Fallenangel

I think the Malevolence would work as a playset. Then again, that ship is old news so we probably won't be seeing it. I hope LEGO never attempts another bongo, or really anything else from Menace except maybe the Radiant VII and some of the pods. Most of the Trade Federation and Naboo ships are too curvaceous and/or lumpy to look good in LEGO. An Opee sea killer would be interesting, but of course one of those would have to come after a rancor. Eeth Koth died? When? I think the Malevolence would work as a playset. Then again, that ship is old news so we probably won't be seeing it. I hope LEGO never attempts another bongo, or really anything else from Menace except maybe the Radiant VII and some of the pods. Most of the Trade Federation and Naboo ships are too curvaceous and/or lumpy to look good in LEGO. An Opee sea killer would be interesting, but of course one of those would have to come after a rancor. Eeth Koth died? When? And Poof didn't go 'poof' in a movie which means he didn't die and Lucas can therefore make up whatever crazy story he wants and Filoni (and the rest of us) will have to live with it. Who knows, they may even change his species to Kaminoan.

I must say, the UCS rendition is quite impressive! The size really does seem to have freed you up. You've made huge leaps in detail and accuracy in many places - the thinner repulsors, the elongated pedals, the twin handlebars, the tapering nose... overall it's much more fleshed out, which is good! Expect a PM from me soon...

Who would pay $40 for an N-1?! And a $100 Echo Base just wouldn't suffice... it's no Endor bunker, that's for sure. I think it'd have to be at least $150. And Jabba's palace would have to be at least $300 if it were to include a decently sized room with all the minifigures we want in it...

I wanted to keep the forums clean, so I just sent a PM. Of course, that doesn't have much either, but once you build V7 (in a LARGER scale) that will change...

Actually, I'd consider that area to be a step back. The solution with the tiles looked better than what you have now - the real issue was that the middle portion was too wide. I'd go on, but no PM, so... I'd say siseon's solution is a lot closer to what Brickdoctor did than what LEGO did (which was use that terrible Y-wing canopy piece).

Yes, I know. That's why I decided not to leave you a page of constructive criticism the first time. Must be hard to build anything decent with LEGO after 15 years. It's just that it gets rather annoying when people say it's perfect and amazing and all that. I mean, even you yourself admit that it could have been better. I'd have to disagree about the scale, though. Bigger models allow for more detail.

Let's call it Menace, because that's what it is. Unless you've seen the post-'81 version, which would be Hope... Basically what Robert Plant sounds like when he talks. Finally, someone else who remembers Jimi Hendrix! Lady Gaga syndrome...?

I foresee a title...

6:06 - "Well, he is a cunning warrior, and our best pilot." Never mind... And in Sith and the Neo-Clone Wars, Grievous is Russian: I feel sorry for Filoni; he respects the Expanded Universe but is forced by Lucas to destroy it...

Just avoid this and you'll be just fine...

Great! Now you just need Gunray (Japanese), Watto (he's middle Eastern or something, can't remember), Clone Wars Kit Fisto (English) and Ahsoka (American ). I think Plo Koon had an accent as well but I can't remember what it was.

As a matter of fact, they don't.

1) Three beasts and five minifigures for £24.99? Maybe you meant £249.99. 2) Why would there be sandpeople at the Lars homestead? They had nothing to do with the attack. Apparently it's based off an old concept sketch for a TIE shuttle. I don't care what it's based off of, it looks awful and I wouldn't want it sitting on my shelf.

