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Star Wars LEGOs who collects, what do you have, how long have you had em', what do you do with em', general discussion and etc.

So what's your favorite part of your collection?

My brother and I used to have the Naboo starfighter, not sure what happened to it...

I'm sure Artorius will be quite excited, he has quite a few cool LEGO SW goodies.

I built a life-size statue of the original Heavy Arms from Gundam Wing. Well, my dad's friend who is a professional lego builder of sorts helped me out. A lot. :D Then my idiot friend took a baseball bat to it. He also threw it out the second-story window. I was depressed for months.

That is one of the saddest things I've ever heard. I love gundams and legos.  :'(

Anywhooo I have several of the old starwars episode 3 legos when the movie came out and a star destroyer. I stored them away when i was 15 so I could give them to my younger bro when he was old enough to properly play with them. Just recently we took them all out of storage and rebuilt them. It was a lot of fun!   :) I'am still surprised I was smart enough and organized to keep all the manuals, pieces and boxes in one place.  :D Even before I put them in storage I organized all the pieces in plastic bags acorrding to color and shape so re-putting them together was a breeze. When I opened the boxes I was like good thinking younger me! that was a great Idea! high five! HA!  ;D

I'll just list my favorites - a list of all of them would be huge and I would doubtlessly forget some. Rogue Shadow (because of all the tricksy things), V-19 Torrent (because of the landing gear/wing engineering) and the X-Wing (9493) I recently got as a conclusion to my collection would have to be my favorites of the sets I have.

Yeah, it took us over a year to build it too  :-[

That is awesome by the way :) Really wish I had someone to build with again. My dad's friend moved far away  >:(

That sounds awesome, Heavyarms was my favorite from that series (until Epyon came around).

I want to find the mid scale Falcon and build the Outrider with it instead...

A fellow Gundam fan  :o Finally! lol. They were all my favorites :) All of the originals, to the second forms, to the final forms.

Edit: Oh wait. Big Boss is too? Oops. Sorry, I'm tired.

I used to have a Rebel snowspeeder and a Naboo Flash speeder but I'm not sure what happened to them.  I have Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter (has and awesome astromech socket), a BARC speeder and a V-Wing.  The V-Wing doesn't have an astromech socket, the instructions just tell you to pry the droid head off and snap it on behind the cockpit.  The V-Wing is all done in Imperial colors and decals and has an awesome pilot figure.

I'd love to have Gold Leader's Y-Wing but it's freaking expensive.  Y-Wing's FTW!

I have a Y-Wing, X-wing (destroyed), MTT, three Jedi Starfighters, Slave I, the space station from ROTJ, and many that I can't remember. I'll take a picture of them when I get home. 

Heh heh heh. This is awesome.

@Makashi: That's epic. I'd have been sooooo pissed when that happened. Still, epic to have had even for awhile.

@Nero: Really? MAV's a LEGO guy, huh? Never would have pegged that one. BTW, you know they rereleased the Naboo N-1 when the 3D of TPM came out.... you could potentially replace yours... ;)

@Jammo: You should. Outrider was awesome.

@Kev: My brother has the scale Y-Wing and the regular one. I still want the scale one... it's so epic.

Myself..... my favorite is hands down the original X-Wing I got back when it came out in the 90's. I did a little reworking to create the fighter you see as my avatar, and it's been an absolute obsession ever since. I even built a 'more accurate' one from spare parts after I had the avatar illustration done. I also love the Dagobah X-Wing I have, and the A-Wing. The TIE Interceptor and Slave I are both very nice as well. I have scads more stuff, but I don't remember it all off hand, and I ripped up the Turbo Tank and Falcon for their parts. Dang, those sets were a dissapointment. Falcon was too small (the dang X-Wing is bigger!), and the Tank was just.... impractical, and didn't have any blamed guns on it. XP

My snowspeeder was one of the original sets when they first started the Lego Star Wars line...it didn't come with a tow cable...

The first one i created was darth mauls ship. I think i was 3 years old and my dad helped me build it. Others that i built were anakins jedi starfighter, obi wans starfighter, the ships they used on Coruscant in the beginning of AOTC, and a few others.

They all never lasted. My brother broke every single one. Now all the pieces just lie in a box filled with thousands of other lego pieces.

I had a life sized R2... Never got around to build it. I dont even think we have it anymore

I built a custom Separatist Flagship...

Thus began his fall to the Dark Side...

Hahah... I call him Sith baby and he attacks me.

Built the Millennium Falcon Minikit once. My cousin built a 3 foot long Star Destroyer.

I want the massive Super Star Destroyer. Also Boss your in deep doodoo for not telling me about these Legos. But I do have Obi Wans episode 3 star speeder with a Hyperdrive ring. Also have the droid transport tank from Episode 1 and the tri droid ship from 3, and the final battle from Ep. 3

You never asked!  :D ;D Besides they were all in my little bros room.

@ manroon what you didn't like the turbo tank! I loved that set as a kid and even do now.  :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijpH6an-JIQ#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijpH6an-JIQ#ws)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyEXO2f8GY#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyEXO2f8GY#ws)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZMRaJpteI#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZMRaJpteI#ws)

LEGO Star Wars Animation Videos...

I once set out to build a fully minifig-scale Malevolence. The project was never completed due to its scale, lack of detailed blueprints of the ship and my eventual lack of interest, but now they release this 9515 crap and I feel offended ;D

Anyone remember those bionicle lego toys? Man, so much nostalgia just thinking about it. I was obsessed with bionicles as a kid. I remember going to my cousin's house when I was very young and seeing his bionicle figures for the first time. I just had to have my own! Thus I ended up collecting and building all of the different bionicles, watching every movie, and reading every book. I stopped caring about bionicles a couple of years ago though. I don't even know what part of the never-ending story arcs they're on at the moment. I got so lost in the bionicle universe though... I remember getting depressed realizing I could never live in such a world. *Mr. Krabs plays a sad song on the world's smallest violin*

Bionicle is done...they finished off the big bad guy...Makuta or whatever his name is, and they all lived, sorta...

Lol that same thing happen to me. I collected a bunch along with my starwars legos, but stopped getting them after the end of the first story arc.  As it kept on going I was like this is stupid and just focused on starwars legos. I lost all of bionicle legos though since i played too rough with them. Me and my friends in elementary school had tournaments with our bionicles. Which in actuality weren't really tournaments since all we did was smash each others figures into each others. Who's ever bionicle was still together won. HAHAH!  Good times, but my hands still hurt just thinking back on those days on the play ground.   :P

Really? I really don't remember a whole lot though to be honest. I remember that there was once an island where all of the matoran lived, then all of the
Toa fell, and one of them gave a bunch of matoran stones to become Toa themselves. Then those Toa did a bunch of stuff, became mutated beasts, saved the day, found a new island, became elders, and in comes a whole new team of Toa. Those Toa then did stuff, and a bunch of matoran once again become new Toa. I think. It's been so long. That is when I quit with bionicles though.


Haha, nice :) Me and my cousin did the same thing.

Yep, they defeated all the Makuta and the story ended basically how it began. Just go to the Bionicle Wiki and it'll all come back to ya ;)

Man, I used to love Bionicle. The plot was so complex for what it was and the sets were endlessly amusing. Now they have Hero Factory which is expected to tie-in with Bionicle, perhaps as a prequel.

Yeah, for a kid's franchise it was pretty complex. They have a Bionicle Wiki? Well, I shouldn't be surprised since they have a Wiki for everything these days :D Hero Factory looked kind of cool, but I had no idea it would tie-in with Bionicle. Darn, I should have payed more attention to it.

It's speculation but it seems like it will. And the Wiki is very good, very complete unlike some others.

So back on topic.... does anyone else like the old Grievous minifig better than the new one?

I loved the old Greivous minifig. My bro has it, and the first thing he did when he got it was bring it over and play out some gag about grievous getting his ship destroyed in space, and he gets blasted apart, and then his pieces just float there and his head keeps trying to catch the rest of his parts so he can rescue himself. 'This sucks.... what's that? Is it.... yes! Yes! Oh! Oh! It's my arm! Yes, yes... closer... closer... yes...*gets whapped in the face by his floating arm* AAAAGHHHHH! NOOOOOoooooooooo!

lol Ah, well, he does it better than I do, but you get the idea. It was funny as heck.

@Boss: Yeah, I just didn't get that into the Turbo Tank. I loved all the figures, the Speeder is still one of my favs, and I liked the turret a lot, but the tank.... was just not that practical. I mean, at least if it were an AT-AT I could have knocked it over in battle.... XD (I'm such a Rebel) Then again, the insane custom base I built sort of enthralled me more than any of my non-starfighter sets ever did. Dang thing was 4 levels and had guns all over it. It's actually sitting partially restored on my TV tray right now, but I don't have enough room to keep building right now. lol It's got a landing platform, upper level with a sort of parapet walkway all the way around and a bridge, a main level that's darn near impossible to shoot the occupants of, and a trench. Yeah. A legit kriffing TRENCH! I love the trench, in case you didn't guess. lol And of course, it has Hoth style turrets all over the place.

Speaking of Hoth, whoever mentioned the snowspeeders before, yeah, I have two of them that are both the 90's versions, and probably enough parts for a third but I'm not sure. I may have used my last cockpit canopy on my second custom ship. lol

When I was a kid, I had a lot of the 90's sets. Still do. THOSE I can remember all of: X-Wing, Slave I, Snowspeeder, the Swamp Chase, Watto's Junkyard, and.... well, that was about it. lol I've gotten a few of the older sets at shows and things since then. The original Jedi Starfighter, the Luke surrendering to the Stormtrooper mini scene, the Emperor's Throne Room mini scene, ALL the Podracer sets (which I really use more for parts than for having the pods. I likes to focus on my base and starfighters for display, the racers don't do too much for me. Sebulba's is tight though. And I think Aldar Beedo had a freaky minifig. Wonder where that one got off too....

As far as Bionicle, I loved it when it came out, but gave up on the thing about halfway through the second story series. I had the fire guy and the rock guy, but I never actually got to take them to school and fight in the playground tourney's with em'. Boy there were a lot of those though! :D My favorite was always the Ice guy, but I never got him. He was cool.

Back to the starwars sets... I had a friend back then that actually got the Clone Gunship when it first came out. AND the AT-TE. Man, I'd still love to have those sets. Never pay the money for them, I don't think, but dang they were cool!

I know this is off-topic, but it's about building stuff :) Anyways, I'm going to be getting all of the original Gundam Wing model kits tomorrow :D So excited. They're the small ones, but I'm really rusty since I haven't been putting together models for years now. Besides, I had them as a kid, lost them all, and now I want them back on my display shelf!

Okay, back on-topic ;). Has anyone ever collected those lego sets from McDonald's, all those years ago? I miss those things.

I had two of them, but I lost the instructions so they're just mixed in with my parts bins now. lol On a side note, I actually managed to hang on to all my SW instruction booklets. Even dug up the ones from when I was a kid! NO idea how those stuck around mixed in with random boxes of junk from that long ago, but they did. lol

Really cool post pics when your finished with your gundam models, I don't have the finesse for those model kits. I tried some when I was a teenager and they came out like crap, I prefer the action figures since I can play with them and not have the fear of breaking them so easily. Iwant to eventual get all the action figures from gundam wing and have them on display. :D

@Manroon I would love to have a clone gunship too. Man if I was rich I would just have a room dedicated to starwars legos.  :D ;D

@Big Boss I have a clone gunship. I can take a picture of it if you want me to. Also I have a room dedicated to Lego even though I'm not rich.

Pictures or it didn't happen. lol

Yeah we wants pics!  ;D

Here you go:
Clone Gunship
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Shelves of various Legos (Pardon the mess)
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0_0 Do you live at Toys R Us?

No, I've collected these over the years from birthday/Christmas gifts from relatives. My uncle got me into Legos at a young age.

@Manroon Aww that sucks :( I lose all of the instructions for every lego set ever though. lol.

@Big Boss I'll definitely post pics when I'm done :D Also, yeah, it isn't for everyone I guess. I dunno. I broke my first few models when I was younger, but I just stuck to it. :)

@Sandtracker Wow! That is insane. You get points for that lol.

I have a fair number of Star Wars LEGO sets - and Legos in general; unfortunately, many of them are lying as single pieces in buckets right now. Ha, we take them apart on purpose to built custom-type sets (which don't even last as long as the store-bought ones). Let me see, about the Star Wars in particular...

I think I got almost every Star Wars set that was less than $100 in 2001 (or maybe 2003, I don't remember), including...
All those little MINI starships, the Falcon, X-Wing (with TIE Advanced), TIE Fighter (and Interceptor), MTT, Republic Gunship; Sith Infiltrator (that's Darth Maul's ship for any newbies); and the old Imperial Star Destroyer. I really liked the Y-Wing and the TIE Bomber that you got to finish if you bought all four of the other little sets (two sets of four make eight, so that should be all of 'em).
I got the Final Duel with Luke and the Imperial officer and Stormtrooper, but not the one with Vader and the Emperor. I did get both the little sets from Episode I, with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and the Security droids and the droideka.
Also, the Episode II Anakin speeder bike with Tusken Raiders. And Jabba's Palace (still can't find part of Jabba's tail, heh).
Obi-Wan's Episode II Jedi starfighter (not UCS, just the minifig one) - I really liked that one, and have rebuilt (and taken it apart again) it at least twice.
I must've gotten something with Super Battle Droids, because I have a bunch of those.
From 2005 or -6, I think, I have the ARC-170 starfighter.

None of these are actually built right now, and like as not many pieces have been lost over the years (and moving from one house to the other).

From these newfangled fancy sets, I have, let me see...
The V-Wing starfighter (Imperial, not Clone Wars).
The new Republic Gunship (might be missing some parts). I modified it by removing the speeder bay in the middle, replacing it with actual studded floors, and filling it with blaster racks - so instead of being able to carry four clones it can hold like twelve (plus the four in the cockpits). That alone makes it pretty awesome. Naturally, I bought four Clone Walker Battle Packs so I could fill it. And, I had plenty of droids from the previous sets I was talking about to combat them!
Darth Vader's TIE Advanced (I should modify it so those wings stop falling off all the time).
My brother has the MagnaGuard starfighter (also in pieces :P) and once got Anakin's Clone Wars Jedi starfighter (ditto on the pieces).
Um... I have a Midi-Scale Imperial Star Destroyer, which is pretty cool but also slightly broken (I haven't had much time for Legos recently).
I also got the Hyena Droid Bomber (destroyed, but the Rocket battle droids are neat); and my brother has the Droid Tri-Fighter, completing our Separatist army.
Oh, and between my brother and I we have three each of the Hoth Rebel and Imperial battle packs.
And I have four Mandalorian battle packs (their heads are really ugly, but the armor is way cool); and I think my brother has about two of the clone battle pack that comes with this orange clone and a speeder bike and other clones as well.

So, yes, I have liked Legos (especially Star Wars) for a very long time; that's all the sets I can think of right now. As to the future: I would very much like to obtain one of the new (2012) X-Wing and/or TIE Fighters - they are much cooler than the old versions. And possibly the Tantive IV or the Collector's Imperial/Super Star Destroyer(s).


Finally: Sandtracker - your collection is most impressive, not least in the fact that you have kept those sets together all this time. I shall have to award you a Force point for your efforts!

Ah.... I see part of 7256 in the first picture. That brings back some good memories 8) Did anyone else like the Exo-Force theme? I have quite a few of the sets from it.

Thanks for the points! I also have a huge tub of bricks.

I want to get a few hundred of the LOTR sets and build Helms Deep.

I have an original X-Wing, the first Slave-1, and Obi Wan's episode 2 starfighter. I swear I have more but I can't remember.. I always wanted the 3 ft long star destroyer, but i never had that much money. My cousin has the more recent Millennium Falcon, but he builds a bunch of his own stuff, like Metal Gear and a few other mecha types. He is so good at it, it is ridiculous.


Those look cool, I want a couple of them.

The original X-Wing and Obi Ep II are a couple of the coolest sets for their time, I still rank them in my top faves. The original slave I is nothing compared to the last one they did though. lol But I still keep it around for kicks. It was the only Lego 'Bad Guy' I had as a kid, so I guess it's nostalgia for me. And I liked the funky folding cockpit it had. ;D

@sandtracker Ah man I'm so jealous for your collection.  :P

I got so many...pretty much every lego set from 2005/6-2007/8 except the big Death Star...I even built my own cruiser that looks like Grevious' fron Ep.III...used a ton of Vulture Droids, and other Sep. stuff.

Wow. You built Greivous' flagship? You got a picture of that? It's gotta be incredible.

I also have a clone battle pack. Also I own the original slave one and x wing. They were my brother's but he have them to me.  A newer AT ST which ever is the smaller one with two legs. Plus the newer but not newest Sith Infiltrator and a semi new Tie Fighter.

I had a lot of 'em, but most are gone now. I still have an AT-TE(ep. II), an AT-AT(old version), Obi-wan's Jedi Starfighter(ep. II), a Millenium Falcon(newer ver.), a Republic Gunship(ep. II) and tons of assorted characters.

I kinda got turned off from LEGO after Ep. II, since the prices were skyrocketing for most models. Even nowadays they're still quite high, so I haven't bought one in a long time(I gained the MF as a present, so that one doesn't count.).

My dream LEGO back in the day was the Collector's Imperial Star Destroyer. And I still wish I had one... That thing looks absolutely amazing.

1500 bucks on Amazon.

And around 4500 reais(~2250 US dollars) for most national vendors. So yeah, I guess I'll never have one, unless I win in the lottery...

I'd also kinda like to build my Z-95 Headhunter, since I'm Hawk-Bat Leader and all...

