Star Wars Advent Calendar - Day 21
Posted by CapnRex101,
There is still potential for more droids in the Star Wars Advent Calendar this year and I believe the next brick-built droid will appear today, based on yesterday bringing a Super Battle Droid.
We can open the door and find out...
Imperial Probe Droids have appeared several times in LEGO Star Wars and this model feels like quite a throwback, similar to the nearly unchanging design used so frequently between 2016 and 2019. It looks alright, although the droid from 75322 Hoth AT-ST was so vastly superior and I wish we had received a comparable model here, even if it had to be divided over two days.
Overall - This is a decent Imperial Probe Droid, though it looks dated when we know LEGO Star Wars can do so much better with this droid.
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0 points (+ 64 from yesterday = 64): HP - doesn't work with the 'figs.
1 (+26 = 27): Dy - Kitten earns the point.
2 (+41 = 43): MC - not bad.
3 (+48 = 51): Fr - better than MC. Sometimes, more is more!
4 (+63 = 67): SW - Stalker, voyeur and snitch. A nicely executed (this variant slightly chubby) yet most hated type of droid in the galaxy far far away earns many points!
5 (+58 = 63): Ct - If City wants, they can. A shame they mostly don't want to!
Nuts, I'm doing one more.
Stewie: Hey, how you doing, Brian?
Brian: Lousy.
Stewie: I know who can cheer you up. The robot from SpaceCamp.
Jinx: Brian and Jinx are friends.
Brian: Get that out of here.
Stewie: Okay, how about the robot from Rocky IV?
Robot: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULIE.
Brian: Look, Stewie, get these stupid '80s movie robots out of here, and leave me alone.
Disney: Déjà vu, but I like it better than in case of the HP sweaters. 4/5p
Friends: 4.5/5p
Minecraft: 3.5/5p
Harry Potter: Even if it's not Christmas-themed, at least it's something new. 3.5/5p
Star Wars: 3/5p
Anyway, I *kind of* like this, but it's really a chibi Probe Droid or a partially damaged one. The one from 75322 is far superior. I realize they're under parts restrictions here, but if they'd duplicated the one from the AT-ST I'd be much happier. This is like HALF a Probe Droid. I added some nozzle pieces to the "hands" on mine just to get some better shaping in.
I agree, the one included with 75322 is still the best. This guy looks kinda squished. He reminds me a little of the ID9 Seeker Droids from Star Wars: Rebels.
Ooh that’s an angry hamburger
@BabuBrick said:
"I agree, the one included with 75322 is still the best. This guy looks kinda squished. He reminds me a little of the ID9 Seeker Droids from Star Wars: Rebels."
Maybe he's *half* a probe droid and Babu's been reassembling it.
Nuts. Now I wish he were a two-day build if that'd have allowed for all the parts from 75322. And in festive colors, now that I think about it.
Imperial probe droids are black though...
I look forward to the discussions when this probe droid shows up as the minifigure of the day. :)
@KyloBen1012 said:
"Imperial probe droids are black though..."
Or sometimes very, very dark grey….
My favorite is the one from 75014. No, not the one you got in your copy. The one from mine. See, I got an extra bag of the small parts in mine, which meant I had an extra five Battle Droid arms. So I clipped four of them into the four arms on the original build, and added the fifth in one of the open positions as the shorter arm. It’s a bit risky to clip clips to other clips, but it looks a lot closer to the film proportions, while still retaining the clips at the bottom of all the arms.
@BabuBrick said:
"I agree, the one included with 75322 is still the best. This guy looks kinda squished. He reminds me a little of the ID9 Seeker Droids from Star Wars: Rebels."
perfect in parts not in colour
The chubby little Probe Droid.