Kdapt-Preacher

Don't count on it--the new figure was introduced so late that by the time it became public knowledge the set was already retired in the US. That's what all the commotion was about two years ago. As far as I know practically nobody has gotten one new out of the box; most of the people who have them got them from LEGO customer service's replacement parts thing after the fact. If you have a new one with the new figure on the box, definitely keep it sealed! And probably in bubble wrap or something. Of the 71 copies of the set on BrickLink right now, only three are the Finch version, and the sellers are asking $800, $960, and $1500 for them.

The Finch Dallow thing is some megablocks. I have one, so on one hand I guess I benefit from it costing $500, but as of 13 February 2020--not even 18 months ago--that figure only cost about $65 on BrickLink. I know that exact date and price because I texted somebody about it being expensive at the time. Prices for aftermarket LEGOs have risen enormously across the board over the last year, and at some point the LEGO community is going to have to have a reckoning with it, 'cuz this is neither sane nor sustainable.

In fact, I'm already working on that model. It's taking a while because the ship has a lot of somewhat awkward angles, but I think it's going to look really good when it's finished!

An update to the Quasar Fire, to connect the slopes on the sides of the ship via bricks w/ studs on the side rather than brackets so that the sides are closer to being one smooth slope. It's a small change structurally, but I think it's a pretty significant improvement to the look of the ship.

You can see them on the sides of the upcoming Slave I, so they'll be available next week! I'm looking forwards to it, too, since they're going to be a very useful part for a ton of Star Wars models.

I've only played it in VR, but that aligns with my impression. The point of the game is the experience of flying an X-wing from inside the cockpit, and it executes that very well, and it's awesome! But if you aren't getting that, then there isn't much of a draw. #130, the Xizor Transport Systems container transport! Another old one from the X-Wing series that I always liked the shape of. 17 studs long, 278 pieces counting the stand. I need to do another full fleet render at some point, but that means rearranging them all to fit the 16x9 aspect ratio, which takes forever at this point.

If you can get your hands on a VR headset, Squadrons is absolutely worth it. It definitely helps you get a sense of the size of all of these ships, and you'll get your fill of the Starhawk! I think I've built every ship from the game except that and the Mon Cala capital ships.

A Starhawk would be lovely, since I think the shape would lend itself well to LEGO, but they're bigger than a Star Destroyer! The model would be more than five feet long at this scale. That's not completely out of the question--it would be possible to build--but I need to work up to that a bit first, LMAO. And it's not like a Star Destroyer where the models are basically hollow; it'd need a lot of technic framing on the inside to achieve that shape, so it'd be a lot more pieces than, say, an Allegiance-class battlecruiser, which is almost the same length. As far as I know they haven't published size info for any of the High Republic-era stuff. The Starlight Beacon itself might also be too big to fit on my table at this scale, but the Legacy Run, Longbeams, the Emmisary- and Salvation-class, etc. are probably in the medium-size range that would work well; but since none of the actual numbers are available, there's not much I can do with them. I haven't seen any good perspective shots of them that would let me work out the relative sizes. I would like to make them, so hopefully they'll show up in The Acolyte, whenever that comes out, so we can get some better references.

Rubblemaker already responded to this, but to further emphasize how much larger his is, here's an example of one that is to scale (more or less) with the Brickvault ISD. ISDs are bigger than the movies sometimes make clear!

Continuing the previous theme of 'ships nobody was asking for' with another one from the old EU, here's #129, the Mobquet MB-C1 medium transport!

You misunderstood those posts. They were saying it's the first one over $200 to be *larger* than minifig scale. Other than the Falcon, every large UCS has been much smaller than minifig-scale. To break up the constant Gunship stuff, how confident are we that the AT-AT actually exists? It wasn't that long ago that people were thinking that the Gunship would be out on May 4th and the large UCS might be a Death Star, and I don't remember when it was confirmed that there'd be three UCS sets this year and that the next one was an AT-AT. What's the source on that?

I think the exclusivity argument holds up if it's a figure that's not likely to appear anywhere else, but not if it's one that would likely then go on to become common. Ponda Baba and Garindan's heads, for example, aren't likely to show up in any other set any time soon, so it makes sense to be annoyed about their exclusivity (I mean, there's nothing stopping them from being in the next regular Cantina set, whenever that is, but they never were before and there's no particular reason for them to be in the future). But clone pilots have historically been common figures that show up regularly with several vehicles, a microfighter, an advent calendar, etc, and if they were to make an accurate helmet mold for the UCS Gunship it's very likely that it would continue to be used in normal sets going forwards, and everybody would get access to it sooner or later. People would complain about it in the interim, but they're currently complaining even harder about not getting it, so what can you do.

