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  1. Third Brother is actually the only one whose fate isn't known. Second Sister died on Nur, Fifth Brother, Seventh Sister, and Eighth Brother on Malachor, Sixth Brother on Raada, Ninth Sister on Kashyyyk, and Tenth Brother on Mon Cala. Fourth Sister technically might be alive, but she lost a fight badly enough that a Rebel commando showed up impersonating her and wearing her armor, which is obviously a pretty bad sign for her health. 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 were still alive as of the show, so they might still show up, but as you say, their narrative roles are constrained by their appearances in later stories. I've maintained ever since they first showed up in Rebels that numbering the Inquisitors was an enormous mistake on Disney's part; not being able to easily introduce more hugely limits the stories they can tell with them, and it serves absolutely no narrative purpose. They're going to need more antagonists than they have, so at some point they're inevitably going to have to reintroduce the Emperor's Hands or one of the other EU Imperial dark side organizations, and then that'll be an awkward graft into the new canon since Rebels and various other media have implied that the Inquisitors are the only Imperial darksiders the protagonists are aware of. If they'd had a bit more foresight in 2014 things would be a lot cleaner.
  2. Beak and Roja are both male. You may be thinking of Brand, but she wasn't at Hoth. There are hardly any canon images of the 61st, unfortunately, so it would be hard to make minifigs of them. My best guess is that this figure is based on this woman in the base control room. We already got a figure of Toryn Farr in Assault on Hoth, so we know it isn't her, and the officer in that screenshot seems to have the slightly darker skin tone that would fit the figure.
  3. You'll also have almost exactly the right number if you just buy one of every Hoth set LEGO's ever made. The current total is about 42 snowtroopers, including the ones in the upcoming sets (not counting the odd non-set issues, like the magnet pack and pens).
  4. Three of the five are the cockpit crew, and there're multiple entire empty bays for the other figures. You could put another bank of 16 chairs in the lower middle section where the E-web currently goes, and more in with the speeder bikes or power plant if you wanted. It could carry 60 figures easily.
  5. All the snowspeeders are effectively minifig-scale already, so you would be served equally well by any of the ones from 1999, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, or 2019.
  6. I think the sets look pretty great. The figures in the AT-ST are fantastic--I don't think anybody was expecting much out of it, but snow Chewie, the really good-looking probe droid, and the wholly-new Hoth AT-ST driver are all excellent additions, and the Rebel trooper being the same style as Assault on Hoth is nice as well (although I do think it's a bit odd that there's only one Rebel in the wave; it would've made more sense for there to be a Rebel battle pack to go with the Imperial one). Speaking as someone with a large Hoth display, I love that they've picked a standard and maintained it for a while; I was one of the few people that really liked Assault on Hoth, and I consider this whole wave with the AT-AT to be an extension of that, which works very well. I don't think the AT-ST driver is actually canon, since AFAIK the snow variant of that uniform, if it exists, has never appeared anywhere, but it's certainly consistent with the others. The battle pack is very simple, certainly, but it's everything you'd want out of a battle pack, and I'm definitely going to get at least two of them (since that's how many I need to have all forty snowtroopers for my AT-AT). The scout is a solid figure, and that plus three snowtroopers is definitely a better selection than the previous Hoth battlepack. I wish the E-web was the same as the one in the AT-AT, but I do understand why they want to include a shooter somewhere in the playset.
  7. Thank you! #141, Rogue Shadow! Still an EU ship, but one that I suspect more people will be familiar with, from the official set even if not from the game itself at this point (given that it's been, like, 14 years since TFU came out). This is a surprisingly large ship. The deceptively sleek lines make it look more like a fighter, but it's really a gunship or even light corvette; the length is effectively the same as the Gozanti-class, but Rogue Shadow is much wider and masses probably twice as much. This is a bit of an awkward ship to build in LEGO because it really ought to be dark grey and blue, but they're darker shades than LEGO makes. The closest LEGO color is black, like they used in the official set, which turns out looking fine (IMO) but isn't quite right. I'm open to opinions as to whether adding some grey or blue accents would make for a better representation. Also, I recognize that that 2x2 wedge plate isn't a very literal representation of the split wings on the right side of the ship, but I haven't come up with anything else that I feel conveys the impression of the ship as well as that does; every piece I've thought of that's more literally accurate to the shape is too large and adds a lot of visual weight to that side that the ship itself doesn't have. I'd be glad to hear thoughts about that as well if anybody has a better idea. The next couple of ships I intend to make (/am already working on) are somewhat larger, so it may be a while before I finish anything else.
