Navy Trooper Fenson

I wouldn´t count on minifigures in the B-Wing. Huge cruisers and minifig-scaled ships got figures while the models of smaller fighters and speeders were left out except for the occaisonal Astromech in the X- and Y-Wing. The R2 in the statue set is a nice touch so you can compare the regular sized and king sized version of the same character. I always wondered why they didn´t do the same whith Grievous and Yoda.

LEGO is partly right with their Darksaber. Lightsabers were always a stick and a hilt. A Katanna would be a much more fitting piece, but then they would have to print one part of the piece, and as we all know LEGO hates doing special and/or complicated parts made solely for exclusive sets and it still works, like regular Stormie helmets worked for TIE pilots or regular clones for clone pilots. The other possibility would be using a black katanna, but then: who hasn´t got one already? I´ve got more of a problem with the lack of figures. I think there should have been one or two more figures. A version of Satine at least. But as the Death Watch seems to take a larger place in season 5 (hopefully this is not like in the season 4 teaser, where they were featured and it all turned out to be a single episode) maybe there will be another mandalorian set next year. The other Mando shuttle would be great as the expensive set of January 2013, with season 4 style Viszla, Bo-Katan, Satine and some other figures. To return to the present: An ad for the TOR sets began to ran in Germany. The wording of the spot is rather broad. Along the line of "The Sith are attacking the Republic! The Jedi man their ships.". I could see kids mistaking the sets for Clone Wars or movie themed ships. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGXBLXjIk&list=UUKxiVPGGq8m0fTjQcHHef3w&index=1&feature=plcp

My personal favorite without customizing would be the very first Snape hair until 2007. The new Snape one is a little too 3D at the front part, when it should be slick and stick zu his head. Another downside is that it is the same piece Thor uses and when comparing both film counterparts it doesn´t look like the same hair.

I even as a kid liked sets more when they were more movie accurate. Remember the old B-Wing from Star Wars? I wondered "Why were there those computers and panels? What is this supposed to be?" because that stuff never appeared anywhere. Or the Clone Turbo Tank that included a white tube turret. I was more like "Why do they have a white tube turret? Is this supposed to be the one the rebels used in Empire? Then, why is it in a ROTS set?". I wanted to recreate scenes from the movies then and now. The movies have enough stuff in them that is playable. If not there wouldn´t be a desire to have toys from the movie in the first place. Why are there suddenly so many changes when it comes to movie/tv merchandise? In 1999 with the first SW sets there were no changes made to the film counterparts and I certainly enjoyed the sets then when I was six years old. Well, everything looked more blocky and like something a child put together by itself, but you get the idea. Nowadays they seem to throw lasercanons and figures on models like they are sprinkles on a cupcake. Or they do a little pile of sprinkles and throw then some leftover dough on it and say it´s a cupcake. Just because everyone likes those sprinkledoughies it´s not like we want them that often. When you eat too much of those things you get sick and have to puke. You need some cupcakes, but they are far too few and most of the time really expensive and I think it shouldn´t be that way when you want to be a confectioner. Isn´t it obvious???

