opened it, but I kinda do. I always like little service vehicles like this that come with LSW sets.
@RogueWhistler said:
"Did everyone get two extra black LEGO Games spider eyes instead of one?"
The studs with the hole on top? I did, and I was wondering why. Not that I’m complaining; they’re useful parts.
@BabuBrick said:
" @RogueWhistler said:
"Did everyone get two extra black LEGO Games spider eyes instead of one?"
The studs with the hole on top? I did, and I was wondering why. Not that I’m complaining; they’re useful parts."
That's them. I think they have a more widely-used name, but I think the graveyard game with the monsters was their first use (or one of them, anyway) and it's how I think of them. I remember wondering why such a useful part was introduced for something completely decorative .
@RogueWhistler said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @RogueWhistler said:
"Did everyone get two extra black LEGO Games spider eyes instead of one?"
The studs with the hole on top? I did, and I was wondering why. Not that I’m complaining; they’re useful parts."
That's them. I think they have a more widely-used name, but I think the graveyard game with the monsters was their first use (or one of them, anyway) and it's how I think of them. I remember wondering why such a useful part was introduced for something completely decorative .
"
Ah, okay. Thanks; didn't know that.
@RogueWhistler said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @RogueWhistler said:
"Did everyone get two extra black LEGO Games spider eyes instead of one?"
The studs with the hole on top? I did, and I was wondering why. Not that I’m complaining; they’re useful parts."
That's them. I think they have a more widely-used name, but I think the graveyard game with the monsters was their first use (or one of them, anyway) and it's how I think of them. I remember wondering why such a useful part was introduced for something completely decorative .
"
The colloquial term is "Apollo stud", which apparently came about when someone misheard "a hollow stud".
@RogueWhistler said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @RogueWhistler said:
"Did everyone get two extra black LEGO Games spider eyes instead of one?"
The studs with the hole on top? I did, and I was wondering why. Not that I’m complaining; they’re useful parts."
That's them. I think they have a more widely-used name, but I think the graveyard game with the monsters was their first use (or one of them, anyway) and it's how I think of them. I remember wondering why such a useful part was introduced for something completely decorative .
"
Apollo studs, apparently the result of someone mishearing the phrase "a hollow stud". But they do look like tiny moon craters.
White appeared in five Games in 2009, three more in 2010 and 2012, and once more in 2013 before appearing in regular retail sets in 2014. In 2010, it also appeared in two LEGO Store Grand Opening, and a fourth Game that was exclusively given out to LEGO employees. Meanwhile, in 2013, yellow was the first color to appear in a regular retail set across a sampling of the Fire subtheme. What I heard once is that set designers were forbidden from using them if a regular round plate would suffice.
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Is this the SW equivalent of the vehicle Santa will use?
It reminds me of the vehicle you had to protect and deliver in Star Wars Battlefront Extraction game mode.
Kind of reminds me of the droid carriers like 7126, if maybe they were carrying some crates. And also had treads for some reason
Wheels? On a star wars vehicle? That isn't a juggernaut tank? And not hubs for threads too? How unusual
A good day today. A decent build & a fun video.
I've got Babu, C3PO & BD-1 riding this. Greatly enhances the play value of all 4 days.
It's been suggested elsewhere that it's a Jawa service vehicle.
@DoonsterBuildsLego said:
"A good day today. A decent build & a fun video.
I've got Babu, C3PO & BD-1 riding this. Greatly enhances the play value of all 4 days. "
That sounds fun and cute. I'm gonna have to do that on my display.
I thought Babu drives this, but a Jawa operating this makes sense. I like the build and it has plenty of parts.
@Lordmoral said:
"Is this the SW equivalent of the vehicle Santa will use?"
Those usually land on the 23rd, if they’re going to happen, with the Santa-equivalent coming on the 24th. Other vehicles are rare, but aren’t necessarily holiday-oriented. They did Nute Gunray’s mechno-chair once, and a STAP, but offhand I can’t think of any other generic minifig-scale vehicles from the SWAC/DWAC run. Then again, there aren’t exactly tons of options to work with.
@PurpleDave said:
" @RogueWhistler said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @RogueWhistler said:
"Did everyone get two extra black LEGO Games spider eyes instead of one?"
The studs with the hole on top? I did, and I was wondering why. Not that I’m complaining; they’re useful parts."
That's them. I think they have a more widely-used name, but I think the graveyard game with the monsters was their first use (or one of them, anyway) and it's how I think of them. I remember wondering why such a useful part was introduced for something completely decorative .
"
Apollo studs, apparently the result of someone mishearing the phrase "a hollow stud". But they do look like tiny moon craters.
White appeared in five Games in 2009, three more in 2010 and 2012, and once more in 2013 before appearing in regular retail sets in 2014. In 2010, it also appeared in two LEGO Store Grand Opening, and a fourth Game that was exclusively given out to LEGO employees. Meanwhile, in 2013, yellow was the first color to appear in a regular retail set across a sampling of the Fire subtheme. What I heard once is that set designers were forbidden from using them if a regular round plate would suffice."
If only you or only Crux had given the “Apollo stud” info, I might have thought you were joking, but with both of you giving the same info within minutes of one another, I have to assume these are indeed Apollo studs, after someone misheard them that way. Huh. I am edified!
I do recall getting these in some of those early LEGO Games, including the one mentioned here ( 3837 ). Wild to think such a useful element (one desired a long time before it was finally realized, if I’m not mistaken) might have been limited to a single theme for a while.
And yes, I did receive not one but two extras of it in my calendar today. It reminds me of back when I first started getting LEGO ACs, as more than one would come with more spares of things than I’d expect.