The Night Trooper’s head is LEGO Star Wars creativity at its best
The LEGO Star Wars team has brought the Night Trooper to life in 75385 Ahsoka Tano’s Battle on Peridea – but it’s the creative approach to what’s under its helmet that’s most impressive…
Star Wars: Ahsoka introduced us to the Nightsisters’ reanimated army of undead soldiers, but – perhaps to keep things at least a little family-friendly – neglected to show us what gruesome, zombie-like horrors awaited underneath their helmets. The good news is that hasn’t stopped the LEGO Star Wars team from taking matters into their own hands.
The Night Trooper makes its LEGO debut in the upcoming 75385 Ahsoka Tano’s Battle on Peridea, which we’ve just gone hands-on with in an early review. The bottom line is that it’s all about the minifigures, and that includes not just the headlined named characters, but also the Night Trooper – mostly for the fun head print underneath the helmet. Check it out for yourself below…
Rather than taking the easy way out with a plain head – a solution we’ve seen employed as recently as last month in 75386 Paz Vizsla and Moff Gideon Battle – the design team has taken advantage of what little we know about the Night Trooper to give us our second-ever LEGO Star Wars zombie. (The first was 2012’s Geonosian Zombie in 9491 Geonosian Cannon.)
None of the official set images for 75385 Ahsoka Tano’s Battle on Peridea show off this hidden head print, but it’s right there waiting for you when you open the box. You’ll be able to get your hands on it from August 1 at LEGO.com and in LEGO Stores, along with its four other new and exclusive minifigures of Grand Admiral Thrawn, Ahsoka Tano, Ezra Bridger and Morgan Elsbeth.
Click here to check out our full review of 75385 Ahsoka Tano’s Battle on Peridea.
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