If they had a limited palette of characters they were willing to consider using, the vote should've just been between those characters. I don't have any opinion on this--I wasn't even aware the vote was happening until after it ended, and I don't particularly care what figures are in the Gunship--but everything that I've seen here leads me to think that a) people's expectations were almost certainly unrealistic, but b) LEGO completely brought that on themselves by not clarifying exactly what was being voted on or where/if those figures would appear. The figures are perfectly appropriate for the Gunship, and P2 Cody or most of the other suggestions wouldn't have been, so there's nothing there that's inherently objectionable, but not addressing the vote at all is still a bad look for LEGO whether you agree with the outcome or not.

For me, it's because Cody's the last remaining remnant of the clone weirdness from the initial RotS sets in 2005. I don't know how many people in this thread have been around long enough to remember that wave, but for those who don't, the selection of clone troopers was very disconnected from their prominence in the movie. In the very first wave we got a 91st Mobile Recon Corps trooper (~5 seconds screentime), a Star Corps trooper (~10 seconds screentime), two 442nd Siege Battalion troopers (canon but didn't make the actual movie), and an aerial trooper (not canon, at least not in that form). Then fairly shortly thereafter, in 2007, we got another Star Corps trooper and three Coruscant Guard troopers (~5 seconds screentime). Lots of obscure troopers is great, of course, but we DIDN'T get the 212th or 501st, which are the prominent ones that people would actually care about, or literally any of the individual clone commanders. Some of those omissions were finally rectified almost ten years later with the release of the TCW versions of the 212th and 501st troopers, but there's *still* never been a movie-style 501st trooper, and despite having since added movie versions of the far less prominent Jag, Neyo, and Gree (three times), Cody remains unaccountably absent. It's not that he's the most prominent missing prequel character (that's Shmi Skywalker), but to me he's the one who seems the most like there've been tons of sets he could've been in, to the point that their having skipped him over in favor of much less important clones makes for a weird gap in the collection.

I don't think they do. He got kicked out of the LEGO Ambassador Network earlier this year. He just knows people who get the info legitimately and will share it with him.

This doesn't detract from your point at all, but the UCS Sandcrawler is still less than half of minifig scale. Those things are huge, quite a bit larger even than the Falcon. The minifig-scale MOCs are in the 12-15k piece range.

These are all valid points. It occurred to me that Jango and Boba's versions of the Slave I are the closest analog to the Mantis, since those are also a single ship in different colors, and I'm already counting those separately. I think the way to look at it is that these are different models, even though they're of the same ship at different points. The Corvus is another one to bring up here, since that's also one ship, but it was rebuilt so significantly that the Imperial and Rebel versions only have about half their pieces in common, so those clearly deserve two numbers. Plus, it's not like this is a competition or anything--given that there are absolutely zero consequences to how I count it, I might as well use the bigger number. Number 128, the IPV-2C Stealth Corvette! This has been submitted to Rebrickable already, but the admins have to approve it before it's public, so that link may not work until a few hours after this post. I also posted a photo of the ship in stealth mode, which is (naturally) an empty stand, but I don't think I'll count that version separately...

I'll be delighted if it's a new clone, but I don't think I can see any orange markings in that image.

An update to my Lancer-class frigate, since I wasn't quite happy with the shape of the cockpit area before. I'm still not, to be honest, but it's more accurate now than it was.

A couple more little ones before I get to the Cantwell-class. Numbers 124, 125, 126, and 127, bounty hunter ships! Razor Crest, Halo, Mist Hunter, and Punishing One.

Trusted, no. He's had information occasionally but he's also made stuff up in the past. And he's probably less likely to have info now than he was before, since he got fired from being a LEGO ambassador a couple months ago.

Let it never be said that I did something halfway! Some of the skins work out better than others (the ones that're mostly metallic in-game are hard, especially since the 1x1 bracket doesn't exist in dark grey), but overall I'm quite pleased with them. Now the question--and this is very important to me--is, do I count this as one ship or sixteen? I tend to think 16, since I already have multiple the color-swapped versions of the CR90s and PLY-3000s, but it does seem a bit different when they're literally the same ship.

This is the one people mean when they talk about the Efferman stand: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-10219/Lucioswitch81/effermans-vertical-stand-for-millennium-falcon-75192/#details That's pretty much the go-to for the community, as far as I've seen; nearly everybody who uses a LEGO stand rather than a purchased acrylic one uses Efferman's. I've had my Falcon on it for more than a year with no signs of stress or sagging.

I have the Art of Solo book, so I've seen the concept art. But as it stands, there is no ship in Star Wars called the Buckshot at all, and the concept art isn't identical to the ship that appeared in RoS, so it isn't very helpful as a reference for that either. The book does have some great reference shots of the Cantwell-class Arrestor Cruiser, though. Stinger Mantis, take 1. Possibly not the final model, but I think this is the general idea. Models under 20 parts have to be manually approved by Rebrickable admins, so it may not be public for a few days.

I have successfully extracted the model of the Stinger Mantis from Jedi: Fallen Order. Formally and for the record, it is 49.79 meters long, 11.16 meters wide, and 56.37 meters tall with the bottom wing extended. That's larger than I expected. And it's a super convenient size, since that makes it almost exactly one stud wide. So that'll be the next model I publish. The question is, how many skins do I need.....