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Obi-Wan Kenobi is a minifigure based on a character from the Star Wars universe of the same name. To date, eighteen variants of Obi-Wan Kenobi have been released, with another one known of which will be released in 2012. Kenobi first appeared in the opening year of the LEGO Star Wars theme- 1999. He has also appeared in all four LEGO Star Wars video games, with a total of eight different characters.

Two different Obi-Wan minifigures were released in 1999- one depicting his appearance in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the other being based on his appearance in Episode IV: A New Hope. Obi-Wan's original Episode IV minifigure has tan legs with a dark brown leg joint, and a tan torso piece with yellow hands. The torso piece has black printing for the outline of Ben's robes and also for wrinkles on the outer robe. Red-brown printing is used towards the top of the piece for depicting an inner robe, and yellow printing is also used as skin, joining the torso piece to the head. The head piece is yellow, with light grey printing on it in the shape of a beard, and it is also used for his eyebrows. Black printing is used for the mouth and also for the two dot-eyes, and a standard light grey hairpiece is used. This variant of Obi-Wan came armed with a blue-bladed lightsaber with a chrome silver hilt.

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