Random minifig of the day: sw0996
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random minifigure is sw0996 Kashyyyk Battle Droid / AAT Driver Battle Droid, a Star Wars figure that was first produced during 2019. It can be found in 3 sets.
Our members collectively own a total of 208,908 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $3.10.
Image and minifig data courtesy of BrickLink.com
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That's an incredibly specialized Battle Droid if all they can do is drive AATs on Kashyyyk.
He looks like he’s been eating the spinach ice cream.
Someone get this droid a hankie. That's some virus! Gesundheit!
Ooh Olive green body.
It's a camo clanka!
@MeisterDad said:
"Someone get this droid a hankie."
Howdy-ho!
Ever since this design first appeared in Ambush, the premiere episode of Clone Wars, I was always hoping that LEGO would make a version of it. I don't know why, it's not even really treated as a specialized droid, it's not like it denotes a specific rank, but it was cool just to see a new color on Battle Droids, and I was happy that it finally happened, but it unfortunately was always in sets I had older versions of. I did get that AAT though when it was cheap enough.
75283 is oddly kind of a full circle celebration of Clone Wars when you think about it. Ahsoka and her 332nd Trooper are from the final Story Arc, and the Battle Droids and AAT are from the very first episode of the show, so that was just a neat observation I had when the combo was initially distracting since it wasn't accurate to what really played out, but it made it more special from a different perspective.
I do hope one day they do the BF2 kashyyyk Battle Droids. Getting an AAT gunner is great though.
Surely that number 208,908 is all variations of battle droids owned? Guys? Guys?
Roger roger
So...-this- guy's that Roger they're always talking about, right?
"if fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must FIGHT!" Sun Tzu said that, and i think he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he INVENTED IT! and he perfected it so that no one could best him in the Ring Of Honor! and then he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on Earth, herded them into a big boat, and he beat the crap outta every single one of 'em! that's why, whenever there's a large group of animals all gathered in one place, IT'S CALLED A TZU! unless it's a farm!
-unit SLDR-TF2
@MCLegoboy said:
"Ever since this design first appeared in Ambush, the premiere episode of Clone Wars, I was always hoping that LEGO would make a version of it. I don't know why, it's not even really treated as a specialized droid, it's not like it denotes a specific rank, but it was cool just to see a new color on Battle Droids, and I was happy that it finally happened, but it unfortunately was always in sets I had older versions of. I did get that AAT though when it was cheap enough.
75283 is oddly kind of a full circle celebration of Clone Wars when you think about it. Ahsoka and her 332nd Trooper are from the final Story Arc, and the Battle Droids and AAT are from the very first episode of the show, so that was just a neat observation I had when the combo was initially distracting since it wasn't accurate to what really played out, but it made it more special from a different perspective."
Astute! Well-written. Almost literary. I doff my cap.
@Brickalili said:
"So...-this- guy's that Roger they're always talking about, right?"
No, R0-GR is sw0756.
@B_Space_Man said:
"Surely that number 208,908 is all variations of battle droids owned? Guys? Guys?"
I think that might have to be the case as there are only three sets that have this minifigure and according to the owned stats of those three sets it totals 27,112 and there are two of these battle droids in each of them so that only totals 54,224.
That would mean there would need to be over 150,000 individually owned versions of this minifig saved in the database to get that total. Seems odd that the total wouldn’t just be for this minifig though
Unless a LOT of people have armies just of this minifig…
That 208,908 is for just this version of Battle Droid: set 7662 is owned by 7332 of us and has 16 of the plain battle droid, so even if we each own just one of that set, that's 117,312.
And there are quite a few sets with battle droids.
We NEED a Droid battle pack,the lack of them recently has become a problem
@Randomness said:
"That's an incredibly specialized Battle Droid if all they can do is drive AATs on Kashyyyk."
Well.. plenty of military specialists drive only one type of vehicle on Earth.
Still like to see someone build an adapter to a 3PO head on one of these...:)
@brick_r said:
"Still like to see someone build an adapter to a 3PO head on one of these...:)"
The stupid thing about that comedic routine during the battle is the implication of droid programming residing in another part of the body, outside the head, for 3PO to say the things he did and said. It always bugs me.
But I would say it's possible to mount a 3PO head with a clip/bar/hollow stud combination. Problem is the neck would be too long I suppose.
@MeisterDad:
The most compact solution I can think of is non-purist and illegal. Put a Technic half-pin up C-3PO’s neck, and plug a Brickarms monopod into the stud. A purist (but still illegal) solution would substitute the Exo-Force robot claw for the monopod. A clean solution would be to then swap out the half-pin for an Apollo stud, but by then you’re probably adding about 1.5 plates’ height to the monopod solution.