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No, but that’s not very meaningful. The last one we got was in a Kashyyyk set and they weren’t there either.

Looks great so far. The greebling's obviously an important part of the final look, but the shape is solid. Like I said at the outset, I've got a lot of pieces and am happy to test-build sections of it. I've got a fair bit of travel in the next few months, so I may only be able to do so intermittently, but I'll do what I can while I'm around.

#172, the Trident-class assault ship! Just a little one here, but I'm quite pleased with it. That new 1x1 plate with handles on both sides is very convenient here.

Dwarf spider droids did appear in the flashbacks in the first episode of TBB. But mostly I’m just pointing out that LEGO tends not to track that kind of thing very closely. Like with the 187th troopers and the Fighter Tank (which have never previously been associated), or Cad Bane showing up in a Turbo Tank, or making the most recent Homing Spider Droid a Kashyyyk set (they didn’t appear on Kashyyyk), they’ve never hesitated to mix and match stuff from different contexts.

It was featured very prominently in an episode of The Bad Batch, so that’s the other serious option at the moment. But you also just never know; the Republic Fighter Tank is a perfect example of a set that came way out of left field and isn’t based on any recent media. AotC is probably the most likely, but I wouldn’t put money on it before we see the set.

Bad phrasing on my part. The game is indeed Legends now, but what I meant was just that that’s it’s only appearance in official media as opposed to the fan designs (which are more popular and are mostly what come up when you search for images of it). The ship itself actually is canon, since it was mentioned in one of the reference books, but it doesn’t have any images at the moment. I like the Harrower quite a bit too. It is on my list to make, but my plan is to get the Endar Spire done before any of the less famous TOR-era capital ships.

#171, the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser! Still substantially the same as the WIP render I posted, although with the dorsal hull armor reworked again. Here's the full write-up from Rebrickable: In-universe, the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser is supposed to be a very common ship, the Imperial Navy's standard midsized cruiser design. However, out-of-universe and for reasons I'm not completely clear on, the ship has hardly appeared in any Star Wars media. As a result, it's mostly known only for being the original design that the much more famous Immobilizer 418 cruiser is based on. At 1:1455 scale, or approximately 11.64 meters per stud, this model will perfectly complement your Star Wars fleet! This is UCS scale, designed to match 75252 Imperial Star Destroyer and my other ship models (and any of the huge number of other peoples' MOCs that are also designed to fit with the official Ultimate Collector Series ISDs). There are several fan-designed models of the Vindicator floating around, including one very good one by Fractalsponge, but this model is based on its one canonical appearance, which is in Battlefront: Elite Squadron. That proved to be a bit of a challenge, because unfortunately BF:ES is a singularly terrible source. Usually video games make for pretty good reference material, since there's an actual 3D model that can be extracted and measured (unlike a comic, for example, where the size and details of a ship may not be consistent frame to frame). However, first, the models in BF:ES are extremely low resolution, to the point of completely omitting major features; and second, the proportions of all the ships in the game are so far off as to make many of them almost unrecognizable--look up a picture of their depiction of the Nebulon-B to see what I mean. As a result, I had to do some guesswork here to reconstruct what the 'actual' Vindicator was intended to look like. The most obvious part there are the turrets; the game model doesn't have any, but I'm assuming that's because they didn't have the ability to render moving parts on the ships on the PSP rather than because they actually intended a front-line warship to not have any guns. Sources for how many turrets the ship should have vary somewhat, but it's usually described as having a lot of small guns rather than a few large ones, so I went with the distributed array of small turrets that you see here; but feel free to play with the armament as you see fit. The engine array and the antennae at the bow are probably intended to be the same as the Immobilizer 418, but they've been depicted in multiple ways in different sources and what's show in BF:ES doesn't match the versions I went with for my Immobilizer model. This model follows BF:ES for both of those, but you could very easily make them the same as my Immobilizer if you're building both and want consistency. Structurally this model is mostly the same as my Immobilizer and the same notes about stability apply. The thicker armor layer means the top hull panels are sturdier overall, but the narrowest part of the bow is still somewhat fragile. It's fine for a display model as it is, but if you want to shake it around a lot you could add some more tiles or ingots to the front to stiffen it further. In totally unrelated news, I'm still waiting on Stud.io to add the new bricks before I can publish my Phantom-class instructions. They had been adding new pieces in pretty much every update, but now they haven't had any in a couple of months. Hopefully they'll get back on track with that soon; I don't know whether anybody's particularly waiting on that model, but I'd like to be able to post it.

We don't usually talk about the foil packs much here, but I'm disappointed with the upcoming mini AT-AT for fully three separate reasons. They're using the newish Plate, Modified 1x1 with Bar Handles for the lower legs, which should have been great since I would quite like them to release that piece in light bluish grey, but they're using it in dark grey instead. So firstly I'm disappointed because this is the third AT-AT foil pack and I'd like something new, and secondly because I don't get the piece I'd like, and thirdly because an AT-AT with dark grey lower legs looks like crap. Why would they do that? Given the whole world of LEGO pieces available to them, including the ones used for the two previous AT-AT foil packs and the twelve other AT-ATs they've made, why on earth would they choose to use a piece that doesn't exist in the right color?

