Fallenangel

Whoops, never mind. Still, mikepsiaki's solution doesn't cut into the cockpit like Larry Lars' does... I got that much, but how does that relate to what we're talking about?

Yeah, I guess - wait - to think I almost forgot about this... It's not to scale with minifigures, but you didn't say anything about that... There are more here and here. I wouldn't say marshal_banana's is radically different from Larry Lars', but it is four if you count drakmin's. Could somebody please explain that quote? I don't get it... Brickdoctor - does this mean I was right about the 2x4 wing plates?

So in spite of what AndyC said, the gameplay is actually less complicated. I think I'll just stick with playing the first one...

I would agree. Some brickbuilt scenery would help as well; canyon walls and buildings for Tatooine, some Death Star paneling, asteroids, etc. If you're willing to use modified sets and MOCs, a few more custom ships would make this look nicer, simply because some sets, such as 6212 and the new Falcon are just so... ugly. Bruce Lowell's X-wing would work great, as would Flail's modified 4504 (because there should be instructions for both of those). Larry Lars's T-47 should also be fairly easy to replicate from pictures (guess you could PM siseon or something). 10198 looks ridiculous next to 6211; perhaps the mini model from 10030 would work better? The Home One playset also looks pretty out of place. Perhaps another X-wing or the Falcon? (Or even better, put in a couple of Legostein's mini capital ships - though you'll have to ask him first) Maybe another Star Destroyer on the asteroid field shelf (a midi-scale one could work.) It doesn't look like all the sets you described would fit on the prescribed shelves... The land dioramas look kind of busy compared to the other shelves.

Wants cake with liver and onions on top for quoting FBTB member Draykov, who likened the alterations made for the Special Editions to putting liver and onions on a perfectly good cake. ... probably due to the fact that I was upset with my last title because it was completely the opposite of what I had meant by that quote.

Ah. That would look kind of messy compared to what we've seen in the other three games. I suppose this is so you can destroy things while deflecting blaster bolts?

Wait, they made those levels easier? Man... Can you not deflect blaster bolts in this game? I don't remember ever seeing the player do that.

Well that explains a lot When did he say this?

Where? Other than the two areas cavegod and I mentioned, that is.

I didn't originally intend to use the scene to bash the story of the Prequels, just Ewan's poor acting in that particular scene. In fact, I believe you were the one who defended it with an in-universe explanation in the first place. Wasn't the reason they sent someone to Utapau in the first place to find Grievous so that they could kill him and end the war? Well come on, we've all felt stupid for liking Star Wars at some point in our lives. Plinkett is the guy who did the Red Letter Media reviews for the Prequels. His reviews, as I said, have many valid points, but would have been better if he knew enough about the Clone Wars to avoid sounding like a complete idiot in the Sith review and if he didn't randomly interrupt with footage of some lady which he had apparently kept hostage in his basement. Plinkett didn't really change my opinion of the Prequels, he really just reinforced what I already thought of it (though there were points I disagreed with).

Well, that much is obvious. I was referring to what I thought was Leland's current in-universe explanation. This 'not fearing the enemy' business is new to me. It could be likened to the more recent retconned length of the TIE Advanced x1 which is a whopping 9.8m when even the original length of 7.5m was clearly much too large. In any case, it's all the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another (to quote Orwell).

Huh? I thought that clone armor was only supposed to look white to us because Kaminoans could see in frequencies other than visible light (meaning that clone armor, as well as the rest of the interior of Tipoca City, was actually quite colorful... just not to us). I dismissed it as a blunder on the Kaminoans' part.

:laugh: Hilarious spoof of the Prequels. "No. You draw upon the power of the Force-" "The Force?" "The Force is an energy field-" "Energy? But energy is force times distance." "And 'power of the force' would be distance times the derivative with respect to time." "<sigh> you're monks." "Got it." What's even funnier is that I'm more interested in hearing Qui-Gon talk about physics than I am of whatever he was supposed to be doing on the ship in the first place. Guess I'm just geeky that way...