Exactly my problem. I would think LEGO has two options: Making accurate backdrops with not functions or making function heavy things which are only basic outlines for the place the scene is set in. Somehow Helicarrier managed two have only unnecessary complicated baseplates and shoulder-high walls, a halfassed prison, some consoles and this holding thing for the spear. Except for the prison opening mechanism and the thing with the crates there are no playfunctions. Okay, the plane is also in there which is a fine model, even though I think the one from the movie looks way different, I find it acceptable. Which is my second problem: Hulk seems to be the sets only reason to exist. Thor is already in the Quinjet, Hawkeye in the Jeep and Loki in both of these. When you don´t find Hulks figure appealing the set is completely skippable. I think the set should have been more on the detailed side of things. The prison should have been the main attraction and look exactly like in the movie. Some fumbling with the windows and you could have ended up with an exact copy, and if you were lazy, when watching the film I was constantly reminded on the old X-Pod sets. Two of those containers and the Thor and Loki figure could have fit in it. Doesn´t even have to be the exact size really, just the basic outline, which the tube part which was eventually used didn´t capture in any way. Then a baseplate with the two consoles, another baeplate with a simple table for the spear and some loose crates. Loose crates without catapults were given a go in Batmans Catwoman Chase in January, why not now? For figures I would have chosen Hulk and regular Banner. Thor is acceptable as he has his awesome clash with Thor in there. No Loki and Hawkeye. Hawkeye really isn´t that popular to warrant two figures and Loki seems to be in every set. Maybe one of Lokis mooks and Maria Hill. Coulson would also be possible, but he is easily recreateable with a simple suit body, regular brown/orange hairpiece and a head of your choosing. Would this have been that much more expensive? It seems to be of the same size as the actual set and much more endearing. I would have bought it. Black Widow is good with the Quinjet, seeing how she is not as popular as any other superhero and wasn´t in the scene anyway. Nothing speaks against the actual line-up of Iron Man, Loki and Hawkeye, just include Fury. I don´t even see why he was scrapped. Seeing how Star Wars´ Geonosian Cannon can include three complicatedly printed figures and a regular one while also having a medium sized vehicle, the Shield van should have been more along the size of other City cars like the 4433 crossbike transporter. Then there is the question how Fury can chase Loki. The chopper would be to big and a small halfassed version would look unfitting, even for a kids toy. Maybe a simple motorbike? Preferably a grey one so Fury can swap it with Cap, so he has his technicolor hero bike and harsh reality wartime vehicle? Fury riding a bike doesn´t even seem that much out of character. Oh, a hairpiece for Loki would have been nice, seeing how he has the helmet for like only 3 minutes of total screentime. Snapes old hair would fit, but something new couldn´t have made a damage, seeing how LEGO throws new mold after new mold after us recently. Yes, trans light blue. I would even say two 1x1 plates (one without a stud) would be perfect. I find it strange how those pieces were never made in that color (at least I couldn´t find them on bricklink with that color). Would have been the perfect occaison for introducing them. It feels like nitpicking, even for my standards, but the shield should have had two handles further to the side instead of one in the middle. The movie shield has two handles, too and the figure could wear it more like he did. But I see how this would completely ruin any reuse in the Castle and Lord of the Rings lines, so I can forgive them. It´s a wonder they even made a new mold. I always though they would certainly use the new round shield with a stud in the middle that is so prominent with the collectible figures line. The bike looks somewhat stupid, but it looks stupid in a nice way. Like the 60ies Batmobile or people in 1880 attire. If Fury had a regular bike in Cosmic Cube Escape this wouldn´t even be that much a problem. The rest of Caps set is actually very good. Maybe the ship could have used more skelettal parts instead of the sleek panels with stickers, but you have to cut at some corners. I certainly would have taken the flick-fire station out and have made the ship a bit longer and added a third soldier figure. It would have made the set jump some bucks higher, but this way it would have been more armybuilder friendly and two bucks don´t make that much of a difference to parents when they see this is the cheapest Avengers set. The cheekbones were unnecessary. I don´t have anything against cheekbones, they really help making the figures look more like the real person, but they imply that the person has prominent cheekbones. Scarlett has a round and smooth face. Sooo smoooooth... Scarleeeeeett... The Quinjet is the set I have the least problems with. Figure selection is fitting. Cap being ignored is acceptable, even kids will probably buy multiples of Caps set as it is the only real scource of alien soldiers. Hawkeye could have been included here if you have to have the heroes in multiple sets. I don´t imagine the price to go higher because of this. The Jet itself is as near to the movie as other licensed sets vehicles are to their movies. Some parts in completely ridicolous colors like green and red, blue and yellow interior (why always blue and yellow anyway?). As harsh as my criticism sounds, I like the line more than any other license from recent years (somehow even Star Wars). The changes are generally not in the realm of idiocy (except the helicarriers layout and Nick Furys omission) and serve to make the sets more playfull, even though the kids are probably happy enough to get the figures alone as we are. The SHIELD agents have to come through other sets next, maybe fleshing out the helicarrier playset with some other halfassed playsets that I wind up buying because of all the Shield agents. The Leviathan would be the perfect concept for a Marvel set to rival the Star Wars line with. Maybe all four main heroes and a bunch of alien soldiers with the flying serpent dragon. Man, this sounds like the ridicolous specific dream of a 9 year old child watching the movie. Shouldn´t that be reason enough to do this set? And looking back on all Marvel films I don´t see any other possibility to make a 100+ set and LEGO likes those sets more than anything else, don´t they? I just hope LEGO doesn´t take the idiot route as always with licensed sets and completely forgets about past films when a new one comes out. The first few films would make great sets. Iron Man v.s. the Iron Monger, Thor and his amazing friends against the frost giants or the Destroyer, Captain America and the Howling Commandos v.s. the FREAKING HOUSE-SIZED TANK.

