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I saw a picture of the KOTOR vehicles, but the Repuclic Fighter presented is not the right one. It concerns the Republic Starfighter: More info in this link Thought you should know

Hey folks, It looks like I'm on a building spree, but in fact I'm just finally posting pictures of MOCs I've been building in the last 1.5 years, thought you should know Anyway, I'd like to present my most challenging build of 2011, my version of the Imperial AT-SE, or "All Terrain Shock Enforcer". Q: The what ??? A: The AT-SE. The All Terrain Shock Enforcer. You know, it was in The Empire Strikes back! Observe: It got almost as much screen time as Dash Rendar's Outrider in episode IV The Imperial All Terrain Shock Enforcer, or AT-SE for short, was designed a couple of years ago by Ansel Hsiao (aka Fractelsponge), a 3D modeler artist who made many renderings of 'known' Star Wars vehicles, but also made a vehicle thought up by himself, this magnificent AT-SE: He even went so far and made a couple of films of this awesome vehicle. One example is here You can check more of his awesome work on fractalsponge.net. His AT-SE can be found on this website Now I recently read a topic about FANON vehicles, and in all fairness, I'm not a big fan of them. I never ever create things I make up myself, but rather stick to the hundreds of vehicles the Star Wars videogames, comics and toys have to offer. However, this AT-SE just screamed for a recreation in LEGO, and so I started in January of this year with building this: And yes, that does indeed stand on it's two feet. And yes, that does mean it is defying gravity (just like that green witch, but then some more). Let's get into the details of this vehicle: The head of the AT-SE is a lot wider than that of an AT-AT, but I kept the 'interior' similar to the 4483 AT-AT, still my favorite of the ones' released by LEGO: I tried to keep the under side close to the original as well: The top gun is huge, and can fit a minifig (although not as comfortable as the AT-AT pilot in front). You can see a Technic gear; the top gun can actually tilt vertically via a small lever at the rear of the top gun: Detail of the small guns (there are three in total on this vehicle). In the top-left you'll see another lever. This one turns the top gun horizontally: Some on the Internet thought that the inside of the AT-SE would contain speederbikes or stormtroopers, but the vehicle's creator stated that the inside only contains mechanisms for the walker and the top gun. so that's also what I build on the inside: Now I would have loved to make photos of this vehicle in a studio, but the fact of the matter is that my backgrounds cannot cover the sheer size of this thing! so apologies for the quality of the overall shoots. Just to compare it in size, here it stands along with the 8129 AT-AT and the AT-ST from set 8038: I hope you all liked this one. And I look forward to Legostein's MINI version of this vehicle ! As always, bigger pictures can be found here And yes, more is coming!

Hey folks, thanks for the feedback! @ Praiter Yed: I have worked a lot on the shooting mechanism (this is how it works) but it would have made the 'intakes' way too big. Instead of the pointy red arrows, I thought the grey intakes on the original looked way better :-) @ Brickmamba: The nose section was the hardest part of the vehicle. I've made about 10 designs of it! The red nose cone is longer than on the 'real' version, but I seriously could not find the right pieces (in red) to make a better / shorter nose cone). I replaced the nose cone from this: to this: in order to make the nose somewhat smoother. @ Oky: The rollcage of the original is véry long, as it needs to fit véry long action figures. As the minifigs are proportionally a lot shorter, the rollcage would have filled up a lot of 'air' and not only the passengers. On the 'real' white witch the rollcage is also dark blue though: Oh, and I can't really judge about the cartoon, as I have never seen it when I was young; I think both the 'DROIDS' and 'EWOKS' cartoons never made it across the ocean (or my selective memory just won't let me remember them). Last month I saw an old episode of Transformers, my all-time-favourite cartoon, and I couldn't believe how slow and cheesy it was...

As you can see in the 'prototype' (so not the boxart), the 'engine' is indeed dark blue, not black

Another day, another MOC. Today: the 'White Witch' from the 'DROIDS' Star Wars cartoon series. After the well-known Star Wars films George Lucas thought he could probably make some more money from the franchise (in fact, he still does), and created two cartoon series: 'DROIDS' (with C-3PO and R2-D2), and 'EWOKS', with the cute bears from Endor. The DROIDS cartoosn consisted of several chapters, each consisting of about 6 episodes. One of those chapters was called 'the White Witch', named after the principle vehicle in the series; indeed, the 'White Witch', een tuned Mobquet C/L-82 landspeeder: A couple of action figures were made by KENNER, and of course, along with the figures, some vehicles were required, amongst which the White Witch: They even made boxart for the vehicle: However, as success stayed out, the White Witch made it to production, and is still one of the best known unproduced Star Wars toys. However, that may be changed in time. There's the rumouirs that one of it's pilots will make it into the upcoming Star Wars series foreseen for the near future, and if the character will make it, why not his vehicle? In the meantime there's fortunately LEGO, which enables you to make your own white witch :D For bigger images, click here