The attention is what he wants, and by giving it to him you're encouraging him and others to spread false rumors in the future. It's better for everyone involved if you just block the account and move on.

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Thanks! I was thinking about AT-APs when I made the quarter-circle things, but honestly at this scale they can be pretty much whatever you want them to represent. About the best you can hope for is that they're reminiscent of Republic military stuff. Yeah, I know. It wouldn't lose much to replace the green bit with a 1x2 white plate connecting the halves at the bottom, but my tendency would be to display it on a 1x2 black plate w/ rounded ends, like my Lady Luck or Y-wings. I don't like doing that because it's inelegant, but these things happen. This is partly why I haven't actually published this as a MOC yet (and may not do so in this format at all). My only real intended use case for these things is as decoration in the hangar of a Venator, where it wouldn't matter that they don't stick together in flight. I'd like to come up with a better way to do it, though--it feels like there ought to be a piece out there that would make for a better representation of the shape of the wings, but I haven't hit on one yet.

The Fighter Tank never actually appeared in TCW itself, although it showed up in other media and merchandising around the show, so they're often associated. This set is drawing from a mix of sources. The tank is based primarily on its single canon appearance in the 2017 Battlefront II (hence the flat sides and simpler front than the Legends version). Windu is based on his TCW appearance, as you noted, and the clone troopers were created by Hasbro back in 2006 (or at least introduced to the public by Hasbro; some of that material was based on designs that didn't make it into the movie, and I don't know whether the 187th was their creation or not) but haven't been used in that appearance in any in-universe sources.

Like MandalorianKnight said, Windu and many other Jedi in TCW wear clone trooper gloves and bracers. That’s exactly what they look like. Don’t you think it’s kinda harsh to say that something looks bad if you don’t even know what it is they’re representing?

This is actually a Sienar ship, not KDY. But yeah, I'm thinking I'm going to use the same binocular turrets I have on the Arquitens. Consistency and all that. It does look good with ISD turrets, though, so I may include a file for that as well. I think the model is finished but I haven't made the instructions yet; it'll be out soonish. Completely unrelated to that, I was thinking about GAR ground vehicles. They're almost all just too small to really differentiate at this scale, but when they're grouped together I think you can tell what's supposed to be what. I haven't decided whether I think this is actually worth posting as a MOC, but the SPHA-T is reasonable, at least. The scale for that is questionable: the official word is 140 meters long, but that's immediately obviously incompatible with what's shown in the movie--the actual length is somewhere less than half that. There's a picture in the Complete Locations book that puts it around 50-60 meters, which is more plausible, so that's what this is scaled to. It may still be slightly larger than they actually were in AoTC, but without a source for the actual measurements I think it's acceptably close.

I think a lot of the concern about the tank is because everybody's used to looking at the 2005 version of it. This is based on the recent Battlefront 2 (which is the only place the tank has actually appeared in years), and that version is shaped differently, much closer to what this set looks like. It's less complex, with fewer angles on the front end and those flat vertical sides. I honestly think the X-wing canopy piece was a pretty good choice for achieving that smoothly.

It’s not about not wanting other people to have them as much as just wanting there to be more unique minifigures. It’s not that I want any given figure to be rare, but that I would always rather that every new set had new figures instead of repeating something. Having all the 3POs be the detailed one is less interesting than having multiple variants—there should be exclusives in cheap sets too. Obviously with characters like 3PO or Chewbacca there are way fewer reasonable variants than there are figures in sets, so those are always going to be repeated, and that doesn’t go for army building figures (to the same degree, anyway… glad to have multiples of the same clone unit in one set, but I’d still rather have new units than repeat one in a new set); but broadly speaking I would like it if they released more new figures, which inherently means more exclusives (or drastically increasing the number of figures per set, which I would also support).

It actually was technically canon, albeit only somewhat shakily so, since it was mentioned in one of the old roleplaying game supplements. I mentioned it over the speeder because the builds in battle packs have almost always been random, but the only point of those sets has always been the figures; it's much rarer that they have a full-size set that isn't based on something more concrete. But a better example might have been the Freemaker Adventures sets, although I don't know that everyone even counts those as Star Wars.

Trouble on Tatooine with half a Tusken hut, Imperial Light Cruiser with the giant turrets and bridge, the Sith Trooper battlepack with the tiny blue snowspeeder, the Knights of Ren Transport that's only the top half of the ship, the badly squashed Resistance IT-S Transport, Inferno Squad's non-canon speeder that looks like it was made of parts from something else, etc., etc. These are all going to be questions of personal opinion, of course, but that's only even from the last three years, so there are plenty of options to choose from. From your stated perspective as someone who only cares about Star Wars canon (which I fully agree with, to be clear; I'm absolutely a SW fan first and LEGO fan second), things like the Sandspeeder that aren't even based on actual SW vehicles should be far worse. The clones aren't very significant now that TCW has (possibly) replaced them, but the 187th was Mace Windu's only clone unit for a decade, so I at least am delighted to have figures of them.

