Brikkyy13

I find this hilarious. The arguments against a cloud city playset and for a display set brought up the point that the exterior look of cloud city is “more iconic,” and yet I’ve seen a lot of people ask what that advent calendar build is. Cloud City doesn’t have any defining exterior features (like the Death Star) that would let people pick it out, because everything iconic that happened at cloud City was inside (dining room, carbon freezing chamber, “I am your father” etc)

The calendar mentions a microfighter launcher, anybody have more info on that?

We all spend more than we should on LEGO, might as well get our money’s worth. Slave I in one hand, X-Wing in the other...

I remember an old thread about the Slave I itself drooping over time, but not the stand. I think that is what @Hold0511 was referring to. I have the Slave I, TIE Fighter and newer X-Wing, Y-Wing and Snowspeeder UCS sets, all displayed on their stands. I have not noticed any bending at all, all stands are very solid and the bricks that make up the stands have no visible deformation. The X-Wing has some stability issues but that's caused by the ship itself being back heavy, the stand is completely fine (I was playing around with swapping the ships on their stands, the X-Wing stand can hold both the Y Wing and Snowspeeder without tipping over). The worst stand that I've come across is by far the one that comes with BB-8 from last year, can't move it without breaking something. I'd be more worried about the stickers on the newer sets than anything else. I've noticed the stickers on my Snowspeeder have already started to peel. Any other 75144 owners noticed the same thing?

The third helmet could be accurately represented with the mandalorian helmet piece. If LEGO realises that too and is willing to give us the T-shaped helmet then we could have all 3 guard types

I can’t believe that after years of waiting for a cloud city set, all anyone can do is complain. What makes it worse is that this matches the description we got months ago, we knew it would look like this so there’s no surprises. I sincerely hope that this is just the opinion of the vocal minority and the people who like it are keeping their mouths shut. I love the look of it, and I’ll be proudly displaying it alongside the Death Star and the rest of my UCS sets. Pose the minifigures in these types of sets right and they look fantastic on display.

So much info, it’s hard to keep up! Are we getting a system and a juniors Slave I or just the juniors? Also sad to hear that the praetorian battle pack only gives us one new helmet

Sold out on day 1 from what I hear. I know all the k-marts and targets near me are either sold out or low on stock as well.

On that note, Big W in Australia has 20% toys off until the 15th I think. Grabbed the new AT Hauler, haven’t built it yet though. Would’ve grabbed they conveyex and x wing but they didn’t have them

Make that a market of two. Its actually a beautifully designed model, it’ll fit right in the rest of my display sets. I don’t get the hate on Porgs, they were hardly in the movie and if you don’t like the mountains of merchandise just don’t buy it.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, I normally stick around the Star Wars forums. Here in Australia the Hogwarts Express will be exclusive to S@H and Toyworld. Release date for Toyworld is Nov. 1.

Disney is too smart and too money-hungry to only have it US only. They’d lose too much to piracy. To be frank, if it is US only they deserve to lose the money imo

Not surprised to hear Cloud City is “small”. If it really is like the top half of the Death Star it sounds about right. I need to see photos obviously before I decide on it... but here’s hoping LEGO have learned from the Falcon and it’s easy to get. I haven’t seen the Y-Wing go on back order yet, but Cloud City is a different beast.

Yup, happened to me with Assault on Hoth. Happens from time to time, my guess is either manufacturing error or something to do wth the pressure of the plane cabin during transport

LEGO Advent Calendars only have 24 builds

Looks like it. No doubt the head won't have the respirator as an alternate print.

The X Wing looks amazing! The rubber bands that keep the wings together have been moved in between the engines

Disappointing to see stickers along the fuselage of the X-Wing but damn does it look good. Vader brickheadz is a great addition to the collection. Will be grabbing both of these for sure.

1) I’m pretty sure all TIEs would have the same proportions 2) That’s a normal FO TIE in that picture, not a special forces TIE which was in the first picture you put up. I’m not sure about the size difference between those two

Worth noting that the TIE in that photo is a FO Special Forces TIE, which is smaller than the Imprerial TIE according to the Star Wars databank. https://www.starwars.com/databank/tie-fighter https://www.starwars.com/databank/first-order-special-forces-tie-fighter

LEGO is altering the deal, pray they do not alter it further. I read in a FB group that the code for the poster will work even if you don't have a black card. If that's the case I wouldn't even count the poster as part of the offerings since they're meant to be exclusive.

Grabbed 4 of the 5 new Solo sets (not the Falcon) from Target. They had 20% off LEGO and I couldn’t resist

http://www.rebelscum.com/story/lego/LEGO_Expected_Star_Wars_BrickHeadz_For_2018_178503.asp Rebelscum claims that there will be a normal Luke and a Luke in a 2 pack with Yoda. Also Vader, Stormtrooper, Leia and Boba Fett

Snagged a complete 10240 UCS Red 5 with box and the lot for $300 AUD. Very happy considering the RRP of $280. The price on this one has stayed pretty good since retirement but I figured that with the new Y Wing that may change, only time will tell though.

Looks like there's a pilot in the cockpit, and the droid is definitely in the socket, but like the last y wing and x wings it's too big for them, so it's not minifig scale. Also disappointing to see stickers on the nose of the ship. Still day one purchase. Hopefully this doesn't affect the price of Red 5 from 2013 cause I still need that.