I still have it, but it kind of got destroyed when my nieces & nephews came over for our family's 50 yr. in the U.S. family reunion...& I have no idea how to rebuild it...

Go on ebay. Get an original X-Wing (it's the one that comes with Biggs and Luke, I don't remember the set number), and it's VERY easy to modify it into a Z-95. It's actually the correct size in proportion to the newer X-Wings too! lol I could walk you through it if you like. ;)

@Black: Ah. Been there. Sucks when that happens. :P

I'll have to buy two so Dreaming gets one too...

You should do it. They are awesome toys, particularly for those like myself who have limited model skills, because it's lego, so as long as you can count pegs... YOU CAN DO IT!

But seriously, I need to post some pics of the two custom X-67's I did using that set. I love those things...

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Oh god, I just remembered the prank my friends pulled on me a few years back. They found my LEGO stash... and did this. OVER AND OVER. HUNDREDS OF THESE THINGS.

I damn nearly went insane trying to undo all the mess.

I only have one.  The Millenium Falcon.  It is currently under construction. 

Falcon is a fun set, fairly detailed interior too. Just be warned, if you buy another SW Lego set.... and I mean ever, you will realize the Falcon is actually very, very, very small.... lol (My X-Wing was actually bigger than the Falcon, no joke)

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!

Even seein a picture of this gives me the willies   :o :o :o

hmm.. make one like that.. but glue them together... ultimate torture...

With longer plates, I bend them a little to make a tiny crack between them. My fingernails do the rest.

With smaller ones, I would attach them to the bottom and top of two longer plates, using the longer elements as levers to pry them apart. Getting them unstuck from the long plates is easy. At least I think that's how I did it....

I have a brick separator.   8)

You could always get this one you know... then it would be to scale. :D

http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Ultimate-Collectors-Millennium-Falcon/dp/B000WLW3W0 (http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Ultimate-Collectors-Millennium-Falcon/dp/B000WLW3W0)

Yeah, but if I had that kind of money.... well, I'd have better things to spend it on than Legos. lol

ooOOoo I've a brick separator.  La di da...  [While wiggling fingers under chin].

(Look up Chewin' The Fat on youtube...)

 :D :D :D

Vel just reminded me, I should post a pic of this later lol, but awhile back on a day of inspired boredom I made a Lego Mirax Terrik fig. Pretty good match for her too. :D

I have lot's of starwars legos. I collected them for the longest time.

The overdue pics of my two X-67 Fighters.  ;D

Okay, this baby is the one and only original, though I think she's on mark II or III of her mods.
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She was built from the original X-Wing set, modifications basically being to smooth tile over the rear cargo hatch, pop off the upper wings, and add canons to the fuselage on either side of the cockpit. I also removed the landing gear and added my own squadron markings, set to Sid Manroon's original unit, Gold Squadron.

And THIS honey is the second one. ;)
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She was built entirely from spare parts, modified slightly to better match the illustration I had done (see my avatar lol), and I swapped out the nose cone for something a little bit more pleasing to the eye since I had the proper parts to do so. She's running the same canons, a much more solidly constructed Astromech Socket, and at long last her proper Novaldex J-77 Event Horizon Engines. I'd LIKE to get her marked out for Nova Squadron, but as you can see the colors I had on hand are hodge podge at best for now. Still, there's a little of the proper markings in there. ;)

What do you all think? If she's popular, I can list out the mods to the original X-Wing instructions for anyone who wants to make a duplicate. :)

Reminds me a lot of the Z-95 Headhunter.

I like it. I think it's really really cool.

I have the original Tie-fighter sets with the tiepilots and their brown heads. Along with that, I have the original Vader's tie fighter. I'll have to upload some pics.

I have the original TIE Bomber, but I'm pretty sure that's only had one release anyways. lol Same for the Interceptor.

And Danny, thanks. The idea was to basically build an Ugly that would be a cross between the X-Wing and the Headhunter, since the original X-Wing is about the size of a Z-95 in comparison to the current X-Wings.

@ Manroon Nice ships! I'll have to post some pics of my fighters as well
Just bought my younger bro these two sets as a surprise for when he gets home from school today. I ll post pics some time tommorrow after we build them.

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Tiny Cannon is cool...... *BOOM* ;D

The TIE Bomber was 4479 and was included in K4479 two years later - one version, two releases. The Interceptor has had a few versions (7181, 6206, 6965) but I assume you're talking about 6206 ;)

Maroon.. if its totally build from spare parts and the shape is perfect... why not paint it!?

Well.... I might. I dunno. I guess I'm just hesitant to do anything permanent. I should at least glue the thing at somepoint though. lol

EDIT: Had to share this...

LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING!
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So far this is the only lego star wars piece I have, but it's no doubt the start of a minor collection...just need to make room for it!

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You.... you have made every poster in this thread jealous. lol I want that just to shoot it with nerf darts. And maybe to rip apart and try to rework into some manner of Rebel Craft. There has to be a Nebulon B in that somewhere.....  :D

But it's just a wee super star destroyer ^^ I have my eyes on the imperial shuttle though, another nice model "Imperial shuttle request permission to land like a dainty butterfly".

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I realize all that thing needs is a pair of Starbirds on it. Lusankya, anyone? ;)

I am truly amazed by everyone here. I've always wanted to collect Star Wars Legos, but Im always broke and felt it'd be odd to be purchasing legos. So what kind of glue does everyone use when they glue them?

No idea, I've never glued legos before. lol I do have a superglue from Pegasus that I use for pretty much everything though. Stuff is darned near to indestructible.

...No ;)

Why would you glue them together?

So that they don't get "damaged" (fall apart) when on display.

I think gluing them together "immortalizes" them so to speak. I also think shipping them when they're glued solid together makes them a little better when moving around. I also think that when you glue them you make them more into models then anything,

Ah okay, fair enough ^^
Guess I just like taking mine apart and reasemple it from time to time...it's pretty solid though without the glue.

That depends on how well molded the pieces are and whether or not you keep the model well dusted. I do not keep mine well dusted.... lol

Nor do I

A quick shot of my collection  ;D 

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What's that blue and white one? Something from the Clone Wars show?

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pre-Vizsla-s-Mandalorian-Fighter-9525 (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pre-Vizsla-s-Mandalorian-Fighter-9525)

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/9525_Pre_Vizsla's_Mandalorian_Fighter (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/9525_Pre_Vizsla's_Mandalorian_Fighter)

^^ Pre Vizsla even comes with your choice of hair or helmet.

NEEEEEEEEEEECRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're welcome. ;D

On to the important junk. So.... a couple days ago I was stopping off at Lowe's to pick up some plumbing tape I have needed for FOREVER so I can replace my shower head. Walking past the checkstands I happen to look left, and what do I see but the corner of a book about LEGOs. Star Wars Legos, actually. ;) I dunno why, but Lowe's had the Lego Star Wars Character Encyclopedia. I've been out of the lego loop for so long, I didn't even know they MADE that book. Of course, I sprang the 17 bucks for it because it just looked and sounded bricks out cool, and it came with Ceremonial Han, who is a darned sight more tempting than Ceremonial Luke was with the last book (which I'll now have to go looking for to complete the set).

This coupled with the new R5 minifig and the X-Wing I keep seeing at Wally World made me hop online. Low and behold, I discovered some interesting things. Not the least of which, a new A-Wing coming out next year! OT LOVE! I also found that the new TIE I'd been ignoring due to price has a load of minifigs and a rather neat looking new wing design, and that somehow I'd completely missed a new Y-Wing. So now newly bitten by that same old lego star wars bug and madly going through my bucket-O-minifigs trying to see how many of the various rebels and imps I actually have, I thought I'd resurrect the thread here. Also, I spent a little dough I wasn't aware I had (thank you, Ben ;) ), so there's a couple shiny new OT era sets heading my way. I plan to review upon arrival. :) Anyone else been doing anything LEGOy?

As soon as I get some cat-proof shelving I may start up a collection.

I had a lot of the stuff on my Christmas list to my wife this year, but it was mainly to help me get other things that I wanted (Super Star Destroyer was 400 bucks, I put that in to make a stunt overloard and coupler not look too pricey).

But I really want the B-Wing and the XWing (B-Wing more because it looks amazing, and the cockpit auto rotates).

Am I the only one who tends to get confused about what sets are out when? I tend to pay the most attention to a certain wave of sets 6+ months before their release then forget that they haven't been released yet....

That B-Wing does look insanely sweet. I've seen one or two of the UCS sets, though I don't own any, and they are incredible.

Yeah.... I do that too. Actually, my worst problem is that I really only get into the OT stuff for the most part.... and this year was only the second wave of OT stuff since ROTS came out, so I sort of stopped paying attention to a lot of things. I also really liked the Delta 7's.... but I never got any of the newer ones because they all seemed smaller than the original somehow. I may start tracking some down though. There seems to be quite a few. Snips, Plo Koon, Anakin, the one that came in green with Even Piel whose pilot's name escapes me even though I'm a fan of the character. And nearly all of them come with a unique R2 unit. I loves me my astro droids and rebel pilots. :)

I also fear I'll be going after that X-Wing in the future.

I almost bought one of the small 12 dollar sets the other day to have something to throw together since I was bored.

Get the Endor one. I normally don't like those little sets for anything except the people, but the Endor one has that wicked Speeder Bike. And all the figures in that set are awesome. Nice variety. Plus they're great for having mini wars when you're bored.

Mini Wars, something I'd be tempted to do too.

More reasons for my in-laws to think I'm strange. I've already explained my sabers to them 3 times, and they are like "can you resell them? are they collectable? do they cut things?"

I'm like, "no, I want to beat someone with them,"

That's actually the one I was looking at. That speeder bike does look awesome, which is why I'll wind up buying the set, one of these days.

Yeah just checked out those on the Lego Website (I hate going to stores, I prefer online).

I like both Endor's really (Speeder & AT-ST).

The Sith Collection was pretty nifty too (Maul's Brother or whatever he was w/ saber staff, and a nice large ship)

I also ran across the Hoth Echo Base and thought some of the things on it was a tad odd, but I may pick it up.
-Speeder (like the Endor one but white)
-Leiah, Chewie, Han, Luke (with rebreather on for the bacta tank), medical droid, 2 snow troopers, and what appears to be an imperial trooper (Might be a red protocol droid).
-Tauntaun
-And a bacta tank (Imperial Trooper/Red Protocol droid & Speeder were the odd things on the list)

Like this day.... ;)

Yeah.... wow. Some people just don't understand geekdom. Weird side note. The other day my GF commented that she likes the different colored threepios. This would totally make it easy to get her into legos, but all the oddly colored ones are rare, and regular threepio is boring for her. *shrug* Oh well. At least she still wants an R2. He's easy to get. lol

I want a lot of the figures in that Echo Base set, but I don't wanna flip for the whole set. There's a train show coming up first weekend of January in Anaheim, and there's always a couple guys with Legos there. I hope to pick up some astro droids, perhaps a 2 1B, and maybe an oddball rebel or two I don't have. Or even a fighter if there's one for a good price.

I don't know if this is something any of you guys would be interested in but I have a kid in one of my classes who deals in special lego sets. He has literally hundreds of legos and would likely be able to get you guys some of the more rare kinds. He deals in them all the time (started it as a business for his resume and now it has become a full time job for him lol) If you're interested, just elt me know! :) I know he had a couple sets for the millennium falcon last time we talked.

Does he possibly have a website? I'm not looking to do anymore lego spending till sometime after the first of the year, but looking wouldn't hurt.... (yeah right lol) and maybe I could take advantage in the future. :) Out of curiosity, do you know if he sells any individual figures? Or does he only do whole sets? And thanks for the tip, Sinya! Very cool of you to share. :)

It's finals week for my college so I'm not sure if he's still on campus but I'll email him to see what he has. :) Let you know when he gets back to me.

Think are boys will have a very nice Christmas this year! lol
I know! I know!  Some of the pics are not all Star Wars lego! lol

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Oh, sweet goodness...... it's beautiful. lol

And it will continue to be beautiful... until they break them ;D

Legos do not break. Things which are MADE of Legos break.  ;D

That's what I meant, you noob!  >:(  :D

Whatever Hobbie. I think you're just upset they haven't made a lego pilot of you yet.  :D

Speaking of which, I don't wish to speak prematurely, but excitement demands it. I may have just landed the Rebel Pilot with the all white helmet from last years advent calendar! WOOT! lol

L0L!!

I feel so loved.

If it makes you feel any better, for some strange reason, they haven't made a lego pilot fig of me yet either. I dunno why. It'd be really awesome, I'm sure kids would want it. The helmet might be a little complicated to print on there though.... :-\

And we already have a shelf to display the Legos on! Same shelf my Darth Vader ANH lightsaber is on! L0L

Hope they all fit? L0L

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Haha. Well, maybe we should start a petition :o



Good luck ;D

My question is did Manny's order arrive on Thursday or not? ;)

Being a bit of a nerd I decided to draw out instructions to build a mini model of my own starfighter, I don't really know where to upload it but this is the lego thread so.....

anyway, My ship is the AstroSpace AceX-7 AKA Turmoil, and here are simple instructions on building it, please note that I did these from memory by hand so there are bound to be mistakes. Also the shaded bricks are the ones you are adding.

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Looks like an interesting fighter. :)

And yes, Ben, it did arrive. ;) Thankies!  ;D Which, actually, could be a large part of the reason I haven't been online as much since then. I've spent my free time at home on 3 of the last 4 days building. See, day one was that one set, and then day two was that big set, and then day three was staring in awe, and then day four I made some nice cash at the train show and caved to another set. LOL

Frizz, looks familar to one of my old ships I made back in the day, except I think my weapons were hardpoints under the wing, and a nose turret.

it is so simple that I amsume that everybody who has had legos has built one, but I like it so I made instructions.

The instructions are well done, especially for a quick sketch off of the top of your head.

Good job

thank you!

Christmas gift for my 6 year old son! Lol I helped of course. Lol

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We still have an X-Wing and Millennium Falcon to build. And a bunch of smaller ones.

finished the X-Wing!

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I only have the tiny X-Wing.

I have much I need to post in this thread..... lol But not the new X-Wing. Man, that thing looks SWEET! Lucky kid!

If you consider yourself an X-wing fan, you must get it ;)

I know, I know. I'm still kicking myself for missing the last one. I have two of the first three regular versions, but I don't have the Wedge one, or the new one, or any of the UCS editions. I also have the latest minikit of it, cause it was on sale three days ago for 6 bucks and buying the pilot by himself would cost me half that anyways. I like the little planet. It looks cool hanging next to my Enterprise E.  ;D

I got two of those minikits for chrsitmas.  I got the Death Star/Tie Interceptor and Tatooine/Sebulba's Podracer

I finished mine this morning.  I see you also did the Porkins build..

And yes, Manny, it IS sweet.

I have the TIE/Death Star minikit - the Death Star is on the Christmas Tree.

I want to get that Squint Minikit. It's the only TIE I actually like. But I can't really justify it. I already have that variant of TIE pilot, and I'm not really a minikit collector. Though looking at the ones slated for next year.... there's like three or four I want to buy just for the figures. I mean, I do collect Astromechs.......

Are 3 boys got all those little mini kits as well! And we still need to build the Millennium Falcon gonna do that this weekend!!

These probably don't count because they are all my brothers, he has most if not all the small and medium kits ever made since they started. (there are more around the house this is just the main group). He is missing a few of the Large kits like the Death Star, the Super star Destroyer, some of the Clone Wars variations of the Cruisers and I think the Large Endor and Hoth sets....but just give him time to get $$ to buy them.
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I can has yes please? ;D :D

Wow, that is an epic collection.

WOW! Nice collection! Can i come over to play?  :D

Well we got the Millennium Falcon done! Ill post pics later on tonight. Stage by stage pics and multi views!

this took us about 4 hours from start to finish. very pic heavy!!!!

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I bought this with Christmas money the other day.

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Loving the Anakin Fighter.  Nice choice Kev.  Have a point.

Anyone gotten the Headhunter yet? It looks pretty slick.

I want that new A-Wing.

Me too! Aside from the price, which is a bit ridiculous, it looks like the best A-Wing yet.

It's Star Wars and Legos.... they'll always be ridiculously overpriced. :D

Of course, but they've gone up drastically in the last few years. IIRC, the piece/price ratio for standard system sets in 2005 was 10 to 1 (that is, a 100 piece set cost $10, although that was not necessarily the case. More realistically, a 200 piece set cost $20 and a 100 piece set would normally cost about $15).

I have both the new A-Wing AND the new Headhunter.  ;D Picked them up last weekend, and they are very slick. Save for the typical way too many kriffing stickers again!  :P But otherwise, they are awesome. I'll try and grab some pics and throw them up for you guys tonight. :)

Also, on price: I shall put it to you all this way. The last A-Wing was out in.... what, 06? Give or take a year, perhaps? It was 15 bucks and very reasonably priced even at that time. It came with the fighter, the pilot, the mechanic, and a mechanic's cart with ladder and tools. Today's A-Wing is 25 bucks, comes with the fighter, redesigned and accurate pilot with leg printing, redesigned ROTJ Han, and Ackbar. It also includes one big wrench, one pistol, and a cup. Because Ackbar needs his fish-coffee. The detail is increased slightly, and these figs were all either previously very difficult to get or have otherwise been dramatically redesigned, so that's a big plus, but looking at my 06 and my 13 A-Wings side by side..... as usual the set is at least 5 bucks overpriced. IMHO, of course. Still, do I regret buying it? Nope, not really.  ;D For me, the pilot made it worth while. SO. DANG. DETAILED. (and I love his scared 'I'ma crash!' face lol)

Stickers? I will take that into consideration... I bought the "Striker-Class" fighter (the name is highly inaccurate) the other day and I was pleasantly surprised by the utter lack of stickers.

