Day 12 - 2019 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar

Gosh, this year has been a good year for the Advent Calendar! The past couple years' had many disappointing days, but so far this year it's banging along quite nicely. There have been a few builds so far that weren't exciting, but nothing yet that's made me go "booooooo!"

Today's another grand day: minifigure!!

Splendid - Imperial Gunner!

Which now makes me think that my initial thought about yesterday's tower being a Death Star I turret is true - these guys were only seen on the Death Star I within the canon of Star Wars, so it makes sense that he's supposed to go with yesterday's build, and yesterday's build is supposed to go with this guy.

So that, I think, solves the mystery of the Day 11 build.

I think that even the first time I saw Star Wars Episode IV when I was a child (seeing the original run), I thought, "Gosh, those helmets seem unreasonably designed for comfort or functionality". But I also thought then, and still do, that they are wicked cool looking. And for the Empire, looking cool was also important - for enemies to see crazy uniforms like this, or weapons like an AT-AT, offers a psychological propaganda advantage, even as impractical and a waste of money as something like an AT-AT, or a helmet with a long-ass extension, would be.

Who cares. It's fiction and it's film, and looks and story must always take precedence over logic or sensibility.

Great build today! Makes me happy.