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I have a cloaca...and it's spectacular So anyway, back to the set. I wonder about shipping. Hopefully this'll have it's own dedicated master shipper boxes like the Falcon did. And it looks like here in the US it'll be around $25 for the freight. It's probably better to wait on any pre-orders and just buy the thing after Thanksgiving when they usually start their free shipping promotion for $99 or over orders. That, or pick it up in a LEGO retail store. Then you get stamps on your loyalty card...lots of 'em!

Wow...I went from "fool" to "money waster" in one post. Care to belittle my manhood while you're on a roll?

Oh, that's okay...no offense taken

That was IG-88B, Boba Fett made sure he was down for the count. There's also nothing stopping us from giving this guy a new IG designation. It's not as if we have to stick to any sort of cannon or continuity when there are three Luke Skywalkers in the Death Star

So, just an IG-series Assassin Droid. Cool Roughly 16" by 16"...that'll take up some shelf space

Thanks for the Plan B, I'll keep that in mind And welcome to EB, glad I could lure you in with my goofy request

Does anyone have the barrel/bucket from any of these three Bionicle piece sets they'd be willing to part with for a small fee? 8711 8715 6638 I like to keep my Bionicle parts in them, and I've filled up the five I already have.

The hell? DSII only has 3417 pieces. The Falcon, the biggest LEGO set ever, has 5195 and clocks in at $500

There's that, and it's also a good display set. You can go ahead and populate that thing with all sorts of other Minifigs beside the ones it comes with. It's also a nice way to have several little cinema scenes in one piece, which is nice. This has got to be the best set of this nature that LEGO has produced for Star Wars. Cloud City was pretty good, but Jabba's Palace was abysmal. That Final Duel set for Revenge of the Sith was pretty pointless, so, if nothing else, this will be a good Minifig display shelf

I don't recall anyone else mentioning the fact that it spins on its base. So what are the thoughts on that? I think it's a great way to keep that big sphere accessible from all sides, but that just screams to be displayed somewhere that has enough room to spin it freely, especially with the superlaser beam tacked on. Sure as hell beats a UCS-style stand for this set. Probably a little sturdier as well.

when I'm not drinking...yes As to what's under the superlaser...you mean the thing beside the Trash Compactor? I think that's one of those point-defense laser cannons that you see being fired from the battlestation's interior during the trench battle in the movie.

Pretty much...we try not it infuriate LEGO over here...too much Well with the piece-count where it is at 3803, plus the usual licensing mark-up and the HUGE number of Minifigs, I think $400 is pretty close if not right on target. I hope you're right though

"Right-click, Save-as" is your friend kids

It's also possible that these aren't the final figures in the set, but only preliminary images. If they're already in the LEGO cache that makes it less likely, but also possible. Still, all the rest of the awesome in this set sort of offsets a couple of sub-par hats

So what you're saying is that Star Wars LEGO collecting is a Sisyphean task of the greatest magnitude. I can't argue. After the ISD, DSII, Falcon, and now this...it's almost like we're being killed with what we desire

I'm wondering if this is a nod to the Expanded Universe where IG-88 uploaded himself into the Death Star II computer, taking the weapon over just before the Alliance blew it up

Oh now that is cool! My bank account and shelf capacity are already crying in pain, but that has got to be the most downright neat Star Wars set ever. Instead of being a boring, linear cinema scene or another near-dead-accurate UCS creation we've got a fun playset type thing with a boatload of Minifigs and tons of clever little constructions and features. It's kind of a shame that it's coming out this year, because this would have surely been perfect to capture the spirit of LEGO Star Wars for the big 10th anniversary next year. 100% Win!

