Getting a LEGO Star Wars droid minifigure right is tough, but this custom build ticks a lot of boxes.
Ahsoka's live-action version of Huyang, the Mark IV architect droid professor who taught Jedi younglings for centuries and now accompanies Ahsoka, has already been translated into a LEGO minifigure in 75362 Ahsoka Tano's T-6 Jedi Shuttle. However, the colour and body shape is not quite right. In the Disney+ show, Huyang's metal body is an off-white colour, with a tapered waist and thin mechanical arms and legs. However, his LEGO counterpart is beige in colour, with a regular-shaped minifigure torso (albeit printed with mechanical dials and buttons to convey the sense that he's a droid).
We spotted a custom Huyang minifigure that looks much closer to the on-screen version, made by cbabricks3d. The custom creator has used specialist droid design parts in a colour close to Huyang's live-action shell. The printing on the torso has also been stripped back to more closely reveal Huyang's chest symbol, rather than the array of wires printed on the official minifigure.
All in all, the custom Huyang minifigure is a pretty good upgrade to the official minifigure. These kinds of discrepancies between the on-screen versions of characters and their LEGO recreations are pretty common, especially for newly-released shows that Disney keeps under close wraps. While Disney might share some details of what LEGO designers should base the minifigures on, they're not always that detailed and can be subject to change. That means we could well get an updated minifigure for Huyang if any future sets based on Ahsoka also include the architect droid.
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