I have zip to do with TOR, but I've been tempted to get that one every time I go to the store just because looking at it reminds me a lot of the original X-Wing model from 99. But of course, the Z-95 is a closer relative so the Headhunter won out, and now I'm looking at the latest Snowspeeder, the X-Wing I still need, and a few of the Planet minikits. But those minikits aren't out yet.

The new X-wing is awesome. Not 7674 (V-19 Torrent) awesome, but awesome nonetheless.

I just noticed that Wookieepedia has the wrong release date for 7674. It was released in 2008, not 2010. That doesn't make sense. Also, if anyone doesn't know why it's so awesome... find a video of it in "action". It's a perfect fusion of system and technic and it hearkens back to the days when landing gear meant something.

Yeah, I have to say that was my one disappointment with the current Y-Wing. It had no landing gear at all, just three slant blocks on the bottom, along with ZERO undercarriage detail. Not that most Legos have any undercarriage detail anyways, but I can dream. lol Also, I don't believe the A-Wing came with any gear this time around. Last time it was just a stick pylon thing, but this time I didn't see anything in there. I did find another stick pylon thing on the floor a couple days later though, so perhaps it was in the bag and I just didn't see it in the instructions? Doesn't seem to need it at any rate. Z-95 has pretty skeletal and simple gear, but it works well and folds up fairly nicely. I'd need to review TCW episodes with it to see how accurate the gear really is though.

The Striker-Class is the same - no landing gear, just slanted bricks. It's more practical but less entertaining. The new X-wing only has one jointed part in the landing gear to prevent it from tipping forward and that's it. No slanted bricks or anything.

The Torrent's landing gear is both detailed and practical (and really fun to build and mess around with), which is one of the main reasons that it's still my favorite LEGO starfighter.

Lucky for me it's out of production, or you'd really be making me want one. lol

Well, I just decided to do a quick comparison between the three fighters on my shelves - the Striker-Class, V-19, and new X-wing.

I'm a bit shocked, to be honest. I might post pics at some point, but... the Striker-Class is incredibly flimsy and unsubstantial compared to the X-wing, despite the very small price difference. I compared the Striker-Class to some other smaller ships I have readily available and, when the wings are folded (through an impractical and cheap system, I might add), it's about the size of 7669 (Anakin's Jedi Starfighter 2007), which was a pretty small set for the price ($20) at the time. 153 pieces for $20 was nearly an outrage then.

Anyway, I compared the X-wing to the V-19 and... wow. What a difference four years makes. The V-19 has a significantly larger wingspan and the cockpit area is as big, maybe even bigger, than the X-wing's. Its s-foil function is remarkably more advanced, as is its landing gear. Not that I would expect anything to match its landing gear, but it's worth noting because landing gear is nearly nonexistent nowadays, even in the most highly-regarded sets. The only advantage that the X-wing has is its accuracy, but other than that the V-19 makes it seem stone age (oh, and it was $5 less expensive).

Then, to be fair and give myself a good laugh, I compared the Striker-Class to the V-19. I won't even bother with a description.

On its own, the newest X-wing is incredible and worth the price. The V-19 is hardly ever a fair comparison, but you'd think that after so many generations, the X-wings would be the best of the best. The Striker-Class? Not so much. Its lazy design, low piece count, small size and flimsy wings make it about $10 overpriced.

I find this process very amusing... I'll dig up some more old ships to do this with. I need to compare Rogue Shadow to the V-19....

Stickers? I don't want no stinkin' stickers  >:(

It is a known and accepted fact that stickers stink. It is also a known and accepted fact that stickers suck. Please, Mr Lego Maker Person, stop using stickers.... They make us sad. :'(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqk_q4NLLI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqk_q4NLLI#)

;D

Not a big fan of the stickers either, especially since I know Lego could easily print the bricks...  That was easily the most frustrating part of the assembly of the X-Wing.

Oh dear goodness no..... don't.... no. Please, no. Don't tell me they put stickers on the X-Wing. The fighter that has pretty much NO need for any images on the hull anyways. Please don't tell me they did that to the X-Wing.... *cries*

They aren't that bad. Not nearly as bad as some of the Exo-Force stuff, anyway.

Tiny ones, really - in the engines and for detail work.  But they're so tiny that they're quite fiddly and it gets tiresome, as I have big ol' fumblefingers.

I'll be honest, what annoyed me the most trying to get the stickers on the A-Wing and Z-95 was that none of them actually line up. It's a pain in the arse to get them centered because they don't actually line up with either edge of the brick, or with any kind of marker on the brick. So pretty much all of mine are off center.  :P

I've become quite adept at putting on stickers... they don't cause an actual problem for me anymore, they're just annoying, especially now that they can obviously print everything on (for example - the Striker-Class has no stickers, but still had quite a few very detailed elements).

I always knew they could print it straight on. My first Star Wars sets were the X-Wing and Snowspeeder, from the first round of sets at the turn of the millennium. EVERYTHING was printed for those. The little pieces with the pipes and rebel starbirds on them for engine detail, the sensor suite on the X-Wing's nose, the one on the snowspeeder's nose, the cockpit canopies... everything. That was one of the two stickers that bugged me the most on the A-Wing. The Canopy. Why the kriff couldn't they print what amounted to FOUR LINES on that thing? Come on!

Stickers on LEGOs are a pain. Why'd they stop printing it on directly, I wonder.

yeah but it is more like normal model kits and the decals

Okay, photos incoming! This covers everything I've gotten in the last couple months except for the Y-Wing and TIE Fighter that renewed this whole fantastic mess. Thanks Ben. ;)  :D

So, lets get started! Behold, the minifigures!  ;D
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That's not the whole collection, though it's almost all of it, I couldn't fit everything so I'm using it for at least one each of my Star Wars minifigs, all my other favorites, and a few random other small things that fit in there so they don't get lost.

Now for the Z-95!
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Here you can see my retarded engine sticker. I hate stickers.
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You can also see the awesome Pong Krell figure, and the new Pilot and 501st Troopers. Its well known I have some major problems with TCW.... but I'll admit there are a few episodes I have really enjoyed, and what I saw of Pong Krell's arch was most interesting.

Aft view with a decent shot of the landing gear, which I rather like. It's simple, but it works better than a lot of the other junky stuff I've got. Fits well visually too.
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Beauty shot.
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And now on to the A-Wing, the shots all follow pretty much the same pattern as the Z-95, and I gave some side by sides with the previous edition of the model.

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And here's the skiff photos...
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And now Master Tinn's Delta-7, which will have a comparison shot against the original 2002 Obi-Wan's Delta-7. In short, the sizes are the same, the newer one actually is much smoother, has a wicked escape pod, and better engines and landing gear. The gear is not spectacular to me, but it gets the job done which is more than I can say about the original version. Oh, and it comes with the coolest astromech ever. IT'S GREEN!!!  8)

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And lastly, here's a shot of all the individual minifigs I picked up recently. Most of them are from a Train Show here in Anaheim weekend before last, but one came off ebay a week or two before that. That's the one in the baggie. It's a sealed new in the original pack Rebel Pilot from the 2011 Advent Calendar. :) It also shows my only Minikit, the X-Wing. I bought it for the pilot, but I actually really like the planet and minikit too. It's fun spinning the thing on the stand. lol
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Okay, okay... Diddy Kong is a Kinects or whatever, but you all know you want a Lego Nintendo. XD The rest are, from left to right, ANH Leia (I THINK from the Tantive I), A Shadow Trooper, A Clone from one of the newest battle packs (I bought him cause of the green-gold markings), Captain Jack Sparrow (savvy?), and Doctor Henry Jones Sr. I needed him to go with the Indy I found in a junk box awhile back. :)


Anyways, hope ya'll enjoyed the photos. Hope they prove useful and stimulating to the earlier landing gear and sticker discussions, etc. Also, if anybody wants a straight up review of or has any questions about any of those sets, just holler at me and I'll get one put together for ya. Might take awhile, but I'm happy to do it. ;)

I have Plo Koon's Delta 7, which almost exactly the same as that one.  It doesn't have the escape pod though, it has a ejection mechanism.

Point for the pics, Manny. I've been wanting to see a real pic of the Headhunter. I may have to get one now.

Also, I'm quite liking the series of Jedi starfighters they've been releasing since 2007, but... they still haven't released an Azure Angel :P

I guess this will have to do for now: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=46057 (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=46057)



Yep, each fighter in the series has a unique feature/function :)

Nice Manny! The reason why I hate the stickers is due to the fact that eventually they'll wear off. :/

Then you have to buy a new one, but that model will inevitably be discontinued. IT'S A CONSPIRACY!

I hate stickers so much that I will often refuse to use them all together.

I believe I left all of them off on the Y-Wing. They looked like they were going to be really difficult to get straight on the nacelles.

Soo... had a nifty old box turn up at the office yesterday. Care to see what was in it?

(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h158/Manroon/20130213_132425_zpsee3bbd6b.jpg)

And crammed in there next to it, was this little guy (I already had the figure, and another of the walker, which is good, because the instructions were missing and the two clones that were with this one didn't have heads or helmets. 0_o)

(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h158/Manroon/20130213_180421_zps9ec8d71f.jpg)

And yes, I magnet bricked the walker to my fridge. Cause that's how I roll.  8)

The nostalgia...

These aren't Star Wars, but I figure this is the audience that could appreciate this kind of art:

My general collection, I've got plenty more locked away in there
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/16666_10151227894775889_1456958848_n.jpg)

My from-scratch Wolfen:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/432222_10151227894785889_311812375_n.jpg)

With wings folded into travel mode:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/76435_10151227894830889_1154159929_n.jpg)

And, from the back:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/65314_10151227894960889_428654623_n.jpg)

The Arwing was actually a LOT harder to make, because the frame is so much smaller:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/386436_10151227895315889_1393581692_n.jpg)

And, wings in travel position:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/432220_10151227895160889_1306664647_n.jpg)

From the back:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/532072_10151227895400889_31548899_n.jpg)



I've got a whole bunch of Star Wars stuff, most of it customized, but I don't have a camera ATM.  I already had these pics up.

Is that a Viking ship (from 7018, Viking Ship Challenges the Midgard Serpent) I see? I really wish I had gotten more sets from that theme....

It is :3  One of my favorites!  It came with like 6 dudes, and a whole bunch of unique swords and axes and armor and stuff.  It's the only Viking set I got, but it's really the only one I need <3

Oh yeah, I mentioned earlier on in this thread that I would be checking Brickipedia... I think I'm selling my soul to LEGO this year.

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/2013 (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/2013)

I'm not selling my soul, but I believe something in the ballpark of last years saber expenditures will be heading to LEGO. My eyes are set firmly on the AT TE and Gunship. I've wanted those since Ep II came out, and I was always either too short of funds, or else unable to justify the purchase when the previous releases were out. But these are way nicer, and the prices aren't horrible. :)

WOW!  Ok I should have found this thread a long time ago!... Pics Up loading as I type...

I have been building SW themed stuff since way before they even came out with them! I was so excited when they finally did!

These are all my one designs! Everything you see here that is built, is my own design. Everything! There are however some guns from Brickarms.com and a seller on Bricklink but I forgot the name.

I dont normally like to post pics with bad backdrops, but I didnt hava much time or space... I call this Battle of the Baby Crib...

(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0796_zps01ba9634.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0803_zpse956d310.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0797_zps7cbcb8c4.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0807_zps2ee978c4.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0805_zps8202d23b.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0818_zps40d1035a.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0806_zps58f9fee9.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0816_zpsf126d8be.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0817_zpsf67c93d1.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0819_zpsdde79283.jpg)
(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s397/sramsdell/IMG_0820_zps1292c955.jpg)

That's awesome right there. So. Many. Lightsabers! 0_o And I love your walkers and battle pods. Particularly, the larger walker reminds me of the ones from Avatar. Very sweet.


Okay, so this is a little bit off subject..... but what do you guys think of these things? http://trekmovie.com/2013/02/09/hasbro-star-trek-line-unveiled-at-toy-fair-possibly-revealing-some-into-darkness-clues/ (http://trekmovie.com/2013/02/09/hasbro-star-trek-line-unveiled-at-toy-fair-possibly-revealing-some-into-darkness-clues/) Kreos instead of Legos, and Star Trek instead of Star Wars, but it's a similar principle, right? We can finally see a brick Klingon against a brick Vader, right? I for one, am looking forward to the building toys of 2013. First Gunships and AT TEs, and now the kriffing Enterprise! I'm gonna blow soooo much cash on those little figure packs, I think.... lol

Two words.

 Kreo. Bat'leth.

My thoughts exactly. ;)

I thought someone might like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB_h2Rl7OsA#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB_h2Rl7OsA#ws)

Not. Kriffing. Fair.

This. The AT TE. The Gunship. The Kreo Star Trek stuff. The Spider Droid. Etc. Etc. Etc. Who gave people permission to release all this awesome stuff in the same year? Do they even realize how much saving it takes to afford the AT TE and Gunship in this economy?  >:(


Oh, who am I kidding. It's awesome they made this!  ;D

I found this thread, and all I have to say is INCOMING!!

111 clonetroopers, I just have them really close to eachother for storage purposes
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/026-2_zpsa0968cc6.jpg)
gold, red, and white squads
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/027-2_zpsb96bfd0b.jpg)
A good look at my mandalorian leader
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/028-1_zpscc5ab4d3.jpg)
here he is again
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120316_zps6d7cbb4d.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/029-1_zps04d93578.jpg)
next to another mandalorian we are all familiar with
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120358_zps5b1d9822.jpg)
guard and pilot squads. look close to the left most squad, i have made a few custom dc17m blasters(clone commander)
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/030-1_zps0c60879f.jpg)
random assortment of atleast 50+ minfigs. jedi, sith and droids alike.
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/031-1_zpsc3b4aeb6.jpg)
one of the sexiest beasts lego ever let loose, and one of my favorites
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/032-1_zps1b96cf0e.jpg)
gun turret I added to the gunship
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/033-1_zps086d3733.jpg)
Original clone trooper minifigs. very special.
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/034-1_zpsb122d1f9.jpg)
excuse the purple, I dont have any other sheets to have on the bed, but it will do. behold, the fleet!
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/035-2_zps76089346.jpg)
Custom made z-95 headhunter. I made this from scratch, then the next day, bam. they make it an actual lego set. go figure.
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/036-3_zpsc05fefb2.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/037-2_zps320e812e.jpg)
my from scratch vulture droid. built this out of some part of an incomplete set
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/038-2_zps032c17e5.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/039-2_zps7255955f.jpg)
destroyer droids
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_115700_zps766336ef.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_115749_zps28f47a65.jpg)
some more madness
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/040-2_zpsf16643cb.jpg)
custom made atrt
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/042-1_zps2724456a.jpg)
another sexy beast in all its spectacular glory
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_115804_zps107ff032.jpg)
custom at-xt, inspired by the clonewars videogame from early 2000s. I built this years ago!
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/043-1_zps75f84e76.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/044-1_zps1fee6283.jpg)
My all time favorite starwars ship!
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_115833_zps417444d4.jpg)
custom made tie fighter! I made this to match the color scheme better than black and blue. then ofcourse, again, they release the new version tie fighter
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_115854_zpse68bccf1.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_115903_zpsfb0dde6f.jpg)
again, My favorite all time!
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/045_zps4f5642cf.jpg)
heres an oldie,
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120006_zpsd48d20fa.jpg)
coolest speeders lego ever released!
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/046_zpsda4ee8e0.jpg)
I love these green guys
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/048_zps7eae4ebc.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/047_zps7b29fa2c.jpg)
walking artillery
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120043_zps126b4d4f.jpg)
i love the details
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120103_zps804a9789.jpg)
dewback!
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120523_zpse522552e.jpg)
endor luke
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120710_zps7cb1f39d.jpg)
more scouts
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120733_zps429f4b11.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_120931_zpsb9796ef4.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_121022_zps16350e1f.jpg)
I love this thing.
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_121149_zpse0faca53.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_121202_zps12830bc1.jpg)
the falcon
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_121209_zps874921a1.jpg)
custom assembly area made out if the newer battle pack
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_121618_zpsd46cc909.jpg)
PILOT!! land in that assembly area!
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_121802_zps2157bbf4.jpg)
Beautiful ship
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_122142_zps5d2b290c.jpg)
recon droid
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_122338_zpsacbaa491.jpg)
CUSTOM t3m4!
(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_122844_zps5fbf9e58.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_122904_zps598aeb29.jpg)


Any questions? ;D

The Headhunter makes Hawk-Bat Leader happy in ways I shouldn't talk about on this forum...

*facepalm* @ Jammo.

Man, you have some SICK scratch building skills! That Z-95 is NICE! As is the Clone Wars Game walker, I loved that game. Used to Co-Op that all the time with my buddy. He gave me mortar cover with one of those while I did the dirty work in the tank. Good times, good times. 8)

So can I steal your Gunship, AT-TE, and a row of your clones?  ;D lol I'm actually drooling over the new ones of those coming out later this year. I REALLY want to get them, and I think the Spider Droid set. The Corporate Alliance Tank Droid is nice.... but I have the last one and don't really want another, though it's tempting for Jango. BTW, sandtrooper with Dewback: I can has Greedo?