  8. #140, the Hapes Nova-class battle cruiser! Another favorite from the old EU, that looks even more like a Star Trek ship than the last ones did. I suspect that whoever designed this ship had spent a lot of time looking at TNG's Klingon birds-of-prey. Unlike the bird-of-prey, though, the Nova-class has a bunch of nice curves in the back half of the ship that definitely weren't designed with LEGO in mind, so capturing the shape of it was quite a fun engineering challenge. The major constraint was that the ion cannons on the leading edge of the wings have to point forwards, which limited my options for that surface. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and figuring out how to get this together makes me more confident about approaching other curvy ships in the future (Mon Cala ships, for example). And yes, I know that there's exactly one Hapan ship that anybody cares about and this one isn't it; I'm working on the Battle Dragon, but it still has some serious structural problems at the moment. More photos in the spoiler:
  9. The Youtuber was wrong. The clone troopers were biologically in their 70s by the Battle of Hoth; there were still a handful of them around (Captain Rex, for example), but the 501st and every other Imperial Army unit had transitioned to human recruits decades earlier. I don't know whether you've seen The Bad Batch yet, but the switch from clone to human units is a major plot point there.
  10. Oh boy, here we go. This is the can of worms that I didn't want to open, but we're here and we're doing it, so let's do it before this thread gets locked, LMAO. Multiquoting four posts here, so hopefully everything lines up; if I lambast somebody I didn't intend to I apologize. I mean, I should hope you dislike that implication, as it's quite a nasty one. If you liked it that would be a whole other issue. What I'm saying here is that, canonically, it's not the case that all the snowtroopers at the Battle of Hoth were male. I have no idea whether all the extras in ESB were because there's literally no way to tell, but George Lucas himself said in 1977 that he intended that some of the stormtroopers be female. LEGO didn't go out of the way to be less accurate because this is accurate. I understand the point about faces for stormtroopers not being a good use of new prints in general when there are plenty of existing face prints that're perfectly serviceable for figures that wear helmets most of the time anyway, but I don't think that the budget issue is really a significant concern here. There are parts of BF2 that aren't canon, like obviously fights between Vader and BB-8, but I meant specifically that there are female stormtroopers in the campaign, and that absolutely unambiguously is a canon source. For both of the two people above, there's actually a specific answer to this: the Empire got more inclusive when the reset the EU in 2014. The idea that the Empire is racist and sexist against humans was an after-the-fact justification for why all the Imperial officers in the OT are white men, but in the current canon they've dropped that thread in favor of introducing more diverse Imperials and just ignoring the fact that the older media doesn't have them (the same way they've always just kinda ignored the fact that the OT shows only white humans in the Rebellion, and almost exclusively men there too). Disney made the decision that the Empire is cartoonishly evil enough already that making them explicitly racist as well wasn't worth it (they do still hate aliens though). In some sense it's an inconsistency with older material, sure, but it's like Rogue One showing the Rebel pilots wearing actual flight suits instead of boiler suits crudely dyed orange; it's not a meaningful change so much as just what the OT would look like if it was made this decade. That comment wasn't aimed at you; it's Mandalorianknight who would prefer angry clones. But, again, this is accurate. There are female stormtroopers and they were on Hoth. You think that these parts will be too expensive to be accessible to you... so you'd rather they not have been made at all? That doesn't seem very reasonable. The cheaper sets will presumably continue to have diverse stormtroopers, just as the last several have; surely it's better that the expensive sets do as well. For the first sentence, the problem isn't that we don't understand you point, it's that it's apalling and we don't agree with it. For the second sentence, LMAO.
  11. Quite the opposite. It's been well-established for years now that female stormtroopers served throughout the GCW. Battlefront II established that they participated in every battle in the OT, and they also appeared several times in Rebels, plus books and other media. And the armor is identical for both; anybody who's hung out with the 501st can testify that there's absolutely no way to tell who's in the suit until they take their helmets off.
