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If you are intending to hang something rather big or weighty, make sure that not only is the fishing line/string strong, but that the hooks that go into the ceiling are either screwed into a part of the ceiling where the wooden joist is so its in the wooden joist, or that they are wide threaded hooks, because plasterboard (most likely what your ceiling is made of) will only take so much weight before the hooks will just pull right through. However, if your ceiling is lathe and plaster, I'd forget going near it to hang anything from.

I got caught out BIG time when I was young. I was about 12 at the time, and used to sneakily save up my school lunch money instead of buying food. Then once I had enough I went off to town with a friend and bought that small red lego bi-plane. When I came home my parents caught me with it. Because I had to tell them about the lunch money thing, they thought I was lying because they thought I couldn't save up money so they frogmarched me back to the shop, spoke to the store manager saying they think I stole it and got him to look up the purchase on their systems :( Embarrassing or what! Nowadays I live with my gf, I still do hide some purchases, but more a case of 'what she don't ask, I don't tell'. Thankfully she is such a lovingly and understanding gf she even joins in and plays with it too. Xmas just gone I thought I was out of luck with the Dropship+AT-OT set... but the last present which was a 'family' present so I was told up until the point of opening it, was the dropship! I was ecstatic, and absolutely love her to bits =D I did buy the 10212 Imp shuttle from amazon.IT because it was such a huge saving compared to S@H, I had it sent to my mums, and there it stays until I get myself a new job and 'my mum gives it to congratulate me on my new job' kinda thing xD Yes. It has now changed to my mum helping me sneakily buy lego xD

This is just.... wow If you did have concerns about the window, I wouldn't have any now because it looks absolutely perfect to me!

Oh so much better! It looks a lot more in scale with it now, I can imagine Obi sat in there now =D The lengthened nose is also pulled off really well, it looks totally better! I have no experience on photo skills though, but they do look better not so blurred :) I'd be chuffed with it =D

That Jabba just brings a smile to my face when I look at him, you continue to excel yourself yet again!

This is really nicely done! I think perhaps the canopy could be 2 studs wide rather than just one stud wide, but only the canopy pieces and the bits the canopy directly sits on.

''since it's exclusive to Target stores in the U.S'' Does that mean the UK won't get a release of this at all? Not even on Lego.com?

I have seen some republic gunships go on ebay for as low as £75 unboxed but complete good condition, they can often go at about £90-100 if you watch loads over a month or two. Ventress can come from the sith nightspeeder set if your happy not having the skirty thing she comes with in the RGS set. AT-TE 7675 is also a brilliant set to get (especially good for modding the interior) and is still going for relatively decent price. The latest AT-AT is a decent set, a couple parts keep breaking off but if its for display purposes it's not much of a problem, a nice bunch of figs comes with it too. V19 Torrent 7674 is a really nice set if you can get hold of one for about £35-40 (recently got mine unboxed /w instructions complete for £35). The republic fighter tank is worth getting if you can find one cheap enough, I missed out on a few really good priced ones due to being out at the time they ended... but unboxed they're still available every now and then at a good price. Good luck =D

Amazing to see the difference in print quality on each!

This ^^^^^^^^ Although that last photo is very cutely funny... 'What the....?'

My girlfriend got me one for Xmas. I then saw it was discontinued. I now owe her big time

Reply sent When the ARF trooper was getting sold by itself after loads being left (someone said a lego shop was selling them after promo day) how much were they being sold for? How soon after were they selling them? And would it be worth it to phone up a store asking them if they have any left over for sale or just to go down there? My closest store is about 45 miles away

