[MOC/MOD] Cloud City Carbon Freezing Chamber

[BalrogJ]

Hi everyone!

Like many others here, I was not satisfied by the small size of the recent Cloud City Carbon Freezing Chamber set. Sure the Ugnaught was cool, and it was a long time since we had last seen a Bespin set on the shelves, but it was ultimately disappointing.

So I decided to get two more Carbon Freezing Chamber sets off Bricklink (cheaper without the minifigs) and modified it to my liking.

Here are the pictures, though it's not completely finalized (I'll probably add some more greebling, tubes, cables, and the "crane" was a last-minute idea that I threw together with leftover bricks so it's not as sleek or faithful as it could be), but I really wanted to share it so without further ado, here is the link to the pictures :

http://imgur.com/a/K7q8e/all

Just a note on the build : having three sets was enough to build a full "circle" for the chamber, and I decided to add a stairway going up to represent the stairs where Luke and Vader duel later (since Luke gets kicked down the stairs into the chamber, there had to be stairs going up). The crane is meant to be the one that pulls the carbonite slab up after Han gets frozen, but I didn't have the parts to build a claw for it so that'll probably be modded down the line. It's completely pivotable and removable to not get in the way of playing with the set for my kiddo.

Hope you like it, feel free to leave some comments!

Edited January 23, 2016 by BalrogJ

[Jayoheazy]

Great job! I love how you managed to squeeze in all the main characters sans Lando, but we forgive you :)

Would you have been able to do a full circle with just 2 sets?

[BalrogJ]

Great job! I love how you managed to squeeze in all the main characters sans Lando, but we forgive you :)

Would you have been able to do a full circle with just 2 sets?

Yeah sadly I have a Lando face from Desert Skiff but I don't have the body/clothes so I'll have to do without for now, or I'll have to look for acceptable replacements.

As for the full circle with just two sets, I didn't have the parts to do it because I absolutely wanted to do the circle entirely the same way, with the orange neon "lights" and the bley wedges over them all around, and the special "A-shaped" black parts to connect every segment, so 3 sets were required. I did end up with a bunch of spare parts though, from the other parts of the build I did not include, such as the mechanism to move the carbonite slab, the elevator, etc... Plus I needed 3 stairways anyway!

Thanks for your comment, it's appreciated!

[Richpepperell]

Looks good. I've currently combined 2 sets but have a third on the way to add. Any photos without the black background? It makes it kind of hard to see any of the detail.

[darththeling]

Great job on the upper wench! Awesome build. I wonder if TLG is ever going to give us enough pieces to make a complete scene? ;)

It amazes me that x2 kits is not enough for a complete circle though. Hoping that 2 kits plus lots of extra parts is enough for me to do the same.

Thanks for sharing, BalrogJ.