Navy Trooper Fenson

The TIE fighter looks excellent and the new figures are the best choice. The only downside would be that the new fighter now doesn´t fit in with the older TIE sets because of the changed cockpit and that with a doubled price (most likely it will be 50, just look at the size and figures, it has many similiarities with the Halo) makes it harder to build a fleet out of it. If I can sell my two old TIEs and there is some nice discount this one is mine. Exactly how I picture the new wave of sets. Seeing how LEGO went with ANH and TESB themed BPs the last few years and how they now made a new mold for the Navy helmet who was a prominent soldier during the battle of Endor there is no other option left. Regarding the contents of the BPs: I think multiple Scouts don´t make sense without multiple Speederbikes and by the looks of the Snowtrooper BP two Bikes are too much for a single BP. Stormtroopers are also out of the picture, LEGO seems to avert releasing battlepacks with figures from older battlepacks, otherwise there would have been a second battle droid BP already. For the people that still want Stormtroopers I can picture a set similiar to this years Battle of Naboo with several Stormies with some kind of transport or tank from the EU being released this or next year. With those two soldiers out of the picture the only logical solution seems to include two Navy Troopers, a Scout and an Officer. Navys are the only other kind of soldiers during the battle of Endor that would make sense to include multiples of. The rebel BP probably includes four Rebel Commandos from 2009s playset with different heads and maybe two different torso designs. The movies rebels all have customized uniforms with differences in colorscheme, equipment and obvious things like jackets. Reference pic Ewoks are too expensive with their complex printings for Battlepacks. Otherwise Ewok Attack wouldn´t have been so risible small. But calling this set an Ewok BP backup isn´t going to work. Most of the Ewoks were tan or brown with cloth around their heads. Takkot is a black Ewok and I can´t remember more than two of those running around and Lograys headdress is unique to his character. There need to be more Ewok sets, hopefully for a release in 2013 in time for ROTJs anniversary.

I don´t think the value of an ultra-rare item can increase more. Nobody ever sold one before, so the die-hard collectors would be selling their kidney for this. I would first check how much it would be worth to a gold seller and take this price as starting bid on the already recommended website, so that you gain 100% profit.

I would have swapped this Yoda with a second Wolfpack Trooper if this were an option. I think most of us already got him with the AAT and magnetset, I didn´t need a third one. I prefer it when the figures are fitting to the set and not just randomly picked out of a hat. The frigate could also have been used for a "Death Trap" figure collection with some clone cadets, child Boba Fett, Clone Drill sergeant and Admiral Killian. Or for a full on "Grievous´ intrigue"-theme with Eeth Koth, Horn Company troopers, Adi Gallia, and maybe even some villains like the Tactical droid with red color scheme and Commando droids. Always getting figures depending of how the marketing departements dice are rolling makes recreating scenes or episodes just harder. This ship had no really noteworthy appearances, always as some piece of background or for getting characters in or out of the episodes plot and then disappearing. The Wolfpack would have been more useful in a Battlepack or a playset like Seperatist fortress from the "Padawan Lost" episode. Quinlan in the "Awesome Smylie Shuttle" and Eeth Koth finally in some 100€ vehicle for the Seperatists like the Recusant-cruiser of Grievous from the Intrigue episode or if this is too risky the Arquitens-class cruiser from the same episode. Exactly the same as the last few releases. The bombs are stored in the left room of the ship, the mechanism itself is in the middle, the hinge lid. Bombs are dropped by pulling the black technic pole, sticking out of the left side of the ship. Did you find something to be critical about? As a representation of the Charger retrofit it does its job right. I could give it 0 points regarding the accuracy to the scource material since it is not nearly as big as it should be and only includes one figure having anything to do with the ship, but noone uses this category. The only crticism I hear of the ship also regards how ugly TCW-stile figures are or how one doesn´t care about TCW ship/sets. Incorporating that would be like asking why there aren´t any handguns in Belville sets: You obviously have chosen the wrong category. P.S. When I think about it: the roof of the side-rooms always breaks off of at least one of the click-hinges. They should have used old fashioned handles instead of hinges with lockings.

