Kdapt-Preacher

The lumbering Class 4 container transport, also known simply as the Imperial cargo ship, was a common sight over Imperial worlds and logistics hubs. These tetrahedral bulk freighters hauled the vast quantities of resources needed to keep the Imperial economy and military grinding ever forwards, and now they can also supply your LEGO fleet as you relive your favorite episodes of Star Wars: Rebels (as long as your favorite episodes are specifically The Forgotten Droid and The Wynkahthu Job). At 1:1455 scale, or approximately 11.64 meters per stud, this model is UCS scale, designed to match 75252 Imperial Star Destroyer and all 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). The Stud.io file and 289-page PDF instructions are available for free on Rebrickable! https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-72282/Kdapt-Preacher/11455-class-four-container-transport/ This model includes instructions to build both the containers-only version featured in The Forgotten Droid and the version with the large door at the back of the cargo section featured in The Wynkahthu Job. IMPORTANT NOTE: The parts list given on this page is for the Wynkahthu version, with the Ghost. The Stud.io file includes both options, so the parts list for the containers-only version is available there. The model also includes a cover for the attachment point at the back, so it can also be displayed as shown in The Forgotten Droid after the cargo section was detached. Yes, it really does stay on that stand without the cargo section to balance it! I have built this in real life and can confirm that it stands up just fine. The ship alone is about 550 parts and would be much cheaper to build than the cargo section, but of course that does rather miss the point of a container ship... I know the colors in the cargo section don't match the episode at all. Unfortunately those pieces aren't available in appropriate shades of red, blue, or yellow, so I've done the best I can with the colors available to convey the same impression. I feel that the ingot pieces make for such well-shaped containers that they're worth the inaccuracy of color. If LEGO ever releases the ingot piece in the appropriate colors I'll update this model! The Stud.io file and parts list for just the nano Ghost are available here. Note: The publication of this model does not constitute and should not be taken as an endorsement of the idea that this thing is actually worth the parts it would take to build it. Nobody should even own 700 of those ingots, to be honest, much less use them all in one model. But that's a decision you'll have to make on your own. :P

It's the cheekbones, I think. They're supposed to be angled up and outwards and on the model that line is vertical. It throws off the whole face.

Keep in mind that the piece count was initially reported to be ~11,000. Reasonable or not, that's what the Death Star rumor was based on, and it's easy to see why somebody would think a DS was the only possibility at that size.

The EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate, usually known as the Rebel medical frigate, Rebel cruiser, or just the Nebulon-B, was originally designed as a warship for the Imperial Navy, but its limited Imperial service was overshadowed by its extensive use by the Rebellion and New Republic. Although the most famous ship of this class, Redemption, was primarily a hospital ship, the frigates were quite capable in combat and carried a small contingent of starfighters (although there's been a great deal of discussion as to exactly where). The Nebulon-B has to be one of the most commonly MOCed ships in Star Wars: I count, at the time of this writing, 18 different versions on Rebrickable. I have three specific points in mind to make mine stand out: First, just to shake things up a bit, it's based on Vanguard rather than Redemption--change the red to gray if you prefer the ESB version. Second, I wanted the anterior antennae cluster to correctly protrude through the outer armor rather than sit in front of it, which is something that most small-scale MOCs (and even the official set!) don't go for. Finally, my Nebulon-B is built at 1:1455 scale, or approximately 11.64 meters per stud, which matches 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). Additionally, I do intend to make the armored Imperial Nebulon as well, and I designed this model with that in mind! It will probably be based on Ansel Hsiao's take on it rather than the better-known EC Henry version. Two notes! First, Stud.io predicts two collision issues in the model, under the sloped armor. It's being overcautious; I have built this in real life and it fits perfectly. Second, the Millennium Falcon that's pictured here is the official LEGO one from 77904, which (bizarrely) is actually to scale with this smaller model and not to the set it came in. You can download the Stud.io file and PDF instructions for free on Rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-68297/Kdapt-Preacher/11455-ef76-nebulon-b-escort-frigate/

