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What I really ought to do is make another render of all the ships together, since the one in the OP is way out of date, but just arranging them all in a neat rectangle is a nontrivial problem at this point. I need, like, an automated Tetris solving program, or the software they use to fit shapes onto a piece of material for efficient laser cutting.

Yes, they started filming in September. They may even be finished by now, or nearly so.

FYI, this has been pretty fuzzy in canon, at least historically. For both the Republic and Empire, some sources interpret a squad as nine troopers plus a sergeant and some call it nine troopers including the sergeant (which is how you get numbers like 2,304 clones in a regiment), and there are Legends sources describing a 38-soldier Imperial platoon (four squads of 9 plus a lieutenant and sergeant major). Obviously get as many battle packs as you want, but know you would be defensibly justified in calling it a platoon even if you only had 7 or so.

At long last, here we go: #154, the Cantwell-class Arrestor Cruiser! Accompanied by TIE Brutes as #155. 949 pieces, 70 studs/56 cm long. For folks not already familiar with this ship, the Cantwell-class is a bit of an odd niche ship in-universe: it's a dedicated tractor beam ship, used to physically hold enemy ships in place so they can be destroyed or boarded. They typically operate in concert with Interdictors, preventing their targets from fleeing in realspace to get away from the Interdictor's gravity wells. The Cantwell-class was created for Solo: A Star Wars Story, but most of its scenes were cut from the movie. It does still appear, but you'd be forgiven for not noticing it: it's in the Imperial Navy propaganda hologram in the Coronet City spaceport. Better views of the ship are shown in the movie's deleted scenes (which are still canon, incidentally; Han Solo served on one of these during his brief stint as an Imperial pilot). For those who are already familiar with it and are curious about this specific design, ILM made two slightly different models of this ship: a physical plastic studio maquette and a higher-res CGI model. The CGI model is what was used in the movie, so that's the canon version, but almost all the clear reference images (including all of the merchandising for Solo) are of the physical model. The main differences, as far as I can see from the blurry shots in the movie and the one painting in Starships and Speeders (which itself isn't totally consistent with the movie) are that the canon model has an extended ridge along the midline of the ship, rods extending from the tractor beam emitters, and a slightly different array of antennae on top of the command tower. This model is based on the canon version (of course), so that's why it looks a bit different from, for example, the Hot Wheels model that came out shortly before Solo did. The size of the ship hasn't been officially published, but the Art of Solo book includes a shot of the Millennium Falcon sitting in the hangar of the plastic model that establishes a scale of just over 800 meters, which agrees with estimates based on visual scaling from the deleted scenes. I'm putting the rest of the images in a spoiler, but you can also see them all on Imgur here.

The Cantwell is officially finished! It's going to take my laptop all night (at least) to render the images and instructions, but it'll be out tomorrow. It's come out to 950 pieces and 70 studs/56 cm long, so this is a proper UCS model. I'm quite pleased with it.

Oh, I see--that hasn't gotten its own wiki page yet, so it wasn't listed in the appearances section. Well, a TIE in grey is certainly easy to do, but I'm not sure it'll be recognizable unless there's an appropriately printed tile that has the dark red mark on it. That might be something to include with the Interdictor whenever I get around to that.

If we're looking at the same lava skiff, isn't it, like, two meters square? I think it would need to be something less than a fifth of a stud wide at this scale, so I don't know that I can do much with it. I'll see if I can figure out how big the Victor-wing fighter is supposed to be. If that's more gunship-sized it might work.

I may continue to tinker with these, but I think this is the basic idea for the Windfall. I'll have to come up with a couple more small ships to go with it. Vader Immortal brought the ISD-based Interdictor-class back into canon, and I've been thinking about what that would look like as well, but that'll have to be another project...

Ooh, good suggestion. I found that Vader Immortal made me really sick after about 20 minutes of play, so I'm not very familiar with most of the content from it, but I remember the Windfall. They haven't published the official length yet, but I've got the 3D model ripped out of the game, and it looks like it's about 29 meters long, which should be enough room to work with.

You already know I'm looking forwards to it. ;)

#153, the Wayfarer-class medium transport! Alright, fine, it's still not the Cantwell. Someone on Rebrickable requested this (much to my surprise, for such an obscure ship), and I already had a design in mind since I'd been thinking about it for the small Rebel ships pack, so it made sense to go ahead and finish it. I'm happy with this ship overall, although the proportions turned out to be a little awkward--the cockpit really needs to be 1.5 studs wide, and I haven't come up with a piece or combination of pieces that make a convincing 1.5-stud semicircle like that, so I've included a render of one with a two-stud-wide cockpit as well for anyone who prefers that it be wrong in the other direction.

Quite a lot of people have their hands on the battle pack and AT-ST from brick and mortar stores already, regardless of when they may theoretically release online. I haven't seen anybody with the accessory packs yet.

Bear in mind, too, that none of the Mando sets were based on the first episode. The Razor Crest and Mandalorian Forge appeared in the premier, but both of those sets have characters that didn't show up until later. Speculation about TBoBF sets based on just what we've seen so far is pretty premature--y'all are basically just naming every location that appeared in the episode since there's nothing else to go on.

The fin part used at the back, 50949, doesn't exist in reddish brown yet, so you'll have to take some slight liberties with the design. But it's still a lot of speeder bikes either way. A lot of this is going to depend on how much those snowtroopers end up costing on BrickLink. If the ones from the new battle pack are as cheap as some of the common old-style ones, it'll make less sense to buy the battlepacks directly, but it'll take a while to get to that point (if it ever does).

#149-152, small Imperial ships! The Guardian-class light cruiser, Theta-class AT-AT barge, VT-49 Decimator, and the Imperial cargo shuttle from Visions. And now I'll get back to finishing the Cantwell.