The Republic Frigate finally arrived. As the flagship of this years The Clone Wars line the frigate has to live up to some expectations. Being a redesign of the 2007 set 7665 Republic Cruiser it was easy to call it unnecessary, but is this set really only a re-issue or is there more behind it this time? Obviously yes, people who know me know that I don´t have the first Republic Cruiser because I disliked it, so this should definately be a better set. Name: 7964 Republic Frigate Theme: Star Wars Subtheme: The Clone Wars Year: 2011 Pieces: 1015 Minifigs: Yoda (TCW), Quinlan Vos, Eeth Koth, Commander Wolffe, Wolfpack Trooper Price: 129,99 Euro, 119,99 US Dollars (estimated) Resources: Brickset, Peeron, Shop@Home Box: Our standard box for >100€ sets, a big lid package. Nothing exciting there. The back shows other releases and functions of the set additionaly to a LSW3 advertisement. This picture reminds me at the old days of 2000 when Star Wars sets were disassembled on the back of their boxes by the figures. This was later replaced by portraits of the set with its figures for easier viewing of the content. I like this solution the best. The set gets shown from another viewpoint and the figures don´t stand still but use some of the functions. Content: The instructions are seperated into two books. Interesting to note would be that the first book opens like a regular magazine but the second is diagonally. The bags were already thrown away but the instructions show how the set was parted into 6 numbered bags. Some of the stickers were already used, too. The grey ones above are used at the engines, the red cut off triangles at the escape pod. The black sticker with colored dots originally comes on a grey basic. Sadly the Open Circle Fleet 2x2 plates are now stickers and not printed tiles like before. Figures: The figure selection is a little weird. I believe now LEGO just stopped caring about what figure fits where. Yoda used a frigate only in the first episode on his mission to the coral moon and the other four never were near one, not to mention in the same place as each other. But this isn´t a setback as we get four exclusive (for now) figures. Backs of the figures. Except Yoda everyone has backprinting. Quinlan Vos is finally released in a LEGO set. Sadly this is not due to his extraordinary awesomeness he showed in the Republic comics from around 2002 to 2007 but because of his guest appearance in The Clone Wars´ episode "The hunt for Ziro" in which he acted more like Anakin with dreadlocks as himself. And then he had to hunt after space Bonnie and Clyde with Obi-Wan while the episode pretended like Ziros story is perfectly reasonable drama, ignoring that we are speaking about a slug and an anteater with lipstick- but I digress. Part of his backprinting is covered up by the Hermione hair they used for his dreadlocks. I am not that satisfied with the solution, but Harry Potter brings up the problem and Harry Potter gives the solution thanks to... ... Hagrids hairpiece. It only needs less beard and more knife and we get the voluminous hair he had in his appearances. Only downsides would be that the piece is rather loose and there is a noticeable gap between torso and hair. The back gets covered up even more so with this piece. Vos, Cad Bane and Obi-Wan as seen in The Clone Wars season 3 episode 9 Hunt for Ziro. Eeth Koth surprisingly also got his own figure, even though he too had only one appearance in the show. To counter Quinlans TCW appearance in the worst episode of the show to date, Koth was the mcguffin of the best episode (Season 2, episode 9) "Grievous´ intrigue" where General Grievous caught the council member. The green clones around Eeth are his Horn Company Troopers, as of now only released as Clone Commandos in this years Battlepack. Koth in battle with General Grievous. His skin is the Prince of Persia nougat and his hairpiece is made of rubbery material. And at last we have Commander Wolffe and one of his Wolfpack Troopers. The Wolfpack is under the command of Plo Koon and appeared as of now only in their blue design in small cameos in the show. Their first appearance was in episode 2 of the show were Koons Venator fleet was destroyed by the Malevolence and the only survivors were Plo Koon, Wolffe and two other troopers, which took this occaison to recolor their armor from violet to sandblue. The regular soldier has a jetpack as seen in Season 3 Episode 21 Padawan lost where the Wolfpack launched an ambush on seperatist forces on Felucia. Commander Wolffe has no jetpack, even though it could fit on him as he doesn´t use the pauldron piece. His head is designed with five o´clock shadow and a scarred and blind right eye which he lost in an issue of the TCW comic. Both figures use the same torso and leg pieces. As I like the inclusion of both these figures I would have preffered them more as part of the battlepack replacing the bombsquad and Horn Company troopers with two Wolfpacks and Commander Wolffe. The Horn Company fits much better in the frigate since ts inclusion of Eeth Koth. Having two troopers belonging to a completely different Jedi happaned several times before (Cody and Ki-Adi, Rex and Luminara) but this time none of them even appeared in the same episode, an advantage that the former examples had. Wolfpack, Plo Koon and Ahsoka as seen in Season 2 Episode 21 Come home R2. Funfact: The Wolfpacks wolf-theme was an idea of supervising director Dave Filoni whose favourite Jedi is Plo Koon and favourite animal is the wolf. As noticed before LEGO finally decided to change the lightsaber color into something darker. The green saber at the right is the old version, the left is the new version. I would normally complain about how this set seems to be overloaded with sabers of only one color but because of the colorchange I find this rather nice of LEGO. The blue sabers to the left weren´t included and