Redroe

Amazon UK now out of 501st! At MSRP anyway. If you want to spend 40 quid you can get one.

Amazon has 501st BP and AAT, no limit. I've just ordered mine

Yes and we all seem to be treating it as though it's practically in the mail instead of completely unconfirmed.

Yeah he's got a funny little blue leotard thing on and long stringy brown legs, haha! There was a local corner shop who had a bunch of the vintage figs in a cardboard box, £2 a pop. A significant number of years older than I am. That would be a great limited run of Star Wars CMFs. Printed in the old Kenner style. Obi Wan with a weird orange and black robe! Give them yellow heads for real nostalgia.

I snagged an Ithorian head on bricklink and stuck it on a plain blue torso... like the old Kenner fig

No worries! The TFA sets seemed really exciting at the time, some fresh design work for the SW universe and the remakes/new versions of old ships were overhauled a good deal. I have had some Jangbricks reviews on in the background while I'm home working (they guy has the most calming and pleasant voice - he'd be an excellent therapist) and I was struck by the fact that we SW fans really don't get the best of Lego's output. I'd clicked onto some big Friends boat set and it caught my attention (at the expense of my work) because of how well built and well designed it was. I only ever buy SW these days and it preconditioned me to expect a price of about 80 GBP. And it was 60 gbp. there is something quite sterile and mechanical about the SW stuff they put out these days with the jacked up prices. Add to that the general disappointment I feel with the SW universe in general at the moment and I haven't picked up a mainstream saga set in months. Not wanting to restart the Quadjumper love again, but that was the last set I bought which gave me that "new set!" buzz. Sad.

Lol no, I meant I made it not very well initially. You were far more eloquent than I managed to be.

Honest I could talk quadjumpers till they make episode 10

Flip sides of the same coin!

Yeah, back in the day it was the figs I wanted. I could make up a half decent, if slightly multicoloured X wing from old space sets. But you needed the real deal if you wanted a rebel pilot to fly the thing. Lucky Bricklink hadn't taken off by then or I'd have made my parents' life hell. You're right. I think the original, UCS Tantive flew under the name Rebel Blockade Runner, funnily enough. Which sounds much more awesome than Tantive, however you pronounce it.

Define desirable by perspective: an AFOL wants the obscure background character) but a kid wants a cheap set with Rey, Finn, BB8 and a stormtrooper to fight. Kids care a lot more about the figures than the ship they come in. .... it annoyed me at the time that the QJ included the thug, who in order to obtain, sucker that I am, I'd already bought a book I cared nothing about. Great fig though.

Totally agree. Its the same point I made but not very well. I don't mind what scale it's at as long as it is a decent toy, which this isn't. Like, I want a Tie and an X wing at compatible scales, but they don't have to be the large, heavy, expensive sets that they have grown into over the last decade. That is a good insight. It actually lends itself better to being a tank style craft. Quadjumper only showed up in summer 2017. They had exhausted the rest of the film by then. Also, the Quadjumper seems extremely popular among adult fans and Afols, like X-wing players, it's built up a bit of a cult around itself so they probably knew that it would be a decent seller. And it has extremely desirable minifigs that up to then hadn't been in a set together (except the Falcon). I must now design a ship called the Knife 9 because that is a superb name.

I had no idea that the Soulless One had a name until Lego star Wars 3 on xbox ironically enough. Most of the "named" ships are prequel era I think? If they can do Malevolence (however badly) they can do Invisible Hand.

Absolutely. I don't want to shell out 90 quid on an X wing. They could have called it stealth ship? I like the size of it. See how everyone went from "that looks good, I am glad they didn't make it huge!" based on the top view to "that looks cr@p!" when they saw its actually just a shell. I wish there was a proper underside and that would make it worth the money. From looking at the pics I can already visualise how I would Mod it, but I shouldn't have to.

Yeah, this makes me think it's more along the lines of Mos Eisley spaceport rather than cantina. I liked Cloud City but it didn't attract me enough to buy it. I don't have that kind of space anymore. That's partly why I would prefer a selection of smaller builds that I can split out and display seperately, if I want. And I can give the Falcon to my nephew so he molests that rather than my own system scale MOC. The figs will undoubtedly be extortionate on the aftermarket so this will probably be a day 1 purchase if I like the look of it.

Prediction without evidence is just wishlist

I won't fall for it but i will go and read it!

I can absolutely see the appeal of a huge and detailed cantina, but its not for me. I'd rather see different bits of Mos Eisley with the cantina as one of the major builds (the others being the Falcon and a semi circle docking bay 94, and some smaller connecting parts: other buildings, a beastie etc).

Can't wait to see what Jang has to say about it! I am actually all for seeing more ships done smaller and less intensely detailed - but there is a right way and a wrong way. See slave 1 from Cloud City. Fingers crossed that Mos Eisley cantina/spaceport has a Falcon.

It's £15 at least for one of the existing KoR figs. Probably one of those cases where you might as well have a pile of useful parts left over with the figs you want.

Well, what do you know...

Decision made. I'll put my money toward Mos Eisley. In fact the more I look the more baffled I am. It's the shell of the ship but it's not like there isn't empty space that could have sat at least two more figs. I haven't a single TROS set, and this would have made the exception but I don't see the value at all. The sequels continue to leave me in a sad place. What you say is true. The question is one of quality. Jakku Quadjumper is one of my all time favourite sets even though my opinion of TFA has slipped a couple of notches after watching its follow-ups. Poor Knights of Ren.

Dang, the two I wanted... but then I guess that tells the story! Now my brain and my wallet are slugging it out on whether or not to buy the Night Buzzard (KoR transport ship - ridiculous)

Smyths has pre order. Funny that one of the selling points for the AT AT is "spacious cockpit" and it shows a pic of two pilots sat on Veers' knee.

Slightly miffed that the torso and visor printing is different to the previous ones (like the utapau, kashyyyk versions). One of the unnecessary changes IMO. But I imagine there will be some CW related battle packs next year to even the odds a bit.