Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar 2013 Day 6: Rebel Yell.

It's Day 6 of our star jaunt through the Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar which seems determined to eschew all our favourite, iconic characters in order to present us with a blocky clearing house of space saga obscurity. Surely today we are due a bona fide minifigure complete with arms, legs, and a studded head. Please let today be the day...

Let's pull the lever on Door Number 6 and see what we get...


And... it's... a...

Minfigure! Finally! An Endor Rebel Soldier to be precise, straight out of Return of the Jedi!

Now, this is pretty cool compared to some of the other stuff we've gotten, and I do appreciate that they're delving into my favourite Star Wars movie as a child, but how important is the Endor Rebel really? When you think of the epic Battle of Endor, what are you imagining? Ewoks, right? With their cruel teeth, freaky lips and glassy eyes, stabbing stormtroopers with primitive weapons, ready to hack off their heads with sharp rocks, scoop out and eat their flesh, then use their freshly emptied helmets as drums. You're thinking of Han shooting the crap out of things and then copping a feel of Princess Leia's boob. You're thinking of Chewbacca swinging around and bellowing like Tarzan. You're certainly not thinking of this guy...

I guess that's why he looks so angry. He has no memorable action scenes and nobody gives a crap about him! If we received an ewok today I think I would have done an actual spontaneous backflip. Whereas this guy? Hmmm... I guess his helmet is nicely sculpted.

Notice that he didn't come with any weapons either, which gives me a very bad feeling about tomorrow. We shall see...

And for those keeping score, each day I pit this calendar against the Playmobil Jurassic Park one. Endor Rebel might be a dullard, but a minifig is still better than what we got from Playmobil today, so Lego gets the point!

Playmobil Jurassic Park advent calendar: 3
Star Wars Lego advent calendar: 4