I hate to say it, but you have literally landed yourself in this situation of which you have no one to blame but yourself. (I'm not having a go, sorry if it sounds like it, I'm just stating there is no justification for yourself to gripe about it in your situation) You havn't cared for the promotions, that is fine, but what about those that previously did, and so this year decided to hold fast until they knew what it was, and are now happy they waited? As you stated, TLG can't cater to everyones preferences for promo figs. With the increase in technology/better designed figs ok, a white Bobba Fett wasn't anything special to you, but just because nothing previously entertained your preferences, didn't mean they would have failed your preferences this year. Assumptions leave *HUGE* room for errors, of which should be taken into account when doing as such. As for the tight budget, that argument is totally moot. If you could justify spending the money back then regardless of it being budgeted or not, there is no difference in not making your purchasing back then, but putting that money aside and discounting it for all other reasons until May 4th came up and THEN spending your money on your budgeted for LSW sets. It's a SW promo, not a random promo. They could tweak it but it would start getting ridiculous with specifics... ***** Free TC-14 with every $75 purchase of which $30 must be purely on Star Wars sets!***** That still doesn't bring the overall price down. If you can justify spending the other $45 on other sets then it can also be spent on LSW which can be parted out and sold for more as many people already do and make profitable. Don't you want something for that otherwise $40minimum you'll end up spending on an aftermarket version? They are promoting LSW, not other themed sets. They want people to buy LSW. Hence why they are advertising it as just LSW. They also know that people desperate enough will scratch and scrape enough funds to get one of these figs one way or another. I really don't understand why people are still having a problem with the fact that this time round its a good fig and you have to spend $75 on purely LSW... Last year as an excuse that it should be with every $75 purchase is not an excuse/reason because everyone knows it was a mess up of which I am sure they will ensure doesn't happen this time round armed with that knowledge. Heck, last year I didn't even know about May the 4th. I've missed out on loads of promo stuff. I'm not moaning about the fact that no one told me it was on, its my own fault I found my way to Eurobricks when I did and learned whatever I learned from here after last May the 4th. I'm now armed with the knowledge that every May the 4th there couldd potentially be a promo fig. Regardless if I end up wanting it or not, I'll hold off on certain purchases until I know whether I want one or not. *edited out useless analogy :P*

In a weird, ironic contradictory sense, it is... unfairly fair....

It clearly states $75 on SW sets, it is entirely fair that only people who buy LSW are eligible for the promo fig. Like mutley said, it is exclusionary. I also believe the promo is intended to support an increase in LSW set sales, hence why it is shown in their text to be only eligible with LSW purchases. How could they increase LSW sales if they open it to everyone? So the only way to give a sudden boost in LSW sales would be make something special come free with pure LSW purchases. I do hope though that for the UK it isn't as much as £75 :(

how did you get the 20% off? :o

This is brilliant! I really enjoy looking at the simple, yet effective scenery around the ship also, of which itself is a magnificent design you have pulled off with so little info about it! Forgot to say... your original at 1.2 meters long... would have been awesome to have seen pics of that too! I do wonder though, after seeing your source pics (on moc pages) that perhaps it should be more of an equal length each side of the triangle shaped ship, perhaps using the 45 degree inverted 2x2 slopes instead of the 1x2x2 slopes? So, slightly wider, and 'shorter' in height, or... just as wide, but not as 'tall'? I do understand the difficulty in which you have currently accomplished with the lack of info available though, and do applaud you on what you have so far reached =D

OK, there goes... a fail You've helped me understand many things Aeroeza with your logical explanations and in-depth analysis. It has been nice to have a debate which ended in my gaining more knowledge than the usual (not on this forum) trolls that just end up throwing back wobblers and pointless name calling, I applaud your effort and shared knowledge in responses :)

Im all for this as well. Although I wouldn't be heartbroken if they didn't revisit some to top the series off, but it would be a bonus.