Hello folks, In 1997 Kenner came out with a smaller version of the T47 Airspeeder. Because the 'real' T-47 Airspeeder was rather pricey, KENNER decided to bring a smaller scaled, cheaper alternative on the merket. this became the 'EU Airspeeder', launched under the 'Power of the Force' label: For the geeks a film of the vehicle, which also explains the wing mechanisms: <object width="640" height="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_HivNMlmNg?version=3&hl=nl_NL&rel=0"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_HivNMlmNg?version=3&hl=nl_NL&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_HivNMlmNg?version=3&hl=nl_NL&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="480" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> And a link to the 'original' with a lot of pictures Anyway, I made a LEGO version of this vehicle: The pop-up wings: The bottom side is also alike the 'original': For bigger pictures, see here

I think the PT sets were not bad, it's just that the timing of them was lousy. Had LEGO introduced the UCS Jedi Starfighter at the time of release of the movie, I'm sure it would have sold better than introducing it last year. UCS appeals to an older audience, as kids would want minifigs with their sets, or at least vehicles in the same 'size' as their other LEGO sets. PT Star Wars was for 'a new generation of Star Wars fans', and so UCS sets should grow along with the age of these new Star Wars fans. In that perspective, the UCS Jedi Starfighter either came too late (not in the year of the actual movie) or too soon (the potential buyer of PT UCS sets is just too young right now). So please, bring in the UCS AT-TE and RGS, but I'd wait for a few more years, as the kids who got the 7163 RGS back in 2002, would probably want the UCS version somewhere in 2015 - 2017... Meanwhile, I don't think LEGO will have to be scared what to do in the years ahead. With the UCS AT-AT, UCS speederbike and / or Landspeeder on many AFOLs' lists, there's enough left to develop (from that perspective the choice for a SSD was a rather curious one, I think). Just my 0,02$

Bit of an unfair one, really; I think the sailbarge doesn't fit in with the others due to it's different price point. That didn't stop me from voting for it, though ;-) In all fairness: I'd like a new Flash Speeder. Curved green parts galore!

Thanks for adding the partslist, very much appreciated

Chewie actually got his medal at the 1997 MTV movie awards:

Got mine a month ago, no pupils...

That's the kind of MOCs I really like

Hi, Send me a PM with your e-mailaddress, and I'll send the pics over. There was also an experimental AT-RT and Salor Sailer in the same pictures

LEGO can decide what sets they want to make, but every set needs to be approved by Lucasarts first. Based on popularity, LEGO wil most likely stick to vehicles / figures from the Clone Wars cartoons and the 6 movies. In the past LEGO did produce vehicles from videogames and comics though... It all depends on supply and demand of course. Each LEGO product has a life cycle, and naturally LEGO produces products to (try to) cover the complete lifecycle. You can of course imagine that if a product is no longer available, but it's lifecycle ends a month later, LEGO would normally not choose to produce an extra batch just to fill up the remaining month. In other cases LEGO might end up with an unsold lot of products approaching the end of the life cycle. That would be the moment LEGO decides to clear out the stock, by offering the product on clearance. You can however not assume that these clearances occur as a 'standard' to certain types of products.

I bought a bunch of these once, and they work great: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2681

Great review A good read indeed.

Dear all, I would like to present you my version of the Starspeeder 3000 from the Star Tours ride at the Disney parks. I made this vehicl for the Lowlug Star wars MOC competition. Star Tours is a ride at virtually all Disneyland parks and is based on Star Wars, where you make a flight through the universe in a flight simulator similar to the ones' professional pilots use. A prototype from Lucasarts: When you walk towards the ride you pass a lifesize model of a Starspeeder 3000, with on it's side quite some damage. I based my MOC on this version: Naturally the side doors open. The speeder has room for 16 travellers: When you take a good look, you can see the driver of the vehicle, RX-24 (aka Rex): What a lot of people do not know, however, is that the vehicle is actually piloted by someone else! Let's take a look... It's George Lucas himself! I also made the background setting of the model in the parks: In the front you can see all the figures included in this MOC: George Lucas, two Star Tours employees, DL-X2 (security), RX-24 ('pilot'), G2-9T (repair droid), C-3PO (coordinator) and R2-D2 (navigation) I made the sticker of the control panel myself. You can see a blueprint of the Starspeeder 3000: A few more images of the background setting: Well, everyone is ready to receive new passengers for the next flight! From left to right: Vilmarh Grahrk (aka 'Villie'), Astraal Vao, Wall-E, EVE, Chewbacca (what a Wookie!), Boba Fett (Just escaped from the Sarlacc pit and now looking for a new ride) and a skieer who seems to be on his way to Hoth More / all photo's are to be found here Feedback is always welcome!

