I can totally relate and it raises a really interesting point to me. I am also a big proponent of “platform” toys which can be used to shape forms rather than offering you a predetermined form. Kind of the Hot Wheel vs Lego Car dynamic. (Also magnatiles are phenomenal for this sort of thing)

I think in this particular case I made an exception because the dewback in particular stood out from all the rest of the pieces. The landspeeder is built from the ground up. The cantina itself. Pretty much everything inorganic is built from the ground up with bricks. It occurs to me that maybe when it comes to organic forms, the lego designers give themselves a little creative license to use more prefabricated techniques. Not sure, I am certainly not well-versed enough in Lego history to be able to speak to that one definitively.

But if they were going to pick their spot and have one thing be prefabricated in this set I think they made a good choice. Something about the dewback would have been lost in translation i think if it was built bottom up with bricks. I think it’s also somewhat of a consolation that, despite it being prefab, they obviously put a lot of thought into the dewback so, in my mind, I kind of give them a bit of a subconscious pass.

Thanks for the note!