Navy Trooper Fenson

Not since 2013. They always used parts of garish colors in sets where they clash, but around 2013 is when they went into overdrive with putting parts into sets that clash with the outer color scheme.

Apparently Rebrickable is ok with alternate models, but not alternate partslists to alternate models. At least it shouldn't get deleted here. https://bricksafe.com/pages/BigJudge/small-star-wars-builds/10497-galaxy-explorer-parts-lists

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend just going out and buying all the pieces in that list before checking ones own loose parts collection, which was the point of having that list. Changing the gray struts to blue and the transparent red round brick to yellow, all parts that are in the leftovers, saves 10 bucks. Printed parts could be replaced with custom stickers. Then you will probably already own enough technic pins, 1x1 plate extra parts, blue basic plates and bricks from old sets you have taken apart, advent calendar mini builds or just buying loose parts in general. For someone who has absolutely no Lego it is always cheaper and easier to get another copy of the set but anyone with a loose parts collection already will probably come out with a list closer to 20 bucks. Also regarding some other comment here: white Spacemen are as low as 2,50, vintage used red spacemen are 5 bucks, even with shipping how can one come up with a figure of over 50 bucks for 4 figures as average?

The files are ready. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-119187/BigJudge/1-galaxy-explorer-10497-2-alternate-models-additional-parts/#parts When you use 1 set to build both alt models you will need to get 340 parts additionally and 261 parts would be left over. Some of these leftovers are the same pieces as some of the rare missing pieces, just in different colors. A file for that is in there, too, but I didn't account for extra parts of small 1x1 plates and such in any of the xml files because those are not always in every copy of a set.

Looking at the instructions the vast majority of parts are very common. The only real outliers are all printed elements which one might substitute with different prints or blank pieces, and 2 grey tail struts of which you could just use the 2 blue tail struts which would otherwise be left over from the set. I assume everyone with a decent loose parts collection and maybe the willingness to make color changes is able to build the 2 alt models with just one set and minimal extra parts. I also remember to have heard the designer say something to that effect in the live stream Lego con event or however that was called. I just asked Lyichir for his digital files of the 3 ships, it would take me no time to make a list of the missing pieces with those. The official alt-instructions do not have partslists in their back pages, a huge oversight by Lego in my opinion, or a strategy to get impatient fans to buy more sets than necessary.

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As I wrote in a previous post, the 2006 electronic AT-AT was released 1 or 1,5 years after its poll. 1 to 2 is most likely with the statement that it is just "one" not "the next". But one of these two things must have happened in case of the Home One Briefing Room set for it to be able to come out mere months after the poll. The design and production process is far longer than the 2 months it was left with back then. According to my memory of a statement from the designers the entire production processes of the UCS Slave One and newest UCS Star Destroyer took 1,5 to 2 years from inception to release. The only lack of courtesy I can spot is your own. Not even responding to and thus not considering arguments or another train of thought than your own as to why people think this is a general marketing survey from Lego. Rather you are trying to pose yourself as being in charge of the discussion by calling everyone involved illogical and uncivilized hiding the offense behind the lack of directly addressing the allegedly offensive sentences or comments.

It's very disingenuous to write this post and then name a character from fan fiction, not canon. I don't understand your point, the Hasbro poll with Jaina has been somehow messed with but only after the "open" period in which everyone was allowed to name the figure he wanted, so saying Jaina was purely voted for in spite is incorrect as her even gaining enough mentions to end up in the final vote was a hard enough battle as is. The Jaina figure in question has been a good seller, just not as good as Revan and that in spite of Hasbro tricking people by giving her a Jedi robe outfit in the polls pictures but going for a generic black overall in the final product which isn't as familiar an outfit for the character and especially makes even less sense in a line that can't support 1/12 scale X-Wings to go along with a pilot uniform. The manipulated mass vote made Hasbro go from fan polls open to any and all characters to fan polls with a handful of pre-selected choices of which several had already been planned to go into production regardless, including the newest alleged winner Dagobah Training Luke, effectively making the whole show a farce and Lego apparently uses the same disingenuous tactic by obviously wanting to know what fans want from the line through this poll but only giving very few options, all of them highly uncomfortable, railroading us into a choice of products that all sound very unappealing and not at all like what you would expect a fan to chose. This whole Lego poll is somehow linked to the Brickset poll about future SW UCS sets from a few months back, I assume. I have seen people there mention TIE Bombers a weird amount of times but almost always with a prefix that it makes more sense to release a figure scale version before as even the Bomber fans admitted there are better choices which they listed before the TIE Bomber. If Legos marketing team would actually have rewatched the movies this decade they would have realized the glaring holes in the line-up and know exactly what they should be making for the next UCS sets. I am sure a Venator isn't on this list because they would want to make it another 700$ set when it would make more sense to make is smaller compared to the ISD from a lore standpoint and for people that want an ISD but not pay as much for it. But they probably constructed an argument that offering two different UCS Star Destroyers at the same time would negatively impact the sales of both sets but somehow offering two or three X-Wing at the same time was apparently ok just a few years ago.

