Smashing news lands that the sixth LEGO Star Wars 25th anniversary minifigure is rumoured to be none other than R2-KT, the little pink droid created to honour the memory of Albin Johnson’s daughter Katie, who passed away in August 2005. KT joins Darth Malak, ARC Trooper Fives, Saw Gerrera, Cal Kestis and Young Princess Leia (along with Darth Maul on the LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary Updated Edition, out 4th April) as the figures chosen to celebrate a quarter of a century of LEGO Star Wars.
Katie Johnson is the daughter of Albin Johnson, the founder of the 501st collective. She herself pitched in to help with all the charitable causes and love of Star Wars, but unfortunately passed way from terminal brain cancer nearly 20 years ago. Before her passing, the R2-D2 Builders Club showed off their custom pink Astromech droid, R2-KT, to gift to their namesake, Katie.
So for the 25th anniversary of LEGO Star Wars, the company is continuing the legacy of R2-KT with a brick-built version. The pink Astromech has made their way into Star Wars canon before, making appereances in the animated The Clone Wars series alongside R2-D2 and the actual 501st Legion of Clone Troopers. Now, the droid gets the LEGO treatment.
The figure will be coming in the final set to celebrate the anniversary. It’s the one reported on back in January that should be launching in October. We don’t know what the kit is going to be just yet, but it’ll likely be unrelated to the special Astromech droid. But beforehand, we at least now have the full list of 25th anniversary LEGO Star Wars minifigures.
