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Get up close and personal with two LEGO Star Wars legends in our complete guide to the newly-revealed 75349 Captain Rex Helmet and 75350 Clone Commander Cody Helmet.
Unveiled by the LEGO Group today, these two new additions to the LEGO Star Wars Helmet Collection represent the subtheme’s first attempt at recreating characters from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, just in time for the 20th anniversary of Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated series (and in a wider sense, Clone Wars stories).
From what to expect from the building experience to the use of stickers versus printed pieces, here’s a visual guide to our key takeaways from these brand new LEGO Star Wars helmets.
For as much as LEGO sets are artistic interpretations of their source material – and they are – any display model still needs to meet a certain level of authenticity and accuracy when placed side-by-side with the original object. So, how do Captain Rex Helmet and Clone Commander Cody Helmet stack up next to their on-screen counterparts?
At first glance, Clone Commander Cody Helmet appears to confidently capture the overall shape of the animated trooper’s Phase I helmet (this version of the 212th trooper was never seen in live action), from the fin and visor to his rangefinder and, in particular, the subtle change in width from top to bottom. The bold and angular lines of the Phase I design go a long way to making this helmet visually distinct.
By contrast, Captain Rex Helmet faces an uphill battle: the complex curves of his unique helmet, which fuses together Phase I and Phase II armour, are inherently more difficult to achieve at this size and scale. The impression generally seems to work better the further away the helmet is (the effect is lost up close), but as we’ll see, it’s really in the details where Rex’s armour shines.
Anyone who’s ever put together a LEGO Star Wars helmet will know the drill with these models by now, but if you’re brand new to the range, we’ve got one word for you: brackets. Achieving the carefully-sculpted shape of these sets requires endless brackets to allow studs to point in all directions, and it makes for a building experience unlike any other in the LEGO Star Wars portfolio.
From what we can see in the press release, Rex and Cody both appear to follow the same format, and more generally should slot easily into the template established by the other sets in this subtheme. What’s most of note here are the part counts for each set: 854 for Captain Rex Helmet, and 766 for Clone Commander Cody Helmet.
Those are some of the highest around within the Helmet Collection, but seemingly haven’t resulted in a significant increase in size, so we’re expecting densely-packed builds that use plenty of small parts.
Clone Trooper helmets don’t necessarily open themselves to much detail – but that’s what makes Commander Cody and Captain Rex such smart choices for the first LEGO Star Wars: The Clone Wars helmets. Clone Commander Cody Helmet is the plainer of the two, but still packs in details like his rangefinder, torch light and the markings around the base of the helmet.
Captain Rex Helmet offers even more detail, from the weld marks on the helmet’s cheeks – where the 501st trooper fused together his Phase I and Phase II helmets – to the tally marks on either side of the helmet. The canon meaning behind these marks is apparently in flux – they could signify kills, fallen comrades or successful missions – but they represent a level of accuracy that wasn’t necessarily guaranteed in such a set.
From the images supplied, it’s fairly easy to pinpoint which decorated details across Captain Rex Helmet and Clone Commander Cody Helmet are printed, and which are stickers. Mercifully, Rex’s mouth grille looks to be printed – the decoration goes right up to the edge of the brick, which wouldn’t be possible with a sticker – while both of the plaques appear to be prints, as is standard for the LEGO Star Wars Helmet Collection.
There are a handful of stickers to apply across both helmets, though – Cody’s chin detail is stickered, for example, as are Rex’s forehead markings, weld marks and the tallies either side of his helmet.
While we’ll need to wait until we’ve put these sets together ourselves to know for sure, at first glance we can’t spot any new pieces or recolours used across either Cody or Rex’s helmets. That 1×10 slope used for Commander Cody’s rangefinder has appeared in orange in eight different sets, for instance, including 76193 The Guardians’ Ship and 80032 Chang’e Moon Cake Factory.
It won’t be a major surprise if there are no new pieces in Captain Rex Helmet and Clone Commander Cody Helmet – LEGO Star Wars typically reserves its element budget for minifigure designs – but achieving this level of design with entirely existing parts (and existing colours, no less) is no mean feat.
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