If there was possibly a way to capture my child hood on camera, This was that momentXP
Those clones are my pride and joy!!!! Yes the new ones look SICK! I dont get legos nearly as much as I used to, but I saw those and it was back to my old waysXP The helmet designs remind me of the jet trooper like in the starwars battlefront days! And thank you! I am always inspired to build things everytime I watch the movies, I see something new and go to work! And I remeber as well the mortar walkers! Shield generators and energy mortars FTW!
And unfortunately, Greedo was a casualty of time. I believe I traded him off for about three red shock troopers with a friend years ago, where he is now is a mysteryXP

Darn. lol At least it was a good trade, those Shock Troopers are nice. I only ever managed to trade for one of them. So is that Silver Mando a custom of some kind? I see the body is a Dengar, but I don't know where on earth you would have picked up the silver helmet. Jango's wasn't full silver in lego was it? It's been so long since I've seen one in person, I can't recall. (he's a rare figure, up till the new Tank Droid's release this coming summer at least) BTW, I forgot to mention your Command Center TOTALLY reminds me of Battlefront One! The old Geonosis level, man that was a blast to play too. Can you build me the Kashyyyk Docks map? XD

No, the mando was released before it was factory painted etc, and I was able to aquire it. it is a VERY rare piece seeing as how all the other ones are painted, very few maid it out of the factory unpainted is what I take from it. Yes, the body armor is dengar's armor, but I have different armor sets for him. Give me a sec and ill post em. and Yep! the assembly area was inspired by Geonosis Battlefront I! I probably could build the kashyyyk docks, I already have the spider droid and a couple wookiesXP I would just have to make the platforms!

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_161127_zps2dcdba9e.jpg)

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130218_161240_zpsd465f53f.jpg)

Those are the other two armor variants I have that I like for this guy. The blue came with him, and the red I got separately. The brown I had already, and consequently I found I prefer the brown.

Ahhh, that makes sense then. Man, that little guy has to be worth a mint. Nice find! (I think the rarest minifig I have is Aldar Beedo. Not quite as epic. lol) I agree, the brown does look really good, though if it were me I'd have stuck with the blue since he came that way. I can see why he would have had that, if he came that way from the factory, as well. It somewhat vaguely resembles the proper armor. Funny too, that blue one is Bib Fortuna's torso, if I'm not mistaken, and he's fairly rare as well, isn't he? Very, very, very cool. You have achieved undeniably massive levels of WIN. Hmmm..... *ponders construction of Kashyyyk Docks Map for real* Naaaaawwwww......... *ponders again* or maybe....

I'll always have the blue armor, because it is really old, it comes from the old version of one of the Jabba themed sets, i know that much. but I always swap armors from time to time. depends on my mood:P
I have Aldaar Beedo as wellXP kind of a useless minifig if you ask meXD but he(or she? It always looks like it has make up on in the pics) he makes a good statue type feature for a base or looks at home in a lego cantinaXP

Anyone planning on getting the upcoming Ultimate Collector's X-Wing?

I find legos disgustingly expensive. Though I still have a place in my heart for them. I may get this. I do still wanna try to get the super star destroyer.

If it were not for the other releases, I would be after it, but I have yet to hear the price, and while the UCS sets are cool.... and it would be awesome to have the X-Wing to match my Bro's Y-Wing UCS.... I can only afford so many sets in a year. When I'm already saving up for 250 + of SW Legos, I have to leave it out of this year's budget. Besides, that's not even accounting for the Kreo Star Trek stuff. Needs me a shuttle I do, hmm? Yes! *is yoda* :D

It'll be $199.99 8)

Yeah, I can live without it then. I'm thinking 120 + 90 = Gunship and AT TE. Oh yes, Battle of Geonosis baby. 8)

Just bought The Malevolence (9515) on a whim. Lulz will be had and pics will be posted within the next two days or so since there isn't nearly enough Sep love in this thread.

0_o Wow. That's some seppy dedication alright. Man, now you're making me wish for a rerelease of the Corvette so I can represent appropriately in response. lol

yeah.. my forte is definitely not in the Sep's, Obviously XP
I only have a spider droid and a STAP, but I am interested to see the results!!

The Separatists were basically a more efficient version of the Rebellion... I'm surprised you haven't sided with them ;)


I was mainly just interested in the minifigs, quite honestly... the set itself isn't all that appealing outside of the figs. I'll definitely post pics and size comparisons, though, and I think it'll be fun to mess around with.

The figures do make a number of sets tempting. I'm still saving my money for the summer and fall waves though. The AT TE and Gunship are even more tempting for me than the X-Wing and Snowspeeder sets! Of course, that could be because I have multiples of the older versions of those sets already. lol Still... I do want that General Reikean (sp?) fig.... but the next wave has LOADS of good figs, and I wants me the big bad AOTC sets. :) (Now if they'd just rerelease the hover tank! XD)

I might get one or two of sets, once I get that refund. ;D I REALLY want the A-Wing, which I'll probably get, since it's only $25, or whatever.

The A Wing is sweet. I'd also recommend an X-Wing to accompany it, if you don't already have one, and the Z-95 is actually a really wicked model.

The X-Wing is SWEET, but a bit more than I can justify spending on a "toy" right now. Though it's still on my list of stupid purchases for the year.

Speaking of AOTC, I scored this the other day!

(http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy253/lemon095/20130228_211314_zps0f626a12.jpg)

A blast from the past, I had this but i was too young to appreciate it, and scrapped it for parts, you know how that goes:/ But I bought this new one just because the child hood was calling back.

It's still a beautiful ship. The new designs haven't surpassed it in any way. Point.

So Malevolence is built, but I won't be able to get any pics of the whole shebang until tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some cellphone pics of construction:

Bag 1

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130301_0000_zpsae21514d.jpg)

+ bag 2

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130301_0001_zps32030a1e.jpg)

Nice score, Gold Leader! I got one of those.... probably sometime in the '04 to '06 range. Picked it up brand spanking new at a train show for I forget how much. I think that was the first set I actually saved the box from. lol Still one of my faves! I have Tinn's Delta Seven right next to it on my shelf and they look great together. One of the few models where the update and the original both look correct without making each other look off. And they're almost exactly the same size to boot! Plus, the Delta Seven is probably my favorite Prequel Fighter. She's just a slick bird, no two ways about it. 8)

@Luna: Well. It's tomorrow. I do not see any pics.... I think we have a problem. :D >:( :D :P

I just woke up, give me some time ;)

Bah! How dare you sleep in! :D

Cell pics, about half of which turned out well.

I have no idea why I chose to set it atop a pillow for these pics, but I did.

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130302_0000_zpsb1a09b09.jpg)

Tight quarters....

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130302_0002-1_zps610a2cb9.jpg)

Close-up of the incredibly intimidating... um... superweapon?

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130302_0001_zps957cb3f5.jpg)

All hatches opened up.

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130302_0008_zps496e069b.jpg)

Holy overkill thrusters, Batman!

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130302_0010_zps5d38b9f4.jpg)

Totally screen-accurate handle.

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130302_0003_zpsdcf00ff9.jpg)

Padmé must've grown a few thousand feet....

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/130302_0013_zps941051d9.jpg)

More to come later, including size comparisons.

The Delta-7 was one of those sets I HAD TO HAVE when I was young, I loved it in the movies! Also because Obi-wan was my favorite jedi since I was 4 and was captivated by him in ep. I in 1999, having never seen him as a young jedi; so when episode II came out, I had to have it! But again I wasn't at the age yet where I appreciated the value of keeping the sets intact long after I built themXP I always wanted to make some creation of my own out of the parts.
When Battlefront came out (I have mentioned this game like 8 times in this forum!! ) that was an all time favorite of mine as well, Along with the Y-wing ;D, with its gold color scheme and killing power it was also a favorite hence the name GOLDleaderXP but the Delta-7 was a clone wars favorite! And I certainly agree, I love the yellow clonewars version of anakin's delta-7, but no, it doesnt even compare to the original. The others they have come out with are cool, but they dont look as quality.

the Mavolence turned out a whole lot better than I expected!!! It looked kind of dinky on the pictures on the box but this actually looks pretty cool in real life!!!!
I see some similarity in the interior as my Republic Star Destroyer cruiser XP
this ship looks really solid though for being one of the bigger ones!!
and yes, the clonewars designers went thruster overkill indeed, but hey, look at the Nebulon B frigates or the Tantive:P  A very detailed ship! Definitely not to scale with the minifigs but thats understandable..XP

Im a big Lego fan, mainly star wars these days. I just finished building the Fury Class Interceptor, which comes with probably the coolest mini-fig out right now, Darth Malgus. It went up on the shelf with Millennium Falcon, X-wing, A-wing, TIE fighter, and a whole bunch of other smaller sets. I'm considering the Death Star as my next one, 400 bones is a little steep though.

(http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/u409/IaCthugha/857402_10151327709363364_1934002183_o_zps9a796766.jpg)

Lego Raaltir?

Bought the A-Wing.

Also just got mini Headhunters.

Pics or it didn't happen ;)

Once I build the A-Wing I'll post it and once I snap some pics of the mini Headhunters you'll see them. Have a little faith in Hawk-Bat Leader...

(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ixcl1hsxx5yjpg/k-bigpic.jpg)

WOW. For real? Dude, I would buy that, glue it together, and take it to cons just for lols. That is EPIC! Thanks for sharing, Kev!

So...

[img width= height=]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f246/jodie0616/003-5.jpg[/img]

Thoughts?

Yeah, I saw that earlier today and thought you'd appreciate it Manny.

Ok, the start of my star wars Lego collection was a couple years ago with the millenium falcon. Now I'm hooked! Only problem is I don't haves the money to spend on star wars legos, so I tend to get them as pressies- my sister thinks its hilarious that now as an adult she gives me Lego for my birthday!
at parents for the weekend so I can't list all of mine, notable ones are four of the lil planet series ones, millenium falcon, xwing, v wing(?), and a Droid carrier. Hoping the link works to my picture, phones being stupid and won't cooperate with me. Ok it won't work, I'll fix it later when I have my laptop out, but here's a link to it (may have to cut and paste it coz it doesn't want to turn it into a link for me either grr!
my legs have a glass fronted cabinet to live in which they currently share with my rock collection. Cabinet also has led light strips on each shelf, they aren't on in the pic though. I'm quickly running out of room however, got another cabinet coming when I find somewhere to put it. Then I'm planning to buy the jabbas palace and rancor set :D
http://s411.photobucket.com/user/b1ondeange1/media/temporary_zps9e29c289.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0 (http://s411.photobucket.com/user/b1ondeange1/media/temporary_zps9e29c289.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0)

as a kid I couldn't afford Lego, our family was poor. I have a box of Lego that used to belong to my brother though, and I have a heap of spaceship sets in there. One day in gonna custom make something from them

ok here it is

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obviously only one of the books is starwars lego :P my other ones are sitting there to protect them, and i dont really have anywhere else to put them atm

I just noticed this thread. I'm going to have to say. I collect a lot of Star Wars LEGO sets. Usually I buy them and then modify them. Right now I'm working on modifying the Old Republic Liberator Class Starfighter (which they mislabeled as a Republic Striker Fighter). It wasn't a bad attempt at a lego of it, but I felt it could be more. So I started hacking away and adding stuff to it. It's still not finished, missing a few parts. But I'll get around to that sooner or later.
 
Original:

(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121102000348/lego/images/1/1a/Old_republic_striker_fighter.JPG)



My additions and changes:

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z316/CaptainOlie/IMG_0038_zpsa4d168f7.jpg)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z316/CaptainOlie/IMG_0039_zps84a9ee2d.jpg)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z316/CaptainOlie/IMG_0040_zpsb950b631.jpg)

Life size lego X-Wing with light up engines.

http://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-full-scale-lego-x-wing-is-the-largest-m-509484787 (http://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-full-scale-lego-x-wing-is-the-largest-m-509484787)

*want*

It's a shame that it's modeled after the set and not the real deal, but it's still incredible.

Someone seriously needs to build a full 1:1 X-Wing and put it in Anaheim. There's a park near my house that would be perfect...

Wow. Awesome. Kev wins the internet.

Yes. Yes he does. *gives Kev the internet*

On that note... I threw an Elite Clone Troopers VS Droid Commandos Battle Pack in the cart last night at Wally World and got away with it! WOOT! ;D Thanks to the old man for free toys. lol I have to say.... the ARC trooper is pretty flippin' sick. I love the cloth Kama, it's soooo much better than the old plastic ones.

Hmm, now what to do with my prize?  *Picks up internet*

Give everyone Google Maps? :D

meh, that might be mildly amusing. 

I worked at the Mall of America for awhile...so Legoland was just downstairs from me....let me tell you... I was so tempted to blow every paycheck there!

Someday the Death Star WILL be mine!


And this bird you cannot change...

Ive had ridicolously many SW lego sets, most of them are pieces and other stuff now though..
Havent used any of it in at least 3 years but just recently ordered the Sith Fury class interceptor (mostly for the fact that its an Old Republic set :) )
Will eventually get the other TOR sets as well :D

I know what you mean, I've got a stack of fighters and other sets I need to reassemble right now... half my fleet or more is on a shelf good to go, but there's still a few that never got back together. I dunno if I'll ever rebuild my Falcon. LOL I think for me, it's mostly the minifigures I enjoy. I have to keep stopping myself from blowing 20 bucks on sets just for figures when they come with a craft I hate or already have. XD


Soooo..... as the summer is here, and the next wave of sets is nearly upon us..... I must put the question before my fellow forumites.

AT-TE, or Gunship? Cause I'm having a heck of a time trying to decide which to buy first. :-\

Gunship, without a doubt.

That's where I'm leaning, I think. I dunno. I guess my real problem is when Ep II sets first came out back in the ye olde olden days of yellow faced minifigs and such, those were the two sets I wanted... and now they're rereleasing them both at the same time again. LOL

Gunship, def!!

You can buy the minifigures in single or in sets?!?   :o
Do you have a link maybe?

I think he might mean buying a Lego with figurines and the craft just for the figurines?

I mean the figures are usually my favorite part of the sets, though I do also occasionally collect the figures by themselves. Not very often though. I usually pick them up at train shows in my local area from this guy that resells lego sets. He's usually a bit overpriced, but then lego tends to be expensive new OR second hand. The guy I sometimes buy from basically goes out and buys the sets, then either resells them, or else pops them open and sells the set and the figures separately. Sometimes his prices are totally understandable, like when he has sets that are hard to find or have only had a soft release so far, or are exclusive to one store or something. And sometimes he has older, rarer sets. Indiana Jones or a TIE Interceptor, for example. The individual figures are real pricey though, some of them sell for like 20 bucks a pop if they aren't in many sets. Example? Bariss Offee. He gets 12 bucks for her. The Geonosian Cannon she comes in is only a 20 dollar set.... lol But sometimes there's a good buy. I got an older style Death Star Trooper off him for 6 or 8 bucks, and that one only came in the Death Star sets to my knowledge. I already had the newer style one from the TIE fighter, so they make a nice pair in my display case. :)

There is supposed to be a site called brick link or something like that though where you can buy and sell legos. You might try googleing that. :)

So two votes for Gunship.... anyone else care to chime in?

I`d definitely get the Gunship, personally im getting the Jedi defender class cruiser. Pretty awesome sets, includes awesome figures and an awesome  ship to come With them :)

I do like the looks of the Defender Class, but luckily for me I'm not into TOR so I've been able to keep myself from buying any TOR sets. Otherwise I'd REALLY be broke! LOL

Hahah, those are the ones that i absolutily cant keep away from.

Movie stuff for me, and more specifically Rebel Starfighters! I just need some variation of the B-Wing and I'll have one of everything, though not from matching years. I mean... come on, there's been what? Six X-Wings? Hey! Two of each and I'd have a Squadron! *runs to the store* XD

Got the Sith fury-class interceptor today and built it.
Pretty fun build at first but the second wing is pretty boring..
I love the way it turned out though, one of my favs of all time.
The detail of Darth Malgus is ridicolous, and the sith troopers are pretty awesome too.
5/5

I got myself an A wing on Thursday :) sadly I have run out of space in my cabinet, its currently parked on top of the millenium falcon

Sooo..... giant pile o bricks to sort. Yeah..... no instructions. Several Star Wars Sets IDed in the mix. Yeah..... this could take awhile. :D ;D :o :-\

I dunno whether to be jealous of you, or whether to laugh at your predicament :P

Well, it only took me an hour or so last night to dig out the first piece for the AAT..... and my Google-Fu was strong enough to get a PDF of the instructions, so it's taking a lot of work.... but I believe there's gonna be some awesome stuff scrounged out of this. I already pieced Indy together! ;D

Sooo.... considering the AT-TE. Or saving some extra money to get the Gunship. Same debate from a few months ago, and I still can't quite decide. Leaning towards the AT-TE and leaving the Gunship open for Christmas dreams. Thoughts?

GUNSHIP!!! Thats the ONLY summer set released this year where the actual set is better then the figures it comes with! Plus, a Clone Captain!

Now, time to make you all jealous with my Star Wars collection... (Most of these I'm just guessing the name and year, please correct me if I'm wrong)

1999: Naboo Flash Speeder, Luke's Landspeeder, X-Wing, TIE Fighter.
2000: Naboo Swamp, Qui-Gon VS. Darth Maul, Dessert Skiff, Gungan Submarine.
2001: All the MINI sets.
2002: Jango's Slave I, that one with the Gamorean guard and Han in Carbonite (2), Obi=Wan's Delta-7
2003: TIE Bomber, Imperial Shuttle.
2004: Didn't get any Star Wars sets this year. (That I remember)
2005: AT-RT, Battle of the Heroes.
2006: General Grevious Starfighter (2)
2007: Clone Battlepack, MTT, Jedi Starfighter with Hyperdrive Booster ring.
2008: Anikin's Delta-7, Hailfire Droid & Spider Droid, Spider Droid, Magna Guard Starfighter, V-19 Torrent, Stormtrooper Battlepack, AT-TE. 
2009: Clone Walker Battlepack (5), Assassin Droid Battlepack, Corporate Alliance Tank Droid, TIE Advanced X-1.
2010: Snowtrooper Battlepack (3), Rebel Trooper Battlepack (3), Wampa Ice Cave, Plo Koon's Delta-7.
2011: Tantive IV, Clone Trooper Battlepack (2), Sith Infiltrator.
2012: Oddly enough, I don't remember what I got this year...
2013: Z-95 Headhunter, Elite Clone Troopers VS. Commando Droids, Clone Troopers VS. Droidekas (2), Anikin's Eta-2, Republic Troopers VS. Sith Troopers.

