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Blue squadron isn't shown to be flying Y-wings in the movie, you're right. In the space battle, all of the y wing parts seem to be mostly gold squadron (although it's possible some ywings in Blue are there, just not explicitly mentioned.) However, "Paril Ritta", one of the pilots on the Blue squadron page in the visual dictionary, is a Y-wing pilot.

No no problem.i really want to see more prequel sets and for that reason am really excited to see the JSF with booster ring. Like you said, it's unlikely but maybe Obi will get some new hair in that set, and maybe even a kaminoan! Instead, there is garbage like the Quadjumper (literally onscreen for 5 seconds and none of the mini figures are new ) and free maker sets (utter waste of space and new moulds, save for the bounty hunters and quarrie) . That ninjago piece is great for ep3 anakin as well. I'm certain they'll make that in dark brown for him when they make some more ep3 sets (how good would a mustafar set be with pregnant Padme, obiwan, anakin, pre-toast vader, a separatist leader and one of the droids be)

I think that the basic man hair suits Luke (Jedi knight) well enough. The fringe is the main part of that haircut and is matches up pretty well. The same goes for old Ben. The basic man hair is not exact (and alecs wig is all over the place during the movies anyway) but it's still pretty good and there are a lot of other pieces I would like to see made before a new piece specific for either of them. i did notice recently though how different Obiwans mullet in episode 2 is from the piece they used for his hair. It doesn't really look right at al, because there is no mullet to the mullet, all the hair is off the collar. This is most obvious when he gets soaked on Kamino and you can see how long his hair is. Of course a padawan piece has been sorely missing for nearly 20 years now and would be more than worthwhile (would add a lot to the otherwise underwhelming padawan obiwan and anakins from episode 1 and 2. There simply isn't any other piece that even evokes that hairstyle with the short combed up hair and ponytail on the back. One of the most sorely needed pieces from existing Star Wars figures imo). The piece that they are using for episode 3 obi wan isn't really close enough for me either.

I don't necessarily want to feed any addictions but blue squadron (according to visual dictionary) is supposed to be an expanded unit. It has several u-wings, several y -wings (probably) and a lot of X wings. Not all of the pilots are named and identified though

These are very good, the curved wings on the tie advanced especially. I can't help but feel though that using a 6x6 parabolic dish instead of a 4x4 would afford more opportunity for even better details and accuracy. At that size I think you could produce an even more spherical shape. That's just my scale preference though and as I said these are both really good nonetheless

Luke's X-wing. In grey this time, with 4-wide engines and an accurate cockpit piece. Ideally it would come with a small Yoda's hut and some dagobah surroundings (like in 75149 with jakku, except bigger). It could come with: dagobah training Luke, pilot Luke (i wish, but for real it would be probably only one of the two), Yoda (not just the one that recntly came in sets like 75017, 75168, but a different version that is accurate to the ESB/ROTJ costume), dirty R2, and force ghost Obi-wan. The last system X-wing was released in 2012 and has been retired for at least several years now, and I think that both resistance X-wings will also be retired soon. I would be really suprised if there is no X-wing at the end of this year or next year, and I hope that it's a set similar to 4502, just in the contemporary style.

There's no excuse for it. Fewer minifigures, fewer pieces, im assuming less overall mass, and what I also assume is fewer unique pieces. Lego has a captive market and they know it. extremely disappointing. I was considering paying full price for it on the online shop (for what I thought was 300), but now I am having second thoughts.

han's hair has way less volume in episode 7 than it did in Star Wars, i'm pretty content with the different piece for the much older character. I think that piece would look a bt silly on a space pensioner

These are some really comfy buildings. well done

the build itself is pretty good, and most of the shapes are captured reasonably well. That is to be expected though, especially for how lego spruiks these things. I still am toally confused as to why they keep doing the snowspeeder in white, though. It simply isn't white ( and even if you don't think light bluish gray matches perfectly, it's much closer than Lego's white. About the stickers - i don't understand why people don't like them. If you don't just don't put them on. The other thing that bothers me is the unnecessary limiting of better designs on the minifigures. Keeping printing on the arms only in super expensive sets is a scummy thing to do, and it's been said already but using the same cartoony face for named characters that has appeared on over half a dozen other sets and minifigs is pretty lazy. I don't understand why they don't seem to want to make a better product to no real cost.