Okay, I didn't want to say this, but this is getting annoying... Even if it was his first LEGO MOC in 15 years I really wish people would stop saying that... I understand that everyone here has different standards for MOCs, but it just doesn't feel right to me when people give such praise to an X-wing with such a misshapen nose, obscenely undersized wingtip laser cannons (both in diameter and in length), thrusters which appear too detached from the rest of the structure and which are strangely thinner in the back, misplaced splitter vanes in the air intakes, engines that are far too close to the canopy and are not sufficiently integrated with the wing surface, no astromech droid nor any of the wonderful greebling behind it, inaccurate squadron marking details, and inaccurate apertures for the S-foils, not to mention gaps everywhere. And those are just things you notice right off the bat. Even for someone that isn't a pedantic nerd, many of these inaccuracies (many of which could probably be easily incorporated) detract from the aesthetic quality of the model IMO. And you can't say that I'm being terribly unreasonable in my comparison of his X-wing to the studio model because IMO all of the points described above with the exception of the first one and the part about the thrusters, were properly addressed to a reasonable degree on my own model as well as that of Brian Tobin. No way to both. drakmin's T-47 manages to capture the unique shape of the nose area much better than LEGO's rendition (which made the same structure flat, distorted, and generally ugly). drakmin's model also has more consistency in color in the fashion of the original studio model in contrast with all the random gray that LEGO stuck in their model (more accurate as well as more aesthetically pleasing). The radiator assembly also looks a lot cleaner and more accurate on drakmin's rendition (they even slope outwards) while that area of the LEGO rendition looks kinda gappy and unfinished. I believe drakmin's rendition also has a flat bottom, which is more accurate to the studio miniatures than the bowl we see on LEGO's model. (Yes, I know the bowl is accurate to the full-scale model, but face it, the miniatures were sleeker and just better-looking) On the other hand, the amount of greeble on the 7191 UCS X-wing makes it preferable to drakmin's version which is way too clean. Not only that, but 7191 has more accurately sized wingtip laser cannons and squadron markings. Oh, and there are fewer holes.

Don't you know? He's ashamed of his baldness.

The wings don't extend/contract, they open to form an X. "Lock S-foils into attack position..." Yes, they updated the minifigures and even replaced outdated pieces but the design itself is unaltered. Isn't it ridiculous how after four years they still don't seem to want to redesign the actual ship? Especially seeing all the fantastic MOCs out there which I'm sure they could take cues from. More here. I guess kids will scream at anything shiny, but I'm surprised by how many AFOLs like it ( and the snowspeeder, and the TIE fighter, and the new Falcon...)

Pantorans aren't real Star Wars aliens, they're Lucas and his kids with blue makeup and funny clothing. And they don't have the pointed ears that both the Nelvaanians and the Na'vi have. Speak for yourself, Leia... At least it's better than Savage Oppress...

Not Twi'Leks, but Nelvaanians. (They don't have lekku...)

"...a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror..."

KimT seemed to like it, so here’s my proposal: Suppose an AFOL – just for fun, let’s call him Candide – has volunteered to create a section of a Star Wars display for a big AFOL event in Denmark which he will be attending. He’s excited, he’s got a prototype built in the basement, he’s designed the whole thing in LDD, etc. Two months before the con (or however early they announce/plan these events), the display is complete. But there are a few problems: Candide lives in Australia; to ship his entire LEGO collection over to Denmark with him would cost him a fortune he doesn’t have; there are portions of his display that exist only in LDD because he ran out of parts; and the display requires at least twenty stormtrooper minifigures, even though he only has eight. So what he does his, he posts a proposal in this thread with a description of his MOC (e. g. estimated size, type), lots of pictures, .lxf file if there is one, etc. as well as some practical things like location (in this case Denmark, but there doesn’t have to be one), timeframe (again, if there is one). Now let’s say there’s another AFOL – let’s call him Pangloss – who happens to live in Denmark. He has a dozen boxfuls of LEGO in his room and a collection of 75 stormtrooper minifigures. He loves building displays, and he’s eagerly anticipating the big AFOL event which is in two months. Best-case scenario, Pangloss sees Candide’s proposal and agrees to "remote build" it for him (maybe as a "see-ya at the con!"-type thing). With the help of the .lxf file and pictures, he begins to construct the display in his own basement, donating parts from his extensive collection. Eventually, the display is completed and brought to the AFOL event where Candide sees it. He runs into Pangloss at the event, and they discuss the display. Candide’s display has been completed, yay! C’est vrai, tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles.* I hope you get the drift : a “designer” makes a proposal concerning a specific , a “builder” chooses to accept. This would be aimed at MOCers who would like to see their models in a tangible form but for some reason cannot, and perhaps people who want more of a challenge for building than they as AFOLs would normally get from LEGO’s kid-oriented. I guess the process can be very simple or very complicated depending on the circumstances of the “designer” and the “builder” (both of which, by the way, will end up having to design as well as by). As a matter of fact, there is a certain MOC I’ve been working on for some time, but which cannot be realized fully because I lack certain crucial parts. (I’m sure you all know what I’m talking about.) Normally I would just PM, but I decided to make this into a thread because I thought there might be other members who may be in similar circumstances or would just like seeing their MOCs on display in other people’s rooms. Imagine the conversations: “Looky here, this is so-and-so’s TIE fighter, next to so-and-so’s Millennium Falcon...” *See what I did there? We could even go one step further and have a room somewhere in the world with some of the best MOCs by AFOLs on display, like a Hall of Fame.., but that’s still a ways off.

