LegoFjotten

Sorry to hear about your troubles, I wish you all the best. SoNE wouldn't be the same without an awesome MstrOfPppts entry, so I second a reasonable deadline extension.

I don't mind Eomer or Thranduil in their respective sets, and I think they make the sets better (Lurtz I could do without though...) The Thranduil hairpiece is not so useful in huge amounts, but the rest of the fig is great. Shame the orc's don't have hair. 4 fig true BP's like in SW would be great...

Looks great! I would love to see a closeup of the cockpit area.

Cool episode, glad to see us rebels also get a shot at some Hoth action! Now I just need to get my work projects wrapped up before Christmas so I actually have time to build an entry…

Looks like TRU has them at 149,- Probably means that the 129,- MSRP is just a mixup, dang.

Most of the new battlepacks have shown up in Norwegian online store Lekekassen.no, and much to my surprise the price is lower than the previous line of bp's. Now NOK 129,-, before they were NOK 149,- An extra 16% discount too, not too shabby. Anyone else seen norwegian prices being 129 (in shop or online) confirming bp price drop, or is it just this shop that's got MSRP wrong?

Wow, fantastic work as usual! Everything looks great, the sarlacc looks really menacing!! In the first picture the terrain is lit a bit strongly though, doesn't do the model justice!

Congratulations Rook & MstrOfPppts! No big surprise to see your excellent entries end up at the top of the list! Go rebels!

Funny, I ended up with the almost exact same chair for a non-SW build just a few weeks ago! http://www.flickr.com/photos/100114564@N06/10907698995/

Great work, love it! A good close-up of the bar and "entertainment" area would be nice!

Just noticed the new Hobbit sets were available on S@H (Norway). Anyone know if they just showed up now or if they've been there for a while already?

Nope. There is no trick to get a bunch of clones or droids cheap. You can buy new in battlepacks, or new/used through Bricklink, eBay or whatever marketplaces you have in your country, and it will be as cheap as the best offer(s) you can find.

Very nice scene! The door is awesome, and the consoles too! Everything looks excellent, so no suggestions from me. (I too saw the front figs as helmets only at first glance of the first picture).

Thanks for the review! One thing though, the position/size of the "Masked Builder" logo on the images (especially the white background ones) makes it look almost like a header before every line of text. I found it extremely distracting when trying to read the review. Maybe it would be less distracting if placed in the upper-right.

Thanks Lobot, looking forward to the next episode! I think the pile-o-bricks was a nice idea, and I hope we will see it again in the future to mix things up a bit. One suggestion for future episodes using a limited set of parts is to have a separate allowance for minifigs. I must admit I was a bit irked with the rule changes since I found it a bit drastic going from (pretty much) unlimited minifigs to a maximum of 5 figs+sigfig very late in the episode. As for LDD, it certainly makes sense to allow it for part-pile builds. For regular episodes I'm not to fond of mixing LDD and real bricks. As MstrOfPppts said it is very easy to go big, and also to make something that isn't really possible to build. I considered using LDD myself for ep.2 as it would be easy to experiment, but as a Mac user it's not trivial to get up and running with PovRay. The next time an LDD episode is in the pipeline, I think it could be a good idea to announce that LDD is allowed a few weeks before the episode starts to give people who are not familiar with LDD/PovRay a chance to get up to speed.

Since the Royal Guards have huge robes and not just capes, I think the old style with regular red arms gives a more correct overall appearance. Don't mind the BP having the dark red ones though, they are easy enough to swap out and dark red is probably more useful for creating new figs for mocs.

Wow! Fingers crossed!

Fantastic work, jaw dropping!

I am somewhat busy at the moment, so please excuse me for not elaborating too much or responding to everything. :D I agree with some of the points, but not all. For me personally, if SoNE was set exclusively in TOR or CW I wouldn't have gotten involved at all. I see your point regarding rebels vs troopers, and I know you've mentioned a third faction some time ago. I think if most episodes contained a third non-player faction it would widen the possibilities quite a bit. Ep 2 had the Black Sun which was a good idea but difficult to expand on with the part-pile limitation. One thought could be to have episode arcs (3-5 episodes), with the setting for each arc rotating (first OT, then TOR, then CW, repeat). I agree that more staff interaction is probably required to get the SoNE ball rolling by itself. I think Brickdoctor did an excellent job during Ep 1. As for judging, more than two weeks is just too long for us impatient folks (for both episodes and freebuilds). One of my freebuilds took more than a month to judge, and that is a bit over the top. The scoring system needs to be balanced and fair for sure, it should not be a number of participants game. Average score per builder is not a good measurement, especially when the top 5 in each group are scored differently from the rest. If for example only the top 5 builds in each faction was used to determine score for the overall victory at least one would compare apples to apples. Gotta run but hopefully I'll have chance to comment some more later...

Nice build, I like it!

Wow, great looking ship! I love the curves, and the gravity well generator is fantastic! Might have to venture into Classic Space territory myself, just need to get some parts...

Here is my entry, Merry Christmas from the caves of Hoth!

I'd say chances are slim. They probably cleared out the last of their inventory.

From Finn.no, private seller. Seller had multiple sets/packages, but they're all gone now I'm afraid.