STAR WARS DARK BUCKET

STAR WARS DARK BUCKET is an Archived project on LEGO CUUSOO created by haru on November 4th, 2011. The project was rejected due to license complications.

The project originally aimed to allow builders to build and display/play with 99 Storm Troopers and one Darth Vader figure (characters from the Star Wars series). Eventually, the project evolved to have different types of the Storm Trooper. Then, due to reasons stated below, the project yet again evolved into the Dark Bottle.

The Dark Bucket was the center of some controversy, as many urged haru to add some sort of brick-built creation to the bucket. Lucasfilm's license with Hasbro, giving them the exclusive right to "Star Wars action figures," prevented LEGO from releasing sets containing only minifigures. The concept of the Dark Bucket violated that license. Soon after it reached 10,000, haru offered an alternative, a "Dark Bottle" consisting of 16 Stormtroopers and Darth Vader marching in front of the brick-built STAR WARS logo. But LEGO, of course, took the project that had been voted on into Review, disregarding the Dark Bottle completely.