only photographed for comparsion. The dark blue blade comes out of Shop@Homes current Pick-a-Brick range. The blade is probably included for the "Make your own Hero Factory figure" offer but I find this blue color also fits nicely with the new green. Sadly it doesn´t look like LEGO is changing the blue blade color too, so I recommend ordering them from PaB. At last we have the most exciting part of the set: A grey container with 2x2 dark tan tile including Star Wars stile binoculars (not pictured) and a hologram of Darth Sidious. The same hologram is included in the UCS Executor making its inclusion here a miracle as the Jedi never recieved any messages from the darkest lord of all and LEGO seems to like putting small decorated pieces into sets that aren´t wort the money for a single piece. The design is nice but I find it a little off. It looks like it was designed by Greg Hyland with a look of cloth on Sidious´ arms and hood. I would have preffered a real figure stile like with the original Han in carbonite or Emperor hologram on an 1X2X5 wall piece. The frigate: The frigate is called Consular-class cruiser (Charger c70 retrofit). The ship is in-universe an upgraded version of the regular Consular-class space cruiser used by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan in the opening of Star Wars The phantom menace. As the first vehicle was merely a ship for ambassadors is had no weapons and had to be modified by the republic army to be used in the war. It is noticeable that this version has more guns than 2007s version. The first ship had a paintjob mostly consisting of winered and little white, this war-version comes in mostly grey with little winered. Judging from the paint I liked the TPM version but LEGOs decision to use regular red on their model in 2007 together with randomly thrown in white, orange and dark red ruined the set for me completely. This years version is better as it uses no regular red pieces but sticks to the wine and the always usefull greys. Only dark tan comes of as this years counterpart of the randomly thrown in color the original design never had. As far as I know the redesign also is longer than before, giving more room in the middle. Side-view. Enigines and communications station/turret. Cockpit. Under-side. The legs above are retracted, the legs below in landing position. Instead of round plates the turrets on the underside are connected with 1x2 plates with 2x4 SNOTs. They aren´t turnable. The underside of the cockpit without escape pod. The escape pod can be ejected with this lever. Ejected. Both halves aren´t connected, the technic parts in the middle help keeping them together. There are five seats and two clips for weapons. The turret with the flickfire missiles fired. The cockpit only has room for a single person. There are no consoles. The upper turrets are turnable and the lasers can be adjusted. The left room stores the bombs and grey container. There is a little additional room for at least two figures. The lid above stores the bombs before launch. The lever helps transporting the model similiar to the one used on the AT-TE, Clone Turbo Tank and AT-OT. The right room holds two of the lightsabers, Sidious´ hologram and a diagnose picture of the frigate. There is enough room for three figures. The holder is in no way connected, only lies in place with help of small wallpieces. The communications station got upgraded to turret control. The basic right to the great turret should hold the black sticker mentioned earlier. It looks roomy but the clone only fits just right into the place. The turret also holds flick-fire missiles. As this is the only turret in the back the person in charge of this place should be careful with choosing a target. The landing gear can be used to place the ship a little bit off-key. This is great if you plan on displaying it on a high shelf and still want to see some of the details on the top or side instead of the underside. Here is the place of my frigate. The set with open rooms, cockpits and functions. Complete set in regular display. The Final Verdict Design: 9/10 The model is a worthy upgrade to 7665 Republic Cruiser. It´s longer, has a much better fitting color scheme and better functions. The only downside would be the dark tan tiles. What is their use anyway? They weren´t ever on the original ship and the Theta Shuttle also got stuck with mindless dark tan pieces. Is their any reason for this? Build: 10/10 Was parted into six sections, no misplaced parts. Playability: 10/10 It has landing gear, can be carried with one hand and fires PEWPEWLAZORS. What do you need more? Minifigures: 10/10 Like mentioned, swapping Bomb Squad and Horn Company with Wolfpack and Wolffe would have made this years sets much better with a clone legion that you could actually use and easily build with Wolfpack Battlepacks and Horn Company troopers to use with Eeth Koth in this frigate, but a single Wolfpack and Wolffe is better than none at all. Also we got Quinlan Vos and new green sabers. Price: 9/10 I can see this set as this years flagship with 130 bucks. The piececount lies 300 under the non-license sets standard but the ship is big enough. I got my frigate for 103€, if you get it at that price or even cheaper the purchase is 10 of 10. Overall: 48/50 or 9,6/10 This count doesn´t mean this is the bestest set I´ve every seen in my whole life but it gets the job done that it is trying to accomplish: Being a replica of the Consular-Class cruiser, and is much better at it than the 7665. If you are a figure collector I recommend buying this, too. Four of them are exclusive, the hologram is only in another set for 400 bucks and another Yoda is never wrong (and when it is sell one on Ebay for half a Battlepack when you´re lucky). Eeth Koth: Who is going to fly? We Jedi never steer warships! Wolffe: Are you mad? Wolfpack: I am a Paratrooper, not a pilot! Brickshelf

