Alldarker

It doesn't matter how he looks: he's COLLECTIBLE! But actually, there really is truth to that. As a collector of the OT sets and figures, this white Boba Fett isn't actually necessary for a complete collection, but white Boba is a part of OT Star Wars history, so to speak, and in that regard I want him, no matter how plain or boring he looks.

Contrary to many others I actually do like the new TIE Fighter pilot and his helmet, and I also like the new AT-AT Driver. And I guess you really can't overlook Boba Fett as one of the better reworkings of an existing figure. As for new figures, Bossk, the Medical Droid and Barris Offee stand out, as does Aayla Secura. I have to admit I don't much like Cad Bane, though. Still, my top 5 list looks like this: 1. Boba Fett 2. Bossk 3. TIE Fighter Pilot 4. Barris Offee 5. Medical Droid

AGGHHH!!! I've been looking for one on e-Bay for the last couple of days: don't know how I was able to miss this! That DEFINITELY was sold for a LOT LESS than it's worth. Ah... I see, it was a 'buy it now': the offer was probably snapped up in the first ten minutes after becoming available. You'd say someone with a e-Bay store called 'Extreme Collector's Warehouse' would have more business sense for this kind of collectable...

Actually... last year's Toy Fair STARTED on February 15th and ended on the 18th. So last year the 10195 Dropship was actually revealed on day ONE of the Toy Fair...

Hi FinLego, Welcome to Eurobricks. Pictures for the 8128 Cad Bane's Speeder and 8129 AT-AT Walker haven't been seen yet, but the names of these sets and the minifigs these two sets will contain have been confirmed in de NY Toy Fair 2010 SW Lego preview party brochure. As for the toy fair itself: it lasts until Wednesday, February 17th, so there's still time for Lego to officially reveal these at the Toy Fair! I'm not sure how this was in the past, but I seem to remember Lego unveiling the exclusive / big sets towards the final days of the NY Toy Fair. I'd say the reason for this is mostly publicity and marketing related: instead of just one big bang at the start of the Toy Fair, unveiling more sets at a later time can create a second publicity 'big bang', especially when they concern sets which are as popular as the SW Lego sets. Then again, maybe I'm wrong and we've seen all there is to see this Toy Fair!

Excellent review, especially the many well taken photo's! I actually really like this set: I bought one MISB, and afterwards actually bought another very cheap new one on e-Bay from which the figures were removed, but which included all the pieces. I now have a display of the Home One with landing pads with A-Wings on each side of the control room, and it looks very impressive! The figures are of course the main selling point of this set: Mon Mothma, Madine and especially the two Mon Calamari figures are unique to this set, and Llando and the A-Wing pilot haven't been included in very many sets. Llando seems to be very fond of those expensive sets...

Definitely real: this has been around for quite a long time. I saw this and played around with it last May in the Lego Store in Downtown Disney in Orlando, but I've heard people saw this before then in Germany as well. It works with a couple of selected Lego sets, as far as I could tell back then: they hadn't programmed every available Lego set in the system, I guess. But it worked pretty well! EDIT: the link provided by CopMike shows it's a German innovation, dating from late 2008, so I guess what I heard rings true.

Like many people before have pointed out already, the CTT is actually a long existing SW vehicle. I especially like the picture below, taken from the Star Wars Wiki, which shows an A5 Juggernaut used by the Imperial Army at the aftermath of the battle of Yavin, thus proving that this vehicle was still used by the time of 'A New Hope'. By the way, the 22 m long A5 Juggernaut is less than half the size of the 49.4 m long A6 Juggernaut, and in fact should be able to be carried by a Dropship. Many people do not realize that the Juggernaut came in varying sizes (actually, nor did I before I looked it up on the SW wiki)! Anyhow, as a mostly OT era Lego SW collector this means I can integrate this vehicle into my existing collection! I don't care much for the figures that come with the set: my version will be manned by Stormtroopers. Probably just chuck Cad Bane, Aayla and the rest in the bin (just kidding!)...

