New LEGO brick-built droids are ALMOST perfect
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
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An online retailer has published the first images of LEGO Star Wars 75398 C-3PO, another upcoming 25th anniversary set from a galaxy far, far away.
Following on from last year’s 75371 Chewbacca, this 18+ set builds into a towering recreation of the galaxy’s most irritating protocol droid, complete with plenty of pearl gold to recreate C-3PO’s shiny shell. This first look comes courtesy of Singaporean LEGO Certified Store The Brick Shop, which has published a product listing page for 75398 C-3PO ahead of its wide reveal at LEGO.com.
The previously-revealed LEGO Star Wars 75392 Creative Play Droid Builder is now available to pre-order at LEGO.com, confirming the 25th-anniversary set’s price around the world.
The LEGO Star Wars set was first unveiled by a certified store earlier today, but it’s now listed on LEGO.com globally. The 1,186-piece set is due to retail for £89.99 in the UK, $99.99 in the US and €99.99 in Europe - and pre-ordering right now will secure current gift-with-purchase 40689 Firework Celebrations, which is free with all orders above £75 / $85 / €85 through July 7 (or while stocks last).
Offering four different buildable astromech droids and a wardrobe of accessories to dress them up in, 75392 Creative Play Droid Builder is the latest LEGO Star Wars set to carry 25th-anniversary branding - and include a 25th-anniversary minifigure. This time Young Princess Leia gets the bonus character treatment, complete with a slightly oversized Lola droid companion and a display stand.
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I won't be picking up any of these...but I definitely want to. In a different life where I work in an office with a desk, I'd love to have that R2 and 3PO. But instead, I work in a tiny studio with LEGO coming out my ears.....the ultimate first world problem.
The pearl gold definitely worries me about the longevity of the set. Pearl gold while not as bad as it used to be, still cracks and breaks more than the average Lego piece.
transformers fans still have ptsd from gold plastic syndrome
The 501st mascot is actually R2-KT. QT-KT was part of D-squad in Season 5 of The Clone Wars. She was originally going to be R2-KT, but the writers decided it wasn't a good idea to have two characters both called Artoo, so they changed her to a different droid.
When the buildable C-3PO was first rumored, I wasn't sure if it would turn out well. Seeing it now, I am seriously impressed!
I think young Leia actually is pretty relevant to this set, simply because she comes with Lola, who is a fitting inclusion in a set dedicated to droids.
Thank you for the KT correction!
One quick note - Mr Brick Fanatics, you have quickly become my favorite LEGO channel on youtube. Well done!
Thank you! That's very high praise, there are a lot of great LEGO channels!
19:59 “You poor thing. You thought we had you in mind?” -Lego
I think the drum laquered finish is the complete wrong texture for C-3PO and the pearl gold works far better. The drum laquered gold bricks have a very matte finish, however the silver ones appear much shinier and work very well for his one leg
I can't wait to see what alternative builds come out of that c3po
I don’t know if I want C-3PO staring at me in my sleep. Watching, forever gazing, all knowing of every aspect of its creators existence.
Speaking of Eyes on Lego Big Characters, i remember hating the Mighty Bowser when it got revealed because in one of the "trailers" they made both of his eyes point very straight, and i was affraid they had this postition fixed. Im really glad i got this set for christmas a year ago because not only its my biggest set, but also building it and realizing that his face can be much more expressive made me love it (and bleed from my nose??)
I wonder whether trans-orange pupils might work better?
8:21 This is my main complaint with a lot of custom minifigures I see online. It’s very rare for them to get the facial proportions just right like Lego does it. Even different designs from the same company have varying degrees of success. Most of the time they’re just off & it completely throws off the look of the whole figure. I saw so many custom Moon Knight minifigures out there & Lego were the only ones to get the design perfect. I will say though, C-3PO definitely looks a lot better than Chewie, his still freak me out 10 months later.
If I can somehow afford it and find on sale, definitely need the matching R2-D2 and C-3PO together!
The creative droids set is so cool, weird, fun, unique!!! WANT!!! But at half the price AT MOST.
Still waiting on Nien Nunb set...... it's killing me!!
A brickbuild droid set for 99 EUR is just bananas.
A good review, and I understand what you're saying about 3PO's eyes, from a certain point of view. But really I think you've missed the point. True they could have more accurately replicated the real droid's face, but look at the expression on the Lego droid. Real 3P0 is full of worry and alarm and consternation. Lego 3PO's eye bring that personality to him at first sight. Anyone who enters a room and gets a first glimpse of Legp 3PO will instantly hear real 3PO's voice in their mind. "I've had just about enough of you." "Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!" "Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field are..." That all comes through Lego 3PO's eyes in a instant. It's eye give it personality. A Lego 3PO with eye closely resembing real 3PO would be completely lifeless, and a creepy at best.
I never get the problems with the eyes, look great in my opinion, none the less I just wanted to say that in my opinion The Mighty Bowser would have been an amazing example of perfect execution:)
I'm a big 48 yo kid, but i'm not getting the play droid set.... i'm however planning on acquiring the C3PO for sure.
Yup too big! Checking photos online and comparing the eyes are almost twice the size they should be. An acceptable alternative would have been part # 38799 (barbell / saucer) in pearl gold with the 1x1 trans yellow stud.
You definitely get the feeling he wants to slag off the set more, but still wants to be invited to Lego events and so has to simper a bit and try to not offend..
I WANT to like that droids set... But man, those shoulders on them really are absurd. I'm hoping it looks fine to leave those pieces off entirely - maybe I am taking the design too seriously, but they absolutely ruin the appearance IMO. That set does fix the problem I had with the other R2-D2 set, which was the over-reliance on printed parts. Even if you have to rebuild the legs to make them look good, these new ones can at least be built in many different color schemes, so you can build any droid you want. I like that. I'm just not sold on the wonky legs, and the extra inclusions for dressing them up (I understand it's fun for the kids, I just personally don't like spending extra on things I know I don't want to display). At least the extra stuff can go in my parts bins I guess, there seem to be fairly interesting parts in the accessories.
Q2-KT or R2-KT? Don’t care which one, just want a fig.💛
But I like what they did. Will be my first spray painted LEGO set.
Wym?
Buildable Chopper set where? cmon LEGO.
i disagree on the eyes of 3PO, i think they look fine. i honestly dont see anything wrong with the statue at all from the pictures. not like i did with Chewwy from the moment i saw his pics for the first time. Simba is great aswell. his Eyes are fine for the context hes put in. just my 2 cents
Disappointing that c3po is pearl gold.