New LEGO Star Wars key lights are already 11 years out of date
Two new LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Key Lights are available just in time for May the 4th, but they’re already 11 years out of date…
5010230 Jedi Vader Key Light and 5010232 Darth Vader Vacation Key Light each spin up key fobs of the Sith Lord based on minifigures from LEGO Star Wars Disney+ specials, and are available at LEGO.com now for £13.99 / €15.99 apiece (they don’t appear to be live in the US just yet). Veteran fans will instantly clock what’s amiss about them, though.
The LEGO Group introduced a new two-piece Darth Vader minifigure helmet all the way back in 2015’s 75093 Death Star Final Duel, and it’s been in use ever since. It was also used for both of the regular minifigure versions of these key lights, even reimagined in white for Rebuild the Galaxy’s Jedi Vader (found exclusively in 75389 The Dark Falcon). But the key lights? They’re still using the O.G. helmet from 1999.
That’s true of all the various Darth Vader key lights, mind you (and there are a lot of them). This pair join 2022’s 5007290 Darth Vader Key Light and January’s 5006583 Darth Vader Holiday Sweater Key Light, both of which are still available at LEGO.com and use exactly the same helmet mould as 2012’s 5001159 Darth Vader Light Key Chain. So there’s your answer: the LEGO Group never bothered to update the key lights in line with the minifigure.
To be fair, the helmet on these things isn’t removable anyway, so the additional practicality isn’t really necessary. But the shaping is a lot more accurate, so there’s still an argument to be made for updating it. Not that it’s going to happen any time soon with four of these key lights now on shelves concurrently…
Still, it’s good news for fans of the retro Darth Vader LEGO minifigure helmet, and this is probably the only time you’re going to see it in white. 5010230 Jedi Vader Key Light and 5010232 Darth Vader Vacation Key Light would both neat additions to a May the 4th order – and may be very handy if you’re just shy of the threshold for 40917 The Darksaber – so don’t discount them when the annual Star Wars Day shenanigans get underway on May 1.
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