I think I would have agreed with you there a decade ago but seeing how Y-Wing, X-Wing, Falcon and Slave One all have had figure scale and UCS versions available with overlapping lifecycles or right one after another in the last few years Lego obviously doesn't bow to that nonsensical rule anymore. It really is a hidden question of "Do you want background OT ships or main Prequel ships?" After the huge failures that were the only previous Prequel UCS sets, General Grievous statue and Obi-Wans Jedi Starfighter we have to send a sign to Lego that their failure was not due to their association with the prequels but rather because they weren't in demand at all compared to the other missing vehicles which were at the time the many main OT fighters and cruisers whose previous releases were either incredibly outdated already or have never been made at all. Even if the "no two of the same vehicles" rule still applies, a minifigure scale Gunship might already be in the pipeline for this summer. The last two fan polls were for products that released 1 to 2 years after the poll, which means enough time for a minifig scale Gunship to end its lifecycle before the UCS version releases.

The last time there was a poll for UCS SW sets in 2006 we didn't really get the other options. Electronic AT-AT won while R2-D2 was realeased many years later, looking completely different and the other two options are still a mystery how they even ended up in a direct to consumer poll: UCS brown Vulture Droid and a FX series Medical droid from ROTS in the same size as the R2-D2 statue. Just imagine they would have sold a statue sized Medical droid before R2-D2! Also don't understand how they still don't consider an UCS AT-AT. I hope it's just a Ghostbusters HQ situation where they have it in production already due to the anniversary which would explain why they turn to the consumers asking which direction the line should take now: either deeper into the "blink or you will miss it" OT ships or finally commit to some Prequel vehicles. It's a mean trick question how they only give one Prequel choice when they could have easily given 4 options for equality. It seems like they have already made up their mind and rather want to run deeper with the OT despite the PT giving more diverse build options than just fighters and cruisers of which there won't be any more good choices unless they at least diversify into pure EU territory with stuff like TIE Defenders. I kinda that they have chosen a LAAT/I as the Prequel representative as it comes closest to a fast hero ship like the Falcon in that era but a Venator would have made much more sense as it can pull double duty for Prequels and TCW, lends itself better to the UCS scale and even Tarkin had a huge model of it sitting in his office in Rebels! I dislike how this means the LAAT/I would probably end up in scale to the old 90s Technic figures (which I have zero problems with when they pack in some clones in that style) because it runs into the same problem that the Y-Wing and X-Wing have but I think I might finally have enough emotional attachment to a model to not care that it is not system scale and can appreciate the added level of detail possible in such a scale. At least they have chosen a ship with actual meaningful screentime unlike the Nebulon-B and TIE Bomber that I feel like should not clutter the list of official releases if we can only get a maximum of 2 UCS sets per year which most of the time isn't met due to Master Builder location sets. I mean, no hard feelings but anyone who really wants a Nebulon-B should just bricklink that one great looking MOC that even got a chinese bootleg. And doesn't a UCS TIE Bomber practically design itself by combining aspects of the previous 3 TIEs? Now a system scale TIE Bomber is something that's desperately missing because of the amount of sets that are released in figure scale each year. Star Wars UCS is really too far behind to now consider ships that had seconds of screentime and only really play roles in comics, books and games. Finish off the OT with A-Wing, AT-AT, maybe a new Death Star and really only if it's that necessary a Mon Calamari Cruiser but after that there are about 30 Prequel vehicles that all top things like the Nebulon-B in screentime and story importance. I don't think that they even know what sells good anymore. Tatooine set upon Tatooine set despite this location missing the deciding "War-factor" you come to expect from Star Wars. It's admirable that they want to give people some nice looking location sets finally like Obi-Wans hut and Lukes bathtub but I always imagined we would get exciting locations first like a Mustafar lava plant and Obi-Wans home would be something to be released in 2036 or something. Instead something exciting sounding like a lava plant was relegated to two differently colored Podracer fins on a stick for 20 bucks. Are they selling literal dollhouses and compatible cars because Lucasfilm demands girl focus? I really don't understand. My supermarket now has the problem where they are selling two different versions of Lukes Landspeeder and they sit side by side on the shelf. I doubt Landspeeders even sell well anymore and if they do I ensure that practically every single other set idea would sell just as good.