I can't remember all of my sets, but the most dominant (and difficult) ones were the Collector's Edition X-Wing and TIE Interceptor...a Naboo Starfighter (also CE) and the Millenium Falcon (second edition, I think) are two others which decorate my room xD All other sets are disassembled and lay somewhere in the basement...'cause of my small room :(

I just bought the new gunship on Sunday.

40yo and still obsessed with Lego  :(

It's a good thing my wife is so tolerant.

I'm never gonna stop collecting LEGOs, it's the one addiction I'll never stop... Except Ultra Sabers, of course.

So spring is continuing to be interesting. We've had rainy winter weather until last week... Then yesterday morning was cold, 3-4 deg C overnight low. And today, its beautiful sunny, warm wind, not a cloud in sight (unless you count the enormous smoke cloud stretching across the horizon, hoping its burning off and not bushfires), and it feels like its 28- 30 deg C!
fun and games

erm.... So I thought id written this into random thoughts thread.... My bad :(
*face palm*

You pulled a Kham ;)

Yep. Definitely pulled a Kham. So... back to Legos. Found a box with a Coruscant Trooper in it at work. Boo yah.

I found some cheap knock off "Space Wars" sets at a local dollar store. I should have taken pics....

Yep. That would actually be pretty funny to see. lol

I'll see if I can find them again. lol. There was only one or two left(they were small, like those little troop builder packs), and I don't remember which store they were at....

Excellent find!

Thanks! And no worries wingmate. ;) But if you do trip over them again, it would be cool to see them! I've never seen a knockoff like that at a dollar store down here.

I will go hunting tomorrow, maybe. It was a few weeks ago that I saw them.

They weren't a DIRECT knockoff of SW, one just was an obvious stormtrooper rip off. The guys in one of them looked  like an Area 51 alien type thingy. lol

I am still missing two of those little planet SW legos, series 2. All the shops here seem to have replaced them with the series 3, might be time to go internet shopping for them.
I keep being good and resisting spending money on Lego... I decided it was lightsabers, or Lego, and lately the sabers have been winning :D

Sorry for necroposting, but I think I've cracked it!!

Bought two Tie Fighters off Amazon and persuaded my wife to build one.  Think she's finally understanding my addiction.

Sweet! I think I forgot to post in here, I finally gots me Gunship! 8)

Aww the Gunship is magic!  Joint favourite with the Dropship & AT-OT.

I'm gonna have to buy a bigger hoose before long  :D

Pics?

Pics or it didn't happen.

My enormous Lego Star Wars collection:

(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/11/23/e7u7u9ed.jpg)

After thanksgiving its going on our Christmas tree.

I have that one.  I have a squint too.

I regrettably do not have the squint. Or the series three planet sets that only get released overseas, cause the line didn't do jack in the states, which was probably because they put the best ships and figs in series three.... lol

As for pics of the Gunship, I haven't got any yet. But it's full of nearly all the clones I can squeeze into it now, so I'll have to snap some for ya'll. :)

I've seen the series three ships in stores.  The TIE Bomber, the Acclamator assault ship, and the Delta 7, right?

Yeah, those mini planets didn't really interest me that much.

that's about right I think. im missing the mini xwing from series 2, and the jedi starfighter and assault ship from series 3. I think series 4 has just been released too- there's a hoth snowspeeder, B wing and Tantive IV

Forgive me, it was series 4 being overseas that I was thinking of. I sort of completely ignored series one... whatever it had in it just didn't catch my eye apparently. lol

The X-Wing was in series one... How could you not notice it?

I noticed it. I bought it. I just didn't remember what series it was, because I only bought it on sale at the holidays. lol

The new version of Grievous' wheel bike looks awesome.

xwing was series 2 actually. along with the twin pod cloud car and the AT-ST.
series 1 is TIE interceptor, naboo starfighter and sebulba's podracer.

ive seen series 4 advertised on the lego website, but I haven't seen it in store yet. then again i haven't gone looking in a while. time to go hunting around me thinks!

bookmark post.

So a friend of mine is a huge Star Wars fan and so I thought for the holidays this year I would Give her a custom mini aethersprite in her favourite color, So I worked out how to build it on graph paper, realized that I could download the digital designer and that from there I could get a list of part numbers, built it in the digital designer, got the part number list and went to the pick-a-brick section of the lego website, AND DISCOVERED THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ALL OF THE PARTS!!!!! I am not kidding, their parts selection was terrible, so I am not going to be giving her a custom mini aethersprite.

I'd say custom buy the specific colors for the edge parts, and then buy the regular Delta 7 and just swap out the pieces you can get. *shrug* It's close, and that's how I've got a yellow squadron marked X-Wing (figure scale) more or less.

This is what I want...
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/331/e/d/purple_aethersprite_mk1_by_cazaarmory-d6vw6bx.png)

but in the pick a brick they don't have the bricks I have marked in the color I want.
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/331/c/0/the_parts_i_cannot_get_by_cazaarmory-d6vw726.png)

the sternmost piece marked is an angle plate

See if you can find the instructions to the planet set Delta 7 online, and try mocking it up that way. It uses some stranger pieces for the keel, but all the colored parts are more standard. You MIGHT have better luck finding them in the color you want, but I dunno. Purple is sort of a rarer color for lego bricks, I think... :-\

I'll look but her favourite color is purple, and they don't have much purple, in fact when I select all categories and purple I get only four pages, none of the pieces are what I need in tat color, I have been looking at other ways of obtaining the correct color but I don't think they will work, so I might just get her a red one.

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme)

still missing the xwing :(

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and I may have just placed an order for some more starwars lego  ;D

The old mini set with the Delta 7 and Slave 1 was made with pretty basic pieces IIRC.

The new one's 3 X 1 slants for the most part, as I recall. Somewhat more common than the flat pieces we were looking at a second ago. At least for odd colors, I think. *shrug* I dunno.  :-\

(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/25/sa6une2e.jpg)

Han! IT'S A TRAP!!!!

my Christmas starwars lego haul :D not including the starwars lego advent calendar I've had for December
sad thing is I probably won't be able to build R2 for another week :(

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*Gasp* My wingman Blondie got my fighter!

You fly a Y wing? You sir are braver than i.

I would rather fly a jedi starfighter

I make it rain, son.

that and he's got me in an X-wing as his wingmate

I think i'm gonna go to the starfigher thread now. And the wook. See you there.

Nova One and Nova Two are ready and on standby...

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Then some A Wing decided to come and crash the party

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Can I come play?

most definitely

Hey Lego, you know what we need? We need a new minifig scale B-Wing. We need it bad.... :D

will a mini fig planet B-Wing do the trick?

(http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp195/b1ondeange1/temporary_zps9b905325.jpg) (http://s411.photobucket.com/user/b1ondeange1/media/temporary_zps9b905325.jpg.html)

It would, but they aren't available in the states. I've heard the last series of the planet sets won't be released here because they've done so poorly sales wise. I'm just ticked because they left three of the five I'd actually buy till the last set. :P Punks. lol

So... on to better lego news for myself. Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga for Wii has been obtained. Boo-yah. 8)

Try buying them directly from Lego online? Its what I did.
or Ebay, that's where we got the mini XWing

and sorry for the double post, but R2D2 just managed to make a 2013 build date :D

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(http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp195/b1ondeange1/temporary_zps7b475ca3.jpg) (http://s411.photobucket.com/user/b1ondeange1/media/temporary_zps7b475ca3.jpg.html)

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I now have 5 R2D2 legos and a further 5 astromech mini figs :D

and while im sharing Lego pics- the mini figs from my advent calendar

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I have completely and utterly rang out of room in my cabinet for my Lego, they are piled up everywhere at the moment  :-\ guess im gonna have to go shopping for another cabinet soon!

1) I'm very jelly, but I have more Mechs than you, even if you DO have the awesome ginormous R2... lucky...
2) Just awesome on so many levels, I am still jelly. lol
3) Can't seem to find them on the site... at least not on the US version. :/
4) Considering the amount of lego I own, and how much non-lego junk I need to get rid of, 3 is probably a good thing!  :D
5) Ebay is not my best friend. lol

Again, congrats. That R2 is EPIC!

Man... I wish I got any of the sets you got, but the only LEGO set I actually got was the 2012 Clone Battlepack.
WOOT! RED CLONES FTW! (<-- finally learned what this meant last week!)
LEGO does need to make a set with an Orange 'Mech, preferably one with the new trapezoid head.
Then I just need to be the luckiest person alive and find one of the blank rebel pilot helmets, and then AND THEN!!! I'd do the smart thing!
Make a Nova Sigfig...

Actually, though ebay and I aren't the best of friends, I picked my blank pilot up there for something like three bucks I think. Granted, that was a year ago, but still. They aren't as hard to get as you might think. ;)

So, you've got a LEGO you? Pics?

Thankyou, thankyou. R2 is pretty damn awesome if I do say so myself :D fair few build hours in there too.

I just had a look on the US lego shop and 2 wows- you definitely don't have as many listings as us, the Aus store has all these new listings under the Star Wars Lego section. Though a lot of items have been taken down in the last month- we now don't have any of the planet series listed. and OMG you guys pay a lot less than what we do in Aus!!!! to give you an idea, the SSD and death star are US$399- on the Australian Lego online shop they are AUS$699  :-\

1) Pics... I shall need to be getting around to.

2) Yeah, from what I understand, everything lego gets released overseas first, and the US comes last. :(

3) Buy American! WOOT! lol (and actually, if you can believe it, lego has a rep for being one of the more expensive toys around here. With comparisons like that, I don't feel like we're getting the bum deal so much anymore. Feel bad for you Aussies though! :-\

Yep, Lego has same rep here- and you can see why! :P But just about everything is stupidly more expensive here in AUS than America, esp when it comes to things like electronics and video games, its BS. But I won't go any further into that discussion :)
pics are a must!

Pic as requested! Admittedly though, my customization really just comes down to swapping out standard minifig parts. No painting or decals.

(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h158/Manroon/Mobile%20Uploads/1388635260_zps1e976cc1.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/Manroon/media/Mobile%20Uploads/1388635260_zps1e976cc1.jpg.html)

Now, From right to left we have standard me, pilot me, and original version me. The right most one is the current version. I think you can see an old lego santa behind him. lol Oh, and going further left we also have Mikey, and waaaaay off to the far edge is Marty McFly!  8)

Whoa, Manny is a B1 Battledroid!  This explains much.

*slaps kev* I sorta figured the one didn't need to be named...

damn you you beat me to it lol :P

Don't abuse me!

Nice! My customs really aren't much different  :-\ but one day, one day! I will make decals...

Honestly, at this point, the stock lego pieces are getting so good, and there are so many of them out there... I think the only decals or paint work I'd want would be for personal insignia on a helmet or piece of armor. You can pretty much get whatever type of armor, helmet, shirt, or legs you want these days. lol

I bought this set JUST because it had Admiral Ackbar.
Now I just need Kit Fisto...But if I had the $60 for that set, I'd probably be saving it for another saber...

Threadsurrection?

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That's one adorable YT

Thanks. I took a one of those little mini Falcon things and reworked it for a YT-2000.

I got a vulture droid and a jedi interceptor the other day.

i REALLY need to get that second cabinet  :-\ Ive had to squish up my rock collection to squeeze them into the cupboard- and i still have a pile of lego that haven't made it that far

Thread revival!

so today I may have gotten a little excited about all the cool new starwars lego, and decided to buy some ive been meaning to get... plus they were all on sale. Dont think of it as how much I spent, but how much I saved! :P

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And the first one made up
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Oh and for all you starwars lego fans, my partner found this at our local toy store and got a photo for me (I may have to go there myself to have a looksee!). Yes, it is a life sized Darth Vader built from Lego!

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The Lego store in downtown Disney here has a model of the Executor that makes me drool every time.

I wish they had Star Wars stuff in the build your own minifig bins at the Lego store. My life would then be complete.

 Yeah no Lego stores here sadly. Hopefully one day I'll visit one

Maybe not.  Screaming kids running amok everywhere and random Lego pieces scattered all over the floor.  Bring a net launcher and set blasters for stun before proceeding.

and my jet pack, so I dont step on the pieces

::Nods sagely.::

Finally got new shelving for my lego. Not display cabinets, none available cheap so normal shelving has to do for now.

problem is I have that many I've already filled it, and I still haven't made my last one up  :-\

btw, if you are umming over whether to get the gunship, you can stop it. Just get it. It is awesome!

I used to have all kinds of legos. Planes, ships, robots... I never had anything star wars though. I kinda wish I had one of those big sets to just make whatever I want with them. Those new sets look very cool though and the Darth Vader is awesome. Maybe I'll just get me some lego figures of some favorite characters lol.

A few of my LEGO Star Wars sets
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My collection, as of a short while ago when I finished putting jabbas palace together :)


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Maaaaaaaaan, I hardly have any Legos compared to that...

Yeah... I ah, didn't realise how many I had while they were all piled up on each other tucked into one shelf. Started putting them into the new bookshelf and thought oh kark, I need another already!

Sigh, couldn't even fit my vault editions of Bounty Hunter's Code, Jedi Path or Book of the Sith in there, which was the original plan  :(

I love the fact I can by Lego and say its for my son I'll post pictures soon

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Just some of the mini figures

For your consideration...

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I've a massive collect of Legos, I'll try and post pictures soon.

This looks more like a lineup for a PnP board game.  :-)

So, which is more expensive, the US habit, or the Lego habit?

for me, currently?

I think they are somewhat neck and neck, or thereabouts

Just started a Lego Star Wars collection few weeks ago...I bought myself a Jedi Starfighter "for fun". Then I thought it was cool so my girlfriend bought me another Starfighter and so on and so on....
I currently own The Ghost, an A-Wing, a B-Wing, a Jedi Interceptor (Anakin's)....Now I want a big one like the Imperial Star Destroyer or something similar by size.....ahh....

I really need to catalogue mine. someday....

For me its the Lego here are some of the instructions I could find  ;) we also have all 12 planets
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I've spent in dollars $900 on Saber's on Lego I've spent maybe $2000 that's star wars Lego.
I'll try and get it all together for a picture accept the planets as they are hanging from my sons ceiling  ;)
We also have Lego city, batman, movie and castle
I say we because its me and my five year old son I build it and he plays with it (like I don't)

I pre-ordered the entire OG series in '98. Then bought up the entire Episode I collection. After that they were purchased as funds allowed, or if I was impresseed with the set. I had everything from the initial EPIII series with Clones in it except the Wookiee Catamoran.

When LEGO Star Wars came out onthe PS2, I had reached ultimate Nerd-vana. Star Wars...LEGOs...video games...all in one. Did life get any better? Of course it could, I'm being rhetorical. Get me a fly nerd honey to play 2P with... NOW WE"RE TALKING.

I got some Lego goodies to add soon! General Grievous's wheel bike and if I can find it the A-wing I built last year to go along with it!

A little something from the 2014 Lego Star Wars advent calender

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Some custom stuff...

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UCS: AT-ST, AT-AT, Sandcrawler
Small ships: X-Wing, Y-Wing, 2x A-Wing, B-Wing, Tie Fighter, Tie Bomber, Snowspeeder, V-Wing, Naboo Flash Speeder (modified)
Larger Vehicle's: Millennium Falcon, Star Destroyer, Jabba's Sail Barge, Republic Gunship, MTT
Endor Base
Mos Eisley Cantina w/ Luke's Landspeeder
Custom Hoth Base

I have a ton of older sets that I don't have put together at the moment as well. I've always enjoyed Galactic Civil War era sets more than Prequel trilogy.
Sorry for the cluttered look (I'm looking at you, Mini Millennium Falcon at the feet of the AT-ST)

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Yeah after Xmas I've got some extras to add to the collection! Forget needing two cabinets when i get em, soon I'm gonna need three.
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Yep....... Another addiction....... nuf said  :)

i actually started to lose interest in the star wars legos until i got back into the clone wars series. i picked up a republic gunship, a AT-TE, Anikin's star fighter, Bwing fighter, T-16 sky hopper, a clone walker that i made from parts laying around and i MOC Imperial Troop Transport. the imperial stuff was mostly after i started to read the books.

I've got three new Lego on hold for pick up this weekend.... Woot!

Also I know its not SW, but I sooooooo want a helicarrier!

Helicarriers are scientifically proven to be the coolest mode of transportation.

definitely! I think us Novas need to get a helicarrier!

That Helicarrier is awesome, OMG.....  :)

I'm a bit scared to mention what my SW lego collection is worth.... I had to re value it for insurance purposes recently and it floored me.... lets just say I went thru years of buying EVERY set available from the first sets in 1999, and many are still un opened....  :o

My favourite was always 7191 Ultimate Collector’s Series X-Wing
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I've got 2, one safely put away and the other proudly on display.... And, also, the newer 10240....

My kids even got ME this last christmas
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very cool  ;D

Awesome even! heehee..  ;D

Has anyone else snagged those SD kits, and anxiously awaiting the next series release?

SD kits? you mean the mini ones with a pilot?

Yes

You know you're crazy when you merge hobbies....... Another of mine 4ch RC helicopters

see my front counter weight to make it fly faster
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Or this, made with the guts of a Blade CX2
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This only flies around the house, because when it crashes, IT crashes, hehe... :D

Okay, point for the stormie in the copter. Thats too cute!