Really, there is still the question if LEGO releases TDK sets this year? If they were to be distributed in regular stores, those guys lineups were already completely displayed at the Toy Fair earlier this year. If they were to be exclusive to a store chain you sure had to have heard at least a few set names by now, when even the store exclusive Spider-Man set and Palpatines Arrest from Star Wars are already known. If they were to be exclusive to LEGO Stores and S@H you probably would hear of them first when they are released, but then, when was the last time LEGO released something only through their own stores that was neither numbered 1XXXX, a seasonal set or simple merchandise like keychains and clocks? I am pretty sure LEGO skipped TdK in favor of this mish-mash line of Brave and Bold and silver age based sets. LEGO probably has something against the dark and realistic motives of the movies and didn´t even try to release movie based stuff apart from the Tumbler and Batmans costume design from the third original Batman wave because of this. LEGOs best bet would be Avengers, as it has a safer future than Batman (Marvels franchise is planned to continue at two movies per year and has already four announced, Batman gets rebooted in 2015, albeit with Nolan still involved) and is much kidfriendlier. Still, at least a store exclusive set with Batman and Bane would have been nice. Maybe someone should propose Nolan trilogy sets through Cuusoo.

Superspeelgoed.nl and some danish site I lost track of list the sets with release at the last day of May. Further bad news: From the DC sets there are only Catwomans Bike, Lex Luthors suit and the Bat-Wing listed and from Marvel only the X-Men, Helicarrier and Quinjet. Germany seems to get none of the sets through regular retailers, except for the Ultrabuilds. And when changing the countries on S@H Cosmic Cube escape is listed with 40€. The X-Men set which has the same price category as Cube Escape is priced at reasonably 26,99€, so I hope this is just an error in the system. Are superheroes so unpopular here, or what?

I was in a LEGO Store yesterday and the arms were tan like always. Probably a picture of a wrong prototype.

I meant the new ones from the review one made there, not the white backdrop pics.

Can someone tell me how to make the pics from the Bricksetforum bigger? Going over the pics with the mouse and clicking on it doesn´t work and searching the set name or number on the hosting site of the pics gives no results.

http://www.superspielwaren.de/preview.php?osCsid=74870bc3654574f411a6ceb3cf9477ae This dutch seller lists some of the Superheroes sets. It seems the DC and Marvel waves are being merged into one wave with less sets, and the missing sets from his list are going to be exclusive to some chain like TRU. 6866 Wolverine's Hubschrauberduell €21,95 (27$ Lex Luthors Power Suit) 6868 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout €39,95 (50$ 2012 Star Wars TIE Fighter) 6869 Quinjet Quinjet Aerial Battle €23,95 (30$ Star Wars Battle of Naboo / Droid Carrier) Dollar prices are made from comparing sets of the same price-class. Euro prices are lower, because everything on the site is cheaper than the regular euro price tag. Hubschrauberduell = helicopter duel

My problem is that the plastic of the grey body armor is milky and nearly transparent. I got the same body armor piece with the snake wrecking ball and it looked much better (completely grey). But you are right with the headgear. The Kendo helmet is as good from the bag set as from the wrecking ball set. Oh no, I meant with chinese markings the boxes under the arms. The torso and leg print is this one from last year:

My order from S@H of the wrecking ball and free Kendo Jay just came in. The wrecking ball is the best NinjaGo set right behind undead Nazi biker on motorcycle for the concept alone. The treads are much better than on other tank-like sets. They go very smoothly. The crane itself is a bit lacking. I would have preferred there to be a function where you can adjust the cranes inclination. But that should be easy to mod. What I was surprised about was Kendo Jay. The torso has the chinese markings and the grey armore piece is milky like from the collectable Samurai, but the Kendo mask and some other pieces look just like from Denmark. I thought the whole bag is coming from Europe, because the Spinners and other bag sets were comfirmed to do so. Maybe it´s because he is a promotional bag and not for regular retail.

