>>11078252R2-KT, a pink astromech droid, was made by the fan group 501st Legion for another SW fan, a girl who was undergoing cancer treatment, to cheer her up (she passed away in 2005)
Filoni heard about this sweet story, and included the pink droid in the Clone Wars series as QT-KT
thanks, Lego for making a minifig version of that droid.
but a sincere "shame on you" warning if this is indeed going to be a GWP requiring hundreds of dollars-worth of purchase. that's just plain mean, to make people pay so much money to get one of these pink droids.
it could be argued that they are giving it away "for free" but we all know that the limited-time-availability, combined with the insane amount they will likely ask you to spend to get a set this big ($200? $300? maybe more?) is a big ASK for the fans. but they KNOW it will work to sell tons of sets.... I feel terrible for all the fans who do not have such income to "afford" to get a "free" set
and just in case NOBODY AT LEGO KNOWS the story behind QT-KT... they BETTER be giving some of those (ALL OF THOSE?) dollars spent to get this droid... to cancer treatment/research charities...
