LEGO Store hack: design your own LEGO Star Wars Clone Trooper

Ever wanted to own a custom LEGO Star Wars Clone Trooper minifigure? All you need is a LEGO Store with a Minifigure Factory, understanding staff and a lot of patience…

Certain LEGO Stores around the world (such as flagship venues in London and New York) include a Minifigure Factory station, which allows shoppers to design and print custom minifigure torsos. You can choose from a library of images or – if you’re artistically-minded – simply get drawing. And that’s exactly what one savvy fan has done, painstakingly recreating the standard LEGO Clone Trooper torso before adding a personalised twist.

Redditor vampiresoul1672 spent roughly two hours drawing the various lines that make up the torso of a LEGO Clone Trooper at a LEGO Store in Dubai, before sharing the results to r/lego with the caption: “Thank you LEGO staff and kids that let me give my 100%.” Their torso is topped off with a blue ‘Z’, which they say comes from their name. “The idea is I’m a part of the 501st,” they explained in a comment.

This is definitely not a cheap and convenient way to amass an army of Clone Troopers, given you’re only getting the torso and the experience costs £12.99 in the UK. But if you’re after a custom, one-of-a-kind Clone Trooper printed on official LEGO parts, combining this torso with legs and a helmet is a pretty inexpensive solution. (It’s probably still not what you’d call convenient, given the effort required.)

The jury is still out on the results: vampiresoul1672 shared the finished product to the r/lego subreddit, where it was removed for being a repost of the same minifigure. But a couple of the comments made before the deletion suggest that the quality perhaps wasn’t quite as good as you’d hope: noo6s9oou says ‘both sides are slightly off-centre’ and Extreme_Equivalent_7 adds: “The quality is quite poor compared to what you pay.”

All that said, props to the person dedicated enough to stand for two hours at a Minifigure Factory designing their dream torso. If you want to do the same, head here to find a list of participating LEGO Stores.

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