#145-148, small Rebel ships! The Taylander, Ghtroc, and GX1 short hauler are the same ones that I showed earlier, but I ended up dropping the Moldy Crow design; it was a nice idea, but I think that's just too small to look good at this scale with the parts currently available. The nose section needs to be, like, a fifth of a stud wide, and making it a brick loses the entire shape of the ship. So instead, I'm once again bowing to the overwhelming public demand and releasing the Barloz-class medium freighter! I'd like to do the GX1 in Republic diplomatic colors as well, but unfortunately absolutely none of those pieces are available in dark red, so that'll have to wait for that selection to expand a bit. Next up, we'll be back to our regularly scheduled Imperial ships. I'm (still) not satisfied with the Cantwell, but I've got a couple more small Imperial things finished that I'll post tomorrow if I get all the renders done.

But... you did get your first Prequel Brickheadz? Are you just upset because they made Ahsoka, one of the most popular characters in all of SW, instead of Jar Jar, one of the least? It seems crazy to me to say that more people want Jar Jar than Ahsoka. She may not be the most requested character among people on this forum, where the demographics tend to be much older and more 'serious' fans than the national average, but believe me, Ahsoka has far more fans than Mandr Productions does. A meme campaign is not going to outweigh an entire generation of fans, and especially female fans, who grew up with TCW and view Ahsoka as an icon. If you think the vote was fraudulent you have to provide some kind of evidence of that (I know that that's been a problematic concept for a lot of Americans recently, but we should work on it). Also, just to be completely clear here, since I didn't follow the Brickheadz vote closely: LEGO had people vote for what theme they wanted, right? Not for a specific character? I know Mandr talked about a Jar Jar Brickheadz, but I didn't think that specifically was ever something LEGO offered. The choice was between Star Wars, Minecraft, Jaws, or Lilo & Stitch. If that's correct, no matter what they made it doesn't seem accurate to say that they're ignoring the results of the fan vote; they did exactly what they said they would.

This is an interesting question that hadn't occurred to me. It turns out that yes, they roughly are--they're all right around 1:23.

While it's true that reddish brown parts are sometimes brittle (as are dark red and a few other colors), I have never heard of an axle or anything else failing under normal load like that. The only parts that I've observed to regularly break are tiles and occasionally plates, and that's only when they're being disassembled and never with pieces that're less than ten years old. I don't think that a reddish brown axle failing in this circumstance is a significant concern. Trust your own instincts, of course, but as somebody who has broken quite a number of pieces over the years, this isn't a situation I would worry about.

Huh? TPM: 0 sets in 2009, 1 set in 2019 AotC: 0 sets in 2012 RotS: 0 sets in 2015 ANH: 2 sets in 2007, 1 set in 2017 ESB: 1 set in 2000, 5 sets in 2010, 2 sets in 2020 RotJ: 3 sets in 2003, 3 sets in 2013 LEGO absolutely ignores anniversaries. The OT movies get about the same number of sets in anniversary years as they do in random other years and the PT movies have never gotten anything.

All discussion of an AT-TE in this thread is complete wishlisting. There is ABSOLUTELY ZERO indication that one is coming and y'all are here trying to figure out what set number might hypothetically be it. This is the textbook example of how fake rumors start.

#142-144, Mara Jade's starships! Including Jade's Fire, Jade Sabre, and Jade Shadow. She used a lot of other ships at various times as well, but as far as I can tell these are the only ones that've ever been illustrated. The first two of these are somewhat obscure (Jade Sabre only lasted about 1.5 books), but Jade Shadow made it into the New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels and should be more widely recognizable. I do wish that I could close the half-plate gap at the front of Sabre and Shadow (and Silver Angel as well, which is built in the same way), but I haven't come up with a better way to do it given that I need to have a stud facing upwards in there. It's easy to attach two plates back-to-back with brackets, but then there's no clear way to flip that vertically in a ship that's 4 studs long and less than 2 studs wide. I also considered the simplest solution, to make one of those 1x2 curved slopes an inverted one slope and have the whole ship be asymmetrical with antistuds on one side, but that looks terrible, so for the moment the gap is the lesser evil.

My understanding is that this confusion stems from the fact that they've been trying to replace the term 'Slave Leia' in official media, with 'Huttslayer Leia' being the preferred name for that costume (although they haven't been completely consistent about it, and 'Slave Leia' still shows up in some merchandising). They aren't suppressing depictions of the costume itself, just calling it something new.

The Cantwell's proportions are completely wrong. I worked out all the math ahead of time, but now that I've actually built it it doesn't match the original ship at all. I must've screwed up my scale somewhere, but IDK where. So, back to the drawing board on that one. It'll be a huge pain if that anterior flange has to get significantly smaller, since there won't be any room for the greeblies, but we'll see how it goes. In the meantime I made some more small ships. I'm going to publish these in two sets, one pack of Rebel transports and one of Mara Jade's ships. I'm happy with the Jade Sabre and Jade's Fire (although admittedly the reference images for those ships are pretty bad, so the coloration is mostly a guess), so I just need to get Jade Shadow together to round out that group. For the Rebel transports, I think the Taylander shuttle, the short hauler, and the Ghtroc from earlier in this thread are fine, but I'm not very pleased with the Moldy Crow--it's more like the Chonky Crow at the moment, and I'm not sure there's any way to improve the proportions much at this scale. It may just be too small to represent satisfactorily, honestly, in which case I'll replace with with a Wayfarer-class or some other midsized Rebel freighter. The Wayfarer-class is pretty obscure, so I'm open to suggestions if there's a more notable one in that size range that I've missed.

That was just a badly targeted spambot. Best to ignore it.