Answers.Body: <p>They made them solid black so there are no alignment issues when veiwing the masked minifigures. By leaving them blank LEGO ensured the eye slots always appear black. Side note: The only Stormtroopers seen without helmets in the StarWars Movies were Han and Luke in disguise, therefore Stormtroopers are faceless.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Only the Scout Troopers tend to have eye sockets in their helmets, and the earlier sets had yellow heads with the "large sunglasses" printed on them: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3626bpse
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Answers.Text: Also as storm troopers were "descended" from Clone Troopers, you saw quite a lot of them without helmets in episodes 2 and 3 - I know a lot of us older Fans don't like to talk about them, by they are there ;)
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Answers.Text: LOL. You are right. Despite having built sets from the newer movies, I did block them from my memory.
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Answers.Body: <p>The latest Star Wars sets (for example <a href="http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=9489-1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">9489 - Endor Rebel Trooper &amp; Imperial Trooper Battle Pack</a>) do have faces printed on the black Storm Trooper heads, which doesn't work all that well with the Scout Trooper, unless you put it on backwards:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/knoQl.jpg" alt="Stormies without helmets and printed faces">
  <img src="https://i.sstatic.net/U755K.jpg" alt="Without spinning the head around, the Scout Trooper doesn&#39;t look good."></p>
  
  <p>However, looking at them, you can clearly see there are issues with printing on black plastic - the faces aren't quite the right colours (although I'll need to work on some better photos for this to really show).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit to add:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Noticed while rebuilding the set the other day that <a href="http://peeron.com/inv/parts/3626bpsj" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jango Fett's head</a> was also black with a printed face, released in 2002:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/s2oG6.jpg" alt="Jango Fett"></p>
  
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Answers.Text: It almost seems like they want to make it look like a tight "mask" covering everything but the face.
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Answers.Text: Indeed, those headgearless troopers seem to wear a balaclava. Is that intentional?
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Answers.Body: <p>Well, they don't print them because they don't know how are their faces. For example, have you ever seen a stormtrooper's face? No, but that's weird, the stormtroopers were suposed to be clones. Anyway, they don't print them because they or we haven't ever seen a stormtrooper, scoutrooper, or whatever unmasked.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: The latest Storm Trooper figures do have faces printed on them (as [I pointed out in my answer](http://bricks.stackexchange.com/a/889/56)). And without wanting to spoil anything too much, I suggest you check out Episode II: Attack of the Clones (feel free to skip Episode I until much, much later) ;)
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Body: <p>There were two black heads in the Star Wars 2011 advent calendar and neither had a face drawn. Is that because there was no face necessary since it was going to be covered with a mask anyway or is there a rule that the faces only go on the yellow heads?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: City or Star Wars, which year?
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Comments.Text: It's not just the yellow heads - the pink and brown ones from licenses also have faces printed on them.
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Comments.Text: Related: http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=2186
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Comments.Text: Can you add a picture please?
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Comments.Text: @daviesgeek Not sure a picture would add anything . . . it's a head  piece made out of black pvc instead of yellow pvc with nothing painted on it.
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Title: Why are there no faces drawn on the black heads?
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ThreadText: # Why are there no faces drawn on the black heads?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2011-12-26)
  
  There were two black heads in the Star Wars 2011 advent calendar and neither had a face drawn. Is that because there was no face necessary since it was going to be covered with a mask anyway or is there a rule that the faces only go on the yellow heads?
  
  **Tags:** minifigures, star-wars
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: City or Star Wars, which year?  
  > **username_2**: It's not just the yellow heads - the pink and brown ones from licenses also have faces printed on them.  
  > **username_1**: Related: http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=2186  
  > **username_3**: Can you add a picture please?  
  > **username_0**: @daviesgeek Not sure a picture would add anything . . . it's a head  piece made out of black pvc instead of yellow pvc with nothing painted on it.  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_4 on 2011-12-26. Score: 12
  
  They made them solid black so there are no alignment issues when veiwing the masked minifigures. By leaving them blank LEGO ensured the eye slots always appear black. Side note: The only Stormtroopers seen without helmets in the StarWars Movies were Han and Luke in disguise, therefore Stormtroopers are faceless.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Only the Scout Troopers tend to have eye sockets in their helmets, and the earlier sets had yellow heads with the "large sunglasses" printed on them: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3626bpse  
  > **username_2**: Also as storm troopers were "descended" from Clone Troopers, you saw quite a lot of them without helmets in episodes 2 and 3 - I know a lot of us older Fans don't like to talk about them, by they are there ;)  
  > **username_4**: LOL. You are right. Despite having built sets from the newer movies, I did block them from my memory.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2011-12-27. Score: 8
  
  The latest Star Wars sets (for example [9489 - Endor Rebel Trooper & Imperial Trooper Battle Pack](http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=9489-1)) do have faces printed on the black Storm Trooper heads, which doesn't work all that well with the Scout Trooper, unless you put it on backwards:
  
  ![Stormies without helmets and printed faces](https://i.sstatic.net/knoQl.jpg)
  ![Without spinning the head around, the Scout Trooper doesn't look good.](https://i.sstatic.net/U755K.jpg)
  
  However, looking at them, you can clearly see there are issues with printing on black plastic - the faces aren't quite the right colours (although I'll need to work on some better photos for this to really show).
  
  **Edit to add:**
  
  Noticed while rebuilding the set the other day that [Jango Fett's head](http://peeron.com/inv/parts/3626bpsj) was also black with a printed face, released in 2002:
  
  ![Jango Fett](https://i.sstatic.net/s2oG6.jpg)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_5**: It almost seems like they want to make it look like a tight "mask" covering everything but the face.  
  > **username_6**: Indeed, those headgearless troopers seem to wear a balaclava. Is that intentional?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_7 on 2014-02-16. Score: 0
  
  Well, they don't print them because they don't know how are their faces. For example, have you ever seen a stormtrooper's face? No, but that's weird, the stormtroopers were suposed to be clones. Anyway, they don't print them because they or we haven't ever seen a stormtrooper, scoutrooper, or whatever unmasked.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: The latest Storm Trooper figures do have faces printed on them (as [I pointed out in my answer](http://bricks.stackexchange.com/a/889/56)). And without wanting to spoil anything too much, I suggest you check out Episode II: Attack of the Clones (feel free to skip Episode I until much, much later) ;)  
  
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