Shown during Rivian's recent Autonomy Day presentation, the R2's exterior is a homage to R2-D2 from Star Wars.
Brian Austin Green is a huge "Star Wars" fan. He talks about his one-of-a-kind collector's items and reveals that he has been spending the past 15 years building his own R2-D2. Talk about commitment!
I've built a few advanced LEGO sets, many for IGN. But building the new LEGO R2-D2 was challenging and difficult in a way that those builds were not. This is not a build designed for multitasking, ...