Fallenangel

Apparently it happens when a light color is printed over a darker one (e. g. flesh over black).

Looking at your blog posts and your Flickr page, I get the impression that you're writing off the activities of this PBG group as a joke... which isn't entirely inappropriate.

That's great to hear. How do the builds compare?

Plo Koon and Cad Bane are two of many, many characters which have nothing to do with the Original Trilogy but were nonetheless created and integrated into the Star Wars universe. (A Jedi and a bounty hunter, respectively.) No explanation is necessary because the target audience (kids who watch THE Clone Wars) will recognize them. Over the years, the franchise has expanded to include time travel, zombies, hot chocolate, and many other things that wouldn't strike most people as Star Wars. As far as source material goes, I would even go so far as to say it's more generic than City. Technically, The LEGO Group could release this or this as a Star Wars set, because that's where it comes from. Basically, whatever generic thing Lucas slaps the Star Wars label on becomes Star Wars. Someone on Wookieepedia put it this way: So you see, Star Wars is not so exclusive after all. I honestly think ship redundancy is a rather moot point against Star Wars. How many Fire Trucks have there been? Let's see: 1.336 2.340 3.602 4.620 5.640 6.2940 7.4208 8.4681 9.4977 10.5682 11.6621 12.6911 13.7213 14.7239 15.7891 16.8289 17.20002 Add to that thirteen mobile cranes, ten police cars, and four street sweepers, none of which are any more different from each other than each of the seven Millennium Falcons that have been released. Redundancy is inevitable, because there are only so many things people would be interested in buying in LEGO form.

I hope no one will mind me replying to this thread a few days late, because I'd like to say that this is my favorite LEGO rendition of my favorite Prequel craft... dark red looks beautiful, white trim is dead on, dark grey greebles are tastefully done, and the whole thing is generally bloody impressive. I would definitely agree that this is very accurate... probably as bang on as anyone would care to get at this size, in fact. I'm quite taken with the excellent shaping and coloring of the prow, as well as the sensor array. I've got a hi-res picture of the latter up, and comparing to the assembly on your model, all I can say is, wow. I especially love what you did with the motorcycle handlebars and the 2 clip plates – it's a tiny detail, but it's clever as well as accurate to the source. And again, the dark grey works wonderfully here, offsetting the red nicely. This one is really a keeper. Nice work.

That's understandable, since many of the actual models didn't even have cockpits.

This is really a great choice for a last model. So many great little things about the TIE/in: Nearly spot-on angles for the panels? Check. SNOTed pylons? Check. Interior? Check. All ten guns (including some NPU with the pistols)? Check. Darkened sensor array? Check. Aft hinge? Check. One should especially note the wonderfully done engine area, with cheese slopes around a steering wheel. Though I should add a small note... that small area in the middle of the cheese? I do believe that's a window. One could simply replace the round plate, stud, and inverted saucer attached to the ring with ones in black, or even remove them, in which case I would also add: Inclusion of rear mounting point and corresponding armature? Check. Another small point; as with your x1, I also think you could have included the darker bits visible through the lower half of the windscreen. But the highlights of this model make that nitpick insignificant. Finally, congratulations on the completion of your Advent calendar! "This will be a day long remembered."

Oh, right. My mistake. I don't endorse price-per-part as a measure of a good deal (though I will admit there is correlation), but still, 458 for $50 and 560 for $60 aren't bad.

I manipulated the picture to the best of my ability, but I still can't see anything resembling a '4' in the white glare. Granted, I can't see '3' either, but again, I'm basing that assumption off other factors. I do wish they had given the stormtrooper a white torso. That part isn't intended to be customizable to my knowledge, and I do like to keep my minifigures' joints strong...

458 seems like wishful thinking for me, but that's mainly due to the $50 price and the apparent decrease in greeble.

Fantastic! It's clever how you've positioned the cup to hold the droid up at the right. I'm sure I've seen the witch's hat used as vomit before; has it featured in one of your previous funnies? That cannon isn't intended to be innuendo, is it?

According to the catalog, 358 pieces, which, interestingly enough, is about a hundred less than 7658 had.

GOUT How much of this article is true?

The price-to-parts ratio of this set is some 75 cents per piece, which I find hilarious. I love the Kitty figure and the candy - now what to do with the one-piece house and pathetic cart...

Indeed. On a related note, the company deserves a little credit for getting the diameter of the Death Star right.

Pirate and City sets are also based on “something that existed prior” - pirates and cities. The LEGO policeman is a policeman, not generic man in black suit with gun. I was referring to Hrw-Amen's comment that one may be “constrained by what is in the world of the theme”. For example, the Star Wars franchise is so incredibly broad that virtually anything can fit in (much to the fans' distaste – but that argument is over and done with). The same could be said for Batman with all its alternate universes. It isn't quite the same situation for Indiana Jones and Harry Potter, but throw fanon into the mix and suddenly anything is possible. And of course I must echo the recurring point that the parts have a number of other uses unrelated to the license.

What I like most about this Falcon is that you’ve really nailed the height of this ship – the hull has just the right amount of curvature, the mandibles just the right thickness. Extra brownie points for asymmetrical greebling and nice use of cheese slopes on the jaws and deflector shield projectors. I was certain that you’d SNOT the mandibles and use those arch pieces to represent the maintenance access bays, and the result looks even better than I had expected. Judging by the tiles on the sides and the space between the innermost access bays and the wedge plates, though, it looks as if you had intended to attach the mandibles about two studs farther in but didn’t. (The jaws also look a tad bit short.) But I can excuse the excess length because you’ve achieved one thing I have yet to see on any other LEGO Falcon – the tow-in on the mandibles! Once this is finished, it will trounce even ototoko's!

No risk of that happening. This seems well-received. Though I must admit I'm not quite sure how Skalldyr and Mister Phes fit in.

It wouldn't be unprecedented - 7144 was about $20, while 8097 was $80. Then again, there was the $50 6209 in between those releases, so I suppose it isn't quite the same as a direct rerelease with that price jump.

Going by western U.S. time (that's where you live, right, Doc?) there are only about one or two hours left until midnight, and therefore only about one or two hours left for Brickdoctor to post his MIDI Falcon. How exciting!

I must say, mortesv, the pleasant and enthusiastic demeanor you exhibit in your posts is quite amiable. Regarding comparisons to the real thing, being the accuracy freak that I am () I had known for some time that 10030 (grand as it is) had conspicuously omitted the trapezoidal blocks housing the emergency engines. They're such prominent structures that I was certain you had good reason for leaving them off in your well-informed modifications, and hearing of your decision to find a balance between replication and speculative recreation, I approve of this significant yet tasteful deviation from the source material. As for the Tantive IV, in case you wish to develop that model further, Tim Goddard's done some nice experimentation in that scale with a number of similar models, so I would definitely recommend looking into it. One last thing – the last picture made me notice the cheese slopes you've added around the edge to represent the ridges in that area. Very nice.

Well, the first step would involve determining the size of the Falcon, which is more or less impossible. If we could find the sizes of the miniatures used in the Avenger dump scene and apply the same ratio to 10179, we might get somewhere...* *Though whether that information is even out there is completely unknown to me. But it can't hurt to try. =P

Yes, the shaping of the fuselage and nose has been a fix of mine for the longest time, and because of this, yours quite stood out. I had been getting somewhat close when yours demonstrated a brilliant yet at the same time oh-so-obvious solution (fragile though it was). I've since tried other ideas, some of which have also made their way to some really awesome people (and I'm really just self-plugging at this point, but what the heck), and the prospect of seeing further innovation excites me. So in short, yes, I am very much interested in your work, because your work is amazing.