My Entry: Emo Peter Parker walks down a street. Based on the best scene of Spider-Man 3.

Admiral Fenson drunkenly molests an officer during the imperial Christmas staff party "Mrs. Eznih... Niiiiiiiinaaaaa..." Based on a random scene from a german soap opera, for those who don´t get the joke (everyone).

Well, 912 is the real emergency number. I think it is fair. LEGO takes more and more designs from other brands like Character Buildings figs for the Friends line. Treat others like you want others to treat you. LEGO already took the cheap quality path. Nearly every new part is made from china plastic with off colors, more and more figures are made from the same stuff with looser arms and legs. It can´t get that much worse. Besides, when the figures are similiar enough to LEGOs design this could mean a nice and cheap way to get military figures, with all those army sets from every other brand out there. Quality isn´t always down at the bottom. Stuff like Best Lock comes from the depths of hell with their milky colors and loose studs, but Character Building seems indistinguishable from current LEGO except for the slight color difference and some more noticeable ejection marks.

When they hit stores and they give out catalogues. But I would say there isn´t that much they are going to change from the polish pics to the release. The figures from the blue box at least look final and the models look rather complete except for some weirdly colored parts here and there, which will probably end up colored appropriately.

I would say prîces are more like this: Battlepacks 15,99€ Droid Escape, Geonosis Cannon 29,99€ TIE 49,99€ X-Wing 69,99€ Jedi Interceptor 39,99€ Which is mostly in line with last years prices, except one buck more on Battlepacks. US prices should then be as follows: Battlepacks 12,99$ Droid Escape, Geonosis Cannon 24,99$ TIE 49,99$ X-Wing 59,99$ Jedi Interceptor 39,99$ And since discounts aren´t really rare those prices are going to drop in only a few months, like every year before, so no one has to stop buying Star Wars. And the next upside: The Jedi Interceptor seems to be a regular set and not an exclusive, at least in Germany or Europe, so that set gets discounts too. I already feared I would have to pay 40 for an exclusive set again. And hopefully we get a few pics in the next few weeks, I would like to see how the X-Wing looks this time. It has to be a redesign and can´t be the same as 6212, since that one is 10 bucks less and has three more figs in exchange for an R5. Also I am interested in how the pilots look. Porkins has to get a new head with beard and the visor (favourably a double sided head with visor and one without) and the torso has to be a little different, too. Dutch Vander will probably end up like Zev Senesca but with a different helmet. The Interceptor is also interesting. Since the price is twice as much as in 2005 the ship is probably going to be much bigger than in the movie like Grievous´ Starfighter last year.

The ARC Trooper design will probably be a new helmet part with closed visor and antenna holes on the sides, so that the helmets are more in line with the Phase I TCW helmets. The backpack will be independent from the helmet. The two pieces are different colors and it would just tank playability for kids when their super kool ARK Trooper can´t even look slightly to his left without turning the entire body. Another possibility would be that the backpack is made from regular pieces entirely. Sandtroopers and Endor rebels use this technique, I can see this work. Especially when the backpack looks exactly like the sandtroopers one. OH! Sandtroopers get a release next year in the escape pod! As mentioned LEGO goes the realistic route so replacing the brickbuilt backpacks of the Sandies would be on their To-Do-list and when they can use the backpack on multiple figs it seems very likely that they do it. Then the pauldron will be a cloth piece like the Sandtroopers have it because two plastic neck pieces are probably not going to happen.

The packaging showed on Starwars.com a few months ago had the Star Wars logo in black/white not gold and the Naboo guards are Panaka duplicates. The guards had a wide range of different uniforms, I doubt LEGO would go this way. Totally fake.

