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@MAB That would look super cool, but then how would I swoosh them? I'm a big believer in swooshing spaceships. Plus I don't want to even think about hanging the Koen Zwanenburg and Chris Ehnot models, they're already so fragile ....

Wow, nice to hear from someone who remembers when the Bruce Lowell model was the one to beat! I could have sworn I knew every old X-wing on Brickshelf but I guess not - I’ve never seen yours before! Since it was a digital build way back in 2001, I don’t suppose you still have the LDraw file for it? I’d love to take a closer look at your take on the ship in Studio.

^ I agree with @Lyichir on this one. I don't see anything remarkable about those minifigures whatsoever.

I was wondering when someone would do this! Are you able to post pics of the complete real life build yet?

@Jerac This would make a pretty good convention exhibit, but there aren't any Lego conventions in my state this year that I know of. The closest one is about seven hundred miles away and shortly after the beginning of fall term, so I won't be going. @everybody who's replied, thanks for your comments! One of the reasons I like X-wings so much is precisely because they're sort of a standard subject that reflects the development of new parts and techniques exceptionally well. When you see so many builders tackling precisely the same subject (Luke Skywalker's Red 5 X-wing from Episode IV) at very similar scales over more than twenty years, you can really see the diversity of building techniques and the versatility of Lego as a system. You don't get quite that same sense of ongoing development in less, shall we say, repetitive lines of sets or of fan builds. And inasmuch as Star Wars has been a huge part of the online Lego community since the early days of the internet, it is (as TeddytheSpoon says) almost a history of the Lego online community and its main characters. This is probably about as much custom building this year as my wallet can handle, since I buy MOC parts separately from sets instead of breaking down my sets for their parts. You'll notice that I have several X-wings from 2001-2004 and several from 2016 on, but only one in between; the gap pretty neatly covers my Gray Ages. So if I were to build another dozen or more X-wings, I'd make sure to include several from my Gray Ages. I wanted to include a list below of all the other X-wings on Flickr, Brickshelf, and Rebrickable that I might consider building in the future, but I'm having trouble entering long lists so it's probably for the best that I don't. I should be doing something besides writing a Eurobricks forum post right now!

The Republic Gunship was speculation because seemed a logical guess for something to go with the AT-TE. The Gunship speculation was before that set was said to be the Justifier.

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/designer-sets-for-adult-fans-of-lego/215719/Space-Troopers! The canopies are definitely trans-black, not trans-yellow. I think the minifigs are blank, but they're stickered at best. They're definitely not printed, and they don't use the new Classic Space helmet mold from TLM2. This set isn't my style when it comes to neo-Classic Space, but it does have a good price to part ratio, $200 for 2670 parts.

@StephenBoe: Very nice! Could I trouble you for the Studio file? @Jerac: (Don't worry about me asking him for the Studio file, I've already bought the instructions for your T-70 and built the blue and gray version.)

Interesting read about the Lightyear movie here, but lots of spoilers. https://www.polygon.com/23034598/lightyear-pixar-director-interview-early-press-day Another interesting read, much less spoilery. https://gizmodo.com/lightyear-disney-pixar-interview-trailer-chris-evans-1848799721

I built the T-65v2 and T-70 over the weekend. They’re both amazing builds. They went together much easier than the T-65v1 and are much sturdier too. I didn’t have any trouble with the wing box on the T-70 but I had the same trouble with asymmetric opening of the T-65v2 wing box that’s been repeated earlier in the thread. The problem resolved itself after I cycled the wings a few times.

That's a lot of sets, very neatly organized and stored in their boxes. Have you built them all?

He appears for a moment when Harry is waiting for the train at the start of movie 5, but not in the book. The scene is deliberately ambiguous about whether he’s really there or whether Harry is imagining it.

Wow, gatekeeping much? I've been reading AFOL forums since the year 2002, and I've generally found them very welcoming and positive places - even the ones focused on specific themes, like BZPower (Bionicle) or the old FBTB (Star Wars). Those specialized forums sustained my interest in Lego through the mid-2000s.