The UCS Death Star II is an ovoid instead of a sphere. It's squashed vertically relative to the actual thing. And that's fine! It's still a perfectly good representation of the vehicle. Everybody has the right to their opinions, but Jesus Christ. Y'all need to get some perspective. Saying this is the worst set we've had in years is nuts. The build doesn't look like much to write home about, but it's perfectly reasonable, and the figures are fantastic.

Like everybody else has said, the 3PO is hard to argue with. The Landspeeder is still gonna be kind of a silly UCS model, but you can't say they aren't putting the effort in.

WIP on the Vindicator. This is based on its lone canonical appearance in Battlefront: Elite Squadron, not any of the numerous fan designs. The flat platform thing with the comms array towards the front of the ship is a weird feature for an Imperial design, but I kinda like it. I have some decisions to make here, because Elite Squadron is unfortunately a really terrible source. It's a PSP game, so the graphics were always going to be terrible, but even beyond that almost all the ships in the game are depicted extraordinarily badly. Their Nebulon-B frigates, for example, are proportioned so weirdly as to be almost unrecognizable. As a result there's going to be some guesswork here to figure out what the Vindicator "actually" looks like. The biggest question is where its guns are and how many there should be--the game doesn't show any turrets, presumably because they couldn't easily render moving parts like that, but unlike the Immobilizer this is a proper warship and is definitely supposed to have guns, so I need to figure out what those're going to look like. The brim guns in the trench notches are obvious, but I'm split on whether it's more reasonable to give it multiple small turrets (like an ISD's broadsides shrunken by a factor of two) or something like a single full-size ISD turret on each side. Thoughts?

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Thanks! You could use this as a base for the Rebels version, but there are some significant structural differences there. They look similar from the top, but the Rebels one has this additional hull segment on the bottom that makes for a much more complex shape, and that extends into the back being completely different as well. To do it properly I think you'd need to build it along quite different lines, since the internal frame would have to change a lot to accommodate that. I do intend to make the Rebels version as well, but that'll be a ways down the line yet.

#170, the Immobilizer 418 cruiser! Maybe the most famous EU Imperial ship and one of my personal favorites. I'm quite pleased with how this turned out. It ended up at 718 parts, just a hair smaller than the Quasar Fire. I'm building this as a Vindicator-class cruiser as well; that model will be published soon. Full description from Rebrickable: The Immobilizer 418 cruiser was among the most famous and feared ships of the Imperial Navy. Commonly referred to simply as Interdictors, these cruisers were equipped with powerful gravity well generators capable of pulling ships out of hyperspace. They were used to great effect against the New Republic by Grand Admiral Thrawn and many other Imperial commanders. At 1:1455 scale, or approximately 11.64 meters per stud, this model will perfectly complement your Star Wars fleet! This is UCS scale, designed to match 75252 Imperial Star Destroyer and my other ship models (and any of the huge number of other peoples' MOCs that are also designed to fit with the official Ultimate Collector Series ISDs). First, to clarify, because the naming is a disaster: this is the Immobilizer 418 cruiser, which was the most common interdictor in Legends and used to be the ship that was usually meant when somebody said 'interdictor cruiser'. This is not the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer from Rebels, which is probably the most commonly referenced interdictor today and which looks very similar (because it's based on the same concept art) but is actually almost twice as large as this. It is also not the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer from Legends, which looks completely different; nor is it the Old Sith Interdictor-class cruiser. Why, why are they all named the same? I don't know. The Interdictor cruiser is probably the best-established of all the old Legends Imperial Navy ships, and since its first appearance in Heir to the Empire more than thirty years ago it's been featured in dozens of stories across various media. It has also, unfortunately, rarely been depicted in exactly the same way twice. It's been shown with two, three, or four sets of gravity well generator domes; varying proportions; various configurations of hangars and brim notches; and two, three, four, five, or seven engines (special shout-out here to X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, which showed three engines in cutscenes but only two in normal gameplay--very helpful, guys!). This model is based mostly on the Empire at War version, because that's a) the most recent and highest-resolution and b) the one that people are most likely to be familiar with, but it's a composite of multiple sources rather than an attempt to perfectly match one. Notably I went with the four-engine layout rather than the five, solely because I think it looks better, but it would be very easy to swap to any of the other engine configurations if you prefer them. I designed this model with the goal of making it easier to build than my Cantwell-class is, and I think I've succeeded, but this model is less sturdy overall because the hull plates are so thin. That extremely narrow profile is a key part of the ship's look, so I thought it was important to get that right, but the tradeoff is that there isn't a lot of room for reinforcements in the front part of the ship. Once you get it assembled it's plenty strong enough for a display model, but attaching the hull panels is a little awkward. I have built this version IRL and can confirm that this is all you actually need, but if you want to strengthen it a bit more you could easily add a few more tiles or ingots on the outside. Final note: Part 35044 in light bluish grey is in the Mandalorian helmet set that just came out. They aren't available on BrickLink in large numbers yet as of the time of this writing, but they will be in a couple of weeks or so.

The Immobilizer 418 is finished! I still need to make the instructions, but it'll be published either today or tomorrow depending on how long the final renders end up taking.