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We’ve come to the end of another Lego Advent Calendar with the appearance of Santa Yoda Claus and that means Christmas Eve is finally here.
Hope everyone has enjoyed this year’s Lego Advent Calendar. I’ll have pictures up of the whole group for Christmas tomorrow.
Hope everyone has a great holiday and remember Yoda Claus coming to town is he.
On the 22nd day of the Advent Calendar we got an A-wing (or RZ-1 A-wing interceptor) to go with our X and Y wings and you can see much like the others this one resembles the letter A if you look at it top down. I won’t go into the issues of English/Latin Alphabet again but you know where I stand on it.
The RZ-1 A-wing interceptor was a starfighter designed by the Rebel Alliance during the Galactic Civil War. One of the fastest mass-produced interceptors in the known galaxy, the A-wing was even faster than the Imperial’s TIE Interceptor. [SOURCE]
This was the “sports car” of the starfighter world. It was never a favorite but much like Chewbacca I imagine this ship landed in a lot of people’s top five or at least their top ten. Only two days left.
Twas four days before Christmas and hush fell on the crowd. Could it be? Why yes it is. The most famous starship in the galaxy. (He said twas.)
The Millennium Falcon became famous as the personal smuggling starship of Han Solo and Chewbacca. It began life as a standard Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-1300 stock light freighter. Eventually it was won by Solo from Lando Calrissian in the Cloud City Sabacc Tournament. Throughout its operational lifetime, the ship endured many adventures and upgrades which led to its dilapidated exterior appearance. Under both Calrissian and Solo, it played a vital role in the Galactic Civil War and later conflicts. [SOURCE]
This is my favorite ship in Star Wars – I’m glad it was in the Advent Calendar and plan on putting it right in line with my other two when Christmas is over.
We haven’t had anything from the Star Wars prequels in a while so maybe this Battle Droid Pilot isn’t the end of the world. Honestly – the concept of a robot army is pretty awesome if it is more Terminator and less slapstick which is what these guys were in several places. I know the point was to demonstrate the need for a “clone” army or slightly better technology but it was kinda lame. Robots should be cold emotionless warriors not thinking machines and definitely not feeling machines. (See my issues with Transformers movie.)
The OOM pilot battle droid was a OOM-series battle droid in the Trade Federation Droid Army and, later, the Separatist Droid Army for the purpose of piloting vehicles of various kinds.
So not a bad pick for day 11 but not a great one either. We are under the two week mark before Santa gets here. It is almost time to start shopping.
It the continued theme of getting a minifig and having a gift appear for them the next day we have a mini X-Wing.
Possessing deflector shields, a hyperdrive, an R2 astromech for repairs and navigation, and a complement of proton torpedoes, the X-wing allowed the Rebellion to launch raids in Imperial space with improved odds of a successful mission.
Let me translate – you want one of these if you have a Death Star to kill. In a word like Samuel L. Jackson “this mofo is bada$$.” Or as Lando Calrissian might say “Drink Colt 45″ – how do you think he bought Cloud City? Pimpin’ ain’t easy. Wait… isn’t this an Advent Calendar? Better clean up my act. There are only 15 days did Santa is here.