Normally UCS sets are kept secret until the last moment. Sometimes you get only a name and number but then a week or two before release press release, pics and the such, like with the pet shop in May. Finding out anything, even the names and numbers was a miracle. There is a possibility that there is another set due for release as long as the year isn´t over (or at least a week into November). Also, the bakery village was the set with the last number of the year but Obi-Wans UCS starfighter was the last released. The exclusive Star Wars set doesn´t have to be Jabbas palace, but it is in the realm of possibility for all we know (nothing). When the Death Star playset was released the second UCS set was the Grievous statue. It is probably something equally small, TLC still consists of humans and releasing another monster set for several hundread bucks (the palace is supposed to be the counterpart of the Death Star playset, right?) is just overkill. I think a system set would make a better contestant since it doesn´t need to be that expensive and because of said big UCS waves. LEGO seems to bring balance to UCS set releases. 2009 saw only two system scale 10XXX sets, with the two UCS sets this seems balanced and the same is probably happening with the Executor.

Since the Sith Nightspeeder and Infiltrator reviews that I wanted to do are already taken care of I hope I can do something about the frigate tomorrow. On the same note LEGO had the tradition of releasing two 10XXX sets every year, since the X-Wing/TIE Interceptor release. Let´s see which traditions beats which.

We get a Padmé in handmaiden disguise redesign from episode 1 with Darth Mauls Infiltrator. http://imperiumdersteine.de/picture.php?albumid=3232&pictureid=73780

Could be possible, but it would be difficult to find a set fitting for her. She only appeared in the Holocron episode and never was around near a ship or vehicle. Even when one doesn´t care if the figure fits 100% in the set (like Aurra in the Halo or Quinlan Vos in the frigate) I don´t remember any other bounty hunter vehicle, only some scenery but playsets seem highly unlikely. Also Quinlan Vos was scrapped rather far into developement, because he was seen with name and nearly exact appearance in the catalog. Cato/Sugii was far less complete with blank parts and even the mask missing several details, also the name was already changed to Sugii. The Executor looks nice but another bland cruiser for hundreads of euros isn´t what I would need in my collection. The inclusion of IG-88, Dengar and Piett is nice, but when they don´t appear in another set their fabolous designs are sadly wasted on UCS collectors and I don´t plan on paying 20 per fig.