You can download the Stud.io file for free from Rebrickable! The Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier, also known in Legends as the Quasar Fire-class bulk cruiser, is a light carrier used by the Imperial Navy. At 340 meters long and with a complement of 48 TIE fighters, the Quasar Fire is perfectly equipped for fleet support, planetary control, and light engagements where a Star Destroyer would be overkill. I'm far from the first person to design a MOC of the Quasar Fire, and in fact several others have been made at this same scale, but there were two features I wanted that the other MOCs I found didn't have: the sloped section on top of the ship (which is a new addition to the ship's canon design; the Legends version had a flat and very boring top surface), and a proper interior and blue shielding on the hangar bays, both of which I consider essential to the look of the ship. This model is built at 1:1455 scale, or approximately 11.64 meters per stud, which is the same scale as 75252 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer, all my other ships, and the huge number of other people's MOCs that are also designed to fit with the official Ultimate Collector Series ISDs. I specifically made sure that my Imperial shuttle and Sentinel-class landing craft could both dock in the hangars, as shown in Star Wars Rebels. I highly recommend displaying them together, 'cuz they look great. The top section of the ship lifts off easily to allow access to the hangars, allowing you to display the ship and its auxiliary vehicles however you like. The Stud.io file includes several suggestions for interior decoration, including loaded and empty ceiling-mounted TIE fighter racks and a couple of floor-mounted gantries based on the ones depicted in Star Wars: Squadrons. Despite the top/forward section only being attached by a couple of studs, the model is quite sturdy. Finally, as proof that you can indeed build this in real life, the Quasar Fire in all its glory:

I think you're on the right track here. Part of the problem is that the three options would make for such vastly different sets--if we were just talking about a UCS TIE Bomber, everybody would understand that it would be much larger than minifig scale and might include a pilot, like the other fighters, but nothing else; and if we were just talking about a UCS Nebulon-B, everybody would understand that it would be much smaller than minifig scale, like the ISD or SSD, and might include a couple of figures but clearly wouldn't be a playset; but that left room in the middle for the Gunship to be anywhere from slightly-smaller-than-minifig-scale but with tons of figures (like the Sandcrawler) to significantly-but-not-absurdly-larger-than-minifig-scale with no or very few figures, and there was a lot of scope for people to make their own assumptions, however improbable. Incidentally, if you want a Nebulon-B roughly in scale with the Star Destroyer, the one they just released is good enough for government work. It's too large, but not so much so that you'd notice without actually measuring it; the Falcon included with it is pretty much perfectly to scale with the ISD.

One data point here. I did vote for the Gunship and do intend to buy it regardless of what figures it comes with--I love minifigs as much as the next guy, but a UCS set is a UCS set and that's not what we're all here for. Plenty of people clearly had outrageous expectations for what the minifig selection would be like, but I don't think that the fraction of voters who expected it to be minifig scale will be very large. I'm curious to see what the actual data would say, though.

I'm not sure I agree with the ARC helmet for Crosshair. Is the only advantage to that that it has a hole to mount the rangefinder? The face is a little better than the regular P2, maybe, but Crosshair doesn't have the antenna on top, which is the biggest difference between those molds. LEGO might not care (they've made P1 pilots with antenna forever), but I would rank that more likely to get a new mold than Echo (although Echo has the advantage that other Wolffe and Neyo use the same style, so that's about the only one of these that they might get another use out of).

Tudyk's full quote was "I'm going to be in the show. It's just that the story that Tony [Gilroy] is telling doesn't involve K-2SO until later on... I can't be too specific, but I can definitely say that I'm not going to be in the first season", per the Collider article. I think it's still a pretty safe bet that there's going to be a K-2SO figure in the relatively near future, just not in the first Andor wave. He's definitely a more memorable character than Cassian himself, at least to most audiences (although I'm told that Diego Luna is worshiped as a minor deity in Latin America, so he could probably carry the show himself for that market).

I agree with them having too many odd colors on a lot of models, but keep in mind that they've gotten a *lot* better about that than they used to be. Any time you're unhappy about light grey on the shuttle, look at 7184 Trade Federation MTT and remind yourself that things could be vastly worse.

Nothing good ever comes of trying to wildly guess what a set will be when the only information we have is a price point.

Or the photos he saw were too blurry to identify it, or it was a photo of a catalog page that wasn’t completely visible, or something like that. It doesn’t mean the figures that’ve been reported are in doubt.

LEGO learned their lesson from the first Rebels wave about releasing sets before the show airs. The people that care enough to be following a Star Wars forum will be hyped for tBoBF and looking to buy merch before it airs, but nobody else is, and the sets wouldn’t sell any more than the Rebels ones sold. The right time for large BoBF sets will be during or shortly after the first season, like they did with the Razor Crest. The Ghost reportedly sold terribly when it was available, even though it’s expensive secondhand now, whereas the Razor Crest is a whole thing even outside of usual LEGO media. That’s a very clear message to TLG.

To be even more technical, the GR75 has also been in four movies, the Lambda-class shuttle has been in five (albeit as wreckage in 7 and 9, and only in the Special Edition of ESB), the T-65 X-wing has been in seven (as wreckage in 7 and 8), and the Millennium Falcon has been in eight movies (although if we're distinguishing between ISD I and IIs we might distinguish between the RotS and Solo versions of the Falcon). But I do take your point! LEGO has clearly considered making a UCS Nebulon B, and I agree with the general consensus around here that all three ships from that contest are probably on the shortlist of UCS sets to make in the next couple of years. It just doesn't make sense for an $800 set; it would work very well as a 'regular' $200-400 UCS and wouldn't benefit purely from being huge in the same way the ISDs do.

