Following the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, the LEGO Star Wars set we never knew we needed has been spotted, with a feasible design.
This article will feature major spoilers for The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is in cinemas now.
Of all the LEGO Star Wars sets released for The Mandalorian and Grogu, only a small portion of the actual film is represented. Vehicles are understandably the focus over playsets, with only 75451 Hutt Palace Sentry Droid Showdown falling under the latter.
The vehicles covered mostly correspond to moments from earlier in the movie, leaving some key characters left out of the wave entirely. That includes Rotta the Hutt, as we discussed earlier today.
We went over a couple of places where the character would have made sense to appear, but there's one vehicle not covered in the sets that makes even more sense.
The gunrunner droid's ship, also known as a TR-RL3 Terrapin-class bulk tanker or Turtle Tanker appeared briefly in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series and has made a surprise return with a refined design in The Mandalorian and Grogu.
Image: Lucasfilm
The ship is distinct for its large shell-like chassis and the four moving legs that act as both engines and landing gear. It's one of the most unique ships to ever grace a Star Wars movie and is the perfect pick for a future LEGO Star Wars set.
It's a shame that it was not depicted in the wave for the movie already, but it may have been left out of the concept art likely provided to the LEGO Group.
The ship's link to Rotta is that it transports him away from his family in the film, before being intercepted and brought to the Hutt homeworld. It is eventually repurposed into a battering ram, and before that, was piloted by a single droid in the movie.
That droid was recently added to Fortnite's official Droid Tycoon map, tying into the film without anyone knowing, giving us a better look at this droid's design.
Image: cerezasunshyne
The droid's body and head are easily recreated with existing elements and new prints. Whether it uses a minifigure or droid torso and legs is up for debate, but the head is best depicted with a cylinder and 1x1 dome element.
Now that we know the ship and pilot droid can be recreated, it's now a waiting game to see whether or not the LEGO Star Wars design team return to The Mandalorian and Grogu to depict this ship eventually. There's no confirmation of such a set, and the only The Mandalorian and Grogu builds we know about are those listed earlier and a mysterious AT-AT seen in a recent YouTube video.
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