The fun of walking in the toy store and being surprised by the new sets in stock has been replaced by the exact same excitement of going in the rumor topic and being surprised by the new six set name lists. When I think about it, getting the information cut up into little morsels actually lengthens this joy. First you get names that are giving you a little look to what comes next. Not everything is straight forward like Slave One, Battle of Naboo was speculated to be everything from Naboo, either the Gungan battle (that it turned out to be) but it could have been also about the infiltration of the palace with Padmé, Life-Action Nute and palace guards or even the one episode from The Clone Wars with that Hammer-villain. Then you get some descriptions about the content. You hear names of Jedi like Quinlan Vos or the ARF Trooper and of some badass vehicles like the Freeco Speeder, things you couldn´t even have imagined to be able to ever become a LEGO product. The last two stages come with the pictures. When you first get some unfocused pics you can speculate what is in the set. You see the newe Clone Trooper Battlepack and you fall from your chair because you see that thing in the background looks actually familiar and isn´t just some scrap model from the designers child but a Speederbike from the Saleucami scene of Revenge of the Sith. And lastly when you see the set in all its glory with high-res pics and reviews you see all the nice details. Savage Opress isn´t just a completely black figure with yellow horns and hockey armore, he has a six-pack printed on the torso, and they even got Wolffes glasseye right. I am alreadyx eager to see the next wave of sets for 2012 (mostly to finally see if my occult exercises are paying off and I am right with the next battlepacks being Endor-themed, but I am no less excited to finally get my Millennium Falcon or see what the second UCS set is LEGO still has to present. If your problem is only looking at the frontpage you can easily skip this by simply using the forum. There aren´t any announcements on the frontpage that aren´t also prominent topics in the forum if I remember correctly.

Figures, vehicle designs and such are most of the time made for the game by completely different designers and not by LEGO. Those games model designers don´t have to pay attention to how much the figure or model would cost as actual set or if it would even be able to stay together for 5 minutes in a windy enviorment. The same applies to the figures, they can have color-markings anywhere you like in the games but making Amidalas crown-piece from LSW 1 in real life isn´t going to be that easy with pearls and areas of maybe a millimetres width to paint in at least four colors. So far none of the figures that first appeared in the LSW games were released one to one when it came to an actual product (see Kit Fisto from LSW 1 and 2) and sometimes a redesign by LEGO themselves doesn´t mean the character gets reworked in the newer games, even when it wouldn´t be that hard (see Aayla Secura and Darth Vader in LSW 3 which use the same models from LSW Complete Saga). Eeth Koth is also a good example. He was featured in LSW 3 but the figure from the frigate has the head and hair be single pieces while the games had them be one piece which actually flows much better. The chance that Jango and Padmé are going to be released in this forms isn´t any higher than before but on the same note not lower. Also, I now see that you are talking about this free onlinegame and not the retail one for the consoles. It seems this onlinegame is much faster to programm than the retail game, but thus far every Star Wars set for this year except an UCS is already known. They certainly are able to programm characters with finished designs but not yet released in the game, but the next sets are comming in December/January, I don´t think they finalize figs that far in advance, and so the earlier explained retail game rules kick in.

