The next wave of LEGO Star Wars mechs should get crazier

The newly-revealed LEGO Star Wars mech sets look solid, but the future waves can and should push the concept even farther.

At long last, the

mechs are here – and they’re actually pretty good. They have desirable minifigures in mechs that feature more built-up limbs and details than their counterparts, all for a relatively affordable price. The three characters chosen (Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and a Stormtrooper) are good, recognizable choices to introduce the line – but they’re on the basic side and future sets could do so much more.

The matter of canon and source material accuracy should be thrown out the window when looking at the

mech line; the mechs serve as a toy that can action-figure-ify your minifigures rather than a representation of any sort of canonical vehicle. This opens up the line of mech sets to fit basically any individual character in the universe (although characters without masks or helmets may look a little wonky).

The mech line will inevitably go stale if every mech is the same basic skeleton and concept – so why not use the vast library of unique

characters to push the character mech set concept to every possible place it could go? To illustrate this idea, here’s our pitch for a wave of three out-there mechs.

General Grievous

Imagine, if you will, a

General Grievous mech with two arms – wait, what’s that? What’s happening? General Grievous’ arms are… splitting apart!? What was once two arms is now… four!?

See, wasn’t that fun? A four-armed mech would be a perfect way to shake up the formula while providing exciting play opportunities. Plus, General Grievous is a minifigure that many

fans would be happy to be able to get in a £15.99 / $15.99 / €13.59 set.

R2-D2

This one might be a bit harder to visualize, but it could definitely happen. Designers would have to take a completely different approach for R2, maybe by incorporating tank tread elements or even making a three-legged mech. Or, he could even just be in a regular mech suit – finally allowing R2 to stand up and fight alongside his

. Either way, R2 would provide an interesting design challenge and would certainly be an amusing mech set.

IG-88 / IG-11 / IG-12

An assassin droid like the iconic bounty hunter IG-88 would require a taller, slimmer mech design – which actually works well with the thin droid minifigure parts. But what if you didn’t even have to fit a minifigure? What if it was IG-12, and you only needed to fit a baby fig in the form of Grogu? Removing the need for a minifigure head to come out of the top allows the IG-12 mech to have a brick-built head and lots of interesting design details.

Which

characters do you want to see get the mech treatment?

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