DarthHank

I dislike this color, but it's no worse than anything else TLG has done. Because of how they look in the show (arguably), Clone Wars figures are given giant eyes, even though they don't have eyes like that in the movies. This is no different. In both cases TLG exaggerated slight differences from the movies. I don't care, though; it just provides a different tint for the collection. And Tarkin's old torso holds up; its only fault is a lack of back printing; so if you like the new head you can just put it on the old torso.

I know some people were unimpressed, but I legitimately think Yularen was the best May the 4th promotion ever. He gave us a nice new ISB torso, which if you don't care about rank bars could be used for Thrawn. Although I'd rather have a non-human character like Ponda Baba, I understand that LEGO doesn't want to make a new mold for a free item, so I was happy with Yularen, one of my favorite human background characters who hadn't already been produced. If it were up to me, then I would have Dr. Evazan, Wuher, Zam Wessell, Bail Organa, other clones, other imperial officers, etc. I'm guessing it'll be some patron of Maz's castle, though (unless it's some character we've already had a dozen times).

Well, TLG doesn't really seem to make calculated decisions for these promos. Shadow ARF doesn't even exist in the star wars universe - the closest thing is the Imperial Storm Commandos. Revan is cool, but unexpected; Han is completely undesirable to me, but I guess some people really did want him, TC-14 is obscure and cool (as she's chrome, and lending credence to the idea of chrome Phasma). Yularen is my favorite. I hope they make a different conference room imperial officer (Motti [the one with a lack of faith] say).

I'm sorry if this already been answered, but I couldn't find it in my brief search of the last few pages. Do we know anything about the rumored podracer set? Was it a hoax, are they coming later, or is it too early to tell?

I'd like: 1. Some other high-ranking Imperial Officers (Admiral Ozzle, Moff Jerjerrod, Captain Needa, the other people in the Death Star Conference Room, etc.) 2. 4-LOM and Zuckuss 3. Ponda Baba, Cornelius Evazan, and some other Cantina patrons (Wuher would be nice too) 4. Aunt Beru 5. Newer Rebel Pilots (Flesh Biggs, not smiley-Wedge, etc.) 6. General Dodonna and other named rebel officers 7. Bail Organa, his wife, other major galactic political figures 8. Some more clones like Phase II Cody, Commander Thire, Commander Bacara, Commander Bly

Beautiful. I've always hoped we'd get a Palpatine Santa in an advent calendar, and this reinforces those hopes. Very nice. A nice concept and nice model.

Well, Kylo's face on the minifigure does look silly, but then again, he does in the movie too. Maz looks quite accurate, although I'm disappointed in the lack of an interior to her castle. Having seen the movie now, I guess the only real reason for the snowspeeder set was to have a set with the snowtroopers. All the sets look very accurate with the exception of the wings of Kylo's shuttle. After this next wave, pretty much everything from the movie will have a set, except for the Finalizer Star Destroyer (which seems like a likely candidate), Jakku (as right now Rey's speeder is all we have), and the Starkiller base (which would be large, but a small section with just the important parts would be enough). I have to say, the Imperial battle pack has a poor choice of figures. Yes, it has an assortment, but of useless, ubiquitous figures. There are too many crewmen and officers as it is, so why add on more? Yes, it's nice for people who can't afford the larger sets, but that doesn't mean there need to be two in this set. I would have preferred at the very least 2 normal stormtroopers, 1 heavy stormtrooper, and 1 ubiquitous figure. At least that way you'd get slightly more bang for buck. That said, I'll still buy several of these, but my ratio of troops to officers will diminish quickly. I'm still curious about the First Order General polybag. The only person I can remember as one is Hux, but he appears in a set already. I'm hoping for the Supreme Leader, although he's never referred to as a general.

Fantastic set. I can't wait for this to come out. My only problem is the doors don't look like they open, but I don't care that much. Should be fun to mod all the different interiors. I've heard whispers about a collectible minifigure series, hope they're true. That would earn LEGO a lot of money, for sure. Would love all the Doctors, main companions, and notorious villains.

Nice mod, but I won't be doing it on mine yet. I'm concerned that maybe the wings are supposed to go down even further, like Tydirium or the Emperor's RotS shuttle. Are we absolutely certain this is not the case? In the picture it looks like it's about to land in the hangar, so it's started folding up its wings, but they can go even further.

I got Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle a few days ago, but I've not gotten a chance to build it yet. And BigJoe, the TIE pilots have clone faces, but in the Star Wars universe they aren't supposed to be clones. (Because Episode VII is ~30 years after the OT, and the OT is ~19 years after the PT, most clones would chronologically be in their 60s, but with their accelerated aging they would likely be dead.)

