Knightsword

On some of the 1996 catalogs they had the prototype of the scorpion detector pictured, which had the arms with the long henge plates over each other with a 1 plate gap, instead of having them next to each other. The change from the prototype was a bad one on Lego's part as the prototype version's were stronger. Edit- Found a pic http://peeron.com/catalogs/1996/medium/44/

To be honest, I don't the think the actual fighter, movie wise, was meant to have landing gear, since they were suppose to be the pre-TIE fighter, I would think that they would be stored like TIEs, in a berth and as such need no landing gear. And that it was other media and for toys that they were given landing gear.

The piece count could and hopefully reflect a more efficient building method that doesn't pad the numbers like Lego tends to do, such as have 2 2x3 plates next to each when 1 2x6 would work, or maybe less reliance Technic parts. (Which would cut down any piece count of any set by a lot.)

Except, they did with the X-Wing, though I will grant you they did drop the hut and changed a very small amount of colors, mostly updated grays, but the 4502 and 6212 were the same model, with different mini figs

After years of stealing cows, and kid napping rednecks and the probings and what not, the aliens had it long coming :P Also I thought the official fiction was the humans were mining on mars first and the aliens came from out side the system looking for new sources of their fuel that happened to be the same crystals the humans had found and decided to attack and take the crystals. Which goes with the whole no life on Mars fact, save for possible bacteria. Also you're forgetting about Indiana Jones.

Its a great addition to the Lego TIE family, though I did replace inner most 1x2 tecnic brick with one that had an axle hole to stop the needless spinning, again something Lego could have done on their own.

Guess Ron never saw Back to the Future.

Those are the official torsos, just backwards.

The 4505 was released with only flesh figures, only the prototype blue box had yellow, if I recall it was the first set to feature flesh mini figures

It looked like it could have been a preliminary version of the smaller of the 2010 wave 2 sets, which Legomilk might have been thinking of.

The thing annoys me is the short cuts TLG makes, when a only a few more pieces would make it better, the stubby cannons on the X-Wings, only one seat in the Rogue Shadow (by far the worse since it makes the set miss out on the whole point of the ship in the first place).

Great review, as for the bonus points, they were used to get free membership's to the Lego club, collect enough, mail them away and in a month you get your first issue. Normally 1 large set would have enough points, but you would need to have many small sets for the total. As the years went by, TLG just started to give away the memberships and forgo the point promotion.

You should visit the 2010 thread more often.

The board is always a hour ahead, with the daylight savings time it becomes 2 hours ahead, I'm in the USA CST (GMT-6) time zone

Looks good, but yes the photos do need some improvement and could use some of this:

The should be a Skull Twin on the loose too.

its a concept piece, that is 35ish years old that has been over ridden by Lucas several times, remember luke was originally gonna be a miget, and star wars more of a comedy ala 30's radio shows too.

Anyone else look at the amazon links, the TIE Defender is $49.99.

Nor are they parent and child, Wedge's parents were Jagged and Zena, they ran a refueling station and were killed by pirates when he was a teenager. Antilles seems to be the same for Anderson is for us :D

It looks great, reminds me of a Masamune Shirow landmate, just missing the smaller arms.

I've ditched the yellows heads and replaced with flesh colored ones. I even went as far as tracking down flesh colored arms (off a Patrick minifig) for Dagohba Luke. As for the eyes it doesn't bother me to much and I leave that be. The hardest replacement head though, was finding one for Biggs.

The back half is just about the same as is the landing ramp. I did away with the escape pod and turned that side in to "docking" port with hatchway. The front was completely redesigned to accommodate the center cockpit and the docking claws, which are attached to the base by plates and bricks, opposed to the falcon's which are just connected with technic pins and beams. After I took the photos I added a little more to the bottom so it would have the raised area behind the gun turrent like it has on the top. Also white is a common detailing color on a lot of freighters and just leaving things gray is rather boring and if I did you all would be saying to add some detail.

Quite a few, depending on my character's current cover identity, Two of which are the Star Chaser, and the Ryloth Star. And in the RPG it's been modified with reinforced bulkheads, new hyperdrive, extra weapons, etc, so it has reason to look different then the standard model.

I decided to build from the 4504 Falcon like I did for my YT-1760 (which I borrowed a few parts till a bricklink order arrives). I also left the rear inside, the hyperdrive, unchanged from the 4504. I was inspired by Rooks, but more so due to one of my Star Wars RPG (Saga Edition) characters owning one. I'm waiting on some custom minifigs (from Clone Army Customs) and a gungan minifig to round out the rest of the small group's characters, which I'll update with more photos when they arrive. Now on to the photos, and no KimT, there's no cats in them :P

Boom chicka wow wow.. But still more pain to come.