LEGO Star Wars 75308 R2-D2: first "teaser"

This is the easter egg of the day: the new version of the astromech droid R2-D2 which will be available in May under the reference 75308 makes a very brief appearance today in the presentation video of the LEGO Star Wars set 75306 Imperial Probe Droid uploaded to the official store.

Voluntary teasing or global shooting of the novelties of the moment whose editing was a little awkward, we will never really know if the presence of this product which has not yet been officially unveiled is linked to a marketing decision or to an error on the part of the trainee. .

While waiting to know more about this new version of R2-D2 which will take over this year from that of the set 10225 R2-D2 marketed in 2012 at the public price of 199.99 €, we must therefore be satisfied with this brief overview of the dome which confirms that the designers have worked on the curves of the thing.

For comparison, here is the dome as it was offered on the 2012 version:

Update : the above video footage has been removed from the official online store.