Sorry, i didn't mean to show any leaked images to anyone who doesn't want to see them. I did put it in spoilertags though

I don't have the set but i think it's about 82 studs long (wide). The b-wing is listed as 16.9 metres long in star wars. With my personal scale I make every 4 studs equal 1 metre. This means that a regular minifig (just head, body and legs, which itself is 5 studs tall) is only 1.25 metres tall (for me personally, i don't worry about considering a minifig as being a regular human height because obviousl the proportions don't match up. so i just pretend that people in lego are all really stubby and oddly proportioned - which they are. also, like to put 1x1 plates underneath minifig legs to simulate boots/shoes and minifigs often wear headpieces or hair elements which add to their height - normally this makes them about 6 studs tall instead of 5, and means that these taller minifigs are closer to 5ft tall or 1.50 metres, so the scale is more like 1:32). So with this "minifigure scale", which isn't a uniform concept at all anyway, the B-wing in lego-metres is still 20.5 metres long, 3.6 metres too long. Pretty big and that with a scale that most people would consider much bigger than usual. If you take a basic minifig (just head body and legs) to be 183cm tall, that's about 1stud=0.367m so 1:46. In this version of "minifigure scale", the 10227 is 31 metres long. Way too big, 14.1 metres too big. this is a pretty long comment but you get the idea. Because minifigs aren't proportioned like people, you can't make an appropriate scale for minifigs. Instead you have to discard one dimension in favour of another, and this is why the "minifigure scale" concept as a concrete thing is kind of foolish really - anyone can decide if they think the head, legs, total height, total width, hand size, etc. is what you should scale everything to

I'm not investing any belief in this post, but just some interesting speculation: if - ___if___ it's true, it means that

part five of red five: https://www.flickr.com/photos/atlaser/33140235420/in/photostream/ from flickr: some more progress on the body. I figured out a way to attach all 9 surfaces on the rear, but it borders on cheating (i.e, i went as far as I would go), and the connections are not as robust as I would like. I'm pleased enough with the result though. Here you can see the bits I've put on to burrow out an astromech socket. my goal was to have a square 2x2 area for the body to enter into, and have two small cutouts on either side to accomodate a half-thickness small technic liftarm. What i have come up with means there's a bigger gap between the legs and the socket than I would like, but i couldn't figure out a way to attach a 1xX tile inbetween the technic liftarm-leg and the side of the socket. That that's not a big deal for me though the next big challenge is attaching the missing panels on the upper sides of the fuselage (i put a note pointing them out) in a clean way. After that I'll have to tackle the cockpit, deciding how I'm going to build the angled in sides of the nose, and create an internal spine between the gearbox area and what will become the nose, so that the model will at least have a small degree of durability. hopefully. some other notes: I have also drafted a preliminary version of the laser cannons. the design for that is mostly finished, it's just that I only have the parts to attach 1/2 of the 4 cannons to the wings at the moment (plus, they get in the way so it's easier to leave them off when building) please, comment, critique, etc. away!

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Datoo

thank you! unfortunately, I'm finding less time for building lately, but i'll try my best to keep posting updates regularly.

oh okay. I am not really into any of the legends info.

whoever wrote that is wrong (it is also from a legends page). in the new canon, all of the a-wings, including those in green squadron have the red markings on the ships. this corresponds to what is shown in rotj as well as the shattered empire comic.

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I'm not getting hung up on anything. (I myself built an a wing model in Lego, and made it blue) Just pointing out some relevant information. That pilot also appears in the film, although she got her voice dubbed. (her name is "sila kott, and she's a part of red squadron). I think that all of the a-wing pilots in ROTJ have green flight suits. The a wing itself is red though, I'm pretty sure.

There aren't any A-wings with green livery in episode 6. also, I am pretty sure Green squadron doesn't necessarily mean that the ships are green. Every uniquely identified a-wing in green squadron has the same red markings. I think that the green a-wing in 7754 is just artistic freedom

thank you! thanks very much. I much prefer LBG as well. I'm glad you like the use of other colours to simulate dirt, rust, etc.