Hmmm. It really is hard to calculate the scale when dealing with minifigures. As others have said, minifigures are disproportionately fat, and they can't straddle the seat, so yours might be a tad small. I do agree that the official one is too large. I think if based solely on minifigure height, yours is quite close to the perfect scale.

This isn't Germany; this is the internet. It's not illegal to discuss the sets; it'll just get you banned from the site. You misunderstand the concept of free speech. You can say whatever you want without government intervention; but people and businesses like eurobricks are welcome to stop you. What I'm curious about is the embargo on set numbers. How can they be harmful? "Hey Bob, doesn't 73343 look fantastic?" *LEGO swoops in*

The new Imperial Shuttle.

I totally agree with the idea that only big LotR projects can get 10,000 votes, but only small LotR projects can pass the review. This is true with many other themes as well, sadly. I also agree that LEGO has already thought about most Star Wars ideas, so a fan idea is unlikely to be new, and costly if LEGO chose it. If you want a Star Wars idea to succeed, you need to come up with something revolutionary, and that's hard to do at this point. However, it's possible to submit something that seems strange to LEGO, but attracts a lot of attention, showing LEGO that there is interest where they thought there was none, say, and getting them to make the set.

Thank you. Thanks. Of course, that figure includes many sets I've dismantled, but I've kept all the pieces for future projects. I was lucky as a child to have a large extended family. Thank you. I was always a fan of the TIE bomber, but one day I stumbled across the Interdictor on Wookieepedia. Evidently it's like a bomber times 4 which got me thinking about making it in LEGO.

At one point I had nearly all the powerminers sets - but then I destroyed them all in one epic battle. That's actually an underrated theme. Similarly, I got brickbeard's bounty, but it was destroyed in a confrontation with my knights, who also were destroyed. It's a shame; that was a fine ship. I'm also sad I missed out on the original MTT. A couple of years ago I partially destroyed my Star Wars collection, and only now have I totally repaired it. What a waste of time.

Excluding pre-2005 sets and any non-normal sets, I think my least favorite would have to be the new MTT. Never have I gotten so excited about a set name and been so disappointed when I saw the picture. I would like to defend the MHC. It looks almost exactly like it should, and it comes with Umbarans! It's actually one of my favorite clone wars sets. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's my least favorite, but the recent Naboo security speeder is rather unpleasant. I think it's decent, and I got it to complete my Naboo scene and get the figures, but it's nothing special. Another poor one, I have to agree, is the starhopper. As others have said, it should have had Zygerrians. I actually rather liked the clone wars, but that ship was a poor choice for a set, and was executed as poorly as expected. In order for it to look good it should have been >500 pieces. It was too blocky as well. I will admit I don't own it, so I don't know how good the speeder drop feature is, but I doubt it can counteract its other failings.

Well, as someone else has already revived the thread, I might as well comment. Occasionally, the miscoloration is due to LEGO designing sets before the film is released, which means they rely on reference photos from Lucasfilm that might not be accurate when compared to the finished film. This can explain small coloring problems with TPM and AotC sets. As others have disputed, LEGO may intend for weird colors on the inside to aid the building process. One good example of this is the Ewok Village. In that set, you build three very similar tree trunks, and then you attach them to a large platform. This would ordinarily be very difficult, but each tree trunk's interior had a vibrant color that was different from the others so it would be easy to place them properly. It should be noted, though, that these colored pieces were completed invisible in the completed model. In the past, though, I have found that this is ineffective, or simply crazy. To use another Ewok example, 7956 Ewok attack is a tree hideout, and the entire interior is red, blue, and yellow. It's a small, easy set with different-shaped pieces, so the color wasn't helpful in building. Also, the tree is meant to open up in the finished model so an Ewok can be hidden inside, but all the colored bricks are visible when this is done. I have to believe that in current sets the coloring is done occasionally for ease of building or to get some rare pieces to customers, but most of the time it's because LEGO had a surplus of colored pieces. However, I'm not quite as sure about the LEGO sets of yore. Maybe they weren't used to designing things based on a movie? I suppose before Star Wars most LEGO sets came out of the heads of designers with no pictorial reference, so they didn't have to worry as much about using the right colors. Another possibility is that they hadn't quite settled on their target audience, and as others have said, decided to cater to kids who like a lot of vibrant colors. Yet another possibility is that the color is related to the general blockiness and ugliness of the sets. It could be that, say, for a TIE fighter, the general lack of good designing would have made it look like an unidentifiable black box with black wings were it not for the blue highlights. Of course, knowing what we do now, we would tell them to use gray, but at least this theory allows us to kind of understand. I'm just curious as to what made LEGO suddenly get drastically better at designing sets in 2005.