Hidden Side parts seem to count as licensed. Is there even a single unlicensed theme left, or did Lego become wise to people just ordering the special parts separately instead of buying entire sets just for one piece? I am especially anxious about the light grey barrel from the Harley Davidson. That's such a generic piece that could finally get a price decrease on Bricklink from its regular ~5€ per part but they just don't make it available.

Nice to be winning this early after a two year drought. This is my favorite christmas tradition.

Behold the Christmas Lord!

I was counting on those Phase 2 clones in the battlepack. Though at least it makes getting Phase 1s easier again and doesn't block the possibility of a Phase 2 pack later down the line. Also weird that they switched Coleman for Barris but it makes getting the dress legs easier. Though I find they could have used some waves in the front instead of being straight down. The TIE Fighter looks the most interesting to me. Really nice cockpit design. I hoped they would release a 6x6 dish hatch with realistic style printing with this. The TIE Advanced and Prototype hatches had a Rebels cartoon style print. But at least they managed to make a better cockpit than what I tried to cobble together in LDD half a year ago or what I see people do on photo sites. I feared we would never get a medium sized Star Wars set of OT/PT designs again that can compete with what MOCcers are doing though it uses new parts with those weird Nexo Shield/Jumper plate hybrids which one could call cheating in a way . Han Solos disguise with the moulded extra detail and goggles makes me hope for a new AT-AT with updated General Veers. Is that link someone posted earlier that trustworthy or what exactly are the sources for 75222 600$ Cloud City UCS Set and 75181 240$ UCS Set? Maybe one of that can be an AT-AT?

I am a bit sad that this years theme is a repeat from just 2015 but I like sequels so it's not too bad. Nosey Returns

With Coleman Trebor it's more likely an AOTC pack. Maybe a way to rectify the god-awful Droidekas v.s. Shiny and Sgt. of 2012. I sure hope it's two Shinies but official updates of Sgt. and Lt. with different greens and blues would be useful as well. I knew I should have waited out a bit before ordering my lifetime supply of Phase 1 helmets on Bricklink. Lego can only produce a finite amount of sets at any given time and movie sets have higher priority due to them being more of a trend item.

Thanks to the stingy budget of ANH they could do a large number of Astromechs that pulled double duty as Yavin IV rebel astromechs and Mos Eisley (or even Tantive IV and Death Star) deco. The UCS Sandcrawler already included a white R2 with green stripes that originally only was in Mos Eisley. Other Mos Eisley droids are a white R2 with red dome and white head panels, a full body red R5 and orange R5. And these are just the ones that I found in my Wookiepedia and Rebelscum aided research of the topic a couple months ago. Presumably there were 12 astromechs made for at least one full X-Wing squadron but current information does not match up with that number. Though I would rather have had a Battlepack with two Tuskens or even 4 Tuskens, all with different printing for different robes, maybe even with capes because they look kinda dumb without. But then again I hate those actionfigure heads. Really wonder how many Battlepacks are coming this year. Unless they double the count again from 4 to 8 they will definitely see a drop in sales like back when they changed it from 4 figures of one side to two of two sides each.

