LEGO Star Wars 8002 Technic Destroyer Droid - REVIEW 

Early 2000's technic lego is like a core memory to me, love it

never knew it had such an epic playable feature, I'd bet the new one isn't this interactive

Changing out the brown parts with proper panels, a bit more plates to hide the technic elsewhere, proper claw feet, and you'd have a 10/10 set. This is really the most obscure and unfairly overlooked Lego Star Wars set ever. (together with the motorized AT-AT) Truly shows that they managed to nail the Droideka exactly once in large scale and mini scale on their first try, and all versions after are just horrible.

It´s amazing what Lego was able to pull out back in the day, really wish that they would have evolve to the present with all the new pieces and stuff

As soon as I saw the Destroyer Droid in the Phantom Menace I just loved it. I was super excited when I got this set for my birthday as a child, but one of the bag was missing (I had instead the same bag twice) so I could never build it fully, contacting Lego was useless and since it was a birthday gift we couldn't get the receipt to exchange it in store...

Wow what a wonderful set! I'm amazed at how exactly it looks like the real thing despite having that Technic look. I was skeptical when you mentioned that the droideka could open up automatically so when you showed footage of it rolling into deployment I was gob smacked! I would love to see reviews of the other Star Wars Technic sets since I hardly ever think about them and I haven't heard much talk of them from the community until this video.

YT randomly showed your video to me. After 24 yrs resting in a case (yeah, I'm not a lego builder anymore hahaha), I decided to find it and build it again! It was worth every second and tear of emotion... it reminded me of my childhood watching Phantom Menace with my friends. Now it will stay at my office as a nice reminder that I need to have more fun. Thanks for your video.. It made my day :) ps: great review of the model... great video. As someone that is far from Lego, your video was entertaining and super fun!

Man I always wanted this as a kid 🥲 rolling it to pop open in battle form was so cool! Just like the movies

Cool review. Keep it up

Great review! From a technical perspective, your video is very well paced, shot and the voiceover is fantastic. Very professional and very informational! This is everything I want in a LEGO set review. Glad I stumbled upon your channel!

I have this one. lost the packaging, lost the manual, rubbers are busted, but still looks epic

I got two of these droidekas for cheap last year. Very cool sets. The Droideka set had some quality issues so they added that DLC booklet and rubber bands for newer runs of the set. Mainly the head is slightly different with amendment booklet. I recommend Hailfire droid from this line too. One of the more enjoyable technic builds there is.

Check out Heilfire droid from 2003, that one is the best technic SW set 👌

Never saw this set covered here, but it is definitely surreal to see it now. As is how many of the elements in "Earth orange" (also called "Old Brown" or "Mata brown") are exclusive to this set. Not to mention that the Technic offset axle connector in that color also appears in an "Orient Expedition" set (7416) from mid-2003, but nowhere else after that.

Thanks man, i just Bought Some new rubber bands for mi destroyer Droid, and at first I was really frustrated that he didnt want to open fully, then I rewatched your video, and now I get it !!!

Had this one when I was a kid. Along with the technic battle droid. So cool!

Thats a sick looking Bionicle right there

Great review! I had never seen the rolling fearure in action! Love this set, I might build it from my own pieces. It just wont be brown😂

Great review! Incredibly professional and helpful

This was one I always wanted as a kid. I had the R2-D2 from the same time-frame, but this one really stuck out to me.

Pit droid was solid too :)

I bet Lego sells the rubber bands or replaces them!

Vintage ha ha. I remember having this as a kid. I remember it was always a nightmare to get it to fold up properly but thought it was a great set. When I came back to it many years later (though still years ago) all the rubber bands had gone hard and fell to bits. Mine didn't have the amended booklet back then, I wonder if that was the fix that made the roll function work properly. I found my 4481 Hailfire Droid recently when I was moving house. Totally forgot I had that. I bet IO have some of the older X-Wings and such too somewhere. Maybe the original Podracers too.

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Really curious about that AAT alt build. Might make a cool stripped-down version of an AAT in the post-clone wars era?

You didnt fold the arms in. If i remember correctly there are two black ball pins on the arms that lock into the L technic piece on the neck. When u roll it the arms release and help fling the guns out. Its been 20 years but i think thats right lol

What an awesome set

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It has a B-Model, rare today..

It doesn't really "roll" then deploy as much as it does a single somersault.

Bro just fucking bring back Bionicle already. Hate you Lego… You both built and destroyed my childhood.

millennial slicer is pretty cool not sure whg you where dissing him and his Akira bike.

Such an awesome set, too bad I’d rather eat chalk than build technic

It baffles me that they never re-released an uprgraded version of this in the later years especially with the anniversary coming up. They could make some specialized panels and keep the function the same and make an amazing homage to this set now.

Its disappointing for you not to show off the alternative build. Especially when the content you can find about it on RU-vid is nonexistent