Star Wars Advent Calendar - Day 5
Posted by CapnRex101,
The standard of the microscale vehicles in 75340 Star Wars Advent Calendar has been excellent so far, each capturing remarkable detail, given their tiny size.
Hopefully that quality remains consistent...
More than half of LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendars have contained a Battle Droid and another appears this year. While not the most exciting potential addition, characters for army-building are always useful. The pearl dark grey blaster is good as well, matching other Separatist droids from recent sets and differing from more common black rifles.
Overall - With Super Battle Droids likely out of production, this B1 droid is a fitting opponent for the Clone Trooper Commander.
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BEST! STAR WARS! SET! EVAAAAH!!!
Maybe they could have done a Geonosis droid in dark orange, but that would have probably been too much to ask.
It's weirdly prequel oriented so far. We've gotten about as much prequel stuff as the 2022 sets had!
I know people hate when this is the daily build, but consider: if you've bought every Star Wars Advent Calendar, you now have a nice pile of eight standard Battle Droids (two were specific colors, but the rest were standard tan). The only years without were 2021, 2017, 2015, and 2014.
This reminds me that I really need to do that chart of "how many of what have we gotten in every Star Wars Advent Calendar"? Probably more than a few Stormtroopers and Clone Troopers at this point. Eight battle droids (plus I think at least one Super BD, maybe two?). That's not bad after 12 years.
Wait are they not making B2s anymore?
A short search suggests that their last use was in 2015, so it looks like they may be gone.
This is filler, but not bad filler. More droids that always appear en masse in any of their fiction appearances, and between 3 films and more than a few cartoons now, the B1's have persisted as a design.
Outrageous! I want my money back! ;-)
nothing says advent calendar like a battle droid! well and a weapon rack too, but i think we'll be scrooged for that this year hahaha
Huh, I didn’t get a battle droid. I got a pack with a bucket and shovel…
@BrickHelix said:
"Wait are they not making B2s anymore?"
The last time a B2 appeared in a set was 2015 in 75085 so given the elapsed time, it does seem likely that those molds are not in use anymore. I believe the legs last appeared on K-2SO in 2016.
Ugh, blegh, Galidor-level rating.
The easiest thing that LEGO could do would be to mix in some green and red arms / legs / torsos / heads instead of the standard VBD; that would make this a worthy advent calendar inclusion.
Whew! I wasn’t sure I assembled mine right, since I didn’t bother to look at the instructions.
@fulcrumbop said:
"Ugh, blegh, Galidor-level rating.
The easiest thing that LEGO could do would be to mix in some green and red arms / legs / torsos / heads instead of the standard VBD; that would make this a worthy advent calendar inclusion."
Good idea. As is, it's a lame inclusion.
Pride Pony wins today.
I don’t mind getting more army-builder figures at all, especially a rare SW troop that matches ones from all the way across the theme’s history.
I'm confused... is this the droid I was looking for?
@YanVanLan said:
"I'm confused... is this the droid I was looking for?"
Roger roger.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly sighed in mild disappointment, and were suddenly silenced when they realised at least it wasn’t a weapons rack.
I’m not going to lie, I always enjoy the experience of putting together a fresh battle droid
@BrickHelix said:
"Wait are they not making B2s anymore?"
Yes, the mold was fragile and broke a lot, they would need to redesign them from scratch to put them in a set again
It's the Jedi! Blast 'em!
@BulbaNerd4000 said:
" @BrickHelix said:
"Wait are they not making B2s anymore?"
Yes, the mold was fragile and broke a lot, they would need to redesign them from scratch to put them in a set again"
To be fair, it was already like that in 2002. The metal blue ones are notorious for having their clips break.
That didn't stop them from being used for 13 more years apparently.
But yeah, a redesign would still be needed. Hopefully it'll still be in the spirit of the originals.
After all, the Battle Droid has been nearly unchanged for nearly 24 years now, and completely unchanged for nearly 16.
@Blondie_Wan:
Well, almost the entire history. This is the vert-handed Battle Droid 1.1 that can hold a proper gun, as compared to the 1.0 version that held megaphones gangsta-style. But buy enough of this style, and you can upgrade your old ones to match. Except with megaphones.
Rarity is also debatable, if you’ve bought every set across the history of the theme. If you bought one copy of every set, besides having 26 different variants, just in terms of solid tan you’d have four with 1x2 plate backpacks, 37 with two bent arms, 85 with mixed arms, and two with two straight arms. Buy one of each book, and you’d pick up an extra mixed-arm version, for a grand total of 129 basic tan Battle Droids. It’s hard to call that rare with a straight face, considering a few arm swaps is the only major difference involved.
@560heliport said:
" @YanVanLan said:
"I'm confused... is this the droid I was looking for?"
Roger roger."
They R2!!!
Considering the only battle droid I own has two broken arms and one very loose leg connection, this would do fine in my collection.
@Torrent_Studios:
Bonus! You get spares of both arms. It won't solve the leg issue, but at least you'll be able to re-arm your previous one.
I would have preferred a Clone Trooper. I hate Battle Droids. They look like ants to me, blah!