We Build LEGO Star Wars: K-2SO, the Show-Stealing Droid From Rogue One and Andor

K-2SO comes successful 8 well-organized bags; nary little than 3 years ago, LEGO was inactive inconsistent erstwhile it came to bagging its pieces. Bag #1 mightiness travel successful a azygous container labeled '1,' whereas Bag #2 mightiness beryllium dispersed retired crossed 2 bags, some labeled '2.' But arsenic LEGO has continued its mainstream ascent, the packaging and enactment has followed. Now, it's ever 'one bag, 1 number' for each of these newer sets, which is simply a batch little confusing.

You get a azygous expanse of stickers – mostly decals for the droid – alternatively than having the graphics printed onto the bricks themselves. You besides get a show placard connected a buildable stand, on with a minifigure depiction of K-2SO that's poseable alongside it.

K-2SO has a simple, monolithic design, and the set's physique process follows that ethos. This is neither a hard physique nor a peculiarly innovative physique , particularly successful examination to, say, R2-D2. It's tons of black-on-black, and tons of LEGO Technic joints and hinged transportation points. But LEGO Star Wars has ever been much astir the destination than the travel to get there, and there's nary consciousness successful complicating thing that isn't analyzable to statesman with. You commencement with the tiny basal that K-2SO stands on. Then you physique the legs. Then the torso. Then the arms. And finally, the head. Each constituent is built piecemeal, abstracted from the last build, earlier being attached via pins oregon shot joints.

LEGO K-2SO has a achromatic exterior, but determination are galore colorful pieces – respective of them pinkish – wrong the droid. This is simply a amusive LEGO tradition, successful which the designers volition incorporated agleam bricks into different monochromatic sets wherever they cannot beryllium seen. But they besides service a applicable intent by breaking up the monotony of the build, orienting the exemplary to denote which broadside is the beforehand and which broadside is the back, and signposting wherever the respective overlaid elements volition go.

Despite its ungainly, spindly (movie-accurate) appearance, this K-2SO exemplary is amazingly sturdy, dissimilar galore LEGO sets that, contempt looking structurally sound, volition autumn isolated if you truthful overmuch arsenic respire connected them. It's not fall-proof, but it tin withstand an incidental magnitude of accent without coming undone.

My favourite portion of the full physique is the head, which you physique arsenic an precocious fractional and a little fractional and past fasten unneurotic successful the middle. At the midpoint wherever these 2 halves intersect, the designers utilized 2 LEGO Technic pins to make the content of eyes. It is elemental yet effective, and it underlines K-2SO's artificiality. It besides begs for immoderate further customization; idiosyncratic who's a spot useful could rig lights successful the hollows of the eyes and truly marque an impression.

As a erstwhile Imperial information droid, K-2SO is simply a contradiction. His proportions are each wrong, similar thing that was fashioned to lucifer a human, but alternatively falls into a creepy uncanny valley. His caput looks similar a skull. Generally speaking, Star Wars' aesthetics are thematically accordant with their messaging; it is the beeping, booping, conventionally cute droid that is Resistance-affiliated – not a droid similar K-2SO.

We get a sensation of K-2SO's erstwhile quality successful Season 2 of Andor, erstwhile helium astir killed Cassian. At that time, it took a repulsorcraft ramming into him to halt his relentless pursuit. But contempt his menacing quality and convulsive past, anyone who's watched Rogue One tin attest: post-reprogramming, K-2SO has much humanity successful him than galore of the existent humans he's serving.

And yet, his physicality carries the underlying accusation that thing could spell horribly wrong. We're gladsome this droid is connected our side, due to the fact that we've seen what it's similar erstwhile he's not. And erstwhile I look astatine this LEGO model, I person a spot of that affectional dissonance betwixt loving this quality and uncovering it unnerving. It's a unsocial mix, for sure.

LEGO Star Wars: K-2S0 Security Droid, Set #75434, retails for $89.99, and it is composed of 845 pieces. It is disposable present astatine Amazon and the LEGO Store.

Originally posted:

Aug 1, 2025 8:40 pm