My first attempt at one of these I know it isn't scene accurate to the characters but it is all I had available at the time

I think I've finally come to a mutual agreement Brickadeer/Aeroeza Sorry if I've appeared (perhaps unintentionally aggressively) stubborn, it's just that when I have a particular belief, I need to have it completely argued into the ground and proven beyond all reasonable doubt in my mind to me that what I initially thought was not 'necessarily' the case, until I come to a mutual understanding with those I am debating with. I do have to say though, I picked up some interesting knowledge along the way

1) Sorry, my apologies. 'Disregarding' was too much of an exaggeration beyond reasonable use of the word in the sentence on my part. The rest of #1 I totally agree. 2) OK, that clears your statement up for me, so its not being totally disregarded. Only in a sense, 'temporarily' disregarded to gain the full understanding. 3) I understand what you mean, but perhaps you are confusing definition with explanation? I do understand what you mean about illumination, but you asked for a definition of those words, which is exactly what I done, and when applied, gave a very blunt and unexplained shallow definition of the euphamism. Sure I didn't explain anything to illuminate the atrocities to give the 'listener/reader' a greater understanding of the intensity of the period, but that would not fall under defining it, but more so, explaining it. What you further said, about its atrociousness and horror of that deplorable period etc, is an explanation after a definition. But I do see how you mean to compare this under a similar context for the UCS. 4) I understand how this applies now. Out of context the 2 simply do not make sense together, but in context, they show the correlation between the 2 opposite words. But surely this is different, as there is no confusion with the UCS words defined in or out of context? Simply, the 'illumination' created from the marketing to create the exaggerated image of it? 5) I never truly did understand that 6) OK here goes... Surely this is no different than (metaphorically speaking) our sun? It is illuminated and intensely bright creating all wondrous images/different opinionated views/different beautiful sights etc, but at the end of the day, it is still just a constant nuclear fusion of hydrogen and helium regardless of what is seen from down here? 7) They hit me hard while I was down and unemployed with no income but just savings left... They're a manipulative bunch! RE: your conclusion, after all this, I don't feel that there is perhaps an 'explicit' meaning, more so a 'greatly' basic meaning which is left open to interpretation to the end customer to whatever suits their lust/desires to justify buying the set. Perhaps similar to Law? Which is in itself hugely open to different interpretation whenever particular situations of similar but slightly different circumstances arise...? If people feel it means exclusive, then so be it, as long as TLC get their customers money, it doesn't matter whether it's true or not, as long as they don't break away and change their strategy of only releasing new sets. (Even though they are currently not proving exclusivity wrong, I still don't feel it is intended as one of the meanings behind UCS, but left as an interpretation.) @mrklaw I'm personally not too fussed how obscure they are, as long as they don't release Anakin's butt ugly Twilight ship >.<

Very much this^^^^^^^^^ Do you have any links to screenshots to where we can follow your progress on adjustments/interior?

I could assume you would be able to manage $500-600, perhaps a bit less, as the majority of cheaper parts are located in the US, which means no customs and cheaper postage for you The exact price though, depends on how you personally source your cheapest parts.

1) I understand where you are coming from, however I do not feel they will ever become less 'ultimate' regardless of how detailed the system sets become, mainly for the fact that there will only ever be a set amount of detail you can manipulate onto a system set which is largely designed for minifigs. The system sets will never (in my opinion) match the majority of UCS sized sets (disregarding the N1 Starfighter). This if it were to be kept that way, would keep them just as ultimate. The current N1 already surpasses the previous UCS version in detail/aesthetics (in my opinion). The chromed parts do not do too much for it other than offer the current N1 an opportunity to be 'ever closer to being perfect'. 2) Im not sure I'd be willing to miss out... What of the B-wing? Would you be happy to miss out/hold off on that release for an updated X-wing? I have to say, I'd be more than happy bricklinking the X-wing (minus the canopy) in order to keep a new set on track for release. (I'm desperate for the B-Wing to come out ) The way things currently are, Im not opposed to them staying that way at all. We do have opportunity to design our own versions of MF's/Slave 1's/X-wings/Y-wings and make them reality through bricklink also. But with the limited releases, Id have to say Id be more than happy letting them release new ones and attempt to make mocs to cover re-designs than have no option but to moc something that hasn't been released yet.