LEGO 75350 Clone Commander Cody Helmet’s piece count is too specific to be a coincidence

LEGO Star Wars 75350 Clone Commander Cody Helmet includes a very specific number of pieces, in what must surely be a knowing nod to Star Wars’ saddest scene.

One of three new LEGO Star Wars helmets revealed today – two of which are based on prequel trilogy-era characters, in celebration of 20 years of The Clone Wars stories – 75350 Clone Commander Cody Helmet includes exactly 766 pieces. You can probably see where we’re going with this one.

Disregard that seven for a moment, just a moment, and look at what’s left. Sixty-six. Like, you know, Order 66. Dear LEGO Star Wars design team: look us in the eye and tell us that’s a coincidence. We still won’t believe you.

If you’re not the kind of Star Wars fan who memorises directives (or has a memory bank filled to the brim with prequel memes and not much else), Order 66 is famously the decree given by Emperor Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith, which effectively translates to ‘kill all the Jedi’. While some Clone Troopers manage to resist their programming, others – like Commander Cody – immediately start gunning down their generals.

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It makes the piece count for 75350 Clone Commander Cody Helmet especially apt, because Order 66 was basically the 212th leader’s big moment in the Star Wars movies. The character has obviously since featured far more heavily in The Clone Wars, and it’s his appearance in that animated series that serves as inspiration for the LEGO helmet, but wider audiences will know him for trying to murder Obi-Wan Kenobi.

This wouldn’t be the first time the LEGO Group has deliberately toyed with part counts in sets: 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V famously includes 1,969 pieces, referencing the year the rocket headed for the Moon, while last year’s 40558 Clone Trooper Command Station includes exactly 66 pieces too. Again, surely not by coincidence…

75350 Clone Commander Cody Helmet launches alongside 75349 Captain Rex Helmet and 75351 Princess Leia (Boushh) Helmet on March 1. All three sets will retail for £59.99 / $69.99 / €69.99 apiece.

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Chris Wharfe
I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

Chris Wharfe

I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.