Thanks for the positive reactions, people! There are several categories more in the competition, so I'll be presenting some more MOCs in the forthcoming period. Meanwhile, it's Q&A time: It actually balaces rather good; as you can see in the pictures, no matter how you place the legs, it stays on it's two feet. For a walker the feet are rather long (8 studs) which may also help in why it's well balanced. The side panels are of course big in size, but very light. And inside the main cockpit I only used two brackets like these: Which also reduces a lot of weight. LEGO really should use these a lot more I think... What you mean is probably the two gun hatches which lean out diagonally when they open. As in the middle of the top rear there's also some sort of an 'air duct' (the same you see on formula 1 cars), in most of the 'official' pictures it seems the slope on top is one big chunk, whereas it isn't. The 'air duct' ought to be light bluish grey, but to the best of my knowledge that colour doesn't exist yet. The dark bluish grey breaks a bit of the 'light grey mass' of the total of the vehicle, so I'm happy with it (for now) Well, the only Walkers I've seen up to now in the Clone Wars, were AT-RT's, there aren't even AT-PT's in the series! The Clone Wars shows little to no Walkers (bar the AT-TE), which is a real pity, as I really like them. Time will tell if the AT-XT ever makes it in the show, although I guess the AT-PT would probably be preferred over the AT-XT... If you have more questions, they're always welcome. And again, thanks for the positive feeback!

Dear all, I'd like to present my newest MOC to you, which I've made for a Star Wars MOC Building competition at Lowlug.nl (hence the logo's in the pictures ;-) ) The AT-XT is a vehicle used during the Clone Wars, and got known from various Star Wars videogames ('Star Wars Galaxy', 'The Clone Wars' etc.) My MOC has a tilting mechanism and a turning plate, which makes the head tilt both horizontally and vertically. You can position the legs at any hight you want, and by tilting the cockpit up and down (by using the Technic Axle) the cockpit stays horizontal at all times: A picture of the back side of the machines (getting original pictures of that part of the vehicle are actually hard to get): In the vehicle you can fit two Clone Troopers: On the 'original' AT-XT the top guns are retractable, something which is close to impossible to do with LEGO. So on my MOC they are (easily) detacheable, so you can close the two side covers: For comparison some images of the 'real' AT-XT: And for the entire picture set just click here. Comments and questions are naturally welcome!

It's light grey because during the Clone Wars, they actually were light grey. Observe: The last image is actually of the Clone Wars another mystery solved! you're welcome ;-)

