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That yellow ninja looks great, wonder what elemental power will she have

The hood on antimatter looks amazing, lots of great pieces to customize Minifigs in this wave!!

Mnnn the pilot does have the rebels printing, the shadow troopers battlepack looks very expanded universe to me, specifically from the "force unleashed" designs. The UCS appears to be a late 2014 model, maybe the rumored comeback of the UCS millennium Falcon has to do with it

I don't know why some people complain about the yellow bits on the at-dp an the light armor appearance , if you look http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/All_Terrain_Defense_Pod it is completely accurate

About 50 to 60 dollars, but seriously, if you just want it for the Droid army building potential toy could probably get 30+ droids off of bricklink for the same price.

oh the very first AAT was amazing, blocky but it got the job done, the clone wars one(blue one) is far too big , altough very well built and imposing but this new one is well... chubby?? way to round on the front and very small. the carrier is fine but the price... well if you want to get those many droids you should probably buy the off bricklink, the carrier isnt that of an iconic craft to be at the 50$ orice range

the color of the troopers is fine, they are not suposed to be shadow stormtroopers like the ones we allready have , they resemble darktroopers, totally different corps. as for why the battlepack is called shadowtroopers, well its the same reason why this years "death star troopers" is called liked that, we all know the red ones are imperial royal guards and the others are death star gunners but naming a set "imperial royal guards and death star gunners battlepack" is not as efficient as naming it death star troopers battlepack, in a way anyone who has seen atleast once the OT will recognize these minifigs as being related to the death star. Same goes for this new battlepack, shadowtroopers battlepack, sounds a lot better and more recognizable than "dark troopers and shadow royal guard battlepack" in a way they both are black ops specialized troopers , so, the former name is adecuate. tl,dr; search in wookipedia darktroopers and you will see the resemblance, search shadow stormtroopers and you will see the minifigs we already got years ago. and shadow troopers have never ever been made by LEGO, as they use ligthsabers and force powers its nice to see more old EU stuff, maybe just maybe a Kyle katarn official figure is possible someday as he is very closely related to the darktroopers program... i hope so

well let me enligthen you then, there were many type of "shadowtroopers" in the old star wars EU . First, there were the dark troopers(which these minifigs resemble a lot) they were a special kind of stormtroopers that had cyborg implants and enhacements to aid them in the battlefield, of those, there were 3 levels, every subsequent level had more and more cyborg implants up to the point of level 3 being a full droid-esque trooper. They first appeared on the Dark forces game and most were taken down by Kyle Katarn, they also appeared on the star wars battlefront games. then there was the SHADOWtrooper, those were dark jedi trooper hybrid imbued with force powers artificially, they have appeared on one of the sequels of dark forces called Jedi knigth II: jedi outcast(considered the best jedi combat based star wars game, also sarring kyle katarn ) , they used ligthsabers and could cloak, predator style. another kind, shadow stormtroopers , these were just stormtroopers fashioned with black ops gear, such as invisibility cloaks , specialized weaponry etc. a special garrison of these were called blackhole stormtroopers And finally, the shadow guards, these were a special garrison of royal guards that had acces to force based abilities, they were used sparringly and most in assasination missions , pursuing jedi etc. were theorized to be fallen jedi with minds wiped out, used ligthsaber tiped staff. altough they appeared before, its most recognizable appearance is the force unleashed series of games. i hope this are meant to be the dark troopers and shadow guards and that they somehow appear on REBELS so they can be recanonized, gonna get a bunch of these as well as the ITT. im gonna pass on the wookie gunship, not that it isnt great but it doesnt suit my collection; that TIE is great and finally a beige officer; atdp looks good too, kallus has obviously a 2 sided face; a little dissapointed with the T16, tusken raider is a must with BL; ezra speeder is good, sabine has her ligth armor but no helment?? the battlepacks are great armybuilders, weird choice on geonosis but i think senate commandos will rot in shelves, were these ever any popular??? ATT is pretty meh , the front side is way to round and chibi looking, hell even the original looks ten times better!!!! that carrier tho. aside from the clone pilot, not a decent selection of minifigs for the micro figthers. well nice wave, still have to see the other micros and my personal favorite the Anakin custom, so we can finally have Assaj ventress without clone wars horrible eyes. Guess we will have to wait for a fully armored Sabine, another Zeb and Hera for the summer 2015 wave and we wont be seeing those in 8 months!!!