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From Twilight of the Apprentice: Here's a *mini* playset inspired by the climatic duel at the Sith Temple on Malachor - only Vader and Ahsoka's part of the duel for this one. No Inquisitors or moving platforms. I only used spare bits and scraps from my depleted brick stock, so that's why the build is kinda small and not really accurate with the real exterior form of the temple. If I get more black slopes for the base I can probably finish it someday. For now, it gets a great Star Wars location represented on the shelf. The SW Rebels shelf: sadly lacking in location playsets. 

Sorry for the quality of these snaps, my lightbox is in the shop. ;)

So we've got part of the base of the temple leading to the tip of the top where there is a bit of Tron-style redness. A couple of ground features: a rectangular slab and one of those petrified black figures. Would look nice with three or four more similar features surrounding the temple. The tip of the temple lifts off revealing a very small play area, only enough to fit (cram) Vader and Ahsoka in there. There's a little Sith holocron attached to a 2x2 plate with stud in the very middle. 

It's a free build. I wanted to keep the color scheme limited to match the temple from the episode. Just black, dark red and red with trans-red. I used a bit of purple for the ceiling of the top of the temple... in the episode there's this awesome purple glow that coats the room when the obelisk starts sparking up during the duel. However I'm not satisfied with the application of the trans-red features here and will be trying to re-jig those over time. Maybe there should be more grills and they should be placed in rows for maximum Sith-Tron effect.

Maybe someday we will see a really intricate and huge MOC based on this temple with all the trap and stuff with Maul, moving platforms, etc. For now I just wanted a space to display Vader and Ahsoka together from (A-Wing vs Vader's TIE) together. I also really wanted to place the obelisk (which speaks to Ezra and Kanan) but it just wouldn't fit at this reduced scale. I did manage to get the Sith holocron in there, something for Ezra to take. TLG has poisoned me into adding the obligatory play features!
 
Feedback of any kind for this little build is encouraged, but I've even more stoked to see someone else take a stab at this scene/playset. Since Rebels is ending Monday, now is a great time to pay tribute to a series that gave us some great new Star Wars builds to play with.

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I’m going to miss Rebels. Filoni’s vision for this scene was incredible and has pushed the boundary for future storytelllng in universe. I’d have loved to see a fully fleshed out Twilight of the Apprentice playset, or at the very least a small one that included battle damaged helmet Vader/Anakin and Ahsoka. 

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On 3/2/2018 at 6:40 PM, Kim-Kwang-Seok said:

I always wondered how 2 build a malachor playset. Would have been great 2 get an official one, even if it would have been that small..

The set Ahsoka and Vader were in (75150) was very pricey, the least TLG could do is give us a mini-set someday, or the typical segment-of-a-full-playset like the carbonite chamber.  This weekend I mined my spare bricks for more black pieces. I want to reform the base so that it resembles the shape of the temple more and make space to increase the size of the top area. It needs about 200% more bricks.

On 3/2/2018 at 8:56 PM, Markalus said:

I’m going to miss Rebels. Filoni’s vision for this scene was incredible and has pushed the boundary for future storytelllng in universe. I’d have loved to see a fully fleshed out Twilight of the Apprentice playset, or at the very least a small one that included battle damaged helmet Vader/Anakin and Ahsoka. 

Can you believe it's ending tonight? Although we didn't get much in the way of official Rebels themed kits in the past 4 years, I look forward to seeing Rebels MOCs for years to come. 

Maybe I don't need to focus on the lower part of the temple so much? I can leave 5 studs worth of lower, black temple and focus on the main dueling area with the obelisk. It would be nice to have a large, open space for Vader and Ahsoka's duel. And your idea of a battle damaged helmet is brilliant, if TLG does Malachor they HAVE to include it!

Thank you for the feedback guys, it inspires me to push this project further. 

 

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