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Thanks, I was hoping that it would be 30055 That's next Saturday morning sorted for me - 8.30 at Smiths for a newspaper or two!

Interesting; do you know what set number it is? Cheers, Robin

Another great creation ACPin! Are you going to build the entire of Jabba’s palace for the Community Build? It looks like this & your previous scene would fit together rather nicely, possibly with a nice Throne room for good measure!

My project to build Cloud City (10123) from scratch is progressing well. I've just ordered 300 parts from Lego 'Pick a Brick' & Ebay; if my maths is any good I now have 608 (excluding the minifigures!) so it’s around 87% complete. Total spend is about £85, for the 450 parts that I’ve ordered so far, all have been new. I’m still trying to source 4 of the ‘Light Gray Brick, Round Corner 16 x 16’ base plates link at a reasonable price so if anyone has one or two spare please PM me! I’m also part-way through my Episode VI CB, I’ll be able to finish it once my order arrives!

Hi Legolandia, Lego are doing a 'Brick' Friday weekend between the 25th - 28th November. I received a postcard from them a couple of days ago and it looks like you should get i)free postage ii)10% off the set (as you'll spend over £100!) iii) VIP Points (I assume!) and iv) a Limited Edition Holiday set (3300002).

Excellent work, as usual, ACPin! I love the lighting especially which is beautifully done My only suggestion would be to move the LED fractionally further forward to illuminate Han a little more, although I’m being very picky!! Congratulations on your promotion to ‘Fellow’, totally deserved.

Great work lego envy! I especially like the last photo of the door opening; perhaps you could do another with it a little higher up (and showing a little of the darkened interior!)

I received a postcard yesterday for this promotion (Nov 25th -28th) details as follows: 'Check out these incredible "Brick" Friday Weekend offers! 1. FREE delivery on all orders over £25! 2. FREE Limited Edition LEGO Holiday Set with all orders over £50! 3. Spend £100 and get 10% off your entire purchase! Plus, visit the LEGO Stpre early on November 25th for further "Brick" Friday savings!' Sounds pretty good to me

My entry: 'I just heard someone say that it might be a white Christmas this year; I'm sooo excited!!' Or What the pipes in Echo base are actually used for

Please count me in, it was great fun last time!

10178 UCS AT-AT, via Mrs Lobot, for Christmas about 5 years ago I spent several happy hours building it on the kitchen table that day, as my brother & dad watched in quiet bemusement! I was amazed to see it lumbering across the floor, and have been addicted ever since.

I kept mine on display for a week and then returned it to the safety of it’s box. My main reason for this is that I have a rabid fear of what light could do to white plastic! It’s probably completely irrational, but I used to collect vintage SW and lived in fear of what sunlight could do after seeing some truly shocking examples!

Please can I have a Red Rebel Alliance one, they look great! I'm already planning my entry for the Episode VI CB....

Excellent MOC, well done! Very nice details, especially the doorway and the mouse IG88 is great too, clever use of the pistols for his shoulders. Is that Indy’s head that you used for Dengar? With that headpiece he’d look great in the ‘Well of Souls’ scene from Raiders of the lost Ark!

Thanks for the excellent review KielDaMan! This pretty much confirms my initial thoughts when I first saw the set. Compared to the 4504, which I owned until I purchased the UCS version, the turrets look a lot nicer but the base looks awful! Actually, in all fairness, the legs kept falling off my 4504, so I guess the modifications were designed to correct this issue. The interior is a definite improvement, and I especially like the hidden compartments. I’m quietly hoping for this for Christmas, via Mrs Lobot!

Another +1 for kyphur Great trade, fast delivery, really nice guy

Nicely done, the first photo is great A Classic scene from the best SW film; it’s good to see there are other Episode V fanatics in Eurobricks! Cheers, Robin

I’m trying to find 4 x ‘Light Gray Brick, Round Corner 16 x 16’ in very good, or ideally, new condition (Link here). They are used in 10123 (Cloud City) so if anyone has one, or more, for sale at a reasonable price, please PM me!

Not sure if this counts, but I’ve decided to try and track down all of the parts for 10123 Cloud City (apart from the minifigures!) as I can’t stomach the cost of a MISB one. I’ve got about 20% of the 700 parts in my spares, which is a start. I’ve spent the last few nights creating a shopping list of the parts I need, and my first stop will be Lego’s ‘Pick a Brick’ at the end of November (so that I can pick up the second Holiday set at the same time). It looks like the most expensive parts will be the 4 x ‘Light Gray Brick, Round Corner 16 x 16’ link here so if anyone has any for sale or trade, please PM me! It’s the first time that I’ve tried to build a set this way and it’s actually really fun!

+1 for RubeusHagrid; brilliant trade, fast delivery, great guy

Simply beautiful spacepilot3000! x 10 Incredibly accurate, great use of LEDs, and I love the little humorous bits you added (especially the skeleton!). I hope that Lego might produce something similar one day; I’m sure there are lots of UCS Falcon fans who would love to display their pride & joy like this (me included!). This is up to the amazing standards of ACPin, Brickplumber, Marshall_banana, Anio & Cavegod.

Your Slave 1 is superb, Anio. Although it may not be 100.00% accurate it’s the best version that I’ve ever seen, and always remember that you’re limited by the variety of elements that are available. If this was released as an official UCS set I’d buy one without hesitation, simple as that.

I was expecting someone to say that Mr Man! Well, it was included in the May 2011 promotional poster: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/UCS_Promotional_Poster, it has a ‘10’ prefix and is expensive, so I’m sticking with my original statement

I really don’t see any genuine advantage in having the minifigures included within the Executor, and hope that they don’t repeat this in future sets of a similar scale. I had mine on display for a couple of weeks, but ended up adding the minifigures to my main collection as they simply didn’t ‘fit’ any way I tried. Most annoyingly, you can’t even store them inside the bridge as it was too small, so they had to lurk under it! I really like minifigures, but I think that Lego should stick to including them in minifigure-scale (e.g. 10179, 10212 & 10123) UCS sets!

Has anyone seen the UK (£) prices yet? I’ve just compared the UK (£) price against the (German) € price for two sets on the Lego website and it’s about £1 = €1.15, so on that basis the X-wing will be £60. Actually, considering the old version was £45 and this one looks a lot nicer (and presumably contains several more parts) it doesn’t seem too bad! If this is correct, the battle packs will be about £12.50, Tie Fighter £50 & the Droid escape £22.75 (which will presumably be rounded up to 22.99!) I’m really looking forward to next year, lots of nice OT sets to buy, I just hope they do a new Cloud City soon...