Why there isnt any C3PO UCS style set?

[Ondra]

This baffles me a lot, we got two UCS R2-D2, helmets, other UCS style droids even Yoda is there...

But C3PO? We never get brickbuild version ever.

C3PO is same crucial robot character like R2-D2, so its not making any sense.

Could be there reason in license holder mind?

What do you think?

[Murdoch17]

They've done it before... set 8007, from 2001. It wasn't very good, even for a Technic set... too many stickers. This would be the same problem if they did it now: too many stickers, or too many drum lacquered parts to make it worthwhile. It just isn't feasible.

And besides, which version would they make? "Classic silver leg" (EP IV - VI), "Red arm" (EP VII), "Naked" (EP I), "Backwards" (EP V) or something else?

Edited October 19, 2022 by Murdoch17

[The Stud]

Assuming that they'd want it to be at the same scale as R2, it'd have to be super expensive and crazy large.

[Mandalorianknight]

I don't know why this is it's own topic, but yeah, it's what both The Stud and Murdoch said. Color-wise, it'd be a nightmare, since so many things would have to be recolored in drumlaquer (also hence the lack of a naboo royal starship, or actual silver Razor Crest). 

Structurally, it would be a nightmare. Something like the Hulkbuster BARELY works with it's chunky, pre-bent legs. A UCS C-3PO would be completely immobile in the legs and very unstable, even if they built it into a base. I just can't see that working at all.

[Ondra]

43 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I don't know why this is it's own topic, but yeah, it's what both The Stud and Murdoch said. Color-wise, it'd be a nightmare, since so many things would have to be recolored in drumlaquer (also hence the lack of a naboo royal starship, or actual silver Razor Crest). 

Structurally, it would be a nightmare. Something like the Hulkbuster BARELY works with it's chunky, pre-bent legs. A UCS C-3PO would be completely immobile in the legs and very unstable, even if they built it into a base. I just can't see that working at all.

They can still do bust, or head .

I just read in some interview they will not do C3PO as helmet, because its not helmet and dark trooper was not difference because it is helmet. So there it is...