3180 Tank Truck - Theme: City - Subtheme: Traffic LDD File Version 4.3.10 Errors: hose part is missing the string missing/incorrect stickers and prints 75182 Republic Fighter Tank - Theme: Star Wars - Subtheme: Expanded Universe / Legends LDD File Version 4.3.10 Errors: 6x white Wedge plate 2x2 cut corner changed for 6x magenta 2x2 round plate Stud Shooter triggers don't want to connect, lie beside the model missing/incorrect stickers missing/incorrect minifigure prints

Did they forget to put out the Bounty Hunter set? That prelim box starts getting on my nerves. I think with Update was meant that the rank badge has a black line between the two rows while most badges have that space silver. The new Calendar officer seems to be a General from comics like Noils and it even works for Baron Soontir Fel. Sadly General Veers had one less codecylinder. The Death Star had no dark grey officers except Tarkin. What would you say is an update? Finally a non cartoon face, pants aren't blank but have some detail print, hands are same color as the face, the skintone is dark azure which is probably the best choice currently.

The Gallery at Bricksafe has a picture for each one but I would rather make detailed pictures when I come around building them IRL.

As I said I don't trust the prelims. The prelims show Dengar to be identical to the UCS Super Star Destroyer figure and he confirmed it appears to be identical to Naares ship set version.

Is the imperial officer in the advent calendar identical to the 2014 Star Destroyer one like on the box picture floating around? Is 4-LOMs head a new piece or a reused RA-7 protocol droid from the new Death Star and Jedi Scout Fighter Yoda chronicles set? I assume IG-88 uses the same head piece as the Batman Movie CMF Eraser. Are the two Stormtroopers in the First Order pack the same figure? The prelims had one looking like the armor vest variant from the old BP. What kind of shield do the troopers in the FO BP use? Is it square like in the movie? What hat does the First Order BP officer use? First Order style with ear flaps down (from the other First Order BP) or First Order Style with flaps up (all other First order officer figs) or even classic OT Empire style? Any differences between the emperor from Vaders transformation and the Freemaker set? How cartoonish is the figure, I would have assumed they would use the same figure in both sets but the Freemaker show has him with all those funny faces that I expect two heads. What are the figures of the Arrowhead? TIE pilot, Ugnaught, Roger and the two adult Freemakers from the old set make it look like at least one of them is a stand-in for an unfinished figure. Edit: Just read that the Tracker-1 figure is apparently another Sith and not Palpatine. Maybe list all figures from the two Freemaker sets?