You can´t compare a monster like the Death Star that is four times the price of the Endor and Hoth sets we talk about with them. The point of using Endor as example is to have something to compare with the 7879 on the same price level. This new base is an abomination and looks more like something an eight-year-old would build out of the leftovers of a police station, a few battlepack vehicles and half of a 25buck set. After so many years of half finished buildings and bows instead of real houses and bases I expected for some variety a ground plate the size of the single green ones they sell with a gate, maybe as big as the 7666 Rebel base one and two or three levels. The ground is a hangar bay for the 7965 Falcon or some X-Wings and Snowspeeders and the levels above would be the hospital, Lukes room, warroom, corridor, etc. In fact, the right side of the base would be good enough as second floor, it just needs to be a bit wider with a few walls and doors and it would fit very well or could even stand as its own set. The left and front side are completely unecessary and just serve to catapult the price from 40/50 to 90/100. I think the most annoying thing about every Hoth base ever is the lack of walls. It should have at least on one side some plates in shell shape or even better bricks and plates arranged like in one of the numerous awesome base mocs we see on Flcikr and Brickshelf. But no, instead we get some arches as if this were some lame roman aqueduct and randomly cobbled turrets looking more like something even a battlepack wouldn´t even consider as an extra. The redesigns of the big three are otherwise rather unneeded. Leia only changed minimalistic and looks exactly like my kitbashed Leia based on the exact look of her from the film. Han is wrong as always, he obviously wears light grey trausers and not tan, what do they use for reference that they always do it this wrong? Bacta Tank Luke as seen for a whole of six seconds is only good because of the undetpants and the resulting whacky highjinks you can send your fleshie figures on now. I have never seen R-3PO and I probably won´t ever feel the need to have one. We already got pearl and darkgold, black and white. What comes next? Green? Blue? Or do they finally manage to do a Cloud City remake and fit in a metallic or grey one? Chewie could have been printed with a few white spots like when he went out in the cold in one scene. When there are already over ninethousaaaaaaaand versions of Han, Luke and Ledia running around they could at least try to give Chewie a third one (the other two are Chewie in oldbrown from before 2004 and in newbrown from after 2004). And now a message for the Snowtroopers: We´ve got them in seven sets, including a friggin´ BATTLEPACK. Why can´t they be so enthusiasticly about Stormtroopers? Or finally release some Galactic Marines from Revenge of the Sith in this red/violet uniforms? All in all: The only positive thing about this set are the first offical LEGO underpants. Finally something comfortable to wear for them in place of this annoying thongs.

Thanks for the feedback. Nice to see that the work is so well recieved. This sequence was actually more influenced by the climax of Double Team, an interesting Vin Diesel movie. I recommend watching the movie or at least the Nostalgia Critics review. Yes, the scenes out and inside of his home are the Fire Brigade modular house but are supposed to be a completely different building than a fire brigade station. This was a reference to the first season finale of Heroes.

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Shouldn´t it be less expensive to make several Anakin heads with his regular expression and then printing the ones for the podracers set again with the goggle/painfull one? The set comes with two brown pilot helmets with grey goggle part attached to. I don´t think Anakin needs two goggles, but the expression could still fit with some of the scenes. The dutch/german shopping site from before already lists the main wave sets as orderable. I bought the Nightspeeder, Infiltrator and Fregatte (when the Nightspeeder was still in stock) and they should arrive in a few days. I am going to make reviews for the first two when they arrive.

And the Naboo Starfighter box makes an DYNAMIC ENTRY! Correct me if I am wrong, but this is probably the best box art in the history of ever. The set is released "soon" in Germany according to this pics scource and the dutch have a locked release date of 12th August. The euro price is 49,99€, the dutch site has a reduced price, like with every set they sell.

I don´t know if this is some kind of glitch or bug, but it seems I get the figure, even though there are no SW sets in my order. I am from Germany, maybe this depends on ones region.

German version Sammla: Primeminister, I purchased a true collector's item during the last auction in the Royal Hall! Navy: I hope that it´s worth it, I´ve got an urgent appointment. A continent doesn´t dematerialize itself, as you know. Sammla: We are already there. Sammla: Be astonished and staggered! Navy: I hope for you, that you didn´t lead me this far away just to re-enact a decade-old gag from Futurama. Sammla: Of course not, the carton holds giant eggs but from the chocolate firm Milka. Sammla: The eggs are human-size repilca of their Löffeleier. Sammla: It features delicious creme, covered in chocolate formed like a regular easter-egg. Navy: But it has to be much fat in such an egg, doesn´t it? Sammla: 12,58 gram per egg. Not much more than their other products. Navy: But it probably requests a massive effort to loose all of this again. Sammla: Don´t be so critical. It´s with only 193,8 calories just 13,6 calories more than a normal egg. Navy: But I am not getting a clue for the location of the point where you can open this delicacy. Navy: It is huuuuuuge. Sammla: Normally the spoon will be inserted above at the cap, so that the cap can lapse and you´ve got access to the creme. Sammla: Can you feel it Mr. Fenson? Navy: Oh yeeeaaah. Sammla: Then give it a go. Navy: A huuuuuge dessert asks for huuuuuuge cutlery! *poke* Navy: The soft consistency, one gets the feeling it condensates just by pure look. A sugary aftertaste after the first bite together with a reminder to a real glass of milk. Mmmh... Navy: I´VE MADE MY DECISION! Navy: OMNOMNOMNOMNOM Sammla: How is he able to eat all of this? I ordered to pump some potassium cyanide in there!

http://www.imperiumdersteine.de/showthread.php?p=513341#post513341 This should do away with the skepticism about him being another color than black. The eyes are silver and additional helmet highlights are light blue. He said the pics were made with an iPhone and because of this blurry, he seems to not be able to do additional pics. Edit: A little photoshopping and you are able to make something out.

