Ever since I was a kid, sitting in the theater at 11 years old, watching Star Wars for the first time in its original run, the mouse droid has captured my attention! They don't get much screen time, but the little bit they had was very memorable. Who can stop the smile from happening when Chewie growls at one of these poor things, even if one's seen the movie hundreds of times? Or forget those awesome little squeaky sounds that Ben Burtt created for the cute little guys.
Their inclusion was also part of a number of small inclusion into the films that Lucas gave us to flesh out the world we're in - it was an unnecessary thing to spend money to build and to film, but by showing us that within the Star Wars world are these repair droids, it shows that there is more than just what we're seeing on the screen, story-wise.
A banner day in Advent Calendaring today to have a mouse droid! Or more properly, an MSE-6 Repair Droid.
You gotta love these guys. I sure do.
If LEGO did a UCS version of one, I'd probably get it. Though there isn't much to it, so using a few thousand pieces to build one would need some serious justification.
Hi David. Bill Ziegler. One man did build a larger scale (1:2) mouse droid, and added parts from the Batmobile powered up set. The bricks would need to be purchased individually, along with the Batmobile 76112 app controlled set, buy you'd have a remote controlled 1/2 size mouse droid in the end. The video is a treat to watch as he drives it around near the end. Copy/paste this link into a browser (I'd recommend Chrome with ad-blocker to remove the ad loading delays) to see the parts list and that cool video: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-25503/G3isel/star-wars-mouse-droid-mse-6/#parts
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