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Similarly interesting reading on the Woon Tze Che designer Bricklist for the playscale version: 76239-1: Batmobile Tumbler: Scarecrow Showdown BRICKLIST NOTES 1st October 2021 Release The Tumbler was my very first MOC back in 2014 so having it as an official product means the world to me. Many of the solutions I came up with as a MOC are not at all suitable for production so I had to completely redesign the model. The design objective for the model is exactly the same as when I first started my MOC: • It needs to fit 2 minifigures • It has to be as accurate as possible It's funny how upon scrutinizing my earlier model, what I used to think was an accurate representation suddenly no longer appear to be so. The front wheels were too small and the sides of the vehicle need to be angled towards the front. The main challenge for the model remained to be building 2 stable front wheels without a central axle. The new Speed Champion chassis provided the stability while allowing space for 2 minifigures and the new 2x6 angled plates helped to angle the side of the car. The element I originally used for windscreens (part 6070) though looked great, only has 2 studs therefore did not provide the necessary clutch. The end result of 3 windscreens started as a joke from a casual discussion with Mike, imagine our surprise when they actually fit and turns out to be the solution. The wing element (part 61800) on the side of the car is one that I am most happy about, it is almost perfect in size and shape while provided a secure connection. It is extremely satisfying when the element fit perfectly behind the car spoiler used as the side mudguard. The rear of the car is perhaps the part that stayed closest to the original MOC. The end result is a vehicle that replicated the look of the movie design and also one you can play with, rather vigorously if I might add. And yes, it does come in black. My heartfelt thanks to Jesper Nielsen, Maarten Simons and Mike Psiaki for their help and guidance. It was graphic designer Mark Tranter's idea to include the 2nd head for Batman (which is awesome!), and provided all the cool graphics.

Interesting reading on Adam Grabowski's designer Bricklist about the new UCS Tumbler: BRICKLIST NOTES It was decided to re-release the LEGO Tumbler, and since I made the 2014 one, I was asked to do it again. Initially it was supposed to be a simple reissue, but I was allowed to change some things that annoyed me for the past 7 years, but only if I would fit it in within a pretty tight schedule (since it was supposed to be a simple reissue, the timeplan wasn’t laid out like it would be for a kit this size). I started with the rear end, in the first version it was way to narrow, and the tractor tyres (which I already keep on getting messages about how they are wrong, but in my opinion look similar enough to boggers that are on the real thing) didn’t exist either, then I pinched the front end to bring the wheels closer together, which led to a complete redesign of the first third of the model, at this point I managed to add the gunners window in the middle, and some suspension details I didn’t even know existed when I was building the first one (thank you @jaylenosgarage for the crystal clear footage during the day). The rest remained mostly untouched, except for swapping bricks for new versions (like 2x6 tiles instead of 2 times 1x6 tiles), or for more correct colors (like smoke windows), but then, I was quite happy with it in 2014, and I saw no reason to reinvent it from scratch.

I do that too. It makes building X-wings, TIE fighters, and Y-wings so much faster!

Ooh! Must buys, all of them. I am always down for more semi-realistic Space sets, especially if this is a bona-fide Moonbase. We haven't had one of those for decades, if you don't count a couple of Creator B models.

Promobricks doesn't say it's going to be Creator Expert, it says it's going to be Creator 3-in-1 at the $100 price point like the Pirate Ship and the Medieval Castle.

They did. It's called set 75218.

I usually don't post my Studio MOCs on Eurobricks, but a friend of mine IRL said Eurobricks might get a kick out of this one. I've read in several places online that some 80s kids used to use the old Alien Moon Stalker set (#6940, year 1986) as a substitute for an AT-AT when playing Star Wars with their Lego way back when. That makes last year's AT-AT set (#75288, year 2020) the natural starting point for a remake of the Alien Moon Stalker. This is still a rough WIP, lots and lots left to do, but I hope you like the idea! Comments and criticism welcome.

https://rebrickable.com/sets/compare/slow/?1-set=10225-1&1-inv=4094&1-user_list=&2-set=75308-1&2-inv=98037&2-user_list= That tool says there's 39% commonality between the two sets. More than I thought!

The builds of the two models are completely different. The old one is stacked bricks, the new one is curved slopes cladding a box Technic frame. I haven't looked into the details, but offhand I'd guess the commonality is less than 10%. Frankly, I don't think it's possible to modify the old version to the new version.

I repainted set 6209, V-wing Starfighter, from the 2006 Episode III wave, in Classic Space colors circa 1982-1983. I think it's kinda cute.

