Darth Maul
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Star Wars |
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Original version |
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Red double-bladed lightsaber |
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Darth Maul is a Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace minifigure released in 1999. Maul is based on the Zabrak Sith Lord character from the Star Wars universe of the same name. Originally released in the first year of Star Wars LEGO (1999), a total of six variations have been made of the Sith Lord to date.
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Description
The first Minifigure form of Darth Maul was released in 1999, as a part of the Star Wars Episode I line, in two sets. This variant of Maul has black legs and a black torso piece with grey printing on it to depict his Sith robes. Maul's headpiece is also black, with red printing on the front to show his tattoos, and his yellow eyes were also printed on. Maul comes with a black cape and hood, and also a red-bladed lightsaber with a shiny silver hilt. The lightsaber either had a single blade piece like in the 7101 Lightsaber Duel, or two blade pieces, where one in inserted into the hilt in each end to form a double-bladed lightsaber, like in the 7151 Sith Infiltrator.
Maul's second variant came in 2007, along with the remake of Maul's Sith Infiltrator, the 7663 Sith Infiltrator. This variant differs slightly in the torso piece, where the grey printing was updated, but still serves the function of showing Maul's robe. In the head piece, the pattern of the red tattoos were changed slightly, and Maul's eyes were also given black pupils. Despite these differences, Maul retains his hood and cape accessories, and was released with a double-bladed lightsaber.
A new Darth Maul was released in 2009 with the 2851193 LEGO Star Wars Darth Maul Watch. He had the same pieces as his 2007 variant, except for the torso piece. robe depicted has a different belt, and is folded differently. This torso piece is commonly seen on several of the more recent variants of Palpatine.
Darth Maul was redesigned once again in 2011 for the latest incarnation of his Sith Infiltrator. As is typical with all Darth Maul variants, this minifigure has a plain black leg piece, a black cape, and a double-bladed lightsaber. Maul's torso piece is again black, and with printing similar to his first two variants. However, the centre of the robe in this variant is more open in the centre, and has less lines running down it. The prinitng for the belt also has a different shape, and the lines are thinner. A small rectangle is also printed on the lower right-hand side of the belt. Maul's tattoo pattern was once again changed, as were his eyes and expression. For this variant, Maul has an interchangeable black hood, and a newly released piece, which goes on the top of Maul's head to represent the top of Maul's head. This piece is black, but has red printing on the front to match the red printing at the top of the head piece in an attempt to make this piece and the head piece appear joined. Eight horns come out from the side of the piece, representing the horns commonly present on Zabraks in the Star Wars universe.
In the Video Games
Darth Maul has appeared in all four video games to date- LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, and by using save data from the first game, he can appear in LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. Maul's appearances in these games appear to be a mixture of his two physical variants- in the video games, his eyes have pupils like the 2007 variant, but his torso design appears to be more like his 1999 variant. The Sith Lord has a double-bladed lightsaber in the video games, and is able to access areas which can only be accessed by those who use the Dark Side of the Force. He has a extra long lightsaber hilt in the game. He also appears in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars after unlocking ten minikits.
Background
Darth Maul was Darth Sidious' Sith apprentice, trained from infancy in the ways of the Dark Side of the Force after he was given to Sidious by his mother on Dathomir. His weapon of choice was his red double-bladed lightsaber. Maul carried out several missions for his Master, before facing his greatest test of eliminating two Jedi, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, who were tasked with protecting the Queen of Naboo. Maul tracked down the Naboo cruiser in his Sith Infiltrator to the planet of Tatooine. Maul sent out three Sith Probe Droids to find the Naboo party, and they successfully located them as they were preparing to leave. The Sith Lord proceeded to go after Qui-Gon on his speeder bike, who was taking a young boy by the name of Anakin Skywalker back to the Naboo cruiser. Maul engaged Qui-Gon in a lightsaber duel, choosing to use only a single blade. However, Qui-Gon managed to escape from the duel by leaping onto the ship's boarding ramp.
Back on Naboo, Maul later again encountered Qui-Gon, this time along with his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The three dueled with their lightsabers (with Maul using both blades of his lightsaber), but the Jedi and Sith remained equals, until Maul managed to gain an advantage and stab Qui-Gon through the chest, the wound eventually causing the Master to die. Obi-Wan fought with great ferocity after this event managing to slice Maul's lightsaber in half, but he too was left virtually defeated, until he managed to jump out of the melting pit he was pushed into, pulling his Master's lightsaber to him at the same time by using the Force, and sliced Darth Maul in half. Maul then fell into the melting pit.
Later on in the Clone Wars Savage Opress was sent to find Darth Maul. He was then discovered living in a cave mixed with a mechanical spider body. He became crazy over the years causing himself to forget things. However, his mind was restored by Mother Talzin, and posthetic legs were fashioned for him. He then went with Opress to find Kenobi.
Notes
- Darth Maul is one of five released minifigures to date to be a Zabrak, the others being Sugi, Eeth Koth, Savage Opress, and Agen Kolar.
- The 2011 variant of Maul is currently one of two minifigures to have the Zabrak head attachment, the other being Savage Opress.
- In the video games, Maul's lightsaber hilt is longer to more accurately represent its appearance. However, the minifigure doesn't.
- The 2012 promotional Darth Maul had regular minifigure legs instead of robot legs like in the Star Wars The Clone Wars TV show.
Appearances
- 3340 Star Wars #1 (Original)
- 7101 Lightsaber Duel (Original)
- 7151 Sith Infiltrator (Original)
- 7663 Sith Infiltrator (2007 Redesign)
- 7961 Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator (2011 Redesign)
- Zellers Value Pack (Original)
- 9509 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (Santa)
- 6005188 Darth Maul
- Darth Maul’s MINI Sith Infiltrator
Keychain, Magnet, Pen and Watch Appearances
- 1728 Pen Darth Maul
- 3922 Darth Maul Key Chain
- 852086 LEGO Star Wars Magnet Set
- 852551 Magnet Set Darth Maul 2009
- 2851126 Darth Maul Pen
- 2851193 LEGO Star Wars Darth Maul Watch
Book Appearances
Video Game Appearances
- LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
- LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Using save data from LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
- LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
Gallery of Variants
| Original version | 2007 Redesign | 2009 Redesign | 2011 Redesign | The Clone Wars | Santa version |


