Monday, November 16, 2009

Darth Maul LEGO Star Wars Figure

The Darth Maul LEGO Star Wars figure is a very popular minifigure for the Star Wars LEGO series. The LEGO Darth Maul minifig is only available in the Phantom Menace LEGO sets and so is somewhat a rare LEGO minifig because all of the LEGO sets from the Phantom Menace series are discontinued as of now.

Darth Maul was initially a Jedi in training but was kidnapped by the evil Darth Sidious as a very young child. He was then heavily tattoed in Sith runes and then trained to be a very lethal Sith warrior. Sidious then had Darth Maul go on a killing spree taking out many high ranking figures in the Star Wars novels.

In the Phantom Menace, Darth Maul is commissioned to kidnap Queen Padme and to destroy two of the Jedi on planet Tatooine. He is not able to complete this task. Darth Maul is able to finally kill Qui-Gon Jinn in the films last battle scene but subsequently felled by a young Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Darth Maul appears in the following Star Wars LEGO Sets:

Lightsaber Duel 7101
Sith Infiltrator 7151
Sith Infiltrator 7663

Darth Maul does not appear in any later LEGO Star Wars building block sets but is in the later timelines of the Star Wars saga as far as the novels are concerned. Maul is cloned by a certain evil group and is sent on a mission to kill Darth Vader. Vader is able to destroy Darth Maul however.