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Such a great contest, sadly I didn't find time to realize my ideas ... but here go my votes: DaMaximus – Lady Wang Sluyp, Mistress of Assassins - 1 KielDaMan – Vagabond – Champion of the masses - 1 BaraSH – Crazy Pumpkin - 1

I wouldn't complain if all the figs were fleshies ... though I know I'm in minority. Duplo's always had the right skin color and they also included a lot of different races. Also the friends line has the realistic skin color, and noone's complaining about these two?! I think the problem is in people who see the problem of racism in toys ...

Far from it, I to think it was a lame move, but anyway I always watched the CW series as a separate branch of SW. As if the movies 3 - 6 didn't exist. It's a lot better and things make more sense. CW is far from bad series, though their time-wise positioning into the saga makes it really difficult for creators and they clash into a lot of inconsistences! Yes, but where are the CW eyes?! :S As for the figures part I already post my vote on Jedi, but for the Sith I do agree with the majority that Darth Malgus is an outstanding figure!

I think the best sets would be the Star Wars 8086 Droid Tri-Fighter - which was recently on sale though a bit harder to find lately since it's a 2010 set - and the 8018 Armored Assault Tank - this one's from 2009 but can be bouht on bricklink. Both have some cool parts in dark blue and light bley, especially for the marines theme since they are space themed with wings / guns etc. The AAT set is also a very good example how cool a dark + ligh blue scheme can look!

I didn't really read the whole topic, but just enough to get the idea of the problem. I didn't see any of the houses mentioned before and when I saw the model I was amazed how great it is. It's hard to say if it was copied, but I believe not especially for the fact mentioned in Adams last reply - the timelines and the amount of time it takes for such a model to be designed ... My thoughts exactly and then a few moments later you'll all be complaining how TLG does not listen to the community feedback. Well the chances are, because of such stupid topics, they won't even be reading our feedback anymore! ... just had to add this!

I love all the female CW jedi characters. And the best, I think it's very even between Aayla and Barriss.

I don't think you have to sign up at all - it's not like a group build or anything similar. When you finish your entry, you create the thread with the appropriate subtitle in the right subforum and you've just entered the contest ...

I really like this minifigure. It's a clear example how cool figs can be made using official parts only - the color scheme and everything fits just rightalong with the background story. Also the presentation is top notch. Mind if I "borrow" the concept? (:

Very nice, I really like the concept of the AAT. MTT looks cool too, but to match the size with the AAT, I'd make it a bit bigger. These mini scale builds are really awesome all around here!

A shame not all of them have the animated set intro, those were great!

Wow, this ship is really cool. Love how TLG is using more and more nice SNOT building in their later models. About the Palps arrest - everyone was so excited about the non CW Mace face, but I think it's rather similar if not the same as Seso's from Prince of Persia - not sure about the lines around the mouth though ... still I think for the figs it's a great set. It looks a bit incomplete, but the additional pictures with play features make the set a bit more understandable. Hardly waiting for some sales :D

So, does anyone know whether the 9497 female Jedi eyes are blue or black? I've seen different images. I think the box art has black version, which I prefer. I thought I read somewhere that LEGO did not like how the Indiana Jones female figs with blue eyes turned out and are not doing it again (could be wrong though) ...

I think Professor Snape from 2010 Hogwarts Castle has a suitable hair piece.

5) Intergalactic Girl Entry (Build by LEGOman273) 16) Minotaur Entry (Build by Kumpelkante) 31) Sleepyhead Entry (Build by watersnap) 1 point each, good luck to everyone!

7) 1 point 9) 1 point 11) 1 point Good luck everyone!

As already said, one of the best Pirate MOCs in ages! The waves are really outstanding and how the ships fit in is also great. Love a lot of the detail and really like the idea of using the seats for closed gun ports! I only think the fleshies would look a bit better with the realistic color schemes ...

Last years T-6 Jedi Shuttle has something similar done with its wings. I think if you used 2 of the big Technic turntables and connect the front and the rear with 2 rows of unaligned Technic bricks connected with pins and reinforced with plates on top and bottom, should be enough. But it all depends on how long the middle section is. Anyway only the small part going through the turntable has to be so thin, the rest of the connection can be wider - so it fills the whole turning part ... that would be an awesome ship!