Nice new picture of the Slave I: looks a lot like the previous version, but that won't deter me from getting this one as well! The colors probably look a bit weird in these pictures due to camera phone picture + bad lighting. Boba Fett still looks amazing though, that's a sand green armor, isn't it? And Bossk looks good too, as far as I can tell! Carbonite Han block: it all finally looks perfect!

Nope, nothing more specific than The Hague, although I presume it's the large Spuistraat one. It was a guy on www.lowlug.nl who spotted the set there and posted about it. I in fact found and bought the set at Intertoys on the Coolsingel in Rotterdam, and I also spotted it in the Intertoys Leiden, which leads me to suspect it is, or will be, available in all Intertoys stores. I think they all received about 3 or 4 of these sets. By the way, don't be fooled by the Toys XL: it has nothing to do anymore with the Toys 'R' Us any more except that they are in the same locations. TRU totally sold off their stake in these stores. TRU in the Netherlands used to be a joint venture with the Blokker chain, which of course also owns the Bart Smit and Intertoys toy chains. However, TRU pulled out of the joint venture due to lack of revenue and due to an over-saturated toy market dominated (in fact, practically monopolized) by Blokker owned stores, and took the rights to use the name with them, but also the TRU exclusives and anything else to do with TRU.

Actually, we use the Euro just like many other European countries! €1.00 is equal to about $1.38, currently. And in the Netherlands the battlepacks cost €14.99 a piece, meaning the combi set saves €19.98 in all (€39.99+€14.99+€14.99 sets for €49.99)!

The 6081 Swampspeeder + 2 Battlepacks 3-in-1 set is now available in the Netherlands at Intertoys stores. Costing €49.99, it is a pretty good deal for a set which on it's own seemed to just be a €39.99 S@H exclusive for the Netherlands (we have no T'r'U's anymore!).

You're right of course, and point taken. Intertoys is a Dutch nationwide chain BTW, so Dutch people know what I am talking about: if something is available at one store it's almost always available at all other stores as well. And it's not "Haag" but "Den Haag", but now I'm really digressing. Sorry!

Coming back to this: it seems the new Swampspeeder 3-in-1 pack has been spotted at an Intertoys toy shop in The Hague, for a price of €50.00 ("discounted from €70.00"). I haven't checked it myself at one of my local Intertoys stores, though, but I will do so later today.

Thanks for the great review! I was looking forwards to a review of this set. I don't think Lego has done limo's before, and this looks like a nice try. And the helicopter is a lot nicer than I'd expected: especially the interior looks nicely detailed. I am of the opinion, however, that the limo needs more bikini babes.

Sorry to go off topic, but what exactly is ironic about this? I see the coincidence, but definitely not the irony.

I think what you see as a bug, Lego saw as a feature... Actually, I think you are right: I bought the set today and I don't like the spinning cockpit much either. Replacing the innermost 1x2 technic brick (one hole) with a 1x2 technic brick with axle hole is a great idea. I also don't understand why Lego put the red 1x4 brick with side studs in the cockpit: it only seems to get in the way of the pilot. Still, on the whole it's a nice set, and the new TIE pilot is excellent.

Great review! The Ninja line came and went during my dark age, but I liked the sets a lot and bought a lot of the castles and larger sets last year (including some rasonably cheap MISB sets!). I've promised to review them in the Reviewer's Acadamy, but still hjaven't gotten around to taking picturs due to bad lighting conditions when I come home after work . I was lucky enough to be able to win the pair of elusive green Ninja's on e-Bay with minifigs, stands and backing cards in perfect condition a couple of months back. Truth be told, they were slightly expensive... But definitely worth it. I always knew there was a male and female green ninja figure, but I was amazed to find that only now, after reading this review, have I been made aware of the different torso prints for these two figures !!! I never noticed this before! Actually, I never even noticed the difference between the black ninja's torso print and the other colored ninja's' printing either. Duhhh. Lastly, the review finally made me see that all these minfigs contained exclusive figures: I always thought only the green ninja's were exclusives.

