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That is truly extraordinary! I love the design, your creativity, the video production, and everything else about it! How long have you been building with Technic and Mindstorms? I can't imagine myself creating a MOC with that degree of engineering ingenuity.

Wow! This looks better than I might have possibly hoped. I seriously contemplated purchasing the last one, but it just did not have quite enough to entice me at that price point. This one may be more expensive, but it seems so much better! Sure, the Jawas are missing those special capes, but we have gotten lots of those with Tolkien minifigs. I love the various functions of the model, as the designer displays them, the size, the overall appearance, and the new minifig designs. The price will still make this a tougher call, but TLG seems to have outdone itself this time!

Shawn, thanks so much for the list! All of these posts have been helpful, but yours for me is especially helpful considering that I have some (limited) knowledge of how to use Excel. I too have a (perhaps large) collection of SW minifigures, but I am more interested in this list for data purposes and analysis than for aggrandizing my already plentiful collection of figures.

Thanks so much for an absolutely phenomenal review, Lego-Freak! I cannot thank you enough. Of all the summer SW sets, I think that I have been most looking forward to this one. I am an avid SW fan, and I am familiar with the era in which TOR takes place, as well as the game itself. I play the game occasionally, but only for the plentiful story elements. Allow me to provide a few clarifications: Satele Shan's master, Kao Cen Darach, is not a Jedi Master concurrently with Shan. Darach was murdered by the Sith years before the timeline of TOR begins. The experience fueled Shan's creative and virtuous energies in order to become the spectacular Jedi and living legend that she is as the time of TOR. She is considered to be the Grand Jedi Master by this point, I believe - much like Yoda in the prequel trilogy. The Defender itself is the in-game ship of the Jedi characters. As a Jedi Consular, this is the ship that awaits me in the hangar. I think that Jedi Knights also use this ship, but don't quote me on that. In the game, the ship houses a variety of companion characters that might inhabit the open parts of the model, like the pods on either side. In the center of the ship there is a holo terminal, which seems to have some sort of replica here. The ship also features a hyperdrive, which does appear to be represented in this model. Again, thank you so much! I certainly hope to buy this model and add it to my TOR and SW Lego collections. For those who are dubious about the price of #9500, note that it has been available on Amazon for some months at about $71 USD. I can't speak to other countries' currencies, but I imagine that it is discounted on Amazon in other places as well. #9497 is also discounted to about $35 USD (so you receive $10 off on the smaller one and $19 off on the larger one).

12. Cloney - Revenge of the Ewoks - 2 points 14. Lobot - The Resurrection of the Emperor - 1 point 16. LukeClarenceVan - Where's Solo? - 2 points

7. Oky - The Ultimate Showdown - 1 point 12. pedro - Escape from Nar Shaddaa - 2 points 13. ACPin - Yoda's Legacy - 2 points

I bought the two 2013 battle packs a few weeks ago and look forward to enjoying more of the 2013 SW line, especially this summer's Duel on Geonosis, Jabba's Sail Barge, and possibly also January's Z-95 Headhunter. I am fairly impressed with the 2013 summer SW line, as I discussed in more detail on the forum discussing the pictures from the NY toy fair.

I feel with you, Lobot. That was a great model. I bought it primarily for Lobot, but enjoyed the whole set, especially those red-orange pieces. For me, the best set of the year was Jabba's Palace, hands down. Despite the seemingly extortionate price, it truly seems to have been aimed as a big gift/collector set, and the wealth of new molds, parts in new colors, design techniques, and the overall beauty of it justified it for me. It was worth it for the figs down, but it currently occupies a crowning place in my overall collection.

I have looked through these pictures a number of times, and am overall impressed and happily surprised. There are plenty of new points, most of which I could easily sum up with a quick perusal and summary of previous discussion on the Brickset Forum (and likely on this one) when the complete list of TLG's SW summer 2013 sets was revealed. It is something of a concern that Lego's emphasis has shifted so from the OT, but this is not entirely surprising considering the wave of excitement about 3D prequel trilogy films, CW series 4 and 5 (and the TV series is definitely improving and becoming more visually and intellectually interesting with time), and even the new SW film to be directed by J.J. Abrams. The principle OT set we see this year, Jabba's Sail Barge, seems to me not to merit the excessive amount of criticism it has been receiving. This is, after all, something that was desired by many. The price, nonetheless, is somewhat hard to accept considering the previous uproar over the same price tag (120 USD) on the summer 2012 Jabba's Palace. The Sail Barge has half as many new and interesting figures, and the model itself is not quite as architecturally thrilling, though still eye candy for me, at least. I am much more concerned, though, with the incarnations of the other high price point sets, the AT-TE and Republic Gunship. Both are almost identically priced as their 2008 versions, and are almost the same in first appearance as well. I see few differences with the Republic Gunship especially, a set which I highly praised in 2008. This time around, it sports the same price tag and a new figures, with minimal other modifications that I could discern after slight scrutiny. While I welcome the fact that the price has not changed in the past five years, I am upset that TLG's designers could not bother to make this more new and interesting. The figures are fine, though not at all scintillating (though seemingly film-accurate to AoTC) compared to those from other sets. The AT-TE is a bit more impressive, with new and attractive Windu and Coleman Trebor figures, though that is still not nearly enough to justify the similar nature of the 2008 and 2013 models, though this one features more welcome variation as far as I could tell. On the other hand, I am quite pleased with the selection of smaller models, aside from the JEK-14 starfighter, about which I have not yet developed much of an opinion with no reference point to which I might compare it, either in Lego, screen, illustrated or literary form. #75017 Duel on Geonosis is quite a pleasure to behold, and a model of which I have no doubt will be a wonderful replacement for the original Jedi Duel from 2002. It's quite surprising to me that this is the first OT Yoda released in a set since 2005, and I must say, it looks wonderful, despite criticisms of the face being excessively detailed, much like a miniature action figure. I also like the inclusion of Poggle the Lesser, which I had hoped that Lego might do. The other three small sets are all very nice as well, though it seems that the Corporate Alliance Tank Droid and Homing Spider Droid sets benefit from a single minifigure "prize" in each: Jango Fett in the former and Adi Gallia in the latter. I do particularly like the set modeled on the recent Series V, Episodes 15 and 16 of the Clone Wars TV series. TLG has begun to adapt to the shifts of the show quickly, and the figs in that one are rather lovely. Overall, I am pleased with the summer 2013 SW collection, and I can imagine what sorts of good (and some rehashed) RotS models Lego will release in 2014 to coincide with the 3D rerelease.