Or they could go back to releasing small vehicles like AT-RTs and A-wings as individual sets again.

Brickdoctor is right, but I'll try and argue the in-universe case as well: - It's been established in earlier scenes from the Prequels that battle droids aren't a threat to Jedi. The droidekas didn't have their shields up, so any deflected blaster bolts would have roasted them. - Because Grievous was going to whip out his blades, at the very least you think he'd step back so he'd be out of range. Alternately, because Grievous was taking so ridiculously long to whip out his blades (though I can accept that he's slower and that he changed his lightsaber fighting style because he was damaged) you'd think Obi-wan would have had the sense to decapitate him then and there. I don't see how the duel between Ben and Vader relates to the one between Obi-wan and Grievous.

If you're neutral, you can just not vote... All right then, I'll give one example of what I considered to be bad acting in the Prequels (and yes, this too was mentioned in the Red Letter Media review, but I noticed it well before I watched it.) After arriving on Utapau, Obi-wan eventually comes face to face with General Grievous, who then spends over twelve parsecs* taking off his cloak, separating his arms, and lighting his lightsabers, while Ewan just stands there looking like an idiot. Now, I know this is because he literally stood in front of a wall when they were filming this, but it's still ridiculous to me. It's been established from the Clone Wars that Grievous can hold his own against around half a dozen Jedi and chop up clones like they're spaghetti, all while using only two of his arms - now one guy is up against this thing (who has four times as many lightsabers as he does), and he doesn't so much as flinch (or even better, have the sense to take a stab at his heart while he's lighting all those lightsabers)? Either Jedi in the Prequels have the ability to completely zone out when they are at a very high risk of dying, or that was a pretty poorly acted scene. As for the complex plot of the Prequels, I'll say that I prefer a dumbed-down plot with characters that feel alive to a cast of emotionless, dumbed-down characters acting out a complex plot. *Of course I know it's a unit of distance; I was making a reference to Han's meaningless boast in the Mos Eisley cantina.

Indeed - all that orange armor makes them easy targets for snipers. (As if they weren't easy enough to spot...)

Seconded. If you wouldn't bother to learn what it's called, why would you care to learn what it looks like? Most AFOLs here don't seem to catch dimensional inaccuracies in others' MOCs, but they usually know the name of the ship they're looking at. As for the picture, looks like someone was just too lazy to finish assembling their mini V-19 before photographing it.

But LEGO doesn't seem to want to make alien battlepacks. After four years, we still haven't had our Geonosian, Wookiee, or Ewok battlepacks (though I feel the Neo-Clone Wars - it was in the poll, so that means I can use that term again, right? - are partly to blame; I'll bet we would have had Wookiees instead of assassin droids that year). Of course, with the ever-rising detail and molding on minifigures, I suppose an alien battle pack would now be possible.

Are you sure? Legostein, the nose is from Larry Lars' model. According to Brickdoctor, it's the most accurate and aesthetically pleasing solution possible at this scale, which explains why so many other people borrowed the design. It could be likened to the proton torpedo launch tubes on Brucey-wan's X-wing.

Perhaps He Had Trouble Reading It Because It Wasn't Typed Like the Name of a Movie. It's a V-19 Torrent Starfighter. And that mini model... why is the cockpit pushed so far back into the body? It looks weird. Oh wait, the '08 series messed up the V-19...

:laugh: LEGO sets are expensive enough as it is, so your average LEGO-buying parent will probably just assume that they're getting more so. Maybe LEGO should start putting the approximate dimensions of the finished set on their boxes like they do for some sets on Shop@Home.

Maybe he doesn't know. I mean, even I can't identify this.

I never noticed while I was watching the series that the Malevolence is basically just a Providence carrier with a giant round thing shoved in the middle. While you're at it, find out what happened to the Acclamator, the Munificent, the Recusant, the Providence, and the Venator.

The Force Unleashed is canon; it's just that some people may not be able to accept the idea of Vader having an apprentice as canon.