... for destroying tiny stars.

Which would be gravity wells, so they'd already technically be pretty destroyed.

I over-thought that, didn't I?

Ah, the infamous Series 3 of the Minis. Why did they get rid of the bonus model? It really makes me wonder what it could have been.
Series 1 was a TIE Bomber
Series 2 was a Y-Wing
And Series 3 must have been a cloaked ship of some sort, but no ship that small has a clocking device!

I remember that they used this mini model in the OT / Complete Saga video game, instead of one of the larger and more detailed versions. That was weird.

@Graupensuppe :
There are a few possible reasons for this. The obvious one is that it would be a lot easier to model than the first UCS version, and since no minifigs had to interact with it, they may have just gone the easy route on the cut scenes.

The more complex one is an issue of timing. The first UCS set was from ‘02, and definitely lasted long enough to be affected by the ‘04 color change, but probably not long after that. This came out in ‘04. LSW2 shipped in ‘06. The third ISD model looks like it was the first minifig version, 6211 , in ‘06. I believe it’s customary for the IP-based LEGO games to exclusively use current sets when they’re available, and maybe the most recent retired version if there’s no current set (not when they had a crippled game that still needed tons of debugging*). Since both the game and the third ISD shipped in ‘06, they may not have even known about that set when producing that cut scene. The OT game was on a strict deadline, to pair it with the limited edition OT DVD release (the one where the _original_, unmodified theatrical releases were included as “Bonus Features”), hence why the DS version of the game was impossible to finish. Nobody was going to go back and rebuild a cut scene just to work in a newer, far more complex set, and I believe that particular cut scene was used in some of the earliest marketing for the game. So, the set depicted may have still been on shelves when they finished that cut scene, even though it was almost certainly gone by the time the game shipped.

*That’s one of two broken promises that I’m still sore about. They swore that they had finished debugging it, and that when all of the janky copies sold, they’d ship the patched version. Of course, NOBODY wants to buy games that can’t be finished, so that never actually happened. The other broken promise was to release an update for the LEGO Hobbit game to include material from the third movie and, you know, conclude the story instead of just leaving you hanging.

@TheWackyWookiee said:
"So LEGO has a ‘no military’ policy, but they release a WWII-era Japanese Battleship, give it Star Wars licensing, and call it a Star Destroyer...

Or that’s what it looks to me."

If you really want to go by that, then every set with a Stormtrooper goes against that policy since the idea was initially used by the Nazis in WWII and that’s where George Lucas got them from.