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. Couto, Anthony (December 13, 2014). "Mark Hamill Says Star Wars: The Force Awakens' BB-8 Is a Prop, Not CGI". IGN . Retrieved April 21, 2015. a b c d e f Breznican, Anthony (November 13, 2015). "BB-8: Creating the roly-poly droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved December 4, 2015. Asher-Perrin, Emmet (December 21, 2015). "One Fan's Blow-By-Blow Reaction to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, or, How Episode VII Made Me Sob Continuously in Front of My Friends Forever". Tor.com . Retrieved December 29, 2015.

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Walsh, Michael (December 3, 2015). "Journey Through the Galaxy with BB-8 Luggage". Nerdist.com. Archived from the original on December 12, 2015 . Retrieved December 5, 2015. McNary, Dave (August 26, 2015). "Disney Sets Massive Star Wars Toy Promotion". Variety . Retrieved August 27, 2015. LEGO Star Wars: The Resistance Rises to Debut on Disney XD February 15". Oh My Disney. February 2016 . Retrieved April 22, 2016. Lee, Josh; Denton, Matt (April 10, 2017). Puppetry of BB-8. The Hobble & Stitch Show. Event occurs at 6:54 . Retrieved April 13, 2017. Bond, Paul (December 9, 2015). "How Star Wars Will Change Hollywood (Again)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved December 29, 2015.

Li, Shirley (February 12, 2016). " The Force Awakens characters to appear in new LEGO Star Wars series". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved April 23, 2016. Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for the 14th Annual VES Awards". Visual Effects Society. January 12, 2016. Archived from the original on June 7, 2017 . Retrieved January 15, 2016. Wong, Raymond (September 19, 2015). "Hasbro's remote-controlled BB-8 is bursting with charm, even when it fails". Mashable . Retrieved December 24, 2015. a b Chitwood, Adam (November 17, 2016), Watch Ben Schwartz Provide the Voice of BB-8 in New 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Featurette Burton, Bonnie (September 4, 2015). "Force Friday furnishings: New Star Wars decor from ThinkGeek". CNET . Retrieved December 4, 2015.

Minifigure

a b Kooser, Amanda (September 22, 2015). "Hug this life-size plush BB-8 Star Wars droid". CNET . Retrieved December 4, 2015. 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] Zacharek, Stephanie (December 15, 2015). "Review: The Force Awakens Is Everything You Could Hope for in a Star Wars Movie—and Less". Time . Retrieved December 16, 2015. Breznican, Anthony (February 11, 2016). "Maz Kanata action figure among new Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved July 27, 2016. Travers, Peter (December 16, 2015). " Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 13, 2016 . Retrieved December 21, 2015.

a b Szostak, Phil (2015). The Art of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' . Abrams Books. p.110. ISBN 978-1-4197-1780-2. Russon, Mary-Ann (April 17, 2015). " Star Wars: The Force Awakens – The BB8 robot droid is a real machine, not a puppet or CGI". International Business Times . Retrieved December 4, 2015. Cochran, Jay (February 11, 2016). " Star Wars The Force Awakens 3.75" Takodana Encounter Set with Maz Kanata Figure". JediInsider.com . Retrieved July 27, 2016. Taylor, Chris (July 3, 2017). "Watch Rey and BB-8's first thrilling adventure in Star Wars: Forces of Destiny". Mashable . Retrieved July 5, 2017. Abrams and his team of designers and technicians introduce a new star... A roly-poly cueball with a surprisingly expressive half-dome for a head—and a vocabulary of squeaks and squiggles that are more eloquent than mere words—BB-8 is both modernist and old-fashioned at once, a marvelous creation that could have sprung from the imagination of Jules Verne. [56]

The Completed Model

Taylor, Chris (August 22, 2013). " Star Wars Episode VII to Use Film, Be More Like Original Trilogy". Mashable . Retrieved September 7, 2013. Miller, Ross (September 3, 2015). "You can now buy Star Wars adorable BB-8 droid and let it patrol your home". The Verge . Retrieved December 6, 2015. a b McFarland, K. M. (September 3, 2015). "The Story (And Tech) Behind That Awesome Star Wars BB-8 Toy". Wired . Retrieved September 5, 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.

I appreciate the attention to detail shown by the designer as each tool bay features a different design, all of which are accurate to the droid in the movie. Furthermore, not only do the final hatches look superb but they also conceal a lovely function as rotating the panel on the side extends the welding torch which BB-8 memorably used to imitate Finn's 'thumbs up' gesture in Star Wars: The Force Awakens!a b c Miskell, Kyle (December 3, 2015). " Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Everybody's Favorite Droids Grace the Cover of Time Magazine". Collider . Retrieved December 16, 2015. Foster, Alan Dean (2015). "Chapter I". The Force Awakens ( e-book). Random House Worlds. ISBN 9781101965504. The welding torch is retracted simply by rotating the panel in the other direction and it folds away as smoothly as it opens. Unfortunately, the hatch is not connected to the extending arm so it must be closed manually but this is still an excellent feature and I like the spear tip which is used to depict the flame as the standard flame piece would be the wrong shape.