Reviving off the third page or wherever it had been bumped down to!

the Lego I got a few months ago :)

T16 skyhopper and General Grievous' bike (pictured here kinda in the wrong era but eh, I have no room left!)

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Skiff, sarlacc and sail barge

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yes, that is how out of room I am- my poor xwing is being crushed by a z95 :( I really need to buy my new cabinets, problem is finding somewhere to put them!

Finally got the Red Five X-wing that I have been wanting for ages! This is my little X-wing family  :D

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Is that a newer version of the UCS X-Wing? I have a UCS, too, but it looks different from the one you have. I think my model is the first release because it's already several years old...around 15 xD

It looks like this: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41A8RZRBAFL.jpg

I even have its counterpart, the TIE Interceptor...UCS, of course :D It's also the same age as my X-Wing, belonging to the same UCS series from that time...

Those were the first two. I have the TIE as well. I also really want the UCS Snowspeeder and the Lambda class Shuttle. I've had to resolve myself to never owning the UCS Falcon. That thing was stupid huge.

I'm late to this thread.  I have a massive SW Lego collection.  I came out of my dark ages around 2003/2004.
I have most of the OT themed sets released to date and have most of the early prequel sets as well (until I realized why am I buying these I hate the PT films).   I didn't bother with any clone wars stuff or any of the other EU theme content.

My crown jewel is an unopened UCS MF.   I have basically all the UCS sets except the recent Slave 1, TIE, the latest Sandcrawler and the Ewok village.   

I hate you with all the Sith rage I can muster. I'm coming over tying you up and make you watch as I build it. >:D MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You also just made me google all this stuff and I want it all. When did they make a UCS TIE Bomber?

Lol.  First celebration Anaheim and now this.   You must control your anger.  Wait... You're a sith... nevermind, carry on.   ;D


They haven't.  Not yet.

Then somebody did a kick @$$ job on their own. Google Image "LEGO TIE Fighter" you should be able to find it.

There are a lot of amazing builds out there that ppl manage. The local Lego builders club have a few pretty amazing ucs lego- and a MASSIVE endor set up. Complete with a destroyed at-st, a few more atsts, log trap, bunker, shuttle platform and part of an ewok village. One of the local guys on a local FB page for star wars Lego collectors has an amazing collection- hes got something like 6 or 7 large star destroyers and super star destroyers sitting next to each other on one display shelf plus a couple of SSDs he hasn't built yet.... And that's just one shelf. His collection of ucs, mini figs, kits of all sizes.... They just go on and on and on.... So jealous.

And yes the xwing is the newer ucs :) I only started collecting SW Lego a couple of years ago. Id love an SSD but missed out :( too expensive now they are out of production. I would like to save up and get a sandcrawler and a helicarrier however- I only collect sw but that helicarrier is just too sweet. Speaking of marvel... Wish I had a pic of a friends lego iron man armoury. Its pretty awesome :D

Got bored over the weekend, and treated myself to the latest version of Grievous' unicyle. Got it more for the CW Grievous figure, but turned out to be impressed by the set's design. Win for LEGO.

yeah I got it for the Grievous mini fig as well and coz it was on sale :) wasn't so worried about the vehicle part but it was a nice little build

I did the same for the original release, except I was a bit irked I dropped $20 on such a pitiful set just to get Grievous. It was much better spent on his starship.

OK WTF? I was goofing around on Google this morning and stumbled across quite possibly the most beautiful UCS set I have ever seen. SEBULBA'S PODRACER. How have I never seen this before?

I love seeing all these Lego displays, and the UCS sets look amazing.  They are just so expensive.  :-[

I might just have to try and get my hands on a B-Wing anyway.  I would love a TIE Interceptor and a Y-Wing too but those things seem to be a bit more rare. 

I do have several cheaper Lego sets, an X-Wing, B-Wing, I think I have a small Echo Base set, set of three podracers (Anakin, Sebulba and Gasgano), probably more but that is all that comes to mind at the moment.  No pics though as they are in various stages of assembly in a box in my work shop.   

I've got the B-Wing on the way!  Wooo!
First Lego set I have bought possibly since Episode I came out. 

Whoa, dude. That's way too long. ;D Enjoy your building experience.

Yes, it has been way too long.  I have always loved the B-Wing design so it was the obvious choice, and one of the cheapest.  Wish I had known about the UCS sets as they came out.  I would have been all over those.  Sadly the Y-Wing and Tantive IV will probably never happen.

I've always been partial to the Lambda Class Shuttle.

I forgot that one.  It's now a top 3 I would like that probably won't happen.    
The SSD looks amazing, but where would you put the thing?  :D

Is it the TIE Fighter or Interceptor that you have?

Problem with the SSD is its price. Now it is no longer made, its price has skyrocketed. It was AUD$700 before, but now it has skyrocketed to circa AUD$1 000 so I REALLY cant afford it now! :( so sad. And if I had it, I would FIND a place for it! :D

I have an acquaintance who buys and sells Lego on the lookout for the sandcrawler cheap for me. He also said he has some older ARC-170 models (said friend has the SSD for like $900 but that's way out of the budget). so methinks it is time to raid the piggy bank.... best thing was, he is used to seeing me in my Jedi outfit, when I appeared in front of him in my bright blue Spartan at the last fair he did a double take :D that was great hehe. He can also custom make glass and Perspex display cases, so I'm thinking I might get some for my UCS Lego.

You could try to do what I did for that one which was to "bricklink" it.   That's another way of saying piece-meal it through sourcing the parts required to build it.  (Primary sources include bricklink.com and Lego's own online replacement parts service).

I did that project a few months ago.   Tally came to around $400 CAD for the parts plus shipping for those various parts orders.   That was just for the ship though.  Does not include mini figs, original instruction manual or the decal sheet.   Just the ship.   I didn't really care about the figs, the manual is not really needed because they're all scanned and available online for free, and there are replica decal sheets available out there much cheaper than what people are selling originals for.    In the end I didn't really save anything over original msrp.   But I did manage to get the ship for much less than it otherwise would've cost in the current secondary market.

Picking up these 2 sets in a couple hours....... Woo Hoo  ;D

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*drool*, I just can't get enough of the new X-wing's colors!

Aw snit. I think daddy needs a new X-wing.

Can't say I'm a huge fan of the new Incom T70 over the old Incom T65 X wing. It's just something about those wings  :-\

I have yet to look at the new Lego, I've been a good girl and until yesterday avoided looking at any Force Friday stuff so my wallet wouldn't suffer BEFORE I went on vacation.

That X wing shall have to join the other three in my collection however!

I am really liking the look of the new TFA Lego sets, however do I feel that some of them are way overpriced.

Best rule of thumb for buying LEGOs. If you can get 100pcs for every $10 of the price, it's good. Things to pay attention to also are what kind of specialized pieces does the set include as well. Things that they can't readily use in other themes.

I would have gone for Kylo Ren's ship, just to get Kylo Ren, but I really hated its design. I went for Rey's Speeder and an AT-AT. Holy kriffing BIG. I'll try to post pics later.

Lego set pricing is also dependent on the number of mini figures that are in it (and to some degree the rarity of the mini fig). Those two sets pictured have a fair few mini figs and therefore will cost quite a bit compared to a similar sized set with say just two mini figs.

Just be thankful that you don't live in Aus. A $450- 500 set from the US Lego shop is $700 in the Aus Lego Shop. I wouldn't be surprised if that's gone up because of the weak Aus dollar

The biggest difference is the engine intake is bigger and splits when the s-foils open where as the t-65 has a separate intake for each.

And the offset s-foils too..... and I really like the cockpit glass piece on this new lego x-wing set, compared to 9493  :)
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Never noticed the wing difference before. 

They're not intakes.  A space ship doesn't have intakes.  Those are actually the forward sensor arrays.  Don't feel too bad,  it had to be explained to me once too. But I know what area you're talking about.  ;D

Everything that I have read indicates that the sensor array is housed in the nosecone and that the part in question is part of the engine and not a sensor.  I will concede the point that space ships don't have air intakes even if they behave like airplanes in the movies.

If memory serves, I refer you to the original OT cut-away book. I might be wrong about the sensors, but I'm 100% positive that they aren't engine parts.

I unfortunately don't have that book.  I was going off what I read in various novels and on wookieepedia.

The offset wings and half engine looks is what puts me off. Not a fan, I prefer the older style.

If I had my Rebels blueprints book I'd look at that buuutttt... its something like 3 400km away atm. Makes it difficult :P.

Pretty sure the sensor arrays were in the nose though?

Let's see if this works...

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If not, I was mistaken. The sensors are in the nose. The conical bits are EM gyros, effectively stabilizers. The deflector shield gennies are also housed in that cylindrical section. But the "intakes" are not intakes.

Now pods have intakes.

I like this new X-Wing design(don't get me wrong T65 is #1). That's a very nice set, too bad Lego sets are too expensive for me right now.

You need to be saving up anyway. You got a date coming up. ;D

No, I need to be saving up, because I don't have a job. lol

That too. I never heard back from you on the "other" thread.

Yea I was a little put off when I saw the first Ep.VII trailer of the offset wings, but its grown on me, and this new set is VERY cool, to me anyway...... And  also very cool in black & orange..... Agree, the T65 has a special place in my heart also  :-*   and I'm guessing Lego will milk it and bring out a new set of the T65 with that newer glass piece real soon......   :D

They'll milk eps VII first. If they bring out another T65 it'll probably be later down the track.

In other news I went into a hobby store today and found a heap of the new star wars lego. Thank the Force I don't have room in my luggage to take them back on the plane with me!

I see a possible Lego order in my near future however....

I can't afford Legos!  ::sobs::

There there wing mate *pats shoulder sympathetically*

Don't worry Kev, I can't afford Legos either.

So I know it isn't Star Wars Lego, but I thought I'd share this coz its cool. Replica Lego model of the Melbourne Star Observation Wheel

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Pretty cool, the whole thing slowly turns on its four motors and the little pods turn as well so that they always remain upright like in the real thing (cept for the poor guy in the red, he's not having such a great day :P )

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Orrrrr is it a Star Wars Lego in disguise?! :D

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Admitedly, I got excited at seeing little SW figurines in there :P I also spotted a Robin figurine running down one side tehe

Hey, I'll pay $30 for that all day. :o

Very Cool...... Is that at the Wheel?  ha, I live in Melb and not been yet, guess I gotta go see now....... I do see it lit up as I drive past some nights, fun light show :)

Yep, in the gift shop :) the wheel is pretty cool, some nice sights on it

anyone got a spare AU$34,000  :o . . . What the . . .

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/321865719088

Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Series (UCS) Lego

List of sets in the collection are -

7181 Tie Fighter Interceptor - Used but set is complete with box and instructions
7191 X-Wing Fighter - Brand new and never built. All seals are broken on box but interior bags are ok
7194 Yoda - Brand new and never built with all seals on box intact
10018 Darth Maul - Brand new and never built but all seals on box are broken. All interior boxes and bags are ok
10019 Rebel Blockade Runner - Brand new and never built. All seals are broken on box but interior bags and boxes are intact
10123 Cloud City - Brand new and never built.
10026 Naboo Starfighter - Used and comes without original box. Set has been built once whilst I have owned it and all parts are accounted for.
10030 Imperial Star Destroyer - Brand new and never built. Seals are broken but all internal bags and boxes are intact
10129 Rebel Snowspeeder - Used but set is complete
10131 Tie Fighter Collection - Brand new and never built. Comes with box still in original clear wrapping (used for transport) and store pricing sticker on it.
10134 Y-Wing Attack Fighter - Used but set is complete
10143 Death Star II - Brand new and never built. 2 of the 4 original seals on the set are broken
10144 Sandcrawler - Brand new and never built with all seals intact
10174 Imperial AT-ST - Used but set is complete
10175 Vaders Tie Fighter Advanced - Used but set is complete and all ok
10178 Motorised Walking AT-ST - Brand new and never built with all seals intact
10179 Millenium Falcon - Brand new and never built with all seals intact. Also comes inside original LEGO shipping box
10188 Death Star (First Version) - Brand new and never built with all seals intact. Also comes inside original LEGO shipping box
10195 Republic Dropship with AT-OT - Brand new and never built with all seals intact
10198 Tantive IV - Brand new and never built with all seals intact
10212 Imperial Shuttle - Used but set is complete
10215 Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter - Used but set is complete
10221 Super Star Destroyer - Brand new and never built with all seals intact
10225 R2-D2 - Brand new and never built with all seals intact
10227 B-Wing Starfighter - Brand new and never built with all seals intact

So earlier, Darth Abaddon and I went to an antique and collectibles store. They had a TON of old Star Wars toys. Nothing vintage, but a lot of 90' Shadows of the Empire and Power of The Force, ROTS, AOTC, TPM, Clone Wars, vintage carded modern, and 30th Anniversary. Basically all modern, but out of production non the less.

And of coarse there were a few older LEGO sets that are no longer being produced. If anyone's interested in a specific set, let me know. I'll look into it, and we can work something out.

Oh...my...God...Becky....Look at that box. It's sooo big.

Just FYI. I hate you for showing me this.

Neat.  When waiting in line to board the High Roller observation wheel here in Vegas, you pass by a similar Lego version of the HR wheel.



And, back on topic, I just got around to picking up Poe's X-Wing, I'll probably build it this weekend or maybe early next week, when time allows.  I've already done the TIE.  Not sure if I'll get the new Falcon next, or the First Order transport thingy.

Also have an urge to shop around for the pieces to convert a Poe's X-Wing into the regular T-70, so white and blue rather than black and orange, I guess I can at least make notes as I go through the build and do some looking around to see how much the pieces would cost.

I don't think I've ever been able to wait to build a LEGO set.......ever.

The new Falcon I thought was very impressive. The First Order thingy...not so much. It has about as much design flash as a Borg cube.

I've waited, often if i get a couple of sets I'll build one then wait a few days before building the next.

I figure I already have one Falcon, I'd rather spend the AUD$250 on buying some other sets. I'm currently looking for a sandcrawler, I'm eyeing off the naboo starfighter and the shuttle and I might just bite the bullet and get the AT-AT while its still around.

If it's a set for my son, I'll build it with him present, although that can be a little distracting, as he wants to play with any bit I've finished as soon as he can see what it is.

Sets for ME, though...I prefer to do those when I've got the house to myself, or everyone's asleep.   ;D  Particularly the big collector's sets, and those will usually be built over the course of two or three evenings, although there are times I'll stay up far too late to get something done, like when I built Red 5 or the big collector's TIE/ln.  I've been sitting on an unbuilt Slave I for a few months while I try to figure out where I'll display it when it's done.

That's my current problem. I have absolutely no space left. I would barely even be able to fit in a tiny set. My Red  5 xwing is currently sitting on top of my bounty hunters code vault because there is nowhere else for it which I'm sure is real good for it  ::) Hubby just built the Halo Megabloks Mammoth which is huge and I think it is living on the floor of the loungeroom for the time being, with his other Halo sets put into it as storage. I need to get a new cabinet but that requires forking out a hunk of $$$, especially since I'll have it filled the moment it is set up and will need to buy another one soon after.

Okay, I'm going to add some incentive for my first semester at UNLV.  If I get A grades on all four of my classes, I'll find, buy, and build the Executor, and MAKE room to display it.

I did for Force Friday. Scratch my last. I waited like 12 hrs. I built my Rey's Speeder that night, but waited until I had a solid 4-5hr chunk to build that monster. It's bigger than my dog. ;D ;D ;D They did a superb job on the details. I might give parts of my anatomy if they ever did a UCS version with speeders in the boot.

finally got the first of my new cabinets. instantly filled it

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yes I know, there's megabloks and they aren't SW :P also the planets wont be living there permanently it was just a convenient place until i figure out how I'm hanging them. Also the Naboo Starfighter set is new. very cool, lots of extra bits. Very tempted to get a second one

Verrry nice! Lego point!

Lego Points  ;D . . . I like it  :)

+1 B1ondeange1 & magik0012  8)

Todays much needed retail therapy:

Imperial Shuttle Tydirium

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(Leia's chillin' on the other side of the shuttle)

Also a close up of my Naboo Starfighter. It only came with two droidekas but I had another two just sitting about and thought they'd look good here :)
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(Excuse the planets just hanging about everywhere, I still haven't permanently located them)

Why is Australia so far away!?  I wanna come over and play!

If I could teleport you over here wingmate I would  ;D Beam him over Scotty!

You spoiled brat. I have always loved that ship.

I can't say anything though. I grabbed the Big Bang Theory set for dad's B-day and all the S6 Mixels last weekend and got the freebie hotel set, and I'm trying to figure out what else to get besides the new Wall-E set in order to get the freebie this week. ;D I'm so weak.  :'(

I need to find a place for the big collector's Slave I, but even more than that, I have to be ready, after Thanksgiving, to start putting together the Winter Village sets.  My wife objected, long ago, when she noticed that Great Cthulhu had risen in the middle of her Dickens Christmas Village display, so my son and I are going to have our own village, in which we can have dragons and Sith Lords and everything in between.

Cthulhu ain't so "great". If he was, he's be prettier.

I love my wife dearly, but she can be terribly, terribly oblivious.  This particular Cthulhu stands about 16" tall, to the top of the wings:

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And she didn't notice him in her village for about a week and a half.  With the village on the coffee table, right in front of the TV.

WOOOOWWWWW. Props on the 10% approval.

I'm on a roll this week. Here is my latest addition. I've also got a B wing waiting to be built. That's what happens when you go to toy fairs!

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B wing! I love the way the cockpit self levels.

Okies no more Lego for me until I get the Sandcrawler and (hopefully) the Helicarrier- I don't collect any lego but SW but for that I will make an exception!