hello! At the start of last month I began work on by next project, which is a minifig-scaled model of the "red 5" x-wing that Luke flies in the death star assault. So far I've completed most of the wings and have also done some of the rear fuselage. project album on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/atlaser/sets/72157676216434583 stage 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/atlaser/31819163993/in/dateposted/ stage 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/atlaser/32763745095/in/photostream/ description from flickr: Problem. I am trying my best to make this as proportionally accurate as is possible with lego. Fortunately, using my scale (4 studs = metre, meaning a projected length of 50 studs), the 4-wide cylinder intake piece and 4-wide half cylinder are basicall the perfect size for the engines. Using a top down image of the ILM red 3 studio model the engine width is about 8% of the total length of the model, from nosetip to exhaust. So that is a good basis for the size of the rest of the wings : 6 studs wide from front to back at the laser cannon mounts, and it's already been established by other builders that the 4x2 wedge plate is also almost perfect for the angle of the back of the wings. My main issue with this currently is that the distance between the interior edges of the engine half cylinders is too great. As shown in the photo it is currently a 9 stud gap between them, and if I built a fuselage to fill this gap, it would be much too wide. Using other reference that I've been gathering, the distance between the interior edges of the engines seems to be close to 2 times the diameter of the engines. Meaning it needs to be 8 studs wide. This is really difficult to achieve because the scissor mechanism I have built (which is derivative of mike psiaki's click-hinge scissor but more compact, and using finger hinges so that each wing shuts flush instead of 0.5 studs apart) is based on a central shaft which is 1 stud wide, with the arms of each scissor measuring 4 studs from that shaft to the edge of the engines. Somehow I am going to have to reduce the gap by 0.5 studs on either side. I don't think using a 1x2 technic brick with a centre hole is an option so I will try shifting each engine assembly 0.5 studs inward with jumpers first. stage 3: https://www.flickr.com/photos/atlaser/32839077375/in/photostream/ description from flickr: two steps forward and two steps backward. I fixed the proportions issue from the last shot, but at the cost of the strong scissor mechanism i had before that forced a 9 or 7 stud gap. The new scissor is made out of technic liftarms, but the impossible problem is that to have a gap of 0 LDU between each wing when closed, i had to use part 32530. I just can't figure out how to make a strong connection between that part (on its sides so that the antistuds point directly toward the cannons) and the wing assemblies. I can't lock it in, at the moment they are just attached with snot bricks. It's strong enough to stay attached with minimal drooping, but nowhere near as tough as the previous one. I'm not sure whether to persevere with the old one and make it 8 wide somehow, or move onto the fuselage and concede some fragility. This is the third major overhaul of the wings (first: made 6 long at the tips instead of 5, second: finger hinge scissor mech, third: this technic iteration. You can see the old mechanism in the background with the orange hose through it. I really liked that, simple, compact and strong but egh, it's too wide. The bottom engines have open landing gear doors. I have one set of parts to have the doors open and gear down, and another set of parts (identical to the coverings on the top two wings) for flight mode. I didn't bother with having them retract, and as dmaclego pointed out having the gear fold into the engines does't really make sense. stage 4: https://www.flickr.com/photos/atlaser/32469801403/in/photostream/ description from flickr: I have started on the fuselage. Before that, I decided that I wanted to include a gearbox and gear mechanism for the wings to open and close. Doing it manually is easier but i thought what the hell. I probably have less technic skills than a 5 year old so I decided to reverse engineer dmaclego's creation (see herehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/dmaclego/27832343200/in/album-72157669369597202/For the fuselage, I'm trying to see if it's possible for me to have all 9 surfaces included on my model, at the rear. Currently I have the top 5 attached, the main headache is figuring out how to get the bottom 2 surfaces attached (see here http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/kg-lucasfilm_archived-red3-reference-029.jpg). for the greebling, it's not reall proportioned properly, but I'm trying to include the main details. The rectangular box thing with the circular greebly thing is there, but is a bit too wide. (i also realised after I had already built that section that the circular greebly thing should have the edge part pointing down - i believe this was a unique feature of the red 5 ilm model, but i can't see a way to fix that. you can also see that I got some new parts in so the overall look has improved. I'm quite pleased with how the small "used-universe" colour details have turned out. I think the sand blue, dark orange and other colours adds a lot of character to what would otherwise be a boring, gray mass. (as an aside, those parts also arrived with the final pieces needed to finish the T-70 x-wing, so hopefully I wll be able to properly photograph that soon). And i'm satisfied with the choice to make it gray now - under strong lighting, the LBG plastic has that off white look that the film models did. Still a little bit too dark, but much better than lego-white in my opinion. another thing - for anyone reading this and looking at my photostream - do you like seeing WIP images like this while I'm building something? if you do, please let me know and I'll be glad to post more frequent updates! as always, comments, critique, etc. are very welcome! -------------- as I said, comments, criticism, suggestions, questions, etc. etc. are always welcome. As a make progress i'll continue posting updates to the project until it's finished!

That was me who put the judge robes on the Royal guards. You can find the bricklink entry for the capes here http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=97302&idColor=5#T=S&C=5&O={"color":5}

What!?!??!? This is insane