Calling this collection of LDD files MOCs is stretching it a bit since many of the creations included in this post are reworked official sets or reverse-engineered MOCs of other people, whose Originals I sadly can't link to here because of my laziness but nearly everything got reworked by to use less rare parts and more parts I have too many of (like 1x1 round plates in transparent red, thanks to those damn studshooters in battlepacks) but this introduction is already 3 lines long and I wanted to make this short actually so I will just stop adding more words to this block of text that nobody really needs to read since LDDs are so wonderfully self-explanatory. http://bricksafe.com/pages/NavyFenson/star-wars The above link contains my Star Wars LDD files in a gallery with small pictures, unless that site goes out of business I hope that the files can be stored there for eons to come. By virtue of these models being of lesser standard than most MOCs I am going to give them only small descriptions in the run-down. Droideka.lxf A model from a rejected ideas project. My favorite way to make Destroyer Droids though I would wish there was a way to simulate the third eyestalk without making the head look too out of proportion. This is my version which is missing some detail / armor bits in favor of making the model less fiddly and easier to transform into ball. Of course the minifigure torso is there to show tht you need two dark grey hand pieces to make two of the Droidekas eyes. Droideka Armored.lxf This is the same Droideka as the first but with armor pieces, originally part of the ideas project where I found the design. Droideka Alternate Arms.lxf This Droideka uses the very common handlebar piece to lessen the fiddle-ity of the first versions arms. if a ball position can come out of this and how much more stable it is is unknown to me as I never tested the model in real life. Jedi Starfighter AOTC.lxf Found in a thread on this very forum I was pleased with the design but had to realize that I didn't have 3x6 wedge plates in dark red, only the wedge plates of the original 2002 JSF with that weird Classic Space one stud cutout at an edge, which made me rather rework this model for two hours than order the missing parts for two-fiddy. Of course I was able to waste my time with even more details but because I am unsure what was my idea and what part of the original I rather let you discover it on your own. Slave One blue Jango.lxf A simple recoloring of the 2011 released Slave One. With the announcement of the UCS Slave One I bargained at first that I wouldn't need the UCS version because I had the 2011 set but after a couple of hours I came to realize how much a bad model the 2011 Slave One was. I still dislike the design but I could never justify owning two UCS Slave Ones to represent Jangos and Bobas ships so Jango will have to make do with this tiny thing that I hope to add some real interior to at a later date. Dwarf Spider.lxf Fascinated by the backstory of the Commerce Guild using these tiny buggers to execute non-paying Miners I just had to get a trio of them. Lego kind of sold me on the AT-TE laser ball for a body technique but mostly only because 4x4 domes are too big, and every other ball technique too small. A correct colorscheme fitting the Geonosis and Kashyyyk colorschemes was my main reason to make this LDD. AT-RT.lxf Enhanced from the 2009 Clone Turbo Tank set and a bit old, kind of in need of an update I still like this tiny walker for the connection of the antennas alone. Speederbike grau Adi Gallia.lxf I wish the Tricycle Bikes Body would exist in light grey because right now this speeder looks nothing like it does in the movie. X-Wing Brickshelf original.lxf Everyone probably saw Inherts X-wing Brickshelf gallery with the rather complicated photo-instructions. Now you can try to build it with LDD and its horrible way to generate instructions. At least this gives a nice parts list though I gave up on trying to use Inherts design since those click-hinge wing parts used on the front areall but sold out in white on Brickshelf and only exist in pearld ark grey for the grey variant. TIE Advanced X1.lxf A modded version of the current Lego set which was rather stubby thanks to Lego designers incorporating cartoon stylization in their models. Snowspeeder Orange.lxf Based on the instructions of that very popular version on Flickr and changed to incorporate some more parts that I have in bigger quantities. Snowspeeder Luke.lxf Same as the above with Red Leader markings. Speederbike brown.lxf My slightly changed variant of the countless Lego set speeder bikes so I can have a uniform squad of them. Speederbike white.lxf Based on the above bike with Hoth camouflage and a Snowtrooper heat backpack. Thrawn Thron.lxf To go back in a time where Palpatine was Palpa-Tine and Coruscant was Chorus-Can't. Based on a Flickr MOC I fiddled around with different way to make the actual seat, I think my favorite version is the middle one which incorporates a Lego seat piece but sadly has a hole in its back. First Order Snowspeeder.lxf Based on a MOC I found here I searched far and wide for an LDD file because it wasn't included in the original post. When I found it I changed out some parts to incorporate some more common pieces.

They wouldn't have discontinued the OT X-Wing in 2012 then. Around 2005 Lego got a large number of e-mails inquiring why the 4502 X-Wing was discontinued so fast so they released the 6212 X-Wing which was in production from 2006 to 2011, directly followed by the 2012 X-Wing that also had a longer shelf-life than normal until 2015.

When that color difference justifies changing the parts then Bobas helmet should have been dark green (since the torso armor and helmet have the same color on the ROTJ version) and the jetpack dark blue. I am not going to care for any new Boba until they get around to recoloring the helmet which should have happened with this set if not already years ago. The entire Desert skiff is a mess of recoloration to be honest. What reference pictures do I have to use to have the Sarlacc and its mouth look like dark orange / nougat? I appreciate different colors for the sake of pleasing multiple interpretations of reference materials (even though the only one mattering should be the movies themselves with props as a secondary reference for tiny details), since this would have been a straight re-release of the 2012 Sarlacc but here is not even a real plus-side to nougat tentacles and cockpit windscreens. And the old skiff was already wrong enough with the splotches of dark tan when it is brown in the movie, making it full dark tan with not a single new recolor is not helpful at all. So according to Lego: White OT X-Wing = Black Episode 7 X-Wing Black Episode 7 X-Wing =/= Grey Episode 7 X-Wing Grey Episode 7 X-Wing = White OT X-Wing I think the scientific term is schizophrenia or something similar. They should have just held off the Episode 7 grey X-Wing for Episode 8. Pretending that OT and ST X-Wings are the same is nonsensical when they release two different color versions at the same time of the ST X-Wings AND A-Wings. But they will never get the X-Wing shape correct which made me try to make complete MOCs myself so why I do even care enough about retail sets of them to type out this post is beyond me.