Random minifig of the day: sw0565
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random minifigure is sw0565 Astromech Droid, C1-10P (Chopper), a Star Wars figure that was first produced during 2014. It can be found in 4 sets.
Our members collectively own a total of 104,788 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $13.40.
Image and minifig data courtesy of BrickLink.com
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Get to the Chopper!
Someone ponked yesterday on the head, and all this orange stuff came out the top.
@Judgeguy:
Whoops, forgot the “@“ in my last post on yesterday’s RMotD.
@ThatBionicleGuy:
From yesterday, to be fair, I think the only droids that got named during the entire OT were R2-D2, C-3PO, and “the red one”. Most of the names were applied by West End Games, for droids, aliens, or humans. Some, like Yak-Face, were originally just descriptors given by the crew who worked with the costumes. Ep4 wasn’t a multi-billion dollar industry 46 years ago, so there wasn’t any reason to flesh things out to this degree…yet.
It's everyone's favourite war criminal! Yay!
F yeah Chopper!!! The droid with an attitude!
I love how we've been getting Star Wars minifigures for the past four days. Since Star Wars is my favourite theme (Ninjago is just a hair's width away though)
Anyway, Chopper the goat!
I also love how @TheOtherMike mentioned C1-10P in yesterday's RMotD and we got him today
Well speak of the C1-10P!
Hehe. Short body and Legs droid!
Some of the toughest 5 parts ever assembled.
This must be the minifigure with the highest kill count…
Typical, you wait ages for an Astromech droid then 2 come along at once.
Oh dear. Huwbot's got stuck in a Star Bores groove... somebody give him a kick!
@TheBrickPal said:
"This must be the minifigure with the highest kill count…"
Been rewatching Rebels lately (which of course just serves to remind me of how much a loss it was to be unawares of such great sets during original airing). Just watched the ep last night where Chopper argues for abandoning a stranded baby in a Tie Fighter that he and Zeb were about to blow up.
@TheBrickPal said:
"This must be the minifigure with the highest kill count…"
Well, there's nobody who has blown up, or fired, a Death Star, so...maybe? Does Claire Dearing take the blame for deaths caused by unleashing dinosaurs on the mainland of North America?
So for those unaware, Chopper is voiced by Dave Filoni, the creator of Star Wars Rebels, and pretty well known for his work in Star Wars animation working on Clone Wars and Rebels, and creating Resistance and Bad Batch, although his involvement is much more limited as he's been focusing on the Mandoverse stuff and the upcoming Ahsoka series. In every episode of Rebels however, Chopper was always credited as being voiced by himself, as in Chopper is the actor, but then in the Finale, the credits said Dave Filoni.
It's not his first time voicing a character in Star Wars, he's voiced the Bounty Hunter Embo in Clone Wars, and he's lent his voice to a number of extras, primarily Stormtroopers and he'd voice an AT-AT Driver (His favorite Imperial Trooper) any chance he could in Rebels, as well as Bo Keevil from Resistance (a Kel Dor, the same species as Plo Koon, Dave's favorite character), but when those credits arrived and confirmed who provided Chopper's vocalizations, it was one of the wildest things because he's such a major character in the series. Dave supposedly never recorded lines (if you could call them that) with any of the other actors in order to keep his dignity among them since he was their director, he doesn't really like to perform any of the sounds in person, and he hates making his cameos as Trapper Wolf in the Mandalorian, but the fans love making him squirm. He only has himself to blame for this.
And now I wonder when the credits roll for the Ahsoka series each episode if he'll be in the main credits or just the small print kind you can never read because we've seen Chopper in the trailer, he's in it. Or will Chopper be voicing himself until the Finale, like in Rebels? The joys of knowing too much and making silly speculations.
We own over 100 thousand of them. That's a lot of droids.
I haven't caught up to Rebels yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Judgeguy:
Whoops, forgot the “@“ in my last post on yesterday’s RMotD.
@ThatBionicleGuy:
From yesterday, to be fair, I think the only droids that got named during the entire OT were R2-D2, C-3PO, and “the red one”. Most of the names were applied by West End Games, for droids, aliens, or humans. Some, like Yak-Face, were originally just descriptors given by the crew who worked with the costumes. Ep4 wasn’t a multi-billion dollar industry 46 years ago, so there wasn’t any reason to flesh things out to this degree…yet."
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. WRONG.
It's like @Huwbot is looking for a body.
@MCLegoboy:
The biggest “regretful credit” I ever heard of was from Tiny Toons, produced by Stephen Spielberg. This was like Looney Tunes, but instead of aging down Bugs, Daffy, and Porky, they made new characters that were obvious parallels…and also kids. Buster and Babs were M/F who filled the role of Bugs, and so on. In the end credits, they always threw in a goofy saying that was different each episode. One time, the gag credit said, “Stephen Spielberg’s phone number,” and listed a ten-digit phone number underneath. The first time they ran that episode as a rerun, the number was different, and obviously fake (like xxx-555-xxxx format).
When they followed up Tiny Toons with Animaniacs, the gag credit consisted of giving Spielberg’s assistant a different goofy title after every episode.
