#Captain rex full#
Real Value – At full price, the helmets while fun are a little on the pricier side Jagged visor makes it look rough when viewed from certain anglesīuild – A really refreshing and challenging build, with clever techniques.Sticker colours don’t match at all, creating a jarring visual artifact.The build was interesting in parts, although quite fiddly.It’s a really tiny detail, and it’s likely you won’t notice this from far away, but I would’ve preferred a smoother design throughout. It’s incredibly distracting, and frankly looks very cheap and nasty, and if you care about details, this will annoy you to no end.Īnother thing I didn’t quite like is the jagged visor. This is also an issue with the breathing vents at the base of the helmet. The colour matching is awful here, with the stickers having a totally different shade to the bricks they’re stuck on. It’s slightly unclear what these stand for – early on they were thought to be kill marks, but was later retconneed to have a more mysterious meaning, as Captain Rex has wasted thousands of clankers than what’s counted here – unless each mark represents a thousand droids killed. Speaking of stickers, here’s a look at the Tally Marks scribbled on Captain Rex’s helmets. The visual effect works incredibly well, and I love that the designer opted to challenge himself with using negative space for the markings, as opposed to stickering the entire section. Here are Captain Rex’s signature Jaig Eyes design, which is my favourite part of the helmet design, as apart from the small sticker, uses a clever array of plates, tiles and slopes to Rex’s iconic markings right.
Oh, and the rangefinder swivels downwards as well, which is quite a fun play feature. The build was also mostly enjoyable in parts, with some really detailed and technical sculpting used to re-create the helmet’s shape, angles and also markings. Similar to the Stormtrooper Helmet, from the first wave of Star Wars helmets, the rounded design relies heavily on studs, which I like as opposed to fully smooth designs because it just oozes LEGO DNA. Here’s how Captain Rex’s helmet looks from the side and back. The helmet design gets a lot of things right, and I especially love the use of negative space for the eyes and face, followed by the layered plates for the harder angles to get that Clone look just right. The blue and and white colours of the 501st legion are brilliantly captured here, and I especially love how vibrant the blue is, although one could make the argument that the shade of blue isn’t 100% accurate. LEGO have done a remarkable job adapting the Phase 2 helmet into the design, nailing the overall silhouette and shape of the helmet, which is no mean feat for a helmet with plenty of curves. Unfortunately, stickers are relied on heavily for Captain Rex’s helmet, and these make for some of the weaker parts of the design.įirstly, the good bits. Here’s a look at the instruction manual, which has a lovely introduction and foreword by LEGO Star Wars Creative Director Jens Kronvold Frederiksen, as well as a reference image of Rex in his Phase 2 armour. This helmet features Rex’s Phase 2 Clone Trooper helmet, a nice contrast to Commander Cody’s Phase 1 helmet. His fearless leadership, and empathy, as well as being one of the few Clones that had their inhibitor chips removed, thus did not participate in Order 66 makes him a fan-favourite, where even his minifigure commands hundreds of dollars on the secondary market. Release Date: 1 March 2023 – preoders available on and Amazonįirst up, we have Captain Rex, also known as CT-7567 who served under General Anakin Skywalker and Commander Ahsoka Tano during the Clone Wars, leader of the 501st Legion.
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See below for regional pricing and individual product pages. These will likely be very popular among die-hard Prequel and Clone Wars era fans, as these are 2 of the highest profile named Clones, and to secure yours, you can pre-order both 75349 Captain Rex and 75350 Clone Commander Cody helmets from on or on Shortly after yesterday’s official reveal of 75349 Captain Rex and 75350 Clone Commander Cody, I can now share my review of these 2 new additions to the LEGO Star Wars Helmet Collection.Ĭelebrating 20 years of the Clone Wars are the first prequel-era helmets to join the ever-expanding Helmet Collection, and will be released on 1 March 2023.
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