On a cute note: I got a freebie Lego with my shuttle and decided to give it to my 9 yr old nephew. I didn't need it and I knew he would love it. It went down an absolute treat! He disappeared completely for a while after I gave it to him, then came back proudly showing it off all built. Then he started bringing out more of his Lego to show off to me, THEN he brought out his huge box of assorted Lego so that him and me could build cars together. Not quite what I had in mind for my evening when I went to the relies place for a BBQ, but he loved it so thats all that matters :D

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I have a bunch of the original star wars legos including x wing, tie fighter, snowspeeder, y wing, vaders tie and imperial shuttle.    I also have the following ucs sets that I need to build now that I have display shelves installed in my basement.  Ucs  tie fighter that was released in may, the red 5 x wing ucs, slave 1 ucs, and obi wan jedi star fighter ucs.

I am also planning on buying the rumored ghostbusters HQ set that lego is supposedly releasing sometime in 2016.  It will go nicely with the ecto 1 lego set I have.

So I have a sandcrawler and helicarrier on their way  ;D

You spoiled brat. I'm jealous.

Well one is an xmas present of sorts- im asking people for money towards it. The other is an xmas present to myself :D

I am currently broke as well however :P but ive been saving up for a long time

I know how that goes. I've actually been thankful that US hasn't been running any great deals, so I don't feel torn about being responsible.

Many of my sets are set up around my cubicle at work.  I'm the de facto Star Wars guy, and the Lego sets help me stay amused at the office.

Currently, an X-Wing, B-wing, snowspeeder, a Lego Planet Tie Interceptor, mini Falcon, mini ATAT, and Imperial Landing Craft have shelf space, along with Bilbo's House (which relatives gave in lieu of more Star Wars sets.)

haha, i love that, 'and bilbos house' :) nice little collection, I sadly cant keep such things at my work. Closest i get is i have a lego r2 on my keyring and a yoda on my bag, and at xmas i tell work they can stuff it and put a musical soft toy on the counter. the kids love it! not that its happening this year since im off until the new year!

good to see you resurfacing here Ed :) do you sometimes zoom the ships around with appropriate sound effects while no one is looking? I totally would :D

No, but I have idly fired the harpoon cable from the snowspeeder while on a work call.  I enjoy my job, so it isn't so bad.

Point given for that :D

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is now to fly one of the ships around using sound effects and not get caught by a colleague  ;D   ;)

Caught hell - we'd have fun doing it.

We recently had a new-hire class go through, and we gave them a multi-Nerf-gun salute as they paraded.

Of course, I recently Nerf's Rhino-fire from my local Costco - it has two barrels and loads 2 25 dart drums.  2 of my coworkers fired Barricades, which have 18 dart magazines.  We emptied them on that class...

Nice!!! I like the sound of your workplace, no wonder you enjoy it :D

We discovered that BoomCo's dart guns are vicious things, at least compared to the Nerfs we have. I would NOT want to be hit by one of those darts! Course, the Needler's rapid fire function and the 40 round magazine we have for the SMG help that *muahahaha*

I still want to get two Rhinos and make a quad mount AA gun.

Better still if they'd make a MEGA version of the Rhino, so I could feel like it was a quad .50 cal.

On the subject of Lego, though, I still haven't had time (or found the room to display it) to build the big, fancy Slave I.  Also have a First Order troop carrier I need to put together.

And we're coming up on finals.  The only class that's in question is the Spanish Film class, where my papers have thus far garnered an A and two A- grades.  Got another one I haven't gotten back yet, and a final paper to do.  All my other classes have VERY firm A grades.  It's almost to the point I could go into my History 101 final, sign my name, and draw doodles and still get an A.

I hope the Spanish Film class doesn't hold me back from getting the Executor in Lego... I really, really want to build that thing.

I've eye-balling those Halo blasters at TRU. I'm very tempted to park a needler on my desk to ward off stupid requests. >:D

the Lego advent calendar opening has begun :D so far I have a tiny sarlacc and a tiny sail barge.

Still waiting impatiently for my big Lego to arrive! shouldn't be too much longer now!

How about a spoiler alert for those of us on Pacific US time?    :P  My son's not awake yet for us to open our SW Lego advent calendars.

 ;)

Ah, sorry, I occasionally forget about being ahead. I shall keep any updates one day behind the current then

Well while I am still waiting for my sandcrawler which i am not happy with Lego about, my helicarrier finally arrived. The box is massive!

I decided to test drive one of the Minecraft sets this weekend. I'm not into the game at all, but the build was so enjoyable, I did it twice in one evening.

Very happy Blondie this morning  ;D

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Though I have absolutely no idea where I'm gonna put the damn things once they are built.... its a wee bit full.

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Got an A- on my Spanish Film class.  No Executor for me, not this semester, at least.

 :'(

hopefully next semester.

This is sooo cool Blondie . . . . +1  8)

You inspire me to display mine, mostly my sets are in clear storage boxes in a cupboard, and thats just not right  :-[ . . . 2016, a perfect year to finally put my Star Wars lego on display . . .  :)

Fishing line, and hang it from the ceiling.

yeah... i had a couple of my SW lego ships hanging from shelves above in last cabinet and the planets will all eventually get hung up. Sadly the helicarrier is very heavy and we live in a rental, dont think itd be a popular move to hang lego from the ceiling :P

I would post pictures of my helicarrier except photobucket has decided now of all times not to work for me  >:(

You could strategically place small hooks, enough to distribute the weight, then when/if you move out, simply stucco the holes.

I am getting an Obi-Wan Clone Wars kit, and the wife is getting a Rey kit. We bought them at LegoLand in Grapevine TX over the Thanksgiving holiday.

I need another cabinet. Ive still got all the Lego and Megabloks on the top there to get into cabinets, plus more unmade Megabloks, plus my Bandai SW kits, plus four Vault edition books. And the sandcrawler under the Xmas tree. Issue is always trying to get one wide enough, the xwing needs half metre depth and the gunship even more. a local guy makes acrylic cases for em, so I'm thinking that'll have to be the solution at least until we have our own house and get a heap of display cabinets custom made up.

Photobucket is now playing nice- while it aint SW, I'm sure you wanna see it anyway ;) It's something like 86cm (close to three ft) in length, and has a fair bit of weight in it.

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The cute little command centre inside. I think the tiny mini figs will stay in there for safe keeping, at least until it has a permanent home.
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For now it will live on the kitchen table. There is the option to purchase a power set to add to it that has lights and a motor to make all the turbines spin- atm they just turn with a hand winder. Hubby thankfully has a heap of technics motors sitting around doing nothing and so one of those is going in. I'll wire up a heap of LEDs for interior plus running lights and get it a battery pack. That should be pretty cool :D it might make me want to motorise my Lego R2 lol.

Got the new LEGO catalog in the mail just now.  Coming our way early next year are:

Battle on Takodana set, with Maz, Kylo, Finn, and two Stormtroopers
Resistance Troop Transporter, with Leia, 2 Resistance troopers, and Ackbar
FO battle pack, with a small turret gun, 2 Stormtroopers, Technician, and Crew
Resistance Trooper battle pack, with a small speeder, 3 Resistance troopers, and a Resistance officer
And most exciting to me, six more of the 9-10" buildable figures:
FO Stormtrooper
Kylo Ren
Phasma
Rey
Finn
Poe

Speaking of the Build-A-Figure sets, I picked up General Grievous and put him together yesterday.

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That is one big M^(*^%^&(*.

I received Vader and CW Obi-Wan, Anakin's Star Fighter, the Mos Eisley set, and a Droid Gunship.  The figures and Anakin's fighter are put together, but we also have a new cat acclimating to the home, so the Gunship and Mos Eisley are waiting for a bit.

ooooo.... the cantina mos eisley set? I am so tempted to get my hands on another and do a MOC build. One of the local Lego guys has done an amazing job of a 'full sized' cantina.

Lego fun all round! I am currently building my sandcrawler *squee*

I approve of this thread, I work at a Lego store lol. I got 2 first order snowspeeders, and the microfighters aat. I'm planing on getting poe's x-wing with my Christmas money! Stop by the Lego store in Bellevue sometime, I might just be there!

If you're still working there come June, maybe I'll see you.  We're taking a trip up to Washington to visit family.

Yay, more build-a-figures.

The LEGO store was out of all of them except Poe and Phasma, so I got just those.

The new blaster rifle assemblies are kind of neat.

This sandcrawler build actually makes me want to take breaks from it. I've never had that before with Lego. The tracks were a b!$ch. 304 pieces total for all 8 tracks. Frustrating

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Sigh it is done. I never thought I'd say this, but I'll be glad to have a break from Lego building!


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My poor cabinet is now so so full :(

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Two more Build-A-Figures down.  Stormtrooper and Ren are done.

In a week or so, I'll probably get Finn and Rey.  Then, I've already got the urge to pick up at least one more Stormtrooper, so that I can use LEGO bits and pieces to make the stun baton so I can have a Finn/TR-8R battle scene.

Edit:  Actually, I think I'll just make the stun baton and set up the duel scene occasionally.  Simpler and cheaper. 

I was so peeved at Toys R Us. I went there New Year's Eve looking for the night's potential entertainment, and they were still ridiculously picked over from Christmas. They use to always have the "next year's" stuff before the next year even showed up.  >:( PEEVED.

However they did end up having what I went for in the first place. I got the Minecraft "the Mine". Seriously need to be examined. Not a fan of the game, but absolutely love the LEGO sets.

PS: I know this has nothing to do with Star Wars LEGOs, but having difficulty finding just an "Every other kind of LEGO thread."

Setting up a non-SW-LEGO thread.

I'm changing my name to KDY .... 'cause I just built this:

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KDY?


Is anyone else finding it difficult to procure Series 3 Microfighters? All I've seen is the stupid FO snow speeder thing, and now not even that.

I honestly don't know why they did that of the FO craft. They could have done Kylo's ship, or a drop ship with Phasma, or at least a TIE to counter the X-wing. >:(

I had to hit google for this, but in a search for KDY the first link that came up was the Kuat Drive Yards entry on Wookieepedia.  KDY created the ISD, so I guess that's why the name change?

And now it all makes perfect sense. Point

Geez, Star Wars fans not knowing what KDY is.... What is the galaxy coming to?  :P

See here for complete history and background: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kuat_Drive_Yards/Legends  

Briefly, they were responsible for the Imperial Star Destroyer and Super Star Destroyer, and all of the varients of both.  But they also built the entire Republic fleet used during the Clone Wars, including the drop ships and AT-TE's.  Over their history, they built and/or designed A LOT of starships and ground assault vehicles.

I almost forgot, they also built the ion cannon used by the Rebellion on Hoth.

Excuse my language, but holy frelling shell that is frelling amazing! I remember I used to be so happy building a small house when I was a kid, but now I don't even have the patience to play Jenga. Those are amazing!!!!!  :D :D
How long does it usually to build something like that?
I can just see myself breaking my fingers trying to construct that lol

Yeah, did I mention it's just over 2 feet long?

It took Saturday to build it, but I did take a number of breaks to do other stuff.  The most important lesson I learned is that I'm not a kid any more, and sitting on the floor to put it together was not the best idea.  When I tried to stand up....well, tried is the operative word there.

Its it auto-corrected all my curse words lol.

Hahah, it must have been a huge hassle. When I was kid I could spend hours letting my imagination run. I just don't the patience or the time to do that anymore. I'm glad you at least built something worth holding on too for a very long time. That is truly remarkable and to build in one day is also a great achievement.

Yeah SF is a family friendly place, hence swear words are censored. It makes it a much nicer place to be :) I'll admit I swear a bit in person but in more social situations esp with ppl I don't know it is a nicer thing to not have it :)

The helicarrier is something around 80cm long and man that thing is awesome and took a long time! I savoured it by building it bit by bit over better part of a week, made the enjoyment last longer! :D the sandcrawler was the same, though after building 8 tracks I was beginning to get a bit frustrated and wanted it built already! First time I've ever been relieved not to have more building! I usually open up the sofa lounge and spread out on that, or I have a board that I put a non slip mat on and work off that on my lap or in front of me- best thing ever because the Lego bits don't slip off it! :D I also sort my bags into containers most of the time with larger builds, makes it easier :)

Who's hyped about the LEGO Star Wars TFA videogame coming out this summer?

That's why I have taken to building at the kitchen table. My old bones just can't take extended periods Indian-style on the floor, particularly my knees, ankles and butt.


LEGO question to those that collect. Has anybody been able to figure out why the Snowspeeder was light grey in the original 1999 release, but every iteration since has been white?

Meh. They would be better served to be patient and wait for a full trilogy. But their greedy. >:( :P

My guess is that they'll do something like back in '05 when they went from "LEGO Star Wars" to "LEGO Star Wars the Complete Saga" and just add it on later and incorporate it all into one big videogame (What if they remade TCS levels and eventually made a game that includes 1-9, anthology, and/or Clone Wars and Rebels? That'd be cool). They may even do it as the motherlode of DLC. But either way, trust me. They'd can't afford not to. Think of all the $$$ they'd be able to make  :D

<drool>

TCS had its glitches, but IMO was one of the best LEGO games. But the thing is, all TCS did was combine the two previous PS2 games. Each was still a complete trilogy worth of levels. Imagine how boring and lame the first LSW would have been if it was just TPM. This is what worries me about TFA.

Haven't played it yet but I remember LEGO the Hobbit came out before DoS, and they didn't release another after BO5A, so did the one game incorporate all 3 parts?

It was originally planned to, but TT never followed through ( still mad about that).

Yet another company I will have to enslave purchase when I when the next uber-powerball.

The first X-Wing was grey also . . . just the style at the time I guess . . . and I remember when they changed the minifig faces from yellow to skin colour, lol . . .

I've got all the lego sets from 1999 to 2004, then the odd sets here and there since (just couldn't keep up buying them all) . . . I've still got the first UCS Star Destroyer (10030), the box un-opened and un-touched, never got around to building it, and now I'm not sure if I should even open the box  :o . . . always wished I'd bought the UCS Millennium Falcon (10179) . . .  :)

I'm beginning to think the reason they did so was to keep from having to create a shade that was halfway between their light grey and white, and just opted to make the "Incom" ships white.

i used to have the Clone Trooper gunship and X-wing sets...like an idiot i gave them up :(

I still have every LEGO I have ever received. About 30 years worth. Still want more.

oh man i was pressured into giving them in high school..when a hot girl told me i was a child for keeping them

Sucker. Never compromise who are for a piece of trim. Looks fade, but intellect and personality will endure. Choose your pursuits with care.

Well, he did say he was in high school.  I'm not sure how many guys are looking for intellect at that point in life.  :P

True. But he's older now. And when I was his age, I still hadn't figured it out.

yeah i am much older now...been 9 years since i graduated...i graduated in 2007. there are a few things i never gave up that i still collect that others might consider nerdy

You are in good company here then.  You should see my home office.  ;D

i'm still a huge anime and video game nut..and still love anything comic book related. i have a handful of comic books. and crap ton of yu-gi-oh cards! i still have digimon cards too! i used to collect pokemon but sorta lost interest in them lol all the changes!! its kinda why stopped on yu-gi-oh as well but there a bit cooler looking so i kept them all of them and only kept some of my pokemon cards.

Exactly. I'm in high school and many people think (and tell me) I'm a kid because I have tons of LEGO sets all over the place (In fact, I'm looking at my fire station right now). I've got minifigs displayed on my mantle, said fire station is beside me on my desk, I've got floating shelves displaying houses, Batmobiles, Iron Man suits, and a space shuttle, amongst MANY other things.  I love my LEGO and have had people tell me I shouldn't be into it. Really it all boils down to the same thing as with US, and the saber combat hobby itself. It's about where your priorities lie. What interests and hobbies you're willing to pursue. If other people think you're weird, that's fine. It's their opinion. Just words. They don't pay your bills. They don't clothe and feed you.



ME ME ME ME ME

When I was a senior in Industrial Tech, I spent a solid year working on projects that involved LEGOs. The first semester was spect using the school's Dacta sets to develop a walker. It shuffled nicely, but I wasn't able to implement all my designs before I had to finish it off.

2nd semester project I used designs that I brought from home to develop a race program (pamphlet not game). At the time it was just a pipe dream, but I've never let the idea die. It just kept getting refined over the next 17 years, until I worked out how to turn it into a screenplay. ;D

Good for you.  That whole thing is deserving of a DS point.  8)

Thanks! +1 for you too.

I have a Republic Attack Cruiser and an Imperial Star Destroyer on a shelf in my room. I wanted to get the Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer, but there's absolutely no room for displaying something of that scale. Plus, I'd constantly be in fear of it falling because of... an earthquake or something.

Trust me, I've already had an... 'accident' with my Republic Attack Cruiser. Turns out they're a lot harder to put back together without the instructions.

Last week I accidently knocked all me LEGO off one of my floating shelves. Luckily most of it landed on my bed, but my LEGO Creator Beach House wasn't so lucky.  :'( :'(

Half a month ago my Bionicle Thornatus straight up rolled off the side of my cabinet where I set it. It's been up there for a while and when it came crashing down while I was changing clothes it scared the heebity jeebities out of me. Luckily, it's made with Technic parts, so no real damage was done. I guess it was because I moved the Axalara a few days prior and it didn't have anything to keep it from rolling, so eventually it did. Sadly I don't have the Skopio vehicle anymore to complete the set because I disassembled it for... reasons.

Did I mention that Bionicle vehicles have really dumb names?

(http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.completeset.com/stories/attachments/955/content_lego-captain-rex-s-at-te-set-75157-4.jpg)

WANT THIS!!!

Not sure if cool or rediculous.

If you're following SW Rebels....it's cool.

I'm following it, but it still looks kinda rediculous.

It was ridiculous, that's what makes the set cool.

Exactly my point

Over the past couple of years, I've turned my home-office into a veritable Sith sanctum.

