Magmafrost

Keeping minifigs rare is a pretty disgusting anti-consumer practice. It makes things harder for actual fans of the product, and only serves to encourage scalpers. At least with background characters there's some justification, int he form of lack of justification in putting them in more sets, but with main characters, characters who Lego's core target audience wants to play with, its just disgusting.

The Quadjumper is really the only interesting ship design in TFA. Even if its such a minor thing in the film, its still an interesting design.

Are... are those key ring rings on the steering vanes? What... how...

Its not at all sturdy when its being put together. Once its together its only a bit better, and if it does fall apart, it really falls apart. It wont wall apart on its own though. Except the windshield. That'll fall off on its own.

I'll throw something more detailed together, but since I dont have my photography stuff set up all the time, it might take a few days. Until then, this will have to do

Hi Eurobricks My first MOC here ever, and its this weird TIE cockpit I've had lying around for months, with boring TIE Interceptor wings glued on it. The idea of a TIE cockpit like this (6x6 dishes on either side, with the 1x4 bowed bricks in between) was originally by Yub Nub, although the means of accomplishing it is my own. TIE fighters have had such a range of sizes over the years that I'm sure this is minifig scale relative to one of them... Ultimately I can't say I'm too happy with it, its not very strong, and while it can (barely) fit a pilot, it can only fit the old style, and they sit too high. What I am happy with, is that I managed to get the window in the back (or according to the guy drawing the Darth Vader comics its a thruster) to actually be a window, and that I found a way to get the canons on the cockpit (in a perfect world, there'd be a short length of red flex tube in there, rather than the green stud. But I dont have any, and this thing isn't worth a bricklink order). It took an entirely new piece coming into existence to figure that one out. I also threw together a regular TIE Fighter with the same concept, although its an older design, before I figured out the front canons. It does demonstrate how it looks in light grey though.

Not since the prelims leaked

I've lived my whole life with Lego, so there's not really any story. I got my first lego product on my first birthday, 18 years ago, and the closest I've come to a dark ages was not buying any lego in 2006 (still trying to figure out what happened there.) I refuse to believe I missed a Star Destroyer and a Slave I on shelves together, not to mention its the year exo-force came out, which I absolutely loved. I have vivid memories of 2005 and 2007 sets on shelves, and physical proof that I bought them, but not 2006 sets. Can any Australians older than me confirm that those sets were in fact available in Australia? Just to be sure that a supply issue isn't the reason for this inexplicable hole in my life?

According to just2good (on page 64), not this year

They're still up, just somewhere else. Refer to previous comments by pittpenguin123 for where.

Not really. The sloped part is far, far too long. Its pretty good for UCS scale y-wings, for minifig scale y-wings, but system scale y-wings are like half that, a y-wing is twice as long as an x-wing. The current piece does a good job of representing about the front two sections of a y-wing canopy. A more elongated canopy would be better for Lego's smaller scale y-wings

I like having the "glass" there, I'm not big on frame-only or solid colour canopies. Also, the old one was two studs wide at the front. And I dont think its nitpicky at all to want the canopy to be fundamentally the right shape, especially when its a mold designed to be an x-wing canopy. Well, its getting one. Well, its not a new mold, but its a different one. Or maybe it is a new mold and the v-wing canopy piece in the prelim is just a placeholder. In any case, next year's y-wing doesn't use the traditional canopy piece. Unless TLG changes their mind on that, which I guess they theoretically could, but I would think the new piece would already be in production by now.

X-wing canopies get narrower towards the front. It should only be two studs wide at the front, instead its a ridiculous 4!

Personally I'd like to see the new canopy done away with if anything. It's not a good representation of an x-wing canopy. But if Lego cant get it right with one new custom mold, whats to say they could do better if they made another new one... What would be good to see is a new snowspeeder canopy piece, it could be used for y-wings too with different print. We might get one, too, given that the 2017 y-wing looks to have a different canopy (in the prelim its clearly using the v-wing canopy, but that could potentially be a placeholder)

Yeah, I think not including tax is pretty much exclusively an America thing. Those prices would be a hell of a lot lower if they didn't include tax, our import and sale taxes are enormous, to the point that importing sets from the US on ebay is usually cheaper (although not by enough to bring the price down to a reasonable level)

So is it just the stormtrooper that Australia gets? Its all they mention, anyway. What's even the point of having a promotion at that point?

You say that like everyone should've just known to do that...

The droid battle pack in 2007 had four battle droids and three super battle droids. The assassin droid battle pack had 5 assassin droids. There was also a pirates of the Caribbean battle pack that had 5 figs. Other than that they all have 4

The last y-wing wasn't exactly a good deal though, I still wouldn't pay retail for it. Better =/= good. Also, while I'd happily pay $60 USD for this y-wing, I dont get that option, nor does anyone in most of the world. The US price isn't terrible, its what it'll cost everywhere else that's the problem. 2014 and 2015 sets were abnormally cheap in Australia. For all the 2016 star wars sets, its been about $2 AUD for every $1 USD, and that seems to have largely been the case before 2014 to at least 2011, possibly further. Although around 2012 and 13, the Australian and american dollar were about equal.

Could be, but the previous two y-wings had about that piece count, and this one really doesn't look like it could be more pieces than the previous one. It'd have to be at least 600 pieces before its worth the inevitable $120 price tag in Australia anyway.

Ugh, $60 for the Y-wing. I was really hoping it would be priced like the 445 piece set it is. Hopefully Lego drops their $1 USD = $2 AUD rampage next year, or that y-wing is going in the same pile as tie Advanced vs A-wing, of being really cool but completely untouchable due to outrageous pricing. But with Lego's recent hatred for Australia, I can see them taking the Tie Advanced vs A-wing route of not only horrifically overpricing the set, but also not making it available in retail stores here so that we can never see it for less than full price. Its literally cheaper to import them from the US!

I'm pretty sure its the 2011/2014 v-wing cockpit, but I'll throw something together real quick to check of its the same size *edit* Yep, same length. It could have a different shape, but it looks pretty similar

The Y-Wing's an interesting one. If that cockpit piece is heavily printed, it could work quite well, but I fear there's a lot of room for it to go poorly. I think the cockpit looks too big for the body, but there's room for that to just be up to the photography. Also apparently the 5 years since one was released is forever, which is interesting. The bunker battle is way less disappointing than I anticipated based on the description, although still entirely unappealing. The sarlacc is interesting, those pieces do represent the shape of its beak incredibly well, but it would be nice to see more wall around them, as its way too exposed.

Not to mention all the people who just couldn't afford the original back when it was out. Even retail it wasn't exactly cheap.

Yeah, but you'll revisit that thought when side and back leg printing are standard.