Gideon, Fennec Shand, Bo-Katan, Gar Saxon, Maul, Ahsoka, all five Bad Batch clones, a mortar trooper, and possible dark troopers are trash? We know of 25 figures and at least 11 of them are new, with another 4-5 possible if Maul, Ahsoka, etc are new versions. And three of the others are stormtroopers, which are usually the most-requested army building figures. This is the most new characters we've gotten in a wave in years. What do you consider a good figure selection if not this? There's absolutely no chance that they make an $800 set of a ship most people wouldn't even recognize and that they hadn't even considered deserving of a regular set up to that point.

This might be old news, but I haven't seen it mentioned here: There's a "Yoda's Galaxy Atlas" book with an exclusive Yoda minifig coming out on 13 April. https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Star-Yodas-Galaxy-Atlas/dp/0744027276

A while back people were speculating about the Death Star II (ie, a remake of 10143, not of the recent playset ones). I don't think that was based on anything specific other than it fitting the pattern of the Falcon and ISD remakes, though.

I may be the only one, but... I actually like Jar Jar. I don’t own any Brickheadz because they look terrible, but that’s pretty much the only one I’d consider buying. I’d tell people I bought it ironically, but now you all know the dark truth.

While I don't have a very high opinion of MandR, I think the criticism of 'brigading' the polls is unfair. If he was able to motivate people to vote, more power to him--that's the whole point of a poll. And after the whole Snapple flavor thing, and Pitbull going to the remotest Walmart in Alaska, and Boaty McBoatface, and any of the other recent high-profile hijackings of online polls, it's not like any company running one of the things doesn't understand what they're getting themselves into. LEGO asked what Brickhead people wanted, and the people cried out 'Jar Jar'! The voters may not be representative of the totality of LEGO's market (in fact, they almost certainly aren't), but that doesn't mean the poll is rigged or the methodology illegitimate.

I would argue that we have. Less abrupt and explicit, maybe, but there's a pretty clear point around 2007 where the level of detail and variety of building techniques changed dramatically. Sets from after that point look basically modern (e.g., the 2007 MTT wouldn't look out of place if it was released this year) while sets from before are a much more simplistic style. The various TIE fighters make a good comparison; the ones from 2001 and 2005 look basically the same, and so do the ones from 2012 and 2018, but the ones from before 2006 are totally different from the modern ones. That also roughly corresponds to the shift from yellow to light nougat minifigures in 2005.

And my personal opinion--which, granted, is based on only a meager five years of participating in these threads, and therefore surely carries far less weight than yours--is that aggressive, condescending users who would rather have silence than discussion they don't approve of do vastly more harm to these forums than the people who are here to actually talk to one another. All the folks here who find it intolerable to sort through pages of discussion to find specific pieces of news are fundamentally in the wrong place--you want a curated news feed, not a thread on a forum. The discussion is the point! It's important that we keep the blatant wishlisting out of this thread solely because of its tendency to propagate into misinformation when people skim this thread, don't realize it isn't real, and copy it onto Instagram or other pages from which it gets copied back here again as 'actual' rumor; but other than that, I don't believe I've ever seen discussion here that I felt truly didn't belong. It's not like it gets in the way of more 'productive' conversation, since any hint of concrete news immediately displaces whatever discussion was happening previously. My suggestion would be to leave this thread more or less as it is, with moderators only stepping in if the off-topic discussion is *completely* out of hand (which I don't think I've ever seen happen here, but I recognize that it has in other places, so some amount of moderation will probably occasionally be necessary); and have the existing 'news' thread be what Legolandia and the others who only want news are looking for: lock it, and have a moderator copy over only the bare-bones confirmed news when it's announced (or, leave it open and remove any posts that contain content other than confirmed news, which is basically what it already is).

Random users trying to mini-mod and shut down discussion that a moderator specifically asked for also doesn’t help this thread any. It’s not like we get a hundred posts a day here—having a couple of pages of discussion of some vaguely relevant topic during what would otherwise be months-long gaps between actual news harms no-one.

No, there have been four--1999, 2007, 2011, and 2015. They aren't as overdone as snowspeeders, sure, but don't act like there haven't been plenty of them, LMAO.

I'm not going to believe that they shipped RotJ Luke with a blue lightsaber unless I open the box and see it for myself. There's been the very occasional odd thing in the past, like Poggle the Lesser having a brown cane where white would've made more sense, but this will be the nineteenth (roughly) set to include that figure and all the other ones were correct. It isn't impossible that LEGO has made a mistake here, but it is highly implausible.