LEGO 75187 Star Wars BB-8

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Watercutter, Angela (February 12, 2016). "This New Animated Lego Star Wars Short Looks Legit". Wired . Retrieved April 25, 2016. McNary, Dave (August 26, 2015). "Disney Sets Massive Star Wars Toy Promotion". Variety . Retrieved August 27, 2015. Breznican, Anthony (December 11, 2014). " Star Wars: The Force Awakens character names revealed (in coolest way possible)". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved December 11, 2014. This is a tremendous feature and it works very smoothly as the extending arm pushes the hatch open while concurrently folding out the trans-medium blue flame. Ideally, I would have liked the flame to extend a little further and I should mention that only a small section of the panel opens to reveal the torch in the film. However, that would be impossible to recreate precisely at this scale and I am quite satisfied with the current design. McWeeny, Drew (December 15, 2015). "Wait a minute... who played the voice of BB-8 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?". HitFix . Retrieved December 16, 2015.

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Fischer, Russ (April 16, 2015). "Watch Awesome The Force Awakens Droid BB-8 Appear Live on Stage". /Film . Retrieved April 21, 2015.BB-8 proved to be among the most popular new characters to emerge from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and was an enormous merchandising success in 2015. Many LEGO fans created their own models of the famed droid and an official rendition has now been released which seems certain to impress and may prove to be the best selling of the eleven Star Wars: The Last Jedi sets released on Force Friday II. BB-8 appeared with several other Force Awakens characters on the December 2015 cover of Rolling Stone, [57] [58] and alone on the cover of the December 18, 2015 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. [59] The droid was also featured alone on one of two alternate covers of the December 14, 2015, issue of Time (the other cover featuring R2-D2). [60] [61] [62] This was the first time the magazine has offered two covers for editions worldwide. [60] The Time cover photographer, Marco Grob, said, "The moment you meet BB-8, you almost build some form of weird human connection. It has this really cute way of looking at you." [60] LEGO pieces are ill-suited to building spheres so BB-8 presents a considerable challenge given that the droid consists entirely of a large sphere which forms the body and a hemispherical head. However, the designer has made clever use of a Lowell Sphere to form the curved shape and I think it looks brilliant, particularly when viewed from a distance as the inevitable jagged edges become less apparent.

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Details

This set includes a small BB-8 figure to be displayed alongside his larger counterpart, just as 10225 R2-D2 was accompanied by an R2-D2 minifigure. The droid consists of only two pieces which were unique to this figure until the arrival of BB-9E. Both are intricately printed and match the source material very closely, particularly where the metallic silver tool bay panels are concerned as these feature different designs on all four sides so reflect the appearance of the character in the films perfectly.