This isn't explicitly Star Wars, but here goes... With the amount of tech available to us, do you suppose it would be possible to orchestrate a sort of "virtual building"-type thing where people create brick renditions of others' LDD MOCs, or build something with their parts according to another member's instructions? This would help for members such as those who want to make a UCS something-or-other or a huge diorama but can't afford to order 1000 parts off bricklink, or something. For example, if you were making a TIE fighter - one member could one panel and a pylon, and then direct another member to build two, after which the first member would build part of a ball and direct the second member to replicate it, and so on... like a collaborative or team build, but over the Internet. We could have a thread where those wanting to make a certain ship/vehicle would make a proposal and a second member (preferably someone with overflowing buckets of Star Wars LEGO who's good at building without explicit instructions, etc.) could accept... the perks about this being Star Wars is that while such an MOC would take a lot of planning regarding dimensions and such, the people over at ILM have done all the designing for us so that we need only apply our brick skills.* Sounds crazy, I know, but think of the possibilities... *The whole affair would require mutual consent so that the people providing parts won't feel like the people directing the MOC are slave drivers, and where else would you find someone with overflowing buckets of LEGO agreeing to build sections of an MOC for somebody else than on an AFOL forum?

According to this (as well as the full-scale prop - at least that's what they claim it is) there should be a bundle of cloth behind the rider's seat which would correspond to the cylindrical portion of the backpack.

That's a lot of LEGO for six weeks... I don't think sand or glass is an issue at all; I know there are some who prefer to take pictures of their MOCs outside and such, so it's not that different. On the other hand, if you were to use non-LEGO parts in an MOC... (but Brian Tobin's Falcon is still awesome) Very nice display. The only thing I would suggest* is to clean up the snowtroopers (maybe put them inside the base?). *Other than the obvious... "now that you've got all these parts, tear apart those ugly LEGO snowspeeders and build your own something-or-other."

Bah, retcons... What do you mean? We've only had two System renditions of the X-wing (the latter of which, accuracy aside, actually looks worse than the first one). The unlikeliness of most of these rumors hit me when I read this: Thanks, Drock. If the target market is now too young to even remember the Prequels, what chance do they have of even knowing there was an Original Trilogy? I guess those other guys were right when they said the license would have died without the Neo-Clone Wars because none of these kids have even heard of all the other stuff. Yeah, kids don't want a real Yoda who's there to teach us things about the Force, they want a .

Looks all right, but IMO there's not really much substantial improvement. Things I would suggest in the direction of more substantial modifications: - Integrate the mandibles with the ship more - they way they just kind of hang out at the sides looks really weird. - Rework the area around the freight loading doors- there should be a full trapezoidal board-like structure. - Correct the angle at which the cockpit protrudes from the quadlaser turret sidewalls. Also: - The red coloring you've added looks really random, like there's red bugs crawling over the Falcon. Coordinating the color to to better match the studio model would help. - The quads, while now to scale with minifigures, are so out of scale with the rest of the ship that they look rather goofy. - The greebling on the mandibles is rather too colorful for me.