Why is the front of Slave I a super battle droid head?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&sa=1&q=slave+i&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10&start=0
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=super%20battle%20droid&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

This is the only thing about Star Wars that I cannot for the life of me figure out! A true mystery.

 

Ha ha Another Star Wars mystery...

 

I know, right?! Since when do they make super battle droid heads that big? And with mounted laser canons! And missiles!

 

Considering Slave I came first, a better question might be why the super battle droid head was based on it?

At any rate, at least one of my reference books says that the top of a streetlight in the ILM car park was the basis for Slave I's design. How true that is I don't know..

 

My sentiments, exactly.

 

Hmmmm, I haven't noticed this before, but it sure is interesting.

 

Since Slave I came first, it should be asked:

Why is the super battle droid head a mini version of Slave I?

I just think they're aesthetic similarities. Nothing more.

 

It's a quite hulking and menacing shape. That's why, I'd guess.

 

I agree with ShaneP that it is more an aesthetic similarity than anything else. However, I did love the design of both the Slave I and the SBDs.

 

Well, IG-88's head is in the Cantina.

 

In SW?

 

Its like a drink dispenser in ANH. Behind Wuher when he says "We dont surve their kind here". Its a peach colour

 

Yep. I've seen the pic in a reference book.

 

Wow. I'll have to look for that next time I watch it. Thanks.

 

WUHER: Your droids... we don't serve their kind here. In fact, we use their heads to make drinks! Wuhuhahahaaaaaaa!!!

 

"Design
B1 battle droids' heads were designed to imitate the shape of a dead Neimoidian's skull. In this way, they were intended to strike fear into an enemy's heart.[4] In addition, their bodies vaguely resembled those of the Geonosians. "
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/B1_battle_droid

"Some people mistakenly believe the Slave I's design was inspired by a lamp post outside the ILM building. But Nilo Rodis-Jamero, an art director on The Empire Strikes Back, said that his design for the Slave I was actually based on a radar dish. It was later on when the ship was being constructed at ILM that someone pointed out that it resembled a street lamp, and from then on people just assumed that that had been the original source of the design."
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Slave_I

Its just a coincidental simple shape. The General Grevious idea came from a spray bottle and also looks similar.