The new description of the LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia confirms that the exclusive figure is Han Solo with medal from Yavin IV. http://www.imperiumdersteine.de/showthread.php?p=512601#post512601 Very dissapointing in my opinion. At least it lets one hope the encyclopedia next year for starships and vehicles comes with medal-wearing Chewbacca, even though he had none in the movie, he sure deserved it.

We know that it is called Hoth Echo Base and that it has the number of 7879. The number cancels out any possibility of it being an UCS. Brickset and KimTs mentioning in the first post should be enough confirmation. To the set: I can´t see what could be possibly left over to be made. At this point we´ve got every artillery, creature and vehicle distantly related to the battle. We´ve got so many Hoth sets now that names are made by mixing pieces of paper with the words "Hoth", "Rebel", "Echo", "Base" on them and pulling some of them out of a hat. The only thing they could release now would be the interior of the base (finally...) which would be chairs, computers, that cell for the Wampas that was never shown in the movie but in deleted scenes, more hangar bay accesoirs or the ion canon, but with LEGOs panic fear of playsets/edifices other than vehicles I would say we get some recycled mix of what has been made in the last few years with Hoth Rebel Base, Echo Base and all other Hoth stuff. I thought UCS means "Set with 10XXX number and UCS X-Wing, TIE and Yoda statue". S@H exclusive set is normally used by noone.

Maybe because there was no poster this year. Normally UCS sets are kept secrets for longer than regular sets. Most of the time the first mention of them is the press-release article on Brothers-Brick and Fbtb a few months before they are released. There are exceptions to this rule, like when lists are coming out like 2009, but otherwise it´s regular to wait for them. Relesedates for UCS sets in the last few years were always september-november. To hear something from sets this far away would be unnormal. It is sure that there are going to be two UCS sets this year. LEGO released two UCS´ (or sets called UCS with a 10XXX number) every year since 2000. Why would they change it now?

I highly recommend this piece of art again. It is the epic story of a missing statue of a prototype Super Commando Soldier and the hero Nameless stormtrooper #9001 to find it on orders of his boss Boba Fett. The performance of Nameless is truly heartbreaking when he has to admit that he doesn´t know where the statue went and tries to calm his crestfallen boss with the absolutely tragically droll attempt of replacing it with a protocol droid. Boba Fetts breakdown serves to put oneself in his place in this understandably dreadful occurrence. How he chews the scenery in the third panel is especially memorable for his mention of "damn droids". His pronounciation is truly worth of being called large ham. But this is all unnoteworthy without the climax in panel four and five where Nameless starts his quest for the missing statue but the situation is completly subverted when the statue appears all by itself in a gap of a few seconds, immediatly releasing the tension. I would have prefered to expand on the concept of Nameless walking the galaxy for the search of the white Boba, but nonetheless the story has no plotholes whatsoever, the actors gave unforgetable performances and make a good standalone story. The only other negative aspect I have to critizise is the strange feeling to the statue itself. It feels to me that some product placement is taking place, but I guess this is just a side-efect for other stories always using expys of games, drinks and other products instead of real names that it makes mentions of real products sound strange. Like always, nice work Nine-eleven! Now you only need to write the story about Cowboys, Midgets, the indians and the .

I never thought I would ever win something in a raffle, especially something that valueable AND especially not at the exact same time as one of my bros. This deserves to partey hard. Thanks everyone!

Another entry for my life-sized statue collection? Now this is wonderfully decadent!

The Eta and T-6 are exclusively used by the Jedi Order. Palpatine would probably use the Nu-Shuttle of Mace or the escape craft from the second Zillo Beast episode. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/H-2_executive_shuttle