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Star wars wikia has multiple y wing variants with either a gunner or a fixed set of ion cannons and no gunner. There's even references to 5 seater models and long range scout versions (even 4 engine models in games)

I still love the whining about price. Yes it's inflation since 08 amd yes a few extra pieces add to it but everyone seems to have missed a big part of it. Disney. They want to make money. They will be slugging Lego a hefty brand premium. The reason the disney castle isn't as expensive is that the pieces are smaller/lighter and the castle is Disney's own intellectual property. They didn't pay $4b for the rights to it. Ok let's move on now...

All depends on your income and the occasion and also on the child. Many parents are NOT buying expensive smart phones for pre teens to avoid issues with what smart phones can do (internet, cameras and social media etc) I don't see $500 as being a lot of money and I also wouldn't want a young child being in posession of an upmarket smart phone. I would easily buy a top end lego set for a 10-12 year old. I mean the box does have 12+ on it...

Obviously PARENTS will be buying them for 12 year olds.

Haha so many pages of crying. AFOLS account for a TINY amount of lego sales. Almost every set Lego has EVER made INCLUDING UCS has been aimed at kids and teenagers. Lego have rereleased and slightly updated the DS. They will sell 98% of these to 12 year olds. Get over it and be happy with what it is. If you're like me and have the ability to pick and choose whatever Lego you want to buy, exercise this right and don't buy it if you don't like it. I don't love it but will just buy it anyway because it will look cool in my man cave. I won't be tearing up because Luke's hair isn't quite right. It's a toy for a kid, and the kids won't give a crap and Lego's profit margins will be just fine.

Sorry to revive a thread that has been dormant a few days... Some comments have been made about Lego making 'smaller' UCS sets but apart from no Falcon or SSD sets the actual UCS vehicles are rather good I think. The new UCS slave 1 is by far the best version so far and in direct personal comparison, I think the new Red 5 Xwing is also excellent. The UCS tie is physically also quite a big ship (although it's effectively two black plates and a ball haha). I am quite excited by the chance of a new Snow Speeder and ABSOLUTELY praying for a new Falcon. I am positive that TLG will do a great job in any new ship releases either previously unreleased or rereleased. Oh and I don't think large playsets should be UCS branded. The C stands for 'Collector' which kind of hints at being a model more than a playset. I wouldn't even consider a pkayset style UCS but I'm sure TLG are selling plenty.

The AT-AT is kinda cute, the little AT-AT Mother/puppy scenes are pretty funny too. The snowspeeder is fairly proportionally accurate for a microfighter, you could almost use it(with a few small mods to finish the canopy) to make a little scene with a UCS AT-AT :)

I hope with all this hype we don't get disappointed by the actual movie...Jar Jar style haha.

Stunning!

Are you Mr Stevens? No I'm Darth Vader. Whos this? Oh he's Jeff Vader Hahaha classic Oh and great display

I could be wrong of course :) But the poster above has all the same features as the TLG release. Maybe the black ship is for the new 'emperor' of the FO?

I vote for there being two different ships. A certain persons 'command shuttle' has lower wings that extend well below the main fuselage of the ship. The V-Winged ship in the trailer seems to be a VERY large ship, significantly bigger than the transports(and something like a Tiderium sized ship) and the wings do not appear to extend below the main hull at all. I think they are two ships, one much larger than the other, you can see(when you include the other 'tie' shuttle concept art talked above in post 8602 that there is certainly a common design theme amongst some of the newer ships.

I just feel a UCS set is for a collector of that genre to keep and display(which is what most collectors would do with their collection) not something to really play with. I see UCS as the far extreme of lego junior or Duplo. It's just my opinion but a 'playset' style set seems more for 'kids' and not so much an 'ultimate' collectors item. If you consider the vehicle UCS sets are not usually built to minifig scale but try to be as scale accurate and detailed as realistically possible as lego pieces allow. A set like an ewok village is just a large scale(and admittedly fairly detailed) kids playset. I just think sets like this 'cheapen' the previous vehicle and character UCS sets.

UCS-Ultimate collectors, not ultimate playset in my opinion. Just because it's expensive doesn't make it a UCS set. Just because a car is expensive doen't mean it's a Ferrari

75094 as I can't get a UCS shuttle for less than $1000! Still a good size next to a UCS X-wing though