Coming in at around $50 US, Turbo Car Chase is one of the bigger of the new Agents sets. A big box with a helicopter, car, and gate in it. Seems like a winner, but how good is it really, and is it worth the cash? Let's start with the Minifigs. This set comes with a standard Inferno Henchman, Spy Clops, and Agent Chase. The Henchman is you basic LEGO criminal type with a gun and a jumpsuit, nothing real groundbreaking here. Spy Clops, on the other hand, is very cool for, technically, half of a Minifig. His head has a neat electronic goggle print and the rest of him is a torso mounted onto a set of six legs made from Exo-Force robot arms. The whole thing is really well done and neat as hell. Agent Chase (Turbo Car Chase! ) seems to have a standard agent body and a double-printed face with one side a sunglasses and headset print. The other face is a determined Agent look. The set also includes a laptop with Doctor Inferno wallpaper. The laptop is a new piece and works like the LEGO books that are in a lot of Harry Potter sets. Molding on the keyboard is really well done and the thing can be held by a Minifig along either corner, but not in the middle and not while closed. The gate in the set is nothing revolutionary by itself, and I sort of get the feeling that it was included to drive up the piece count and the set price point. That being said, there are some things to like here. For instance, the gate has four wheels of barbed wire attached to it. The barbed wire is new and makes me want to start building some World War I trench MOCs. The rest of the gate is fairly big and it has a handy ramp attached so that vehicles can roll through it easily. The main feature of the gate is a sound brick. It's much better then LEGO sound and light units of the past, when the gate is opened it depresses a button and an alert klaxon blares that sounds every bit like a prison-beak in progress. The triggering action works surprisingly well and it's pretty much for this feature alone that I'm not going to immediately break the gate back down and add it to my parts bin. The designers did make an effort to create more then just a fence though. A nice control panel connected to a big spotlight crowns the piece, and a pair of cameras watch the opening. It's really hard to mess up a LEGO helicopter, and this set is no exception. The Inferno Chopper is a nicely proportioned and well built machine. It looks properly menacing and has the uniform orange and black of other Inferno property. It's armed with a set of four Technic pegs cleverly used as guns on outriding mounts, as well as a pair of the newer-style flick-fire missiles. I personally don't care for flick-firing missiles, but these look decent enough and seem to stay put so I really can't complain about them. Along the fuselage are a pair of intake pieces that I've never seen before and I'm guessing are new. They're pretty well designed and will come in handy for MOCing down the road. The action feature of the aircraft is the wench system. This is very different then other LEGO wenches in that you build the entire mechanism and housing. You can then use it to raise Spy Clops up and down from the bottom of the chopper using the rotor. Now, this also keeps you from sitting there and just giving the rotor repeated spins to simulate flight. I'm not too thrilled with that, but there are a hundred other LEGO helicopters out there with fully rotating rotors, so I guess I can let it by just this once. As you'd suspect, the bottom of the cockpit is completely open, which makes this a vehicle pretty much solely for Spy Clops (Sorry Henchman). But there is plenty of room beneath the body to attach a plate with some seats on it to accommodate another pilot without drastically altering the design, or even removing existing pieces. The Turbo Car is a slick little honey of a LEGO car, and the silver pieces that make up the body work contribute a lot to that fact. The front license plate appears to be an Exo-Fore code brick. But it also hides the activation lever for the passenger ejector seat. The seat works about as well as the Spruce Goose, which is to say not well at all, but here it's the thought that counts. The interior of the car is really well done. There's even a radar screen for keeping track of pesky helicopters. But the Bond-like features don't end there. A lever in the compartment raises pair of guns in the hood and a knob on the rear deploys a quad rocket system with more flick-fire missiles. This is a car that won't be stopped easily! The rear has two cones sticking out. I'd like to think they're smoke nozzles or oil-slick sprayers. All-in-all, this is a really good set. The car is pure LEGO vehicle love and looks fantastic. The silver pieces are very nice and it's a shame LEGO doesn't use metallic colors in System sets more often. There are, however, a LOT of sticker for this set and I know how much that bugs a lot of people. I personally like how much detail the stickers add to these sets and don't mind them so much. The set also comes with an Agents ID card for Chase which you can put little star stickers on from other sets as you get them. It's printed on a real nice piece of sturdy plastiboard and would be cooler if you could put your own picture and name on it instead of pretending to be Chase. Sold by themselves, the car and chopper would be must-haves. All tossed together with the gate sort of makes the set a little less then the sum of it's parts. And with 498 parts (most of them small) that's not so hot. It's only slightly over-priced in my opinion, but if you do shell out the money you won't regret it. I'm very comfortable recommending this set to anyone. Close to perfect, but the price and some minor flaws bring it back just a little. I'd say 4.33, but out of 5 is close enough!

Can't wait! I've been trying to keep my toy collecting confined to LEGO recently and have had to pass on all the great McFarlane SPARTANs because of that, and a lack of display space, but these in several colors would be absolutely perfect! Too damn bad I'm gonna miss out on the steel variant. Any chance of some Orbital Drop Shock Troopers eventually?

Years of collecting other action figures and toys has given me a complex. I'm scared to death that if I don't buy something the very first time I see it, that I'll never find it again and I'll have to either do without or pay a boatload for it on ebay. Even though I know LEGO stocks stuff, even exclusives, pretty well and has multiple channels through which to purchase products, I still get all fidgety and nervous when I leave something for later. I got my sets at the same LEGO store and, despite already hauling nearly $500 worth of stuff to the register, I just couldn't leave them on the shelf

Should be interesting... I just placed two customer service requests about ten minutes apart. One to LEGO and one to Hasbro. I'm curious to see how this turns out in a head-to-head examination. I kind-of have a feeling on how this will shake out though

Since I changed my wallpaper for the first time in more then 6 months... ZOMBIE PIKACHU!

Now that I've thought about it a little bit... These sort of labels are really not needed here, internally, in the LEGO Fan community. We're all LEGO fans and the distinction of AFOL is only really needed out there where someone who is not a child buying and building a LEGO set has to be explained to the dumb-masses. You know..the sort of people who still think video games and comic books are still made exclusively for kids and who refer to action figures as "dolls" Because if we start having to assign distinctions to the "FOL" abreviation it'll never end. AFOL, TFOL, KFOL (Kid), MFOL (Male), FFOL (Female), BFOL (Black), WFOL (White), OFOL (Oriental), DFOL (Dinosaur), HFOL (Handicapped), RFOL (Redhead), GFOL (Gay), LFOL (Lazy), IFOL (Insane), etc, etc...

Absolutely Now get off my damn lawn!!!!

Once I emailed customer service to see if they had any suggestions for preserving the stickers on my UCS Blockade Runner...I never heard back from them, but a couple weeks later I received a brand new sticker sheet in the mail. That was pretty cool. Ever since, whenever I've been missing parts in new sets or I've bought a set that didn't come with something I expected (Mecha-1's legs from Striking Venom) they've always hooked me up. I love 'em