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Even though they don't fit in a natural way, that car is 6 studs wide anyway. A "minifig-height" scaled AT-ST would have to be 5 studs wide for the minifigs, and that's including the walls, the most problematic.

I picked the wookie for the picture because it's standing up, but the kit comes with sitting pilots. It's exactly the same scaling problem. This problem isn't even related to the AT-ST, either you consider that minifigs are midgets and you can make things to scale without too many problems, or you consider that minifigs are abnormally fat and have hydrocephaly, and then it's normal that you can't fit minifigs in anything. Same problem has always applied to Lego cars.

Having studied both models, the one on Hoth, while pretty different, doesn't have that much longer legs. It's mainly that we see it with the legs extended. This thing can look much taller when you fully extend the legs.

That's generally how it's done, how I did it, and that can't be done within the 4 studs at the scale you're asking for

Ok, then the size you'd want is pretty much the one of Bandai's kit, pictured here, 1/48: It's roughly the correct height according to the height of a minifig, and yet you can see by comparing the 2 Chewies that something's wrong. And in any case, there is room for 2 human pilots in that AT-ST, but only room for 1 minifig. Hence me saying, if you want a 1/44 AT-ST, there's no room for 2 minifigs side by side.

really? This has been, and will always be a classic of children's toys, pretty much everywhere in the world. Ironically Lego had these, since - again because it's one of the most iconic toy ever - they were featured in Toy Story. I'd even say it may be declining (I don't know if today's kids play as much with these as I did when I was a kid) *because* that war is getting older (& so are movies & shows about it). Quite possible that today's kids play more with SWATs or whatever they can relate more to. Yeah it's Lego's way of doing things, but it's rather hypocritical when you see that the majority of their themes is about good vs bad guys, fighting with weapons.

If you scale it according to a minifigure's height (minifigures thus considered as very very obese people with hydrocephaly), thus 1/48, the head should be 4 studs wide, clearly not enough to seat 2 minifigs. As seen here, if you use 1/44 or 1/48, a minifig is over twice as large as a normal human, you wouldn't fit 2 in a properly scaled cockpit. That's why I prefer to see minifigs as midgets. Even at 1/35 here the head is still abnormally large.

Except that it's Lego's AT-AT (& most likely many other sets) that are not minifig-scaled. While "minifig-scaled" is subjective & can range from a scale to its double, Lego's AT-AT definitely isn't minifig-scaled. This AT-ST is around 1/30, which is more based on the size of a minifig's head rather than its height. A version scaled according to a minifig height would be smaller and wouldn't have room for 2 seats.

But of course, since official sets aren't in scale with anything. Lego's own new AT-ST isn't in scale with their AT-AT's either.

The thing to know about those towballs is that it's very old and in the past it was fully frictionless. It's new -female- parts that have been made with friction, meaning that the very old -female- parts are still frictionless, while the very old male parts work with friction in the new system. Lots of other parts have towballs, it's a pretty good system.

but what does the scale have to do with that? next version has less greebling on the second leg segment (which was hard to do), but I have to cover technic stuff with.. something. Can't be all tiles - the "real" one has greebling too, only it's different.

So much for those who pretended that 2000+ large MOCs had no chance on Lego Ideas.

Cool unexpected update, useful parts added. The new 2x2 wheel rims weren't added, but they're just decoration parts so that's ok. I think part 92692 still hasn't been fixed.

Yeah as I just wrote, I've ordered it, and would already have it if Lego wasn't out of stock at the moment :( I will certainly make a picture of all of them - I have a smaller cartoonish one waiting for proper pictures as well.

I'm not even sure the problem is the motor, but "dumbly" (I mean, not robots) motorized walkers, like Lego's own, work on gravity and there's a lot of bumping that I can't imagine a much heavier thing doing without breaking.

Why? The metrics are roughly respected, only the feet are too long (by design). I have an update (with the redesigned body) ready for pictures, but it's waiting Lego's own because I need the printed helmet. Sadly the online shop was already out of stock and I'm still waiting for it.

Cool version & pretty nice angled display stand.

Pretty well done. I wonder why Lego never made (or did they?) rubber axles with metal wire inside, it would allow things like this to "work" with real parts, and it would have cool other uses.

I haven't paid attention to today's sets, but sets from the 80's had bags filled with holes. This said, I've once opened a "brand new" classic space set and everything was fine, with only very very little specs of rust on the wheel axles. In contrast, the same parts that had been in my Lego's bin for 30 years were fully rusty.

Lego closes B&P on december, for over a month, because they have too much work around christmas

I've received an amazon.de ad for the new star wars stuff.. that linked to nothing at all

Talking about parts, as I was building I found it weird to find old-style "thin" clips. Old stock? Would have been weird, even though we still find thin black clips in sets. But it started to make sense as I was assembling those 2 slopes. As a MOCer I've too used thin clips in places where there was no room for thick ones.

I wonder if B&P is gonna offer the "new" parts soon enough. Only 2 months left before Lego closes it until february again. The problem of losing your order's contents is very old. Before placing your order, always take a screenshot of the parts.

I hope you're aware that the LDD was kinda abandonned, and it's already a miracle that we got an update with all the important parts. I'd be happy if we get another update with just the new parts.

Just built this and I love it. It's one of those sets that has MOC-like qualities, both in the way it's built and how it looks. Really a must have. If I have to nitpick (and considering that I paid 15eur more than in a neighbor country because of the Lego shop, I think I'm allowed to), I'd say it's a perfect model that could have been produced better/less optimized for price: -those 2 parts that have a slightly different blue :( -the lack of smoothness because some compound parts weren't produced in blue (perhaps to spare money, perhaps to increase the piece count). I had the same problem with Wall-E, in some places you wonder why you're adding lots of small tiles/bricks instead of a couple of larger ones. -the stickers of course. Lego should definitely always provide 2 sheets. Even though this is the kind of set that should have been fully printed.