LEGO 8000 STAR WARS PIT DROID TECHNIC

It's pretty durable, it's not the strongest, but it should hold up nicely!

I highly recommend this item, to Star Wars and Lego fans alike!

Good show!


Really cool!   July 17, 2001
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I built this set in a few hours because I didn't stop working once! It is powered by rubber bands which allow its fingers to open and close. Its actually kind of cute, and can crouch down, only to be awakened (like in the movies) by a bop on the nose. It is Really fun. 2 thumbs up!


Okay to display, not much fun otherwise   December 5, 2000
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Because of the "pop-up" feature this model has, the movement and poseability is a bit limited. When you push in on its "nose", it "springs up" thru the use of rubber bands. As you can imagine, it rarely lands on its feet, and also does not really compact as well as it does in the movie. The model does stand by itself, but not very well. HOWEVER, a very nice bonus of this kit is that it comes with instructions to make a really cool speeder biker (from "ROTJ") from the same parts. I enjoy the speeder bike a lot and it makes a nice display and play piece.


Isn't he a Cutie?   September 13, 2000
 15 out of 15 found this review helpful

This was the last Droid set that I bought from the series, I thought that the model would be less exciting that the other two 'big brothers'. How wrong could I be? This model is just as exciting as the others are.

The set builds a pit Droid that can mend your pod racer in a hurry when you smash it up. (Ok, so the Lego pod racer is a little smaller than the Droid! ) The set consists of basic 'Lego Technic' parts, which are used in amazing ways to transform them into a very technical working mechanism. There are one or two parts that are not generic, but find me a set that doesn't these days! The model took me a little over an hour to build, mainly spent refining the mechanism to ensure it stands up when you punch its nose, (Just like in the movie!) As with the other Droids in this series the energy used to 'unfold' the Droid is stored in tensioned rubber bands. These do the job well and plenty of them are supplied to refine the movement and to replace broken ones.

This set builds the cutest Droid of the series (In my opinion) which means that the younger generations will have as much fun playing with this, as building it. If you are thinking of buying one for your kid(s) why waste all this time reading this? Buy it now! The age recommendation given by Lego I think is a little unfair. I'm sure that any keen 6 year-old could quite easily construct this set in the evenings after school. I'm sure Dad wouldn't mind helping them too! (Dads: Go and buy one for yourselves if you want one! )

Something I enjoyed as much as building this model was getting the mechanism to work properly, it took quite some time of tweaking the rubber bands to create the tensions required to stop it falling backward when you hit its nose. Don't despair though, it is possible! Compared to the other Droids, this one's the easiest to build but by no means the lesser of it siblings! I would definitely recommend this to the younger generation of 'Lego engineers'.