My local Bricks & Minifigs had both of them on the shelves a couple of months ago. In person, the 2019 Falcon really does look a whole lot better than the 2015 Falcon, but the 2015 model is a lot more swooshable because the roof panels are so lightweight that the hinges can hold them when the model is upside down. The roof panels of the 2019 model flop open instantly. It's fairly simple to mod the 2019 model to keep the roof panels closed, but you may not want to do that. If you do buy the 2019 model, make sure to also get a copy of the 2021 Microfighter Millennium Falcon so you can have a minifigure of Han Solo. The 2019 set is the only minifig playscale Falcon not to have a Han Solo minifigure.

Those excuses for the cockpit gaps and lack of landing gear in the Mandalorian Starfighter are pretty weak, considering that the 2012 version had neither flaw.

Wow. It may not look like much, but it's really got it where it counts. So much impressive Technic functionality is packed into that boxy little van. Thanks for the review!

Bingo! Also, occasionally, because they want to include parts in new and uncommon colors to make those colors more available for MOC building. Also to optimize production across many sets to reduce the number of recolors needed.

I had the same problem with the last Ideas Space GWP contest. I sent the moderation team a big long, respectful, detailed email about how their reasons for rejecting my submission were mistaken, and pointing out that there were at least a dozen approved submissions that were explicitly direct remakes of older sets and others that were explicit callbacks to older themes. Their response, of course, was crickets. Nothing.

10k ain't what it used to be.

I bought the 2019 Millennium Falcon for $160 because I figured it would be the last Falcon for a long time. Today I thought as how the last Original Trilogy Falcon was in 2011 and how there's a new design direction in the Star Wars line, so here's a prediction: The next Millennium Falcon will be released in 2022 or 2023 as an Episode 4 version. It will be downsized to a $100 price point and will be the smallest minifig playscale Falcon ever. It will be the first one since the original 7190 to have the entire top shell removed for play instead of using pizza slices for the roof. There will be no bottom gun, no landing gear, only room for one gunner sitting upright instead of two sitting sideways. There will be no ramp. It will still have the game area, the computer desk, and the hyperdrive, but it may not have the beds or any room under the floor. I have spoken.

Looking at the pictures closely, I think the big innovation in this model is in the door hinges. There's a fancy interior linkage that allows the doors to open and close without a seam at the back or external hinges at the front. ALL previous Creator Expert vehicles have had front door hinges that are visible outside the model, whereas real car door hinges are not. That's a real advance in building techniques. As for the subject matter, it's not quite my own little red pickup truck so I'm not feeling too excited about it. It's great that Lego has decided they can do Creator Expert vehicles without a license, for that old-school unlicensed Lego spirit, but I also really like the licensed vehicles. The challenge of recreating a licensed vehicle usually spurs Lego designers to really amazingly creative building solutions. There's some fun upside down building on the fenders here, but I don't see any truly gonzo out-of-the-box design techniques in the bodywork, besides the door hinges. Still, I'm really looking forward to the Brickset review and YouTube speed builds of this set once it comes out.

Hmm. Looks like I'll just pick up that Far From Home set I've been wanting for a while, none of these sets look very interesting.

That sounds good to me, but for Petra I think it's more likely that Lego would do a $120 facade in the Architecture line, possibly in partnership with UNESCO or a similar NGO.

Wee bit of self-promotion here: I also like to build digital MOCs only with parts and colors that really exist, so that it would be possible to actually order the parts and build them if I chose. The windscreen from the White Dragon Horse Jet 80020 isn't quite the right shade of green, but it still worked really well for finishing my Gamma V Laser Craft 6891 remake:

Something I've learned from optimization theory in the context of scientific or engineering computation is that there really is no such thing as an objectively best solution for any multifactorial optimization problem. You can formulate an objective function and find the point in parameter space that corresponds to the maximum value of that objective function, but the objective function itself is a subjective thing determined by your subjective weighting of the relative importance of various factors or your subjective judgment on how to include those factors in the objective function. In short, it all comes down to personal preference, what's important to you: it's all subjective in the end! As shown by endless arguments on the internet over trivial things ....

The Bowser airship looks so much better than the Piggy Pirate Ship or the Sea Cow, IMO. It's still a caricature, but less exaggerated. It looks more like a real ship than either of those two. The nougat colored hull pieces are great. Too bad it only comes with one hull center segment and one hull bow base. Otherwise it would be too easy to rearrange the two hull bow upper parts into a proper pirate ship, I guess. I haven't bought any Super Mario sets, but I think I'd buy this one if I hadn't already bought the 21322 and the 31109 last year.

Hmm? It's a fine build, but I don't see what it has to do with where to find Lego in New Zealand ... ?

I remember reading the name of that walker in the original 2002 printing of the Attack of the Clones cross section book and not knowing what it looked like, or even if there was more to it than a throwaway name. That mention has been retconned out of the 2020 printing of the Star Wars Complete Vehicles book. Now I know what it was supposed to look like all those years ago! Thanks. Nice blend of vehicles and the Art mosaic style to reproduce the complete piece of concept art, too. Is there a "bridge" between the AT-TE and the AT-AT in the new canon?