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Fantastic. It's bigger than I thought it would be and I love the way you've done the wing decoration.

I was really disappointed in the official A-wing, yours is so much better (and doesn't need stickers ) I love the Y-wings, you've even managed to get the astromechs facing the right way. I also like the use of the classic space cockpit canopy on the X-wing, it looks so much better than the one Lego uses and I've often wondered why lego doesn't use that one (ok it's still not perfect but without making a new piece I think this is the closest).

The stairs are a good feature. Something that lego often forgets about. I like the more spartan, military style of this new castle, the last one had several design flaws that would have made it easier to assualt .

I like the look of the castle design, the two tiered gatehouse and buttresses do a good job of breaking up the big grey wall problem. I don't like the dragons head on the catapult and the red and black colour scheme is poor. The bad guys shield design looks ok but the Lion shield is awful (why they've resurrected the worst shield design I don't know). The rest of the castle has the usual play features, secret door, catapults etc that I would expect but I'm not a fan of the blue decorative pieces on the walls (the red used on the last castle looked much better). I don't know if its just the photograph but something looks... well wrong, about the horse and it's barding. I'm pleased that they've included a knight as well as the king, and hopefully there will be two horses for the royalists (I doubt there will be though). However the set has the usual problem of not enough minifigs and the ever present factional imbalance of the good guys outnumbering the baddies. It'll be interesting to see what changes they make for the final version.

That looks fantastic. It looks like the new cockpit piece works better on the TIE/in that the standard TIE. I hope your cuusoo project is succesful.

I'm annoyed that they've put the same two characters, Razar and Rizzo, in the Eagle Interceptor and the Chi Raider.

I wouldn't line them all up like that. It makes the cmf one look like he's got jaundice

Excellent. You've really captured the style and feel of the Winged Hussars. Well done.

Yeah it would have been nice if the rear of the little mech had been snotted, but its hard to really complain with such a cheap set.

You'd have to make sure Quasar isn't Trademarked in some countries as it's the name of a Laser-tag company in the UK.

Do you mean Dol Guldor?

I think it's just two detatchable mini-vehicles on the Croc boat. I've been trying to work out whether they've used a floating hull on it.

I was never a fan of collapsing structures as a kid, Lego is a construction toy so if I wanted to represent battle damage it was fairly easy to do so.

I suspect that Games Workshop doesn't trawl sites like this or the 1000's of projects on Cuusoo, but probably does keep an eye on which projects reach the review stage.

There is actually a company that's fighting this issue out with Games Workshop.

That's Games Workshop for you. There IP lawyers are insane. Although in this case they do have a point as Space Marines are listed as a trademark in their rulebooks.

Wow, you've captured the scenes from Prince of Thieves perfectly.

I like Hans alternative face, but Ackbar's is a bit dull.

The castle looks great, love the sandstone colour. All we need now is a dead king Richard.

I was referring only to the 7946 Kings Castle set. Obviously the theme as a whole has been kept going by the Joust and Chess set. It seems strange to me for Lego to cut a set for 18 months or so and then re-release exactly the same set again. They might as well have kept that set available along with the new ones.

You've got to wonder why they discontinued it in the first place. I understand that they wanted to keep the shelves clear for the LotR stuff, but they could have continued to sell the castle on their website. Not sure whether that means there will be changes or not? I suspect we'll at least get the new horse design.

Thanks for warning us about all the stickers. There's no way I'm going to buy this with that amount. Shame as this was one of the only sets I was going to buy this winter. Hope the Headhunter isn't as bad.

I'm both pleased and displeased that they're going to re-release the 2010 Kings Castle. Pleased because I didn't get chance to buy it last time and displeased because it seems a bit lazy to not release something different.

Except they're not accurate, why is the legionaire carrying a spear instead of a throwing pilum? why has he got bare arms? The Spartans hoplon is too small and the wrong shape. Why does the Spartan have a moustache? Spartans had a unique beard style with no moustache. Sorry for being pedantic but that's just me.

I've never seen those ideas pics before. Wow. I especially love the castle construction scene. Lego really should take a look at those old ideas books and give some of those scenes a modern twist.