General Magma

That would be creepy, but I can only imagine that it must be the male equivalent of the spooky girl figure from a few series back, so it might actually be similar to the picture posted by Robert8.

Those are good for Morannon orcs, indeed! Only thing to do there is swap the normal red arms for dark red ones.

What... did they leak the April Fools pic or what?

I'm thinking of selling my LEGO LOTR 9474 Helm's Deep set (no figures or horse included, otherwise complete with box & instructions) because I've had it since 2012 and never got much of a chance to build it due to space limitations. I'm still considering where I want to go with this, but I'm just trying to see if anyone here would be interested at all before I make a decision. If you are interested, feel free to post here or send me a message with what you would offer for it, and then I'll see if that's convincing enough for me. As I said, the set has never been built and the pieces (other than the figures & horse I took out) have been in their bags ever since I purchased it, so they should be like new. The front of the box is no longer flat but rather a little bent out of shape because of the contents pressing up against it, but it is other than that in excellent condition, and so are the instructions.

Thank you! I guess that's the penalty for cutting an Aqualish guy's hand off. Leaves one to wonder when we're finally getting a Ponda Baba figure...

I've been thinking of getting the 75059 UCS Sandcrawler set, but since I want to get the Slave I first and foremost, I might want to think of a cheaper way to get the Sandcrawler. Now I happen to have heard loads of things about that Sandcrawler set being full of play features, things for the interior, etcetera... And I'm wondering how much of the piece count these things actually take up, and how much cheaper it would be to only get the pieces for it that are necessary for the exterior plus keeping it all (sturdily) together, meaning that I'm looking to cut the costs by scrapping all play features and other such things from it, so that the only thing that remains in the interior would be the fundamental parts that are actually necessary. Has anyone tried this, and might this make much of a difference, or am I mistaken to think that a good chunk of the piece count could possibly be appointed to the play features and non-fundamental interior parts?

Agreed. It works for Han since it gives him more of a rugged look rather than, like you said, the boyish look of the older ones. Anyway - what do you guys think of my improvement on Ben Kenobi's legs (the Jedi robe) up above?

I'm not saying there is no way they could, I'm simply saying there is no way they would. The matter of whether or not they would remake a UCS set was a different topic altogether. I also did not say anything about just "bigger", I was talking about them making the snowspeeder "much bigger", for which they have no logical reason to do. The scale of the 2003 UCS snowspeeder can hardly be improved upon. The only thing that could become "much bigger" is the piece count and the amount of detail by having much more smaller pieces, but they're not going to make a snowspeeder that's massive in overall size. This is a different matter with the Death Star, obviously, which is a gigantic space station in the shape of a sphere. They could easily increase the size of that sphere to either add more rooms of specific scenes or to increase the size of rooms, because the LEGO Death Star, as a sphere, was mostly made up of basic or fairly basic bricks. They could easily add a couple more rooms and make existing ones bigger because they were really rather small in the 2008 Death Star set. If the designers decide to make the UCS snowspeeder "much bigger", they'd be giving themselves a hard time because they're gonna need bigger pieces for sections such as the windows, the guns, etc., which is why I deem it to be illogical to think they would make the snowspeeder "much bigger". In short: it's much easier to make a sphere that uses mostly basic bricks bigger than something much more filled with special parts that's the shape of a snowspeeder.

Do you seriously think they would make a snowspeeder that's much bigger than the previous UCS snowspeeder, which was already nearing half the size of the UCS Millennium Falcon? The newer UCS X-Wing was nearly exactly the same size as the previous UCS X-Wing from 2000. There's no way they'd do a snowspeeder that's "much bigger" than the 2003 one. The statement obviously refers to the Death Star.

How much bigger do you want to make a snowspeeder?

I liked the newer Ben Kenobi figure, but I wasn't fond of the legs that were supposed to represent "robes". It looked much more as if the figure was wearing tan trousers with brown mini curtains hanging from only the front of his legs. So I decided to fix that up so Ben Kenobi would actually - finally - have real Jedi robes. I'm also thinking of giving him Mutt hair in light grey, but I'm not entirely sure about 1) how that would look and 2) making the figure look so very similar to the (new) Owen Lars. Has anybody tried the Mutt hairpiece in light grey on this Ben Kenobi figure yet? Perhaps someone who owns the figure and the hairpiece could take a picture so it can be seen how it looks. Fair enough, though I do think certain figures represent their corresponding characters well enough, and I think LEGO is aiming for that level of detail, without extremely overdetailing things. They seemed to realize this with figures like 2014 Luke and decided to revert to a more simplistic head that actually captured the look of Luke Skywalker. My main point is that, taken into consideration that they want to capture the details of certain characters (or outfits) as well as the top amount of printing they do on figures (which is, for example, never the back of legs, unless dual molded, but that doesn't count as printing), they're very close when it comes to many figures, and some figures shouldn't really be updated any further as it stands now. The 2014 Luke head was a rather extreme case of overdetailing, causing that version of Luke to look like he had very strong facial features, making him look too much like a "typical manly-looking hero character", while the real Luke looked much more normal and had softer features. So they reverted back to a more simplistic head since it captures the look and essence of Luke more, as I said before. If they do update the stormtroopers, then I hope they just update the hips and nothing else. The new helmet is perfect and I honestly don't think they will change that any time soon if ever, unless they decide to print the back of the helmets as well. The distinctions between figures based on live action characters and figures based on TV show characters are somewhat absurd, I agree. Dark tan Imperial officers, which does not look right in any way at all, or stormtroopers with frowny faces. They could've just used the classic stormtrooper, so I don't understand the need for distinction there at all. Either way, we'll see where it all will go. I just really hope today's figures will be compatible with future figures. I used to be less positive towards the new Darth Vader helmet (partially because I own a chrome Darth Vader, i.e. partial bias), but it has grown on me and I really like it now. Much more so than the old one.