Hasbro had a green one released. http://www.rebelscum.com/ROTS05TRUfighter.asp Not outstanding but a nice look. The set sounds interesting but I find it strange that it includes only three real figures. R2, Sec. Droid and Mustafar droid (whatever this is supposed to be) are brickbuilt, so they don´t really count as figures. A set with only this few figures for 39,99$ would imply that the starfighter is much bigger than previously (the fighter was included in a 20$ set and was still to small to be included alone). I don´t really see the JSF getting a Grievous Starfighter treatment. At least not a well done. I see this with a few less figures and the seperatist craft alone. This way it sounds like a 25$ set. But Gree was also in the Battle of Geonosis during the episode Weapons Factory. If they go after story he could also be in a seperatist super tank or a republic artillery gun OR something from season four. But as someone said before, it is more likely he is thrown in at random. @ Mirandir: I would just like to know if there are any more Navy Troopers besides the one from the TIE to be expected from this wave. After all this years since 2008 expecting a BP with them an getting it denied through the new two side-BP concept I would just like to know if I now have to bricklink them for 10bucks each or if there is any possibility in some smaller set.

LEGO was never charitable. They are a company. I don´t think the number of BPs that LEGO can sell to those kids is bigger than the number of BPs LEGO won´t sell to AFOLs because of the dropping of their usual routine. Does the human mind function like that? That would mean people are too stingily to buy 20$ sets but are okay with paying 10$ or more after they already paid 10$. Oh, now that is just being contrary! Barrowman = Mirandir XDDDDD

Is "first half of the year" January or are those eleven sets released in different months, because SW.coms Twitter announced only 6 sets and multiple exclusives? http://twitter.com/#!/starwars/status/94456757769871360 I hate those retarded Jedi Truths... I don´t like and understand this new strategy. Wasn´t Exo-Force discontinued because the kids only bought the small 15$ sets instead of the bigger ones for 30 to 100$? As far as I understand LEGO makes more money the bigger their sets are, what you are saying would mean that the number of expensive sets is decreasing and not only that, the number of small sets that are bought seems to decrease, too. Also, is the number of children still not having BPs because they are too expensive bigger than the amount of people who would rather buy two BPs? I doubt. Those conflict BPs are just a stupid idea. Army builders sometimes only want some figures multiple times. ARCs for example are very rare. It would make more sense to include them in another set ( ) than in a battlepack. Same with the Endor set. We got enough Scouts through Ewok Attack and Endor Playset and don´t forget all the older sets. No one needs a team of Scout troopers the size of the resident Hells Angels club. Stormtroopers are much more popular and you again screw up this situation through giving only one of those (not to mention there is a demand for multiple Navy Troopers and regular officers, too).This tactic only leads to more people buying the figures from Bricklink and Ebay instead of LEGO themselves. They only increase the winnings on the aftermarket. Those collectible sets sound awful. I am not going to pay 10 bucks for some stupid figure that ends up on Bricklink for a fraction of that price anyway and if they are not figures this can only mean minimodels and I don´t need to see this needless branch arising ever again. Who wants to make minimodels should be easily capable of that through their own bricks and those who buy them to get bricks probably aren´t satisfied, most of the recent minis don´t include any exclusive bricks anyway. Well, I am looking forward to bricklinking everything from this years wave. Poor LEGO, otherwise I probably would have bought the sets directly from them and not on the aftermarket. If you know already the periods the sets are from and already described the content of two of them, why can´t you just tell what the rest of the sets contain exactly?

I don´t see a reason for you lying, but I also don´t see a reason for LEGO suddendly breaking away from their trot, only a few steps away from a Battlepack for every OT movie and their respective soldier classes. I just hope news for the battlepack content starts showing up, I want to know how many Navys are included so I can start planning my new army. I didn´t read through all cockpit complains, but why was it necessary to change the cockpit window from the standard TIE window to the half bubble? I would think when a designer is told to build a TIE he would automatically grab the window piece an start constructing around it. I also can´t imagine it being so important to weight or other restrictions. Was that on the LEGO.com forum or in some "Report your dream"-thread? Definitely OT, that means it´s too awesome to pass up or an unneeded rerelease. Or both. You just cant loose.