These are the sets I favor most by building and rebuilding them when I have time, so I guess they must be my favorite sets. They're not listed in a strict order with 1 being the very most favorite of all. 7134 A-wing Fighter (2000, 134 pcs, $15) - A very simple, swooshable little starfighter, the closest match to the Classic Space 918 in the first Star Wars sets. A perfect adaptation of the source material in the set building style and parts palette of the time, and except for the windscreen and engines it could almost pass for a set made in the Classic Space era itself. 7140 X-wing Fighter (1999, 263 pcs, $30) - I'm a big fan of every minifig-scale X-wing set ever released, but this is the one I come back to most frequently. It's a pretty good adaptation of the source material using the set standards and parts of the time, and it makes excellent use of the parts introduced for the first Star Wars waves. Most importantly, I can absentmindedly build and rebuild it without instructions again and again, which I can't say for any subsequent X-wing. 7141 Naboo Fighter (1999, 174 pcs, $20) - It's the dumpy ugly duckling of the minifig-scale Naboo fighters, but it's still a reasonably good adaptation of the source material using the set standards and parts of the time, and it's easy to absentmindedly build and rebuild without instructions. Also, it's a better source of alt builds than 7134 or 7140 - I came up with at least four alt builds of this when I was a kid, including one that I think could pass for an A model. 918 One Man Space Ship (1979, 86 pcs, $??) - The acme of a simple, swooshable little spaceship with clean lines and snazzy colors and prints, it's also one I frequently pull out of the closet when I just want to put something together without instructions of any kind. 928 Galaxy Explorer / Space Cruiser and Moonbase (1979, 338 pcs, $32) - It's not just that this is the Galaxy Explorer of Classic Space fame, it's that it is, like the other sets above, a very simple, relaxing, quick build that I can do after a frustrating day at work, when I no longer want to think hard about anything because I do too much of that at work. I bought it for $160 on eBay, which is about $40 above its inflation-adjusted price ... that's a really terrible price to parts ratio, but considering the play value of the entire set it compares very favorably to the prices of similar play scenarios in modern sets - and more to the point, I've built and rebuilt and swooshed it and displayed it many more times than most other sets I've bought in that price range, which makes it a much better buy and a set I'm much happier about owning. 42043 Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245 (2015, 2793 pcs, $230) - I'm not much of a Technic head, so I don't feel the need to keep up with all the latest and greatest Technic releases. This one is good enough for me - and it has aged well, many Technic fans on this and other forums still hold it as the epitome of what Technic should be. It looks great, but more importantly it's "got more functions than you can shake a Bohrok at," someone memorably commented on the Brickset review (I think). Most importantly, it's loads of fun to play with this with my nephews and nieces, using the crane arm to load the truck bed and then dumping out the cargo. 10213 Shuttle Adventure (2010, 1204 pcs, $100) - As a kid I really just wanted a space shuttle with the external tank and the solid rocket boosters, but with the end of the space shuttle program I didn't expect Lego would ever make another one. This was a dream come true, and the most expensive set I'd ever bought at the time. It's more fragile than it should be, but it's a great playset and it looks good on display. Lego has made quite a few space shuttles since then, but except for the 10231 Shuttle Expedition (2011, 1230 pcs, $100), which was just a revision of this set for extra strength, the only other minifig-scale full shuttle stack has been the vastly simplified and dramatically overpriced one from City, 60080 Spaceport (2015, 586 pcs, $120). After that there's a lot of different sets that I like for a lot of different reasons, but none that stand out so strongly as to clearly make the top ten. So I guess I'll stop here, with seven. Some of these are childhood sets and some are sets acquired in adulthood, but I still have them all.

Every one of those sets looks just as good as the 2018-2020 sets. A welcome return to form.

Agreed.

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It looks very good, but the fact that the body doesn't split in two loses a key play feature of the original. Did you try to include that feature and it just wasn't working?

Good comparisons here: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2020/12/03/lego-star-wars-75301-luke-skywalkers-x-wing-fighter-75300-imperial-tie-fighter-review/

Also, the TROS Falcon is on sale for $130 from Walmart right now, so that's probably the cheapest price you'll see for it for a while. (Plus the cost of the extra figures for the ANH crew.)

Oh, I agree with you on that.

I thought they fixed that. Definitely complain to customer service so that they can try again and actually solve the root cause of the problem this time!

https://www.brothers-brick.com/lego-glossary/#:~:text=BURP,See also%3A LURP

Hear, hear. Well, not quite. I was introduced to Classic Space in the early 2000s, and it still stood out to me as being better than what Lego had been producing for Space just before the introduction of Star Wars, and better than most of what Lego was producing at the time. But then, in the early 2000s most product lines weren't that good, there's a reason it was a troubled time for the company. Speaking of Classic Star Wars, I made a few concepts for that ... and after building my "Classic Star Wars" Z-95 Headhunter and X-wing in the brick I think it would have worked just great. (I haven't posted pictures of my completed CSW builds in the brick, yet.) https://flic.kr/s/aHsmEwrCJJ Ron Dayes also built some Classic Star Wars that looks really good (looks a lot better than mine) but also takes a lot more liberties in using anachronistic parts inside where you can't see them. https://flickr.com/photos/rondayes

Read what I posted after the post you quoted.