Star Wars Advent Calendar: Day 10

A tiny rendition of General Grievous' Starfighter emerged yesterday so presumably another item that takes inspiration from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith or The Clone Wars will arrive on day ten.

Find out after the break...

This mounted blaster cannon is designed at minifigure scale and features a stud shooter which has been integrated fairly well. You can alter the pitch of the barrel and the gun emplacement feels sturdy, standing on a 2x3 plate. There is a handgrip for the minifigure to control the blaster cannon too, the angle of which is adjustable.

View image at flickr

Numerous different blaster cannons have appeared within the Star Wars universe but this rendition is not sufficiently distinctive for identification. If the Clone Wars theme is continuing today then it may represent the weapon seen in The Hidden Enemy or Landing at Point Rain, although this model could form part of any era.

Overall - 2.5 - Stud shooters are not particularly exciting on the whole but this example has been nicely designed.

12 comments on this article

By Toa_of_Pi in United States, 10 Dec 2018 16:09

My thought upon building this today was "Ok then." Its not bad, but I'm a bit disappointed that there isn't much of an influence from any actual cannon. Maybe they could have designed one that looked like one of the cannons from the Death Star trench?

By Mechahamster in Netherlands, 10 Dec 2018 16:51

Nice for the kids, little bit of play value.

By Robot99 in United States, 10 Dec 2018 17:15

Ehh... It's boring, sure, but the integration of the stud shooter is real smooth.

By nashikens in United States, 10 Dec 2018 17:18

I think the model looks nice. I wish yesterday’s build was a figure obviously intended to shoot this blaster. None of them so far would really use this. So I have a gun with no one to shoot it.

By Inkomi in Portugal, 10 Dec 2018 17:21

Only one stud keeps the handle attached to the canon, it comes off way too easily, meh build no other brick builds from this calendar will look good next to the greatness of the micro cloud city

By donnyman1972 in Ireland, 10 Dec 2018 21:41

I kinda like this, it will come in handy for my First Order army.

By yjcha2 in Australia, 10 Dec 2018 21:54

spud shoota!!!! pew pew pew

By LegosRNoice in United States, 10 Dec 2018 23:32

I definately need to make my own

By Zrath in United States, 11 Dec 2018 00:21

One thing that I find weird is that red 1x1s are included as ammo.
Advent Calendars usually have winter playfulness in them, so the cannons and shooters come with white 1X1s to simulate snowballs. These red 1X1s tell me that the playfulness is OVER.

By Sithspit in Australia, 11 Dec 2018 05:03

I had two bags in mine. Factory errors can sometimes benefit the buyer!

By Spike730 in Austria, 11 Dec 2018 09:43

"but this rendition is not sufficiently distinctive for identification."

I think it looks like Rudolph.

By Dare_Wreck in United States, 11 Dec 2018 13:55

So... not a canon cannon then?