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Would they not also have had an issue with the fact that the student protagonists are unable to “sit” down because of the short legs? I understand the change, and it is more accurate with the height difference, but it does feel strange to have the main characters unable to articulate their legs.

I’m just excited that we’re finally getting Luke’s hairpiece in Sand Yellow (Dark Tan), something long overdue!

I’m having trouble with the 1x10 brace piece. When it rests on the dark red slope bricks it is 1 stud above where the grey slope in the middle sits, so I can’t put the grey slope in. Are there any pics of how the brace is constructed?

Unless you fancied driving up to Lisburn to get it from Toys R Us there then unfortunately not. It’s a pity there’s no Lego store in Dublin since I was looking to pick up the UCS Falcon for Christmas somewhere since it was out of stock (mind you it’s more expensive in Euro too). I can’t wait to pick up the new X-wing, not too keen on the sandcrawler though.

From the pic it does look like his episode II hair

Not to mention that R2 now sits correctly facing forward rather than at 90°! Something strangely changed in the 2012 rendition (and in the RO Y-wing?).

Nuh uh. They’re preliminary images, but they’re perfectly clear as they are printed in the catalogue and there’s a feasible amount of detail in the photos. The only reason it would look "poor quality" is because the photo of the catalogue is being compressed.

Nope. It was a wild Bantha chase unfortunately. They only had two sets on the shelves, the heavy assault walker and the star destroyer, and this was apparently all the ones they had in stock too. I asked the store assistant as well but she said she had never seen it and they didn’t have it, but then again she didn’t know if the Praetorian guard action figure was from the "new film" or not. Honestly I don’t know where the rumour that it was on sale originated from, it featured briefly Live on national Irish television, and was revealed by the Official Disney Ireland Twitter as the "Skellig Micheal Set" which would hit stores on December 15th.

Heard that it was available in the Disney store in Dublin, but I’ll definitely know by later today... might pick one up myself...

Well it’s already out in Ireland so yes! I might pick it up at the weekend.

What other sets have a dark tan hood in them?

Although is that it for the 2018 TLJ wave? No praetorian guards? No Leia?

Didn’t expect to see a porg in a small set. Also Kylo Ren in a micro fighter??

What’re the chances we might see LEGO sets for this or a return to the LoTR theme? I d say it depends on the suitability of the content, if they choose to go GoT style then definitely not.

Thanks for this! I’ll give it a go on a normal Black cape that has faded first.

Coming back to this a year later I’ve had problems with one-colour capes in my collection fading as a result of exposure to direct sunlight for prolonged periods of time. Some dark red capes, brown capes, and black capes have been faded. Most disappointingly the black Nazgûl capes which were exclusive to the LoTR weathertop set became a faded light brown/pink colour. I’ve reversed the capes so it’s not as obvious but it’s still there on the inside. On other capes the difference can be seen in the area exposed to sunlight and areas covered by hair/neck. How would I go about staining/dyeing the fabric to restore it to its original colour? What I really don’t want to happen is to dye something black and it comes out navy and I’d like to keep the same stiffness.

I think we shouldn’t be too worried about the current face for old Luke, since both the 2014 Luke and the 2015 Old Han Solo received major upgrades to their face prints in subsequent sets. I think that dark tan should be the only colour used for Luke’s hair in OT sets also, tan is just plain wrong.

I think they could pull off a HP/FB LEGO wave like they did with the middle earth sets with a Lord Of The Rings wave in summer followed by a Hobbit wave for the new film in autumn/winter.

Any idea how long the prize draw promotion will go on for? Is it just Force Friday/weekend? I'll be visiting the Liverpool store on the 7th so I hope it's still going then, of course the falcon will still be on display.

Do we know if the "feet" on the falcon can be retracted in? Or removed?

I think it's nice that they included the "good" version of old Han Solo from the Rathtar Escape. Although I'm not sure to why he's listed as an Episode vii/EPISODE VIII character

From the designer video it looks like Han has a new "normal" face. It looks kinda off but I'll wait to see better closeups. The 'depth illusion stickers' on the walls inside the falcon are kind of meh, the one in the Death Star detention block did kind of work because that was how it was done in the original movie and it did look "off" most of the time. I suppose the only way these ones will look right is if you are inside the falcon yourself

Is it just me or do the photos look a bit dark/purpleish? There's a bit of a magenta tinge on the flesh faces. It's a pity you can't position the characters on the boarding ramp because of the anti-studs, but I guess that means less anti-studs on the exterior?

I wonder if there is room to store the alternate dish and parts inside the ship?

The figures are a little bad. I never got the TFA falcon since I had the 2011 one which was nearly identical and I knew that a UCS version would look far better. Unfortunately this means that I won't have Tasu Leech or the other pirate guy for the rathtar set It would've been nice to have included them for people who didn't get that set for this reason.