[MOC] HJR's DROIDS White Witch

[HJR-Holland]

Another day, another MOC. Today: the 'White Witch' from the 'DROIDS' Star Wars cartoon series.

After the well-known Star Wars films George Lucas thought he could probably make some more money from the franchise (in fact, he still does), and created two cartoon series: 'DROIDS' (with C-3PO and R2-D2), and 'EWOKS', with the cute bears from Endor.

The DROIDS cartoosn consisted of several chapters, each consisting of about 6 episodes. One of those chapters was called 'the White Witch', named after the principle vehicle in the series; indeed, the 'White Witch', een tuned Mobquet C/L-82 landspeeder:

A couple of action figures were made by KENNER, and of course, along with the figures, some vehicles were required, amongst which the White Witch:

They even made boxart for the vehicle:

However, as success stayed out, the White Witch made it to production, and is still one of the best known unproduced Star Wars toys.

However, that may be changed in time. There's the rumouirs that one of it's pilots will make it into the upcoming Star Wars series foreseen for the near future, and if the character will make it, why not his vehicle?

In the meantime there's fortunately LEGO, which enables you to make your own white witch :D

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[lego envy]

Looks fantastic... I take it you did't have the blue parts in black? Or is that how you wanted to do it?

Great MOC

[HJR-Holland]

As you can see in the 'prototype' (so not the boxart), the 'engine' is indeed dark blue, not black

[Praiter Yed]

I remember this cartoon from when I was a kid, I also remember only watching a couple of episodes before I decided it was shit - maybe 1,000's of kids thought like I did and that's why they didn't release the toy! So, George Lucas' limitations were apparent all those years ago eh - I should have known better than to get excited about the PT

There seems to be a few differences between the cartoon image and the toy design and your creation sits somewhere between the two. My preference would be to see something based solely on the cartoon design (this in theory being the original) but that's not to detract in anyway from your MOC which I think is very well done

[Brickmamba]

nice moc, nose could have been a lil more pointier but otherwise a good rendition

[Oky]

Another great MOC from you, HJR! The color scheme works very well, and it looks just as smooth and sleek as the original! One thing I noticed, though, is that the rollcage is different from the one in the cartoon in both shape and color, and while I would usually prefer it to be more accurate to the source material, the dark blue just looks so good that I can't complain. Good job, and keep it up!

I remember this cartoon from when I was a kid, I also remember only watching a couple of episodes before I decided it was shit - maybe 1,000's of kids thought like I did and that's why they didn't release the toy!

That's a bit harsh, don't you think? At least it was better than the holiday special (but then again, anything would be better than that thing). I think the problem was that it was too cheesy, even for the time that it was produced in. It was just another ho-hum Saturday morning cartoon, which is not good enough for Star Wars.

[HJR-Holland]

Hey folks, thanks for the feedback!

@ Praiter Yed: I have worked a lot on the shooting mechanism (this is how it works) but it would have made the 'intakes' way too big. Instead of the pointy red arrows, I thought the grey intakes on the original looked way better :-)

@ Brickmamba: The nose section was the hardest part of the vehicle. I've made about 10 designs of it! The red nose cone is longer than on the 'real' version, but I seriously could not find the right pieces (in red) to make a better / shorter nose cone). I replaced the nose cone from this: to this: in order to make the nose somewhat smoother.

@ Oky: The rollcage of the original is véry long, as it needs to fit véry long action figures. As the minifigs are proportionally a lot shorter, the rollcage would have filled up a lot of 'air' and not only the passengers. On the 'real' white witch the rollcage is also dark blue though:

Oh, and I can't really judge about the cartoon, as I have never seen it when I was young; I think both the 'DROIDS' and 'EWOKS' cartoons never made it across the ocean (or my selective memory just won't let me remember them). Last month I saw an old episode of Transformers, my all-time-favourite cartoon, and I couldn't believe how slow and cheesy it was...

[M<0><0<DSWIM]

I always hated that cartoon, but your model looks spot-on! Love how you recreated the smooth, sleek design of the original.

[Oky]

I'm not just talking about the length. I can understand why you made it shorter. In the first image you posted, the rollcage is white and more triangular than curved and it has only one bar going from the front to the back. But again, I think I prefer it the way it is, so no worries.

As for the cartoon, if you still want to see it, you can watch it on Mastertoons.

[Davor]

perfect!