This model kit of BB-8 & R2-D2 in 1/12 scale contains 180 parts and 59 decals. It comes with several optional parts and two base plates. The ball of BB-8 is rotatable; the middle gear of R2-D2 can be retracted. R2-D2, or Artoo-Detoo, is a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas in the 70’s. A small astromech droid, R2-D2 is a major character and appears in nine out of the ten Star Wars films to date. Throughout the course of the films, R2 is a friend to Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi in various points in the Star Wars saga.
George Lucas’s creation of R2-D2 was influenced by Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 feature film The Hidden Fortress (USA release 1962), particularly Tahei and Matashichi, the two comic relief characters that serve as sidekicks to General Makabe. Lucas and artist Ralph McQuarrie also drew inspiration from the robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 film Silent Running. BB-8 (or Beebee-Ate) is a droid character in the Star Wars franchise, appearing in both the 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi films. Spherical with a free-moving domed head, BB-8 is portrayed by both a rod puppet and a remote-controlled robotic unit. Scanlan told Entertainment Weekly in November 2015 that the robot’s design came from an original sketch by J.J Abrams, saying “It was a very simple sketch, beautiful in its simplicity of a ball with this little dome on top.” of BB-8’s design “with differently shaped panels on each side to help the viewer’s eye track movement”, Scanlan said “If you had parallel patterns that ran around the circumference, they would be less informative as to the direction BB-8 was traveling than a slightly more chaotic pattern.”
Abrams also named the robot, telling Entertainment Weekly in August 2015, “I named him BB-8 because it was almost onomatopoeia. It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the two B’s.” The name was conceived early on in the film’s production and was one of the few to remain unchanged.
Features
• Full mechanical detail
• Display base is included
• Assembly instructions
• Snap together kit requires no glue
• water slide decals
SKU B-0203220
Brand Bandai

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