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I also bricklinked the UCS millenium falcon, with an approximate cost of 350€ + ~100€ shipment cost The only bricks I changed were the 2 grey masts used as grids behind the reactors, and the UCS plate. I took them in black, and will probably paint them in gray when I have time.

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Sorry my bad they said they would NOT fill the back orders. The crappy bobba fett key chain was a replacement (at least I would have like them to give me the choice to cancel the order) Anyway I'm not really mad those are only toys after all ;-)...however I'll think twice before ordering again at S@H.

Since ARF trooper is my kids favorite figure, I ordered the lego SW on the 3rd of may around midnight and ARF troopers were already in back order (in France). I phoned today to LEGO to have a status and they told me they would fill the back orders so they were sending me a bobba fett keyring. I cancelled my order unfortunatly some of the lego had already been shipped so it will cost me at least some time at the post-office. Seing people stockpiling ARF trooper is a bit offsetting

Hey, excellent. Typically you show us that creativity is not limited by the number of bricks one have. What you have done is much more than lego, there's a real effort in realisation, music & editing. At that stage you're almost ready to launch your own lego sentai series :)

For your info I bought mine brick by brick, swaping the old gray to new light bluish gray. I finished building it with my sons today. I estimate the final cost between 300€ and 400€, with a handful of tricks (such as using black 1x16 technic bricks instead of light grey ones, they can't be seen and cost 3 times less)

Looks nice and original...impressive for a first try :) 2 remarks - what will be the main color theme ? Hopefully we won't see the red bricks by the end :D - the support technic bricks at the base look a bit fragile to me once you'll have covered the structure, you may want to reinforce it. Looking forward the final result !

I dunno...It looks more like 3D Printing of a voxel landscape than Legos. Brick limitations brings creativity, and those models are too massive and bland, in particular the structures. Anyway thanks for the great pictures !

I finally finished my kids'room. - 4 linear meters of desk for building (although most of it happens on the floor ) - 8 linear meters of shelves for exposition & temporary models (eg graveyards) - 1 big lego head container to quickly pick up bricks before putting them to bed - 30 red labeled drawers (Ikea model : HELMER) for bricks / plates / figures / round stuff / slopes & archs / ship parts / objects / instructions - 80 DIY drawers on the desk for small components (greblings, technics) - a laptop to retrieve/visualize pdf instruction manuals Although not the best looking room in the house it's very functional and it is quickly becoming their paradise at home :)

Hey, excellent work and great use of tiles :-) You intend to encase the ring completly ?

Hey of course...you attention as well as any criticism is welcome I think it's pretty easy with current structure to "encase" the ring by changing some of the pins direction and adding more plates on the inside, closing each panel with slopes or bricks as in the link gently provided by Fallenangel327. However for the docking structure I lack all the technical beams (I don't have Kit Fisto JSF as I ordered only the ring components...overall I'm a bit limited by my bricks : I don't even have enough 2x6 white plate so why I had to use wedges )

Since release of UCS 10215 you've all been wanting to see this. Well at least I did So I modded my UCS quick & dirty. Not really inventive but a perfect round shape is rather hard to achieve and Kit-Fisto Ring solution was very elegant. If it's not broken, don't fix it. I changed to color theme and added the 7676 reactors that my kids have dropped on the floor the other day "by mistake" (or so they say...possibly an excuse to get the few bricks they needed). Creating a docking bay is a bit beyond me and the overall/scale suits me, plus I suspect that it would require some heavy modification in the JSF itself. I also wanted to show something that was easy to achieve since it uses existing models. Hopefully someone more talented will MOC a more elaborate version with docking bay :-) Thanks for your time, enjoy !

Dark Red macaroni don't seem to exist. Actually the dark red round bricks are limited. Next best candidate was Wheel 31mm D. x 15mm Technic.

During my Dark Ages I may have played Magic Cards (duh). Seing such MOCs reminds me of players showing decks full of japanese premium summer edition Black Lotuses pimped by original artists and signed by Richard Garfield. I'm not even sure I could build a support ship for your MOC with my entire collection :D Anyway it's gorgeous : both massive and well designed. One could argue that it misses lights and gallery of the ship innards, but it's already jawdropping as it is. If I could indulge myself with a suggestion, aimed at number whores : what is the total weight and approx. brick count of the beast ?

Great review with many details :-) You could benefit from a better camera though :D I received this set a few days ago and built it with my sons. I agree with you, once finished this thing is a beast and looks much better then in the pictures I saw previously. It's agressive, it's sleak, colors are beautiful, and apart from the dozens of 1x1 headlight bricks (I still didn't get why they didn't choose lenghtier bricks with a similar function) assembly is great fun. Also after building the nose it becomes obvious that one day I'll build a real sword with legos :-p Actually I was thinking about that as well. However dark red cylinders bricks aren't that common and obviously you need some holes to add greebles. My idea was to use brick 41531 for the body. What do you think of it ? any suggestion for the legs ? Ach, this requires some collective brainstorming ;)