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That’s not new, except maybe in that color. It was introduced in 1999.

What new slope mold?

It’s still not a very interesting set, but the turntables are at least promising bases for fun spinning NCS ground installations.

That Obi-Wan vs Vader duel set is pretty bad as a Star Wars set … I can’t wait to get three copies at 40% off to use as lunar terrain in an NCS Moonbase! :) Edit ... lunar terrain to go with the rumored 10497 Galaxy Explorer ... ? Edit 2 ... "That's no moon, that's a southern California industrial backlot!"

Nice to see it all built, congratulations on getting to this point. But since you mention it, yeah, the cockpit ball does look a little janky. The intent is to support the cockpit ball with a cradle built into the display stand?

^ From George Gilliatt's designer Bricklist: https://brickset.com/sets/list-40077 BRICKLIST NOTES The first set I designed all by myself since being hired as a full-time designer! This set sees the successor to the classic Spyrius Droid and Ann Droid minifigures with the introduction of Cyber Droid! I got a brand new face decoration for this figure, which was drawn up beautifully by Graphic Designer Matt Parsons. FUN FACTS: - This model borrows its Orange and Sand Blue colour scheme from the 2004 Creator set 4508 Titan XP. - The B model Cyber Mech was inspired by the 2006 Exo Force set 7701 Grand Titan, featuring a laser arm and a claw arm. - Element 30602 appears here in Sand Blue for the first time since the 2002 Attack of the Clones set 7103 Jedi Duel!

^ Only if all the profits from that set would go towards really helping veterans and/or people struggling with homelessness and food insecurity. I already feel bad enough passing beggars and homeless people on the street in my city, I'd rather not have a Lego set reminding me I spent fifty bucks on it instead of on a donation to the food bank.

^ No pun intended?

Same here.

I wish the speeder bike was sold separately, it's really nice. The spaceship, well, it just doesn't press my spaceship buttons at all.

^ Around the start of January I bought the City road plates and the Wonder Woman satellite dish to complete a "Galaxy Explorer analog" with the Arrowhead from 2017. I think it worked pretty well with a single road plates pack, out of the box. Guess I need to buy another one to go with 10497.

Lots of progress, thanks for the pictures! Looks a heck of a lot better than what you were starting with.

16, firefabric

52.5 cm is about 62 studs. That is LONG. The Monkie Kid spaceship is 51 studs long. Can’t wait for pictures!

Ding ding ding! You've dated the doodle. Here's a Studio model of the childhood build that was based on the doodle:

I saw this a few days ago. It's a tantalizing rumor, but given that the only support is the set number and an anonymous Instagrammer, it doesn't seem credible to me. Still, we can dream.

[in-universe explanation] The Spazzbucket brothers wanted in on those sweet, sweet military contracts from the New Republic after the fall of the Empire, so they slapped a couple of pop-guns on their best-selling single-seat sporty runabout and called it a starfighter. Little did they understand that the New Republic was actually divesting itself of most of its military, and they were getting into the arms business at the worst possible time. Only a dozen examples of the starfighter variant were sold before they cut their losses and returned to selling it on the personal-transportation market. [out-of-universe explanation] To keep my brother and I occupied one boring Sunday church meeting, my dad doodled a "W-wing fighter" on a piece of paper. When we got home, my brother and I both tried to build it out of our Lego bricks. This is my latest W-wing, built from the ground up in late 2021 to match my brother's oldest version in shape and size. I didn't have the parts to build it in a snappy red, yellow, and black color scheme like that childhood build. I have not previously posted pictures of this model on Flickr, though if you look through my Flickr photostream you'll see a Studio model of an earlier iteration - I checked with @MKJoshA to make sure that this build is eligible. Sorry, I don't know how to take nice photos and edit them with in-universe backgrounds. You'll notice there aren't any visible weapons on this W-wing fighter ... I never could figure out where the guns were supposed to be on the darn thing, it always seemed a lot more like a sports car to me. Hence the in-universe explanation. Good luck to everybody on the contest, and may the best Alphabet Fighter win!

I was hoping for Space Troopers, but I guess this saves me $200 to spend on the real old-school Classic Space sets, or something. I think Space Troopers would have done a lot better if the renders had shown off the features better. But they were too small, too blurred with simulated camera optical effects, and too statically posed to really show off all the cool features of the set. The description mentioned rotating engines - why didn't the renders show them? Why weren't there any decent close-up renders of the various modules attached and detached, or of the interior of the cockpit? The price-per-part ratio was just fine. The physical size of the set was just fine. It was loaded with play features and it looked kind of goofy, but that's ok. But it was a real hard sell because the pictures were just bad.The Big Four in-house genre themes are Space, Castle, Pirates, and Bionicle. Pirates didn't come up in the Bricklink Designer Program because of Barracuda Bay and the Creator pirate ship in 2020, so Pirates fans were already satisfied. Castle fans came out for Castle in the Forest. But Bionicle and Space fans didn't really back their horses once the starting gun went off. Castle for the win!

He has no such information, he's speaking in hypotheticals.

Fun with sorting! Hope you can make good use of all the excess parts for the Otana, like you said.

Looks good! I look forward to seeing the progress on this ship.

Just because it looks cheap on the N-1 cover. Subjective and irrational, I know. But also because it could save a lot on ink compared to dark space backgrounds.

Regarding the front cover of the instruction booklet for the Mandalorian's Naboo fighter (75325): The instructions for 41713 Olivia's Space Academy also have the simply posed rendering instead of the full rendering on the front of the box. They also mention that there might be a mix of paper and plastic packaging inside. I wonder if the simplified instruction covers are intended to be excused as an eco-friendly measure (less ink) instead of just the egregious cost-cutting that it looks like.

I apologize, this is a bit off topic from the current conversation - Regarding the front cover of the instruction booklet for the Mandalorian's Naboo fighter (75325): The instructions for 41713 Olivia's Space Academy also have the simply posed rendering instead of the full rendering on the front of the box. They also mention that there might be a mix of paper and plastic packaging inside. I wonder if the simplified instruction covers are intended to be excused as an eco-friendly measure (less ink) instead of just the egregious cost-cutting that it looks like.

@Peppermint_M - My brother in law Bob looks an awful lot like that. But this little guy will always be Bob to me: https://brickset.com/minifigs/cas010/dark-forest-forestman-4-brown-legs