Very nice creations and a really hard choice to distribute the points ... 12) 2 points 10) 1 point 13) 1 points 17) 1 point 37) 1 point 41) 1 point

Nice, I always loved Derfels creations and folowing his guide makes creations great too! Just one suggestion I'd try: How about using just one 1x1 brick with the stud on side in corners for 1x2 plates and aligning them with the 1x1 plate edge on the neighbor wall. It'd make the corner of the building aligned more and I think would look nicer! Hope you understand what I mean ...

Ok, one more, but I did not mean to argue, ok? So don't get to harsh ... No hard feelings about double posts, it's moderators concern anyway, but the most recent theme becomes the one you post in :D I am well aware of what the classic pirates are, since they were one of my first sets from the childhood. I just am not that kind of person who thinks new things are worse and that changing some directions is always bad, so I like the way they went with this theme. I'm more of a realistic person, so I prefer realistic colors and more detailed figures. You say that city sets and star wars are more complete? In what way? We all know everyone complains about the lack of hospitals and some decent airports without the planes made out of three big pieces! And is police trains and fire fighters really all there is in a city? Where are the restaurants, racing sets, posts, shops, ordinary buildings (you have the modulars, but don't complain on the sets being expensive then ...). I also collect the SW sets and I think they are far from complete. With the speed they're producing the CW series, they'll never catch up with all the main characters, and where are all the ordinary civilians and all different races. Not to mention the character being put into sets with no connectivity ... And about the playability, well yes, every spaceship is swooshable, but that's about it. Oh wait, I forgot, the flick fire missiles :S The playability is not as simple as I say? I found my version quite more complicated then yours, where you're expecting the playability within a set. When I was a child I didn't have computer until very late high school so I spent all my childhood with LEGO. Luckily I had quite a few and therefor I never wished sets to gain "playability" from them, but to gain new characters, pieces in new colors and to gain more and more bricks. I then built stuff and played as of "talk and walk". But you're keep on saying there's more, what more is there? I can simply see a POTC cannibal working on a ship as a slave or just a man whose life pirates saved and now travels with them. But I really see some people having problems with POTC theme for sticking it strictly to the movies. They don't go together just if the movies story is the only scenario you have in mind, otherwise they are completely compatible, even more than classics. If you combine them you can create something that looks as a whole. Combine classics, what do you get? Yellow and white with too much of black, definitely not my choice for pirates. Again don't get me wrong, I loved the classic pirates, but I think their time is slowly over since they're a bit outdated. Look at the forums, when was the last time someone posted a pirate MOC without using any brown colored pieces? Some things are just better the new way and even if LEGO produces another wave of classic pirates (they'll never be classic) they'll be more like 2009 sets with more realistic colors and people will complain again. Also their compatibility with the real CP will be very low apart from the figs being yellow! Also, you don't need to buy 5 London escape sets to gain English army, buy some redcoats which are in cheap mini sets and if you don't mix fleshies with yellow, some Prince of Persia sets and make a whole army (with different faces!). Get the battle packs and sell the figs you don't need (but don't try to make a fortune of it). I also used to think LEGO was expensive (well it is) but sometimes you must not rush, wait for sales, search ebay and go to bricklink and life is so much nicer :D I don't get annoyed by people talking about LEGO intentions but by people talking trash about the theme they don't like and making suggestions what would have been better if the theme didn't exist in the first place. But this scenario is impossible. And this has nothing to do with my opinion about forum users being more of the builders which is based on the fact that there's not a lot of people complaining about the playability ... however I do find it interesting how every reviewer mentions it, but I think it's intended for the younger spectators of the forum. After all LEGO is a toy!