@Rimefang:
Can you point to any other droids that were named in dialog, or in the end credits, during the original theatrical cuts of Ep4, Ep5, or Ep6? If there are any, IG-88 or 4-LOM seem most likely, but there wasn’t room to fit a person in IG-88, and they could have just made 4-LOM a statue as well. If there’s no cast member to credit, it would have to come from dialog, and I don’t think even Boba Fett got named in dialog until the Sarlaac battle.
@Torrent_Studios said:
"I also love how TheOtherMike mentioned C1-10P in yesterday's RMotD and we got him today"
Hmm, let's see if I can do it again... Wyldstyle.
@BrickPal: I think Palpatine might beat him, if you allow for deaths that were his fault, but that he didn't cause personally.
The call the droid ‘chopper’ because he doesn’t have any ears. (Australian joke).
This is the only minifigure that I swear I can hear.
"WOP WOP. BWOP WOP BOP BLAUGH."
@TheOtherMike:
Palpatine hasn't appeared as RMotD yet, so he doesn't count until he has. Same goes for Luke (1st Death Star, Lando/Wedge (second Death Star), or Tarkin (Alderaan).
We can thank the design of Chopper for the super useful 17485 2x2 Round Brick with Pin Holes
The Empire had a whole operation for hunting Jedi, but between this guy and R2 they should have been going after Clone Wars astromechs.
I can’t wait for Chopper to actually return in a LEGO set at the end of this year.
Womp womp!
So we all know he pushed yesterday’s astromech out some bay doors so he could keep the spotlight, like the time he did exactly that in Rebels, right?
Good old Chopper. I too cheered aloud, along with everyone else in the theater when he appeared in Rogue One. A great example of another winning Star Wars formula, the naughty but loveable comedy droid sidekick, a.k.a. the astromech, R2, Bucket, BB-8 etc. With their outside the box attitudes, cheeky little faces, stompy little feet and squeeky/ beepy voices, they are the child proteges of our saga. To be honest though, given the standard of technology at large in our favourite galaxy far far away, it would almost be ridiculous if they DIDN'T exist ...
(grumpy womping noises)
@TheBrickPal said:
"This must be the minifigure with the highest kill count…"
You kill 50% of all life in the entire universe, and people just... forget about you, heal up and move on. I guess Thanos was right after all!
@Ridgeheart:
Thanos also hasn’t appeared as RMotD, plus almost all of those deaths were undone.
I bought this littly fella on the aftermarket last year or so. It looks extremely cute when you hold it in your hand.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Ridgeheart :
Thanos also hasn’t appeared as RMotD, plus almost all of those deaths were undone."
It was still quite the killcount for five years (or in the comics, for a few panels). Does Deadpool count? He once killed the entire Marvel Universe, but - well.
Comic-deaths are never easy to measure, since they very, very rarely stick. For decades, it was said that the only Marvel-characters that would ever really remain dead would be dear old Uncle Ben, and Bucky - and then Barnes broke that sacred pact by selfishly not being dead after all.
@PurpleDave: @BrickPal just said "minifigure," they didn't specify ones that have been RMotD.
I have Chop (one of my favourite figs actually), and Ezra from the LEGO Star Wars 2017 Annual - which isn't listed in the Brickset database - does this mean it doesn't exist?
I think I only paid £0.99p for it too.
Literally a higher kill count than Anakin Skywalker
@Ridgeheart:
_A_ version of Deadpool killed _one_ entire Marvel universe (and a bunch of classic literary characters), and then didn’t the main Deadpool kill him? And I think for DC it was Pa Kent, Thomas & Martha Wayne, and Jason Todd. I know Flashpoint killed Bruce and made Thomas Batman for a bit (I assume Martha was un-killed at the same time), and Jason Todd has been Red Hood for years in main continuity.
@TheOtherMike:
Well, that’s not nearly as much fun. Um…have they made a minifig of the Grim Reaper yet? What’s Darkseid’s kill count, since Thanos is Darkseid-Lite? Jack Stone?
@PurpleDave: Jack Stone made a lot of AFOLs *want* to kill (whether themselves or some higher-ups at Lego), but I don't think that counts.
And now Chopper has today been announced to be part of the upcoming D-Squad comic series from Marvel… is Huwbot a psychic?
I've always wanted to build a full-size Chopper.
This "minifigure" is the closest that I've come.
@PDelahanty:
I think I've actually seen one at a show we do in Toledo the Sunday that we Spring Forward. There's an astromech-building club that has also been displaying there the past few years. Hands down, though, the coolest one of the bunch is Artoo-Deco (but you can see Chopper in the background of one of these images):
https://boingboing.net/2016/10/17/artoo-deco-an-art-deco-droid.html
Chopper! I have one (side-effect of NEEDING to get Thrawn--and that set they came in is kind of the reason I ended up first watching The Clone Wars and Rebels and having a post-Disney Star Wars renaissance), and while he's probably my least favourite Phantom in the show, he's a close second favourite in LEGO form, after Sabine.