???... To name but a few, both earlier Land Speeders didn't have hidden wheels, the 7124 Flash Speeder didn't have hidden wheels, the 7184 MTT didn't, and 6210 Jabba's Sail Barge too didn't have hidden wheels... 7155 AAT, Battle Droid Carriers, you name it. And all of these are hovering vehicles. Asides from that, I actually think the hidden wheels in the few hovering vehicles that have them are a nice touch

Back in the day I bought two copies of the Cantina Set, which I really liked, so I was very apprehensive about buying this Landspeeder. I actually bought a Speed Racer set to put the more accurate windscreen on those sand red Landspeeders, which really makes this Land Speeder superfluous for me. Still... My obsessive drive to have all the OT sets (so far I have all the OT sets except for the TIE Bomber and the Droid Escape sets) and this excellent review and the new styled figures sway me towards buying it after all. I am such a sucker for Lego, I know...

Funnily enough, Oxford and Sluban are made in the same factory and are in fact the same pieces... Only the name is different! I bought a couple of Sluban / Oxford army sets myself as in the Netherlands, there are a few shops which import them (even here in Europe the price is actually practically the same as stated). Designs are interesting: as stated they are based on real Russian army vehicles. The builds are rather simple though. Like stated in the review some bricks snap on rather tightly. In my opinion, the best thing about the Sluban / Oxford sets are the minifig helmets, which are indeed perfectly exchangable with Lego minifigs (although slightly on the tight side), and which look SO much better than the Army Men helmets from the Toy Story set. The minifigs themselves are total rubbish: I have had a couple which were broken straight from the box.

Looks like another expensive wave of Star Wars sets: it's interesting to see the small sets (Battlepacks, Freeco, Landspeeder) will all released in the January wave, while all the large sets will be in the summer wave. Looks like I'm gonna have to clear even more shelf space... And that while I haven't even gotten around to building the Tantive IV... Looking at the OT sets, with the battlepacks and Wampa Cave, the Battle of Hoth seems to be pretty fleshed out. I wonder if these sets will finally be the last we will see of Hoth? I guess one more AT-AT re-release wouldn't go amiss, but they could always save that for a RotJ version. I also wonder if a September S@H exclusive will be another Cloud City release: it seems only logical with the ESB theme for this year and the new Slave I. Regarding the PT/CW sets, I don't often buy these sets, but Palpatine's Shuttle looks pretty good, as does the CTT.

Thanks for the review DarkFader! Some of the pictures are slightly blurry, but the most important ones (figures and vehicle) are just fine! It's an interesting set: nice figures, although I agree fully about the weird caps for the rebel troopers: they really are too tall. Especially with the goggles over the eyes they look very weird to me! The Ice Cutter itself is a bit boring. It's not often that I think a set needs stickers, but in this case they might have improved the look of the vehicle. Still it's close enough to the movie vehicle, or at least as far as it's visible. Zev Senesca being named is cool, though! And for those who worry about too many Zev's: apart from the helmet he seems pretty generic. And you can always swap some heads around: I'm, sure those goggles would look just as good on any SW pilot.

eti, your are absolutely right: like all the Lego Toy Story sets, these are sort of meta-toys representing other toys. An interesting concept, whichever way you look at it! Also true. I remember the plastic bags of these green soldiers very well: they were very cheap. My grandparents had large collections of comparable toy figures, but actually cast in lead (the health hazards were less known back in the day). These too were meant to be painted.

As the owner of 8061 'Gateway of the Squid' since a couple of weeks (!) I can absolutely guarantee that the Squid King is dark red and not regular red. Svelte's picture is the accurate one. To be honest, I'm not sure what the color of the hands are (I'm at work right now), but they are probably dark gray as depicted in Svelte's picture. I believe Lego has cut down the amount of colors minifig hands are available in: dark red is probably not one of the available colors.