Star Wars Advent Calendar - Day 9
Posted by CapnRex101,
Luke Skywalker's famous X-34 Landspeeder and the lesser-known T-16 Skyhopper have emerged over the past two days, potentially indicating the arrival of their owner.
A minifigure seems likely, regardless...
Thankfully, we need not add yet another Tatooine Luke minifigure to our collections. Instead, we receive an exclusive C-3PO! Christmas jumpers are a clever means of drawing characters into the season and this blue design looks wonderful, with a crude depiction of Threepio's dear droid counterpart, R2-D2, knitted across the front.
The jumper is otherwise fairly generic, with red stripes and tiny snowflakes continuing across the reverse. C-3PO's printed legs look superb too, even though his dual-moulded silver leg remains exclusively available in 75341 Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder. Unfortunately, the yellow eyes on my minifigure are printed off-centre, but I rather like Threepio's resulting shifty expression!
Overall - I nearly always love festive Star Wars minifigures and C-3PO looks delightfully silly in his Christmas jumper.
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Sure, the sweater may be insulating 3PO’s circuitry, but it is the power of friendship that truly warms his heart.
Threepio's expression be like >.>
Any minifig with an ugly Christmas sweater is a win. And today's is perfect!
Sussy threepoi
Thank the maker! Ugly Christmas sweaters are the best surprises in these Calendars!
He doesn't look very thrilled that his sweater has R2 on it.
A fun figure, and I received truly the greatest gift with mine: A 3PO head with a perfectly centred eye print.
I was delighted to find Threepio behind today’s door (behind his own picture, as it turned out!). Normally I expect the special AC-exclusive seasonal figures later in the month; getting holiday Threepio before even the halfway point was a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
I do think TLG should do something about the printing of Threepio’s photoreceptors to ensure the “pupils” are more consistently centered. Part of me doesn’t mind terribly when they come out of the box like CapnRex101’s review sample, since a) lots of us surely have multiple printed Threepio heads by now anyway and likely will have at least one or two “good” ones, and b) they evoke his more expressively moving eyes as portrayed in the old Nelvana animated productions back in the day. But every set with a Threepio minifigure is going to be someone’s first or even only such set, and it’s too bad they’ll have such a significant chance of getting a less-than-ideal copy. I was lucky to get one with much more centered eyes than the one seen here. At least CapnRex surely has many, many more Threepios, to the point of being able to have our favorite golden fussbudget looking all over the place, no doubt.
Still, a great figure, almost impossible to improve upon, except perhaps by giving him a dual-molded right leg to better capture him being silver from the right knee on down. The sweater print torso is lovely, and could easily be given to a City person to represent a SW fan during the holidays, as well as representing this actual SW character and his eternal bond with another SW character. Too bad Artoo’s own sweatered “torso” from later in the AC will be a lot harder for a human Cityperson to use. I know the builder of lots of this AC’s mini models is here at Brickset; is the graphic designer for these prints here as well? If so, nice work to you, too, whoever you are!
It disturbs me that he's wearing clothing but ONLY a sweater.
That implies things. Terrible things.
And it makes his normal appearance even more disturbing.
Well, have fun finding interesting ways to pose him so the eyes make humorous sense!
@fulcrumbop:
Are they really a surprise, though? I mean, I figure people who have never bought a SWAC, and people who stopped buying them probably picked this one up just for the minifigs.
@CCC:
More like he realized R2 is standing there with an “<—-I’m with Stupid” shirt.
@Blondie_Wan:
I’ve already got the arms and head figured out. All I’ve got left is the feet, and I could totally put a human in Artoo’s sweater. I’m pretty sure I can come up with something to finish it off.
@Autoboty said:
"Threepio's expression be like >.>"
No doubt, he's giving some serious side-eye.
I love this. It would be better if it was dedicated to Threepio. Then again, this allows for many more uses. So, all good. Graphics are great.
The eyes make him look like Threepio from the animated segment of the STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL.
All we need is an Itchy minifig with his, uh, pleasing video helmet AHEM.
I beg your pardon, but what do you mean, ‘naked?’ My parts are showing? Oh, my goodness, oh!” It explains the jumper!
I must say, I look positively dashing in this Christmas attire.
I don't know why I heard that in his voice.
Either way, fun figure. Basically why I even bother picking these up these days.
@Rob42 said:
"A fun figure, and I received truly the greatest gift with mine: A 3PO head with a perfectly centred eye print."
My Threepio head seems fine too...
This is not the droid you are looking for. I'm most looking forward to sweater R2!
This must be the first time they gave C3PO a different expression with his eyes?
The Minifigs are the reason I bought this set. Love the Christmas-themed sweaters.
Instead of this neat minifig, I got a second Bad Batch shuttle today!
Anyone else feel like Lego's quality control has been lapsing recently? I've had three sets now with incorrect parts in the last year. Also had swapped pieces in my copies of the Titanic and Modular Lego Store
@donnyman1972 :
It's funny because card 207 from the fourth set of Topps trading cards released in 1978 is considered to be the second most notorious "misprint" because it appears to show Goldenrod's golden, uh, rod. Long believed to be the work of a giggling airbrush artist, it turns out to be an actual photographic artifact, as part of the costume broke loose and perfectly lined up with another part of the costume as Threepio stood up from the oil bath. The "corrected" version is harder to locate than the "misprint", but the latter still commands a higher price, usually ranging from $30-100. Any that have autographs directly on the face of the card, however, are fake. Anthony Daniels has stated quite bluntly that he would never sign them.
And the most notorious misprint trading card in history? That one is 100% real, and the result of a baseball player posing with his bat in such a way that you can just make out an offensive name that he had actually written on the bat himself (he didn't realize at the time that the photo was taken that it would end up on a trading card).
Is this the first Advent Calendar to have the same character twice? Granted, his first appearance was represented by a 1x1 round plate. (Come to think of it, I believe there's a Luke in this calendar.)
@Vladtheb: I haven't been having any troubles, but I have been seeing a lot of comment in the countdown articles this year about people getting the wrong model. Although the first one of those I saw was easily fixed, the tray was just in backwards.
Again no weapons rack, instead a useless minifig; I'm starting to get worried...