Kdapt-Preacher

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  1. Kdapt-Preacher

    Star Wars is kinda fading

    For whatever it's worth, I've been following LEGO Star Wars closely since 2006, and while individual sets have always been somewhat hit or miss, on the whole I think the theme is doing about as well as it ever has been. There have certainly been stylistic changes over the years, so it's totally fair to have a personal preference for the style that was prevalent in a particular era (there's a lot of nostalgia for the style that was introduced around 2007 that coincided with the big burst of TCW sets, for instance), but I don't think it's accurate to say that that reflects the theme itself dipping in quality. There are some trends that I'd like to see reversed (e.g., I'd like to go back to having more battle packs), but there are also trends that I love (e.g., this is absolutely the best era for UCS sets that LSW has ever had). Things come and go. And this forum has been mad about about it the entire time, LMAO. Even back in what a lot of folks today think of as the 'golden age' the community here had the exact same concerns about PPP, what figures should've been included, too many stickers, models too small, etc. as we see today.
  2. Kdapt-Preacher

    LEGO Star Wars 2023 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

    There are a ton of people cosplaying as the Narkina V prisoners, though. It definitely didn't have as much new content as Rogue One, but what it had is making a splash (so to speak...).
  3. The bottom half is definitely used on its own (in 10256 Taj Mahal, for example, and probably other places), but I can't think of any examples of the top half either. I dunno. Very much a grey area. I don't use minifigure hands, personally--I know the majority of the community is cool with that, but it always seemed like a bit of a bridge too far for me. Using the turntables isn't as far, but I'm still not completely comfortable with it. I may get over it. We'll see. In the meantime, I fully support anybody else using the turntables if they prefer. I've been looking and haven't come up with an example of them being used separately in an official set. If you can think of one, that would make up my mind immediately. In the meantime I'll think about exactly where I draw the line here. If I decide that it's legit, then I'd definitely consider replacing the boat studs on the Immobilizer; you're almost certainly right that they'd work better for some of those angle plates. It's moot for the moment since I'm not going to be able to make any structural changes to anything until I'm back in the US and have access to my physical bricks again anyway, but if you have the Immobilizer assembled and want to make that change I would completely encourage you to do so.
  4. That's a good thought. They have full-size studs. I've never used those for anything, but they'd probably do the job. Do they ever come from LEGO disarticulated from the base? I'd be curious whether disassembling them is technically illegal.
  5. Hmm. I interpreted The-yukio's post differently, I think. The way I read it, the connection to between the wedge plate and the main body of the ship is fine (via the 1x1 bracket that's already next to the one you've got in purple there), but the issue is the 2x2 boat stud immediately behind it. Those boat studs are always problematic; the studs on them aren't quite full-sized (they're clipped to accomodate the circular shape), so they don't have the same hold as a regular stud with some pieces.
  6. Ah, excellent information--that's exactly the kind of thing it's hard to figure out from the Stud.io file. Thank you for testing it! In the short term I can think of two relatively non-invasive fixes. Option A is to replace the 1x2 tile there with a 1x2 plate and add a 1x2 ingot to connect that to the 2x2 wedge, which gives it a second point of contact to the 2x2 inverted tile. Option B is to replace the 1x2 tile and the 2x2 wedge with a single 2x2 plate, and then use a pair of curved slopes on top of that to get the wedge shape back. Both of those would apply to the rear fin just as easily if need be. I think they'd both be sturdier than what we started with, but neither one looks quite as good IMO; they've lost a bit of the smoothness there. I'll put some thought into reinforcing that area from the underside. There isn't a lot of room there, but it might be possible to take a chunk out of the ship's spine without losing too much structural integrity.
  7. It's this 5x5 dish. I don't completely love it, since it's a lot more pointed than that part of the station actually is; I'd rather have a 5x5 radar dish. But there isn't a 5x5 radar dish, and I don't think the 4x4 radar dish looks right (it shows off way too much of the transparent dish underneath it). That's part of why I'm not totally convinced this is actually a workable idea. But by all means, play around with it; you may well get it working better than I have here.
  8. Kdapt-Preacher

    When did Lego Star Wars actually start?

    LEGO wouldn't have gone into the negotiations if they didn't already have at least a vague idea of what the first round of sets would look like, but I think that only applies to the OT stuff. LEGO wouldn't have had any advance knowledge of Episode I before they started talking to LucasFilm, so all the work on the TPM sets has to have happened after that.
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    When did Lego Star Wars actually start?

    The lisencing deal was signed in 1998, according to the Brothers Brick: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2019/04/09/the-story-behind-the-1999-launch-of-lego-star-wars-feature/ That's a short turnaround time for sets by today's standards, but the models they were making then were far simpler.
  10. I have thought about it, and even started a prototype model like two years ago, although I ended up scrapping it and haven't gone back yet. At the time I wasn't satisfied that I could get the angles on the outer ring sections to make the overall shape appropriately circular, but I've learned a lot since then and I'm much more confident with it now. I have a vision of using a trans-clear 6x6 radar dish with the Jurassic World gyrosphere print to achieve the ring of blue lights at the top of each of the joint column cylinder things, but I'm not certain it would end up looking good in person. I dunno. I'll get back to it at some point.
  11. Ah, that looks like it'll work out well. The 4x4 round plate isn't really structural to my turrent; it's basically just sitting on a jumper plate already, so it ought to mount on the exact same base you've got there, with the 1x2 plate in the middle supporting the 1x2 slope with cutout. I look forwards to seeing the pictures!
  12. I haven't made PDF instructions for them, but they're small enough that you shouldn't have any trouble. The Stud.io file is available here. Oddly, the largest of those turrets isn't in that file, and I'm not sure what's become of it--either I didn't save it or (more likely) I have a different version of this file saved somewhere else. If you need that I'll look for it, but it sounds like you only need the ISD parts, so hopefully this'll be fine. It looks like those turrets will be about the right size for Monarch, but I have no idea how Onecase's turrets are attached, so I'll be interested to hear how that goes. Report back!
  13. There isn't enough information. No Chiss ship larger than a Clawcraft has ever been given an explicit size, and there's only ever been one official image of any of their capital ships (a single frame of Steadfast in one of the recent Thrawn comics), which doesn't give enough information to extrapolate the scale. I talked with Timothy Zahn about it a while ago, and he says that when he's writing the books he categorizes ships by relative power tier but not by size, so the information simply doesn't exist, even in his head. If that ever changes I'll be all over them, though.