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With my canopy, I discovered I wasn't the first to have this issue, and Lego requested a few pictures shwing the issue. I took a couple and sent those, as well as links to forums where people had found the same issue, and they sent out a replacement, and let me keep the old one, which was handy!

They sent me a replacement canopy for my x-wing when it wouldn't close properly. I think if you use it as it's meant you'll be ok,but I doubt they'll honour requests if you try your luck every other week.

I'll do a partial strip down and take a few pics at the weekend. It's relatively simple, especially on the resistance x-wing with the storage box at the back. Thanks! The wings are tricky to assemble, and not as strong as the originals, but they're fine for display and light to intermediate swooshing. I've been MODing a 9493 on and off for a while, there's not much original left, I'll post up some pics at the weekend.

I don't condone faking at all, but you guys all make it SOOOOOOOO easy! If you want a Lando and a Cloud city set, petition Lego, don't just complain about it on here. You think anyone from Lego is reading through this forum looking for set ideas? They only care when leaked pictures are posted.

Modular sets would make a lot of sense for larger things like bases, cloud city, the death star, where one big set is either lacking in scale detail, or horrifically expensive.

Looking great! Just don't let any snowspeeders near it....

Love the video, and of course the Star destroyer, but a commentary would have been great! I love the way the shuttle folds up, that's superb.

Obi-Wans starfighter and the Naboo starfighter both seem to suffer a lack of scale. They're too big for system scale, and too small to be as impressive as a UCS should be, but neither are bad models. I agree the Yoda and Maul busts aren't great, but that might be because they're so different from other UCS sets.

To build a Yavin IV that people would be happy with it would have to be big enough to stick an X-wing or two in, accurate enough outside to look like the Pyramid shaped exterior, and feature a control room and other interior features. To be worthy, it would end up bigger and more expensive than the death star, or as dissapointing as Insult on Hoth. I don't see lego risking it in the way we'd like, but I can imagine a smaller control room with Mon Mothma amd co, to represent it in both Rogue one and A new Hope.

Well it turns out the problem solves itself, if you rebuild it in black and then leave it a year without dusting it, the colour is spot on!

I second that emotion. Vader deserved a much better origin story than those awful movies provided.

Landspeeder is definitely easier, but my 10 year old nephew had no problems with Yodas starfighter.

I wonder if the proliferation of Lepin UCS falcons will force LEGO to issue an updated version, just to diferentiate it from the copies of it's old discontinued set. It would be shooting yourself in the foot to issue it as it was when the copies have already been around for months at probably a fifth of the Lego price. It would be nice if it was the knock offs that made Lego produce the updated and detailed set we all want!

I went to see this again last week with my nephews (who loved it!) and when it ended I turned my phone back on, and got a news notification that Carrie Fisher had passed away. Given the ending of the film, it was an almost chilling experience.

It would really help matters if LEGO made it clear what a UCS set was. In the past it seemed to mean a large scale display model, built for accuracy. Then the death star 1 kind of destroyed that theory, as it was a blatant play set, The sandcrawler kind of hit the sweet spot between the two concepts, as did the Ewok village, although not labelled a UCS set, but Hoth really just seemed to tip it back into pure playset, but with only one snowspeeder, and 2 imperials, the play factor seems pretty low unless you have any other sets (discontinued ones at that) to go with it, and the display factor practically zero. I've said it before, but if they kept the UCS tag for large accurate display models, and created a new UPS (ultimate play set) tag for big expensive play sets, then there would be a lot less anger when a set that could be a large model of a ship we love turns out to be a bunch of system style toys cobbled together.

I don't really have a parts list for you, I was fortunate enough to pick up a second x-wing on ebay minus figures for dirt cheap, and used that along with some spares from my expanding stash and once I'd got one side figured out, I knew which parts I still needed from bricklink. You can figure out what you need from the pics for the wings, but for the fuselage mods, the best I can suggest is play about a bit. It's what I did, I'm not the best lego builder, and I'm sure it's internal strength could be improved on.

Discovering that Ewoks built the death star blew my mind.

It is a great ship, I think my only gripe is that I the wings fold out, I just don't see the point, and it looks so much cooler in the folded forward position.

I love what you're doing, and I am very interested to see the results. I don't know what your philosophy with building MOCs is, but as many ships have unique or infrequently used canopy moulds, I don't think custom making one to suit is too far removed from "legal"! It's certainly better than one made out of pins and rods. How difficult is it to glue clear parts together and maintain the clarity? I can imagine it's very easy to end up with something the right shape but that looks a real mess!

My little beemer

I spotted that too! I was hoping to be the first to mention it but you beat me to it!

Just got back from seeing it, what a fantastic film! THAT, Mr Lucas, is how you make a prequel!

They should do it in modular sections, so that it doesn't turn into a £400 set few can afford. A landing pad with lounge room, Dining room with torture chamber and ugnaught scrap room, Carbon freeze, lightsaber duel and "I am your father" scene (to hang over the edge of a table or shelf.

Seems like a lot of fuss when they could have just bought this this: I mean, it's in book shops, on Amazon, ebay..................

Rogue one sets will likely be released as long as people remember the film favorably, and given we're still getting prequel stuff form movies many despise, that's likely to be a while