One thing I do from time-to-time, as a form of therapy for my right hand, and to whittle away a few hours, is build LEGO ships, and hang them from my ceiling - as you would with model fighter jets.

So far I've done three - all Imperial of course...

A Tie prototype:
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w405/seanhewer/2016-03-09%2007.28.35_zpsbedh6cwh.jpg)

An Imperial Fury class interceptor:
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w405/seanhewer/2016-03-09%2007.28.46_zpssmdbyses.jpg)

and a First Order Tie fighter:
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w405/seanhewer/2016-03-09%2007.29.01_zpsxhoqlzam.jpg)

And here is my favourite LEGO dude: Darth Malgus (came w/ the Fury)
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w405/seanhewer/DSC_0765_zpscbzr2fb4.jpg)

A person is never too old for this stuff. :)

This thread needed a bump. And what better way to do so than with this?

(http://legogenre.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/monsterbrick_R2Pi.jpg)

Whoa!

Mission accomplished Darth Logos.

I wish I could say I built it, but I just found the pic on Google.

A point for being honest...a non-Sith characteristic, but noble none-the-less.

Honesty accomplishes so much more than deceit.

If I had a lot more time and money, I'd do a whole series of those.  I've got the instructions that came with my R2-D2, the rest is just figuring out which bits in which colors you need.

Hey all,

I decided to add my first major Lego piece.  SLAVE 1    :o

(http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah171/rodtinknpete/Misc%20StarWars%20pics/AEE4B773-D9D3-440B-8852-DB0FB7A5A11A_zpss1amxtdc.jpg)[/URL[URL=http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/rodtinknpete/media/Misc%20StarWars%20pics/8B7CCA2B-D51C-4D01-A301-541D9D64B467_zpsn5ayhcbi.jpg.html](http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah171/rodtinknpete/Misc%20StarWars%20pics/8B7CCA2B-D51C-4D01-A301-541D9D64B467_zpsn5ayhcbi.jpg) (http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/rodtinknpete/media/Misc%20StarWars%20pics/AEE4B773-D9D3-440B-8852-DB0FB7A5A11A_zpss1amxtdc.jpg.html)

I love it.

not the physical sets, but am a fanatic for the Star Wars Lego video games.

That's pretty awesome.

Point.

Thanks Lord Rapine. Appreciate it.

I sincerely doubt that I would be as in to the games if I were not a die-hard LEGO fanatic first and foremost.

I love that Black and Yellow Astromech.

I wonder what the average is on how many bricks it takes to make one?

The R2D2 Collector Series has a total of 2128 pieces.  However based on the size of the droid, I would say anything between 2100 and 5000 pieces.  Just a guess though. 

With decent size and these details, surely around 3000. I saw one and it was something around this...but don't remember exactly.

R2 has a lot of very tiny pieces in him that made me think 'this could have been done better with larger pieces'. Sometimes very frustrating and scratch head moments. The yellow and black astromech looks to be the same scale :)

Clearly, I need more "basic" troopers.  And more blasters.

(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k83/shade_1313/IMG_05011_zps556e0kd6.jpg)

Although, to be fair, it's not QUITE as skewed as it appears, I have the FO transporter and snowspeeder sitting around, with their figures in them, so that's another snowtrooper officer and two regular snowtroopers, two basic stormtroopers, Phasma, and two flametroopers.

But I need more.  Lots more.

(I may have already brought this up but....whatever.)

I would really like to know why there is so much hype over a vehicle that was onscreen for less than 5 seconds.

The snowspeeder?

Have you seen the deleted scenes?  It was supposed to be more prominent.

Will have to investigate this further. Thanks.


(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mn3QlA_me3I/maxresdefault.jpg)

This badness is coming my way next weekend, if it's still at the store. ;D ;D ;D ;D

In other UCS news, I must know if they actually marketed this:
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/cavegod/UCS/UCS-ATAT/p4150048.jpg)

It came up under UCS, but I'm dubious as to whether it is actually UCS or just kickass modeler work for a diorama.

(https://dp1eoqdp1qht7.cloudfront.net/community/migrated/961/03c/152699/image)
(https://dp1eoqdp1qht7.cloudfront.net/community/migrated/6f8/6f1/59548/image)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yUR8eomB-QY/UdnuIAE3sII/AAAAAAAADvc/7RgVqBxCp-s/s1600/AT-AT+final+plus+minifig+(WM).jpg)

Nice!

so -1 for that.

I'd be inclined to think its a MOC.

In non Lego news.... I betrayed Lego. I now officially have some Megabloks of my own :P

Dunno how many of you know Halo well, but there's rumours of a Megabloks having their equiv to a UCS.... for a UNSC Infinity. That's going to be something like 2m long *drools* I hope it isn't just a rumour!

And now my husband is trying to track down a UNSC Forward Unto Dawn... which is a bit like tracking down an SSD, or a planet series 4 snowspeeder- they are now ridiculously expensive. I will forever be missing the snowspeeder from completing my collection because I can't justify spending $100 on what was a $15-20 Lego :'(

Hideously expensive though the SSD is, if my finals keep going well, and I come out of this semester at least on the Dean's List again, I will be finding one and buying it.  That'll be another fun summer building project.

The price, it grows exponentially!

Funny coincidence, I just saw one advertised in a local FB group for $1700.

You mean this one?

(http://halofanforlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/halo-mega-block-forward-unto-dawn-2.jpg)

Yep.

Coz its out of production it did what the SSD did- get expensive overnight.

Unclear on the SSD.

Basically the moment the SSD went out of production it's price shot up. Literally overnight. Here they were $700 new, immediately after they were discontinued you could get em locally at a bargain of $850 whereas they were abouta grand everywhere else. You can't get em under a grand in Aus now and you can find them advertised for a great deal more.

A lot of ppl into Lego bought a couple just before the end of production and are now sitting on goldmines basically :P

Well, I'm one final and a few days to wait for grades away from buying one of those gold mines.

I have no idea where I'm going to put it when it's built.  Heck, I still haven't put together Slave I, because I'm not sure where to put it.

But I'll find a way, Executor will be mine.

WHAT IS A SSD?

Are you talking about the UCS Executor?

You don't know the term "SSD"? Ever heard of the "Super Star Destroyer"? ;) So yes, she's talking about the Executor :D

Took me a while because I thought she was still talking Mega Bloks, and TMK MBs never did SW. Hence my confusion.

Now I just have to wait for grades to post, and payday, to get my SSD Executor.

 ;)

It was impressive, but if I'm going stupid huge sets I want these:
(http://im.ziffdavisinternational.com/t/ign_de/articlepage/b/behold-thi/behold-this-custom-10000-piece-lego-millennium-fal_367s.1920.jpg)(http://img.brickowl.com/files/image_cache/larger/lego-death-star-set-10188-4.jpg)

For smaller builds I'd like to snag
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z9T0mGTQAHQ/maxresdefault.jpg)(http://www.rebelscum.com/jer/Gallery/index_files/vlb_images1/10129_1.jpg)


And points if you got in on some of this, back in the day:
(http://starwarscollector.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Lego-Star-Wars-7130-Snowspeeder.jpg)






Scratch that. I want this:
(http://www.techlug.fr/Images/Modele/ST09/01.JPG)

Actually, I own one of those "old" snowspeeders :D It's about 12 or 13 years old now...

And that MF would be a beast in my collection...the biggest models I have are the UCS X-Wing and TIE Interceptor (both 1st generation).

The helicarrier, in my case. That thing was a nightmare to move house with, I was so afraid of getting it damaged! My UCS Red 5 X-wing is also far too large to fit into any of my cabinets, or the storage boxes we moved with, so my nine yr old nephew was entrusted with holding it during the short car trip :P It's currently sitting atop a cabinet while I figure out what to do with it. Thinking I'll get it a custom made acrylic case to protect it, same with the helicarrier.

And yes, SSD is super star destroyer. Sorry, I didn't specify I was referring to the Lego coz I figured that you'd figure that one out given the conversation.

I remember seeing that Imperial shuttle in the shops years back and thinking how awesome it was. Sadly I only have the more recent Rebel captured Tydirium

The TIE-Interceptor was my first, and now I have 2 with the Slave I.

A TIE-interceptor would be amazing.  I'd love that.

EDIT: Was it this one?
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w405/seanhewer/tI%20lego_zpss1f2gcia.jpg)

No, it was from the UCS series. See here (http://www.ebay.com/itm/lego-star-wars-7181-ucs-tie-interceptor-complete-/150771859403). Scroll down to see the pic.

Oh.  So this one?:
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w405/seanhewer/7181_box_zpsvu9vvtsy.jpg)

Even better!  Want.

I actually have both of them. But I did mean the UCS one. I wouldn't mind a redo on that one. The wings were too long on the original.

You have two? Two.

Jelly.

The one you showed was the normal scale set which retailed for $20. The one Nova showed retailed for $100.

They sell for considerably more than that now.  :-\

That's because now they're collectable. My cousin just got the Shuttle Tyderium set because "they were stopping production". I told him they always stop production.

I've thought about selling them a billion dollar idea for a single set of every model they've ever marketed.

I think I'll stick to the BanDai models for now anyway.

I have a whole lot of work ahead of me to build this AT-ST, and there's a speederbike, and snowspeeder I want after that.  :P

All the same scale too.  :)

Should I get this?
(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w405/seanhewer/alderaan%20lego_zpsajbczkru.jpg)

How much? Does it come at the cost of millions of lives crying out and then being suddenly silenced? Cause if so, it sounds like a steal  ;)

Well, I don't actually know. Everytime I go to get one, it's not there.

I'm in the right place, but no Alderaan. ;)

The only Bandai kits I was ever interested in were Gundam models.

I never got into those.

I'm actually going out right now to get some more paints for it, and eye goo (makeup) for Sithiness. :)

You poor child. Next to sabers and LEGOs, life doesn't get any better than MG Gundam models. ;D ;D God, I miss college.

I think I was beyond that for the time though.  I was more concerned with girls and partying then...lol

Girls I wanted, just didn't know how to go about getting them. Partying? Not so much. My sophomore year, I had no TV, which meant no TV, movies, or video games to while the time away. It was books and model kits.

Well, you must be an exceptionally good engineer.

Tell your boss I said to give a pay hike...not a raise...a hike.  :)

Don't get me wrong, Gundam's looked really cool, just I had...err...other priorities...lol

It's a pro/con. I was socially awkward through college. But my engineering skills are natural, so I can pinpoint specifics as to why I find something/someone attractive.

Easier said than done. I work for a tight-fisted Grinch. But it's alright. If I were making what I should, I wouldn't be on the Forum as much. :P

As previously stated, I find as much enjoyment in a finely designed machine made of metal (or plastic representation) as I do one of flesh and blood.

(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k83/shade_1313/spring16grades_zpsj6cjfyem.png)

Yeah, I'm getting my Executor.

 ;D

Very admirable GPA shade.

Well done indeed.

+1

Thank you.  My mom and dad would have been proud.  Then they'd have asked me where the heck was this when I was in high school.

So I need opinions. Later in june, i'll be getting payed enough money to either get the new LEGO resistance x-wing being the first x-wing I have ever owned, or get a high quakity costume for a character I would like to cosplay eventually. Below is a picture of the set.
(http://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75149-1.jpg?201604090635)

Huh.  There go my plans to buy all the bits needed to build a regular white and blue resistance X-wing using the Poe X-Wing directions.

Not that I'm complaining that they're making it easier, mind you.

What! Hoow can you afford US, the Executor, AND another x-wing?:o My god, are you rich or something? ;D

I'd guess he got a monetary bonus award for such an excellent GPA.  You might be correct too though - maybe he is rich.

I'd say go for the costume myself.  The pay-back is better. :)

I wish I was rich.  No, I'm just far enough along in life that I have a reasonable amount of disposable income.

Which also equates to a far, far more mature outlook on my studies than most of my just-out-of-highschool classmates have, hence why I throat-punch any curve that the professor may otherwise give to grades.

It is NOT a star wars costume. But, let's just say I could buy a stunt prophecy with the cost of it.

I am now gonna go with the x-wing because the costume is about $150 out of my price range.

As much as I looooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOve LEGO, I'd honestly go with the cosplay ;)

I...
I never thought it was possible.
What c-could have never been achieved, has.
I am unworthy.

nevermind, not worth it.

Bought my first Lego since I spent nearon AUD$1k on the helicarrier and sandcrawler back in Nov :P

(http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp195/b1ondeange1/temporary_zpsinefcnnz.jpg) (http://s411.photobucket.com/user/b1ondeange1/media/temporary_zpsinefcnnz.jpg.html)

Course the problem with buying a new Lego is always finding where to put the damn thing. Good thing all my Tatooine sets have gone into their own cabinet :P

(http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp195/b1ondeange1/temporary_zps0eer4yeo.jpg) (http://s411.photobucket.com/user/b1ondeange1/media/temporary_zps0eer4yeo.jpg.html)

(http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp195/b1ondeange1/temporary_zps41iotift.jpg) (http://s411.photobucket.com/user/b1ondeange1/media/temporary_zps41iotift.jpg.html)

The newer cabinet isn't staying that way, but I don't have the time to fix it at the moment so it'll do :) I just hope they don't bring out new Tatooine sets coz I'm already full up ;D

Want this.
(http://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/75098-1/75098_box1_na.jpg)

The only thing it's missing is walkers.

Apparently it's due to release this year. Although, I've been noticing that some moof-milker at LEGO is color blind because they insist on making Han's parka brown. Watch the kriffing movie. It's BLUE.

It's a nice set, but I wish they'd put in more snowtroopers.

True

(https://www.askideas.com/media/49/Darth-Vader-And-Stormtrooper-Taking-Selfie-With-Lightsaber-Funny-Star-War-Meme-Picture.jpg)

The new A-Wing is a massive departure from the previous version.  But, I suppose that's to be expected, since they retconned the A-Wing to not be a wholly rebel designed fighter and this new LEGO version represents a non-modified version from the Rebels TV show.  It's got one of the most clever trigger setups for the shooters built into the nose that I've yet seen, though.  The center section of the fuselage moves back, bringing the tail ends of the projectiles into contact with two offset slanted surfaces buried inside the ship, launching them one after the other.  Very clever indeed.

The A-Wings used in SWR are actually the original designs from the concept art, done back in the 80's.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2gYEneBm9VQ/UhvrsCO6XgI/AAAAAAAAOuI/zfE_AlP_-fs/s640/awing-concpet-art-mcquarrie.jpg)

I actually have this image in a giant book of behind-the-scenes stuff from the OT.

It is highly unlikely that the Rebels had specialized craft manufactured, and were merely buying what was already on the market, or rather using the leftovers of older military forces (i.e. Y-Wings).


Also....Look familiar?
(https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ralph-mcquarrie-x-wing-tie-fighter-death-star.jpg)

And yet, that's what the back story of it was, in what is now "Legends".  

"To design the starfighter, Dodonna turned to Walex Blissex, famed ex-Kuat Systems Engineering engineer. Blissex brought valuable experience from work on the Clone Wars-era Delta-7 Aetherspite-class light interceptor and Alpha-3 interceptors. The pair based initial designs on the R-22 Spearhead, already nicknamed by pilots as "A-wings" per the -wing naming convention for other Rebel craft, of which two had fought at Yavin. They formed Alliance Underground Engineering,[15] and worked with pilot Jake Farrell[18] in improving a Tammuz-an design.[15] It was additionally based off the Delta-7.[1]

Dodonna and Blissex presented a proposal to Chief of State Mon Mothma[source?] for official support. It was ill-timed. The victory at Yavin incited open rebellion on thousands of worlds, resulting in widespread Imperial suppression. The Alliance was scattered, and had insufficient funds for the proposed A-wing program. Nevertheless, Dodonna's fame from his role at Yavin made a denial difficult, and Mothma approved with reduced funding.




The reduced budget forced Dodonna and Blissex to substantially modify the original design. Blissex redrafted to use components readily available from Ordnance and Supply Command, pushing each beyond factory specifications.

The earliest A-wings were hand-assembled at Alliance facilities like Cardooine and Chardaan Shipyards. This resulted in interesting modifications; some fighters incorporated actual wood furnishings for the cockpit interior, such as the one that Rogue Squadron pilot Tycho Celchu flew during the Battle of Endor.[8] In 0 ABY, the Soaring Dactillionss were assigned the prototypes to fly at the Cardooine Rebel base. After a week, they came under attack by the Empire, and the Dactillions flew the fighter in battle. Although they proved that the starfighter had superb qualities, only two of the pilots survived.[20] "


Not built completely from scratch, they used a lot of off-the-shelf components (much like the F-117's development), and took inspiration from a bunch of different, older ships, but before the new canon, A-wings were designed and built by the Rebel Alliance, not one of the established manufacturers.


All that said, I do find the new canon origins of the A-Wing more credible and satisfactory, although I'm not thrilled that (if the write up in wookiepedia is accurate) they've changed the specs to make it so the Rebel A-Wings have had their shields removed, when previously the A-Wings in the RA fleet did have shielding.

We'll continue this in Random Star Wars Thoughts.

I was at wal-mart and this fell into my cart. ::)
(http://skavileka.se/images/zoom/75135_box1_in.jpg)
I am gonna kill the set designer of the lego company. There were more stickers than legos. It was worth it though.

This is next on the wishlist.
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090502220536/lego/images/d/d8/7661_box.jpg)

Got that the other day coz it was 25% off :)

I do like that the stickers were numbered though, makes it clearer

Got that one way back. It was alright

I have Anakin's version with the lava platforms from the duel scene.

Yeah, I got that one last week, built it on Saturday.

It would have been nice if the stickers hadn't gotten half crumpled to oblivion, but I got them to work.