  12. You don't actually hear any snowtroopers talk in the movie. It wouldn't surprise me if the extras were all male (I have no idea whether they were, or even if that information exists, but they may have been), but I don't see that that's terribly relevant given that you have absolutely no way to tell who's wearing the armor. I'm open to the argument that they would be better off having black heads for everyone (and particularly to that the AT-AT drivers should have grey heads, since their helmets are completely open in the back), but absolutely not that we would be better with Angry Clone or any other generic heads. We know from other media that the Stormtrooper Corps recruited women, and there's no evidence of their gender in the movie either way, so calling female snowtroopers 'inaccurate' strikes me as an excuse to object to them rather than an actual argument.
  13. This may be a can of worms that I'm not sure should be opened in this thread, but why do you think that having diverse snowtroopers isn't accurate to the source material?
  14. 'Bounty hunters' could be applied generically to most of the Palace denizens, anyway, even if it isn't very accurate for most of them. I'd be hesitant to read too much into that given how sloppy LEGO sometimes is with names for background characters.
  15. I completely sympathize with my EU and UK friends here who feel like they're getting shafted. Might I suggest a more affordable alternative?
  16. #138 and 139, Marauder-class corvettes! Covering both the standard Corporate Sector Authority version with the turbolasers and the Rebel Alliance missile cruiser variant from Empire at War. These are nostalgic, and they fill a role that the Rebel fleet in current canon largely lacks, but they're also kinda silly-looking, IMO. They're part of a whole group of old EU ships that were obviously designed to be starfighter- or shuttle-sized and then got scaled up to be hundreds of meters long and end up not making a lot of sense. The hundred-meter cannons here aren't nearly as bad as the ten-story windshield on the Carrack, though, so they could definitely be worse!
  17. If you don't watch your step you're gonna start the argument about exactly what is and isn't a UCS set again, LMAO. You're right in the sense that LEGO first publicly used the term 'Master Builder Series' in 2018, but terminological arguments don't detract from the point that they've been alternating between system-scale playsets and traditional display models for most of the last decade.
  18. I suppose I was misled by the News thread, where the name of the set is given as “Death Trooper Battle Pack”.
  19. I'm a bit disappointed to hear that Luke is in the Dark Trooper battle pack. Like with the Jedi and Clone Troopers battle pack a few years ago, it seems like LEGO's kinda defeating the purpose of a battle pack by including face characters, especially since RotJ Luke is a less interesting figure than Barriss or Ki-Adi-Mundi, even if this Mando version is updated somehow from the last RotJ one. It would be a much better set if the fourth figure was a stormtrooper or Imperial officer (this would've been a great set for the incinerator stormtrooper, for example). The other sets all sound pretty good, though. With the exception of Boba's Palace the price per piece ratios are all great, and that one may be saved if it has a decent minifig selection.
  20. We still know literally nothing about the accessory packs, right?
  21. In this case at least there’s a specific reason for it: if they had backpacks they couldn’t sit in the seats in the interior.
  22. The interior is definitely based directly on the Incredible Cross-Sections books, with the blue-grey seats, stacked speeder bikes, trapezoidal engine pod, and so on. I'm VERY pleased with that. EDIT: Also, I can't tell for certain, but it looks like the AT-AT drivers may be exclusive as well, since from the interior shot it looks like their heads are light grey rather than nougat.
  23. #132-137, Kom'rk-class fighter/transports! At long last, we're back to ships that people are likely to recognize. Specifically, these are, from back to front and left to right: the standard Death Watch version, Bo-Katan's ship as of The Mando, the Splendour, Bo-Katan's ship as of TCW, Pre Vizsla's Gauntlet, and the Nightbrother. The difference in sizes between the two rows of models is probably a mistake on the part of Mr. Landry Q. Walker, author of the Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles, which has dozens of such errors and is maybe the worst Star Wars reference book ever published, but right now the situation in canon is that there are two almost identical but differently sized variants of this ship, so that's what we've got here. These things happen.
  24. I just knew somebody was gonna ask me that, so yes, in fact, I have already made it. That's too small to reasonably post on its own, though, so I need to come up with two or three more little freighters to go with it.
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