After some time I have to post here again. Captain Fortune I appreciate your opinion, but there is really no need for posting two same posts in different themes. If you don't like the theme you don't and I think there's been a lot said from people disliking it and not as much from us who like it. (Yeah probably there is more of you anyway ...) Of course I must not agree with you at all. I personally loved the movies and the POTC theme and think LEGO did a very good job in capturing the scenes in sets as well as the figures. Apart from the fountain which we all know was designed based on the artwork for the movies and not of the real model! Economy forces LEGO to do things differently so they need small and big sets, for everyone to be satisfied. And I think that TLG did more than a decent job in sizing the sets and character distribution if we skip the "Jack in every set" problem. But hey, you had a guy with the red bandanna in almost every classic set and no one complains! Don't get me wrong I really like the classic pirates theme too - all the nice ships and the fortresses, but there's something missing - the civil part and the more realistic colors! You must keep in mind that not all sets are designed for seven years old children with no imagination to play with. There are some people who can imagine Jack as someone else not from the movies and play different scenarios. Maybe switch a head and a hat or two and get a completely different character. That's what you had to do with clasic pirates if you didn't want to have all twins or even more same people and that is also what LEGO is designed for! Also in classics you have the pirates and the blue coats (later red coats) which mainly makes three fractions. That's how the sets are designed and of course you can play it differently, but POTC story alone makes you play it more like pirates versus pirates and have a lot more different fractions, which of course leads to a problem of only a few figs for each team. But bare in mind that the classic pirates have multiple waves and if POTC had two or three more, there would be a lot more different and cool characters for even more fractions! And of course the red coats are completely compatible with the English soldiers (I guess with a reason) so switch some heads and here you go, the whole London scene can come to life ... But there's even more to that, some people (I think the majority on this forums, since the age restriction is quite high) don't even play with LEGO in the way of using playability of sets. They play by enjoying in building MOCs and dioramas for displaying and from that angle I think POTC is a lot better then classics - more realistic and less cartoony plus more detailed. Of course there's always a spot where we all agree, and that's the price. Yes licensed sets are a bit pricey, but in the end who wouldn't like some cheap or free stuff. That's why you wait a bit and go for sales. Now I think it's about the right time to get them, because later they'll get pricier and pricier and you might regret not buying them some day. But that's the economy today, where every one want's to get a share with the least work done. But hey even bread is more expensive every day ... And what I really get annoyed by is the classic lovers complaining about the POTC being the reason of not getting any classic sets, when no one has the slightest idea what's going on in the LEGO heads?! It's only good business they are concerned about and this is the way they chose to go. Maybe if it wasn't for the POTC theme, there would be no pirates at all and I think all pirate fans (even pure classic lovers) agree that it's still better to have some pirates (even POTC) than none. At least you get some different colored parts and some nice accessories ...

Of course there is always ways for improvement, but still the new fig does look a lot better! In my opinion only the most conservative people (or people afraid of changes) would say the older one is better. I do agree that the older versions head looks a bit better, but only to make the whole figure look chubbier and not so tall! Else the new head looks perfectly accurate and all the detail is also nice. Besides I never understood these older LEGO molds. Why didn't they make separate mold for armor - stomach - something like castle armor mold and a separate head? In this case at least we could have brown armor and a green head. But no, they made it one piece and then decided to change the arms and hands into brown, so the fig wouldn't look like a green statue. That in my opinion makes it look ridiculously awful! The older Watto had similar problem …

I'm more into Clone Wars from these series and a big minifig fan, so I'd have to go with either 2010 or 2011. All the cool characters from the series that were released in these years ... but I think 2010 wins it for Aayla and Bane!

Being a plastic modeler myself I like to see things made as realistic as possible. What I don't like at modeling is the stench of colors and all the dust from sanding. Therefor LEGO was the obvious solution for me. Also there from my answer is known - I prefer the newer animals, but mostly because of more accurate and detailed printing. The plastic curves don't bother me at all. Someone mentioned that the old ones go better with the detail of buildings, but I think the newer ones go better with the newer minifigs. Though their shape hasn't changed, all the detailed printing + back and legs printing gives them a lot more realism. And I think it's better for animals to follow that then stay with the buildings. Anyway buildings in some MOCs are pretty well detailed as well! But another interesting point was made about the horses. I don't mind the old ones. They all have an eye print (which is most important for me - holes for eyes just looks odd). It will really be interesting to see what they make with the new LOTR horses and how compatible they'll be with the old ones. I'm just very picky about these things, it's something like I hate mixing fleshies with the yellow figs ...

This set really looks nice and I can't wait to see all the details on the minifigs! Though it's quite a bit pricy - by the size I think it should be around the 100€ (it looks just a bit bigger than the POTC Whitecap bay to me) but guess all the figures lift the price up more than I thought they will ):