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  1. ProvenceTristram
    -Best small set: Can't remember if this was a 2016 set or not, but it's a wicked amusing little toy. -Best medium set: The sleeper hit of the year. Fantastic build, very accurate, high play-ability, good figs, reasonable price. -Best Big set: Best version of this by a pretty wide margin. -Best Minifig: Subtle yet spectacular. -Worst small set: Enormous price, no content. -Worst medium set: Fire whoever designed this. -Worst big set: This travesty. -Worst Minifig: Anything Simpsons. Absolutely horrible. Hello 20 years ago, Lego.
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    Best toy ever.
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    Oh, I dunno. They could surprise us. I wouldn't be opposed! >_<
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    Oh my God, that is disgustingly overpriced... $50 for that dinky little thing? Is that a British release only?
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    The speeder is a really clunky looking final product - Lego can, and has, done much better with nearly the same part count. I like the troopers themselves, but shudder at equipping yet another army with fresh blasters.
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    Part of the reason I haven't bought that set is I find the A-wing's colors to be atrocious (and, of course, it's grossly overpriced). Hopefully we get a new A-wing standalone in the next couple of years.
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    Spoilers? You mean like... Some stormtroopers get killed. A few blasters get fired. There are starships involved at some point. The Death Star isn't destroyed. Jyn Erso at one juncture wears clothing. A guy has a white cape. The Emperor survives. There's a cameo by a dude that did that thing one time. Darth Vader carries a red lightsaber. Sorry. Movie ruined!
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    Yup, I hate it when Lego recycles hair for iconic characters. Young Obi Wan, for example, even after 15 years, still lacks an accurate buzz-and-padawan-braid style do. And OP, I think this would be more accurately described as an overview, not a review. Reviews typically feature your thoughts on the product - pros, cons, etc.
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    Love it. Fantastic.
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    Thank God we don't have to see these in the U.S.
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    Geez, 39 days left? I wish you'd let us know a little sooner.
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    Which makes me think this is some kind of a pushback against "guns" internally... although how they then turn around and arm the figures in the larger sets with "military style" weaponry is beyond me. Frankly, if you have that big a problem with violence, Star Wars probably isn't your thing in general... people are constantly getting limbs lopped off, stormies die by the hundreds, imperials are killed by the millions in space battles, whole planets are wiped out - there's a lot of friggin' death! So for Lego to be making a policy push on the same front as marketing a giant space globe that sends billions of innocents to the grave seems sort of ill conceived at best.
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    I really love...
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    The problem is the price - I don't expect it to be anything less than $70 US, and could easily see it at $80 (that many minifigs; Star Wars - there WILL be a big markup).
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    Agent Kallus has been borked to high heaven since the get-go. While he looks nice in black, it's obviously wrong... but his weapon is ridiculous, too. Two carbines bonded together? How does one even arrive at that from this?
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    That would be me. I appreciate Brickarms and the others for their customs, and do not question the quality. But I hate even painting Legos, much less swapping out parts.
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    Might want to cut down on the over-use of the thesaurus there.
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    250,000 parts. Well... average on Bricklink is somewhere in range of .11 cents a part (it varies wildly, of course). So a... 27-28 thousand dollar model (not including figs and s&h)? Sheesh.
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    The good news, at least in the case of the shuttle, is that it's not that hard to swap out the parts (and while you're at it, you may as well update the cockpit, which is completely wrong). My pet peeve relating to color is when Lego goes and uses red or blue or yellow bricks on, say, a TIE Fighter to "mix things up," and then places them within view on the exterior.
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    Actually, I don't know that a two studs wide sail would have looked all that bad - the sail on the current Seperatist Shuttle (which is supposedly this ship 20 years prior) is that wide, and the sail on the in-universe Phantom II looks pretty chunky based on the screenshots I've seen. In fact, if you look at the sail on the model, it's one stud plus two plates on either side wide... which is actually wider than two studs.
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    Love it. Now...
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    I prefer monarchies. The people cannot be trusted with power. I hope the rebels are caught and deprived of their little yellow heads.
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    I really like the new Phantom, but they muffed the hull form pretty badly. The upper sail is really supposed to bow outwards into the fuselage, and instead what we're getting is a sharp right angle. Once again, it's like the Lego designers really only glanced at the original for a few moments before building the model. It would have been entirely possible to do the shape correctly without dramatically expanding the part count - the pieces are certainly available.
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    Seems like we'll never see another TIE fighter variant (at least the most iconic ones) below $60. I wanted a TIE Striker, but not for those prices.
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    Arquitens-class light cruiser. Nebulon B frigate. Non-UCS Tantive IV. Mon Cal cruiser in the same scale as the non-UCS Star Destroyers. Non-UCS B-wing that finally gets the S-foils into the appropriate thickness. TIE Bomber TIE Avenger A new Imperial Landing Craft. Bespin Carbonite Chamber Duel.
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