Brickdoctor

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I think it's pretty clear that he was just using a quote because it was appropriate for his point. (Although it's an Obi-Wan quote from the beginning of the Battle of the Heroes, not a Yoda quote.) No need to insult the logic abilities of another member.

Agreed. After how big and brick-built the Watcher in the Water was in the first game, I would've expected Smaug to be much larger and sculpted from bricks. (Or does TT know something we don't about upcoming sets? I haven't been paying attention to LoTR/Hobbit set news.)

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I like the fact that the walls are more solid than your usual technique, though I do agree with BEAVeR that they could use some texture and some more of the white lines to break up the the expanse of flat grey. Tiling over the floor and breaking up all those grey studs would be a good idea, too. But I actually like the random crates. They make it look like it's realistically in the middle of a battle, I think. Besides, a Star Destroyer has 126+ turbolasers; it's plausible that at least one of the gunnery crews is a little messier.

Has that happened? I remember the last Luke's Landspeeder set (from 2010) sold out pretty quickly and then was backordered for several weeks, but that was just one set, and it was an understandable case of being a cheap set ($20) with four classic main characters.

That's what most of us do when building OT vehicles, actually. Good choice; Toromodel has some of the best shots of the studio models in their flickr stream.Huh, I just realized that the smoother solution for the fins is in fact studs-traditionally-facing-up because the top fins are built with bricks pointing up. The plate and tile version would actually be the SNOT version. Oops. Ah, well, I'm sure you all knew what I meant.

Generally the bottoms of plates don't break up the smooth-ness as much as the studs on the tops do, so the bottoms don't need smoothing out as much as the tops do, and I don't believe the inverted tiles come in the angled and curved shapes that would be necessary to avoid having jagged edges on the fins. If there were properly angled and curved versions of both normal and inverted tiles, and they all overlapped so they didn't need any plates between them to hold them together (which would be some very specialized pieces), then they would be a half-plate thinner and just as smooth as the SNOT solution. But for now, there's no way for plates to be smoother and sleeker than SNOT in this situation.

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You could try a brick-built canopy similar to what Roguebantha did. (but then you have to make the choice between having squared-off side windows, having no side windows, or having a canopy that either doesn't open or looks odd when it's opened)

The latter is the one bit of the storyline that gave us Tuskens, they just left out the part about Shmi and had the Tuskens attack him while he was riding Owen's swoop. And there's a third scene that makes use of Tuskens, the Podrace; I remember a few people were upset that TLG didn't use the chance to update the Tuskens for the Anakin and Sebulba's Podracers set.But I do agree that I don't see any reason not to put Tuskens in a Sandcrawler set, especially if the Sandcrawler is going to be the big D2C set representing Tatooine for few years. It's not that much of a stretch from what was shown in the movies.

We have a topic for discussing availability, so I'll merge this into that one... ...done.

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Oh, of course; I'm not suggesting that we're getting a 10,000 part set in the $300 range.

Biggs' head is perfect; you altered that so very cleanly. Rubber eraser, Brasso, or something else?

I wouldn't say that the minifig-scale UCS Sandcrawler would be completely outside the realm of possibility — that's how 10179 got started, after all, as a side project that TLG liked enough to make into an unprecedentedly large set. That being said, obviously the Sandcrawler isn't as famous as the Falcon and would be roughly twice the size, so it would be a lesser candidate for such treatment.But I agree with you, it's likely that TLG would take a lot of flak for not passing Marshall Banana's CUUSOO proposal if they did do a UCS Sandcrawler. (Keeping in consideration that there have been fairly significant instances of uproar on EB before, when it was perceived that they copied the UCS Lambda and UCS Delta-7 from AFOL models — cavegod, if I remember correctly*, and that without the influence of a reviewed CUUSOO project.) *Of course, let's not discuss that here. I'm just using it as an example.

57783. It's pretty much the standard piece for T-47 MOC canopies right now. (compare to some nice recent shots of the studio model here)

No, they usually can seat two. This one is better than the previous ones, though, in that they finally stopped using the 3x12 plates on the wings and used the much more accurate 2x3/3x6 plates instead. Still far from perfect; they need to stop using that Y-wing cockpit piece for X-wings and T-47s. (And in the case of the T-47, there's already the 1x3x4 windscreen piece that's the right shape.)

If you wanted to be pedantic, Yoda Chronicles isn't part of the EU; it's non-canon. But I'm sure it's likely that the explanation is as simple as the fact that TLG had already decided to make the set before receiving these instructions from Lucasfilm, and it's also possible that TLG had some sort of contract that entitles them to produce a certain amount of Yoda Chronicles sets.