Hello, and welcome! Say, you look familiar, aren't you a relative of Emmet Brickowski?

I want to try this, but the post by Hinckley that was referred to on page 2 about discolouration after the use of brasso worries me. I haven't ever used brasso before. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to use brasso, it might not be available in my country, so maybe nail polish, or... ...Has anyone tried this with a normal pencil eraser?

Who else thinks they can't really update the most recently updated figures much more anymore? This mainly goes for troopers and such. Maybe if arm printing and side printing and all that ends up coming with every figure one day, but I can't really see that happening for anything but figures that are meant to be a bit more exclusive. Arm printing already rarely happens, while the ever so common leg printing has been happening (though less frequently) for years. Who else thinks that figures like the most recent Original Trilogy stormtroopers, rebel pilots, etc. are pretty much their "definitive" editions, and that they'll either never be replaced or will always look up to date? I certainly hope and like to believe so. The only thing I can really think of is adding side printing for (and back printing or maybe dual molding) legs for figures that actually need it. The new Ben Kenobi figure, for example, has robes extended onto his legs, but it's almost as if they're little curtains. If they could fix things like that up, I think they'll be at a perfect point to stop endlessly updating minifigures, especially armybuilders like stormtroopers and so on. Looks much better, indeed! I'm gonna need to get some of those heads.

I've never seen a rounded square shield with a Gondorian tree symbol, a torso depicting armour with a tree emblem along with fitting legs and an elegant "curvy bullet" helmet as LEGO pieces before... Also, if boring had been an actual question, they wouldn't have given us the same Mordor orc in every single set when in the movies, orcs never looked the same. But of course, they did have variation with alternate prints for the ghost soldiers of Dunharrow, a very minor faction in the movies... but, as for orcs? "Ahh, let's give them all the same face. We'll make an awesome Mouth of Sauron figure, and then in the same set we'll put the same old Isengard worker orcs that have next to nothing to do with Morannon orcs! It's so evil, even the undead of Dunharrow fear such a fate! So we will spare them..."

Updated the "For Trade" pic again - I also managed to fix the mess that was the first post.

But it probably won't be... And wow, I actually haven't ever heard of that TV series before - I thought that was Harisson Ford with lots of make-up on, at first...

Good review! But I don't remember there being a scene like this in The Lord of the Rings... Huh - what did you say? Wait, that's not a wingless mini Balrog...?

I'm just wondering, what was the deciding factor in who got to have a chicken box or not?

Because money. Huh.. I've never seen that picture (nor have I ever seen "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull") before... is it from that movie, too?

They're probably going to pass the torch to "Indiana Jones Jr. Jr." or "Henry Jones the Third" in this movie...

I've been thinking of swapping Tatooine Luke Skywalker's head for the new (Final Duel) Luke Skywalker head (I'm really glad they changed Luke's head again, because the 2014 one that came with the Tatooine figure looks more like Steve Irwin and not much like Luke Skywalker...), and I've also been thinking of painting the hair from tan to dark tan, which seems like it would be more accurate and generally better looking. Is there anyone here who has tried either one or both of these things?

I'm looking for trades but I am also considering to sell certain minifigs if the offer is good enough - including Velma & Daphne, yes. PM me with an offer and I might take it into consideration.

I don't understand the logic in changing colours for variants (updates, rather) of existing figures just because the uniform looks slightly dark tan-ish on the show, even though it's the exact same uniform as he and the Imperial officers wear throughout the original trilogy. It should've been dark bluish grey, the decision to make the Imperial officer uniforms dark tan makes no sense. To anyone familiar with the original Star Wars, Imperial officers are known to wear dark grey uniforms, and they never exactly looked dark tan to me in any of the Rebels episodes, honestly.

Ahsoka Tano in 2008.