Hey folks! Just received the 10212, and being home late, I wasn't able to start building yet, and for now can only comment on the box and its contents. The box is big, but really filled up to the max with many (not numbered) bags, 4 (!) instruction manuals, and a sticker sheet which, being loose in the box, was badly wrinkled... Below are the pages with the individual parts. Tomorrow I'll provide a full building review :) Please check here for bigger images! Wow, so many replies, and I haven't even started yet! First, the rough details: Item: 10212 Imperial Shuttle Pieces: 2503 Minifigures: Darth Vader Imperial Pilot Imperial Officer Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight, no hood) Stormtrooper Price: US $249.99 / €259.99 / £219.99 Ages: 16+ Released: August 25 / 3rd September 2010 Theme: Star Wars / Classic / Ultimate Collector's Series First thing when I opened the box? @$*#$, the stickers are wrinkled, and one is even loose from the sheet!! The stickers are just put in the box, and so completely crushed by the bricks during transport. *sigh*, now I have to call LEGO again for yet another problem with wrinkled stickers in a set... In the meantime I moved on building the set. First up, the minifigs: That's Luke (not looking happy), Vader, TK1138, Imperial officer and Imperial shuttle pilot (not a hot blonde this time, a pity really ) It was rather hard to spot who's who, as Luke's head wasn't as recognizible as he was in previous sets. Tip: he's the one with the brown eyebrows... Do you with sharp eyes see what I directly noticed? Something shiny... Old school lightsabers! No more bluish grey or matte chrome, no! It's the real deal! Real chrome lightsabers! Building starts with the main hull. And for a Technic-n00b that's just about easy enough to handle. You build ground-up, jam in the Gears, and then build up until you get a full hull: Once that is done you basically cover the hull with plates and arched bricks, and it already looks rather good The cockpit is built separately from the hull, and then you slide it into the hull. It is then connected to the hull by plates and bricks, which, as an EU fan, is a pity, as in star Wars EU the cockpit can separate from the hull and function as an escape pod: Then it's time to build the Dorsal stabilisers and you think "wow, this ship is going to be HUGE!". It is built with lots of beams, which thankfully do not have a lot of colour difference between them. Once those are in place it's time to build the wings. As left and right are built in the exact way, I decided to build them both at the same time, which works perfectly, really... Once these are mde, there is no 'Ogel' imprinted in your thumbs, but round holes in pretty much all your fingers. Sturdy? Yes. Impressive? Oh yes. Painful to build? especially that... Once the base is made (rather easily, it's time to show the world the shuttle: Looks good, doesn't it! I think the designer was from Sweden, as the set comes with two IKEA-styled keys which you use to open and close the side stabilizers. Poor TK1138, all alone outside the shuttle in the cold... Not quite sure what this extra minifig's purpose is in this set, I think he'll swiftly join his band of brothers for more exiting adventures... Time for the jury report: Design: 9/10 I think it's spot on. would like to have had the escape-pod function as a standard, but apart from that, I think it looks great! Parts: 7/10 Nothing special to notice really. Even the pieces I found 'new' already appear in other sets... Build: 8/10 Technic is not my thing, and building beams is different than building Bricks. I had fun though... Minifigs: 7/10 Nothing special I'd say. Stormie is a bit odd as he can't fit anywhere. Luke looks rather unhappy, too bad both the pilot and the officer have the same face. Apart from that I'd say it's OK Playability: 8/10 Wouldn't know, never play with sets. Closing and opening the side wings could be fun, but I was exhausted after several times. But then again, I'm not your typical IKEA customer... A 16+ will have lots of fun with it, I'm quite sure of that. Price: 5/10 UCS sets are expensive. Star Wars sets are expensive. That makes UCS Star Wars sets very véry expensive. Period. For $249.99 / €259.99 / £219.99 you get a big set with many white pieces, some figs you already had, but nevertheless a great set with many nice details. Overall: 44/60, which is not bad. I'm a big fan, so I'd buy it. But for parts and figs, you might want to shop elsewhere Bonus picture: Mother Goose and her offspring: For bigger images, please click here

Hey folks, thanks for the great feedback! Tha plans of building this have been there for a long time really (as with so many projects I'm afraid...). Next to the last version of LEGO's AT-ST, it's exactly 50% higher when its legs are on their highest, just like the 'real' ones (AT-ST 8m, AT-AR 12m) Let me come back to a few questions: Q: Is it sturdy? A: Yes it is! I used 2x3 wedge plates instead of 2x4 ones, but the latter are absolutely better. It will also walk better on tree logs than an AT-ST... Q: Is it fully playable? A: I don't play with my LEGO, so I couldn't tell. The head spins around, the cockpit opens and it has multiple joints which can put it in several positions, and a 'secret' compartment holding blasters... Q: The legs are too thin! A: Yes. Tried bricks with hinges as with the 'old' AT-ST, but frankly, the AT-AR looks better having Kate Moss legs rather than Oprah's really R: I recognized it! A: That's friggin cool! Star Wars fans aplenty, but you have to dig deep in order to find the true EU vehicle fans. R: It's the first time I see one! A: Well, there are a few more LEGO versions online really; it's not that unique. It's time Hasbro made a playable version out of it though, it's really a looker IMHO... Q: Do you have pics of the inside? A: Yes, but not online yet; it has an interior carrying two Stormtroopers, and below the belly there's a storage room for guns and binoculars... R: The feet are great! A: Thank the LEGO designer of the AT-AP for those I still have to fork out some glitches with Photoshop, and then I'll have some interior shots as well

Hello folks, I've never posted a MOC on Eurobricks before, but having lerned some skills of Photoshop, and having created a new Flickr account, time has come for me to show a MOC of mine. I herewith present you my version of the AT-AR (All Terrain Advance Raider), from the Marvel comics of the early eighties: And this is a page from the 'original' comic: More pictures can be found here, on my Flickr account.

+1 nr. 19 +1 nr. 40 +1 nr. 58

Wow, truly flabbergasted about the prices !!! I had expected just one minifig, but this is really great! Thanks CopMike for the effort !!