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If that is true, then the sets could be considered to have a pretty hefty spoiler in them, even if it's not immediately apparent. Also, video's been made private or removed.

I wonder if the white shuttle could belong to Snoke?

A mix of both. Sometimes BL is cheaper, sometimes BnP or PaB.

Based on the Hasbro catalogue having two ships, one WHITE and the other BLACK, that fit the LEGO ship and the preview ship, I still think it's two, similar, but ultimately different ships. I mean, we got three TIE variants and two shuttle variants just in the OT, why is it hard to believe there could be two shuttle variants in TFA? ...and if you'd read recent posts, you'd see I pointed that out yesterday.

I asked him to add pictures of the wings movements/folding.

Nope. On the dark shuttle, the (upper) wings, extended portion swing up, while remaining vertically oriented, then slide straight down in a slot into a locked position. The lower wings fold out from flat for landing to vertical for flight. The OTHER shuttle, which is light-colored has wings that fold out to a V-shape. Two ships.

It's insane that they even thought they could keep it sealed up this long. I mean, this isn't Star Trek. The sets are due out in 8 days.

It is done. Chewie and a couple of astromechs are trying to get the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy flying. Again. Of course, Han stays in the cockpit, you know. Just in case they need him to flip a switch or something. I wonder if it has anything to do with that last engine mod that Han had done, but then never paid for? Naaah. So, I didn't do a lot of substitutions, except light grey levers instead of light bluish-grey ones, a mix of the 5.5 and 6L umbrella posts, and I used almost entirely new parts. There are some older used plates to help with the weathered look, though. ScottishDave's excellent TFA radar mod and Gerechtigkeitsliga's super simple engine mod got rid of the need for $100+ individual bricks like the printed dish and boat riggings. (Both mods together probably came in under $10, with shipping, which is incredible, when you think that's like around $280 cheaper.)

Stunned.

The ship in the trailer and THAT ship you are talking about are two different ships.

I don't know if this is a spoiler or not, but if you want to know nothing, don't read it.

See? This is what happens when Disney tries to keep things under wraps too long.

Look at this BL entry. You can see the wire type it requires pretty well. http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?S=3748-1#T=S&O={"ii":1} There only looks to have been two main ways it was used; on trains powered from the early-2000's 9V train motor and in some sets with one of various types of smaller 9V motors being used as a generator connected to a crank or wheels to turn the motor. It also appears in the 2006 Mindstorms Education NXT base set, but that looks like it has a unique adapter to get from the NXT to the light. Looks like you can get the light for as little as $0.50, but the NXT wire is at least $12, the train motors are at least $30, 9V minimotors are $10 and up, large 9v motors for $6 and up, or micromotors for $7 and up. In all, it seems like way more work to use it in a building than on a train.

Looks like some companies really could care less about Force Friday. The ship really looks good in some ways, and lacking in others. I like the slide-out gunner stations, dislike the obvious gaps in the hull-top. Figures look nice, even the soccer ball, whose bottom looks better in those pics than the ones we saw before.

Why isn't this brick-built yet, that's what I want to know!

Not just that, but the resemblance between that Titanium edition Lead Villain space ferry and the LEGO ship we've seen really don't look all that similar... That one looks more like what's in the trailer.

If ya just post that in the 1st posts of the contest and voting thread, we wouldn't ask.

Is discussion of the young magic space knight buildable action toys legal? I mean he's in the movie we can't talk about, just in an aged configuration... Does that put him off limits, even though they've been shown at toy fairs?

lol This is why you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It just gets all over everything. I kind of like the landing craft for bad soldiers. It reminds me of a Navy LCU, which was the first thing I ever got underway on while on active duty. It looks like the conning tower might be big enough for a pilot, too. Side printing and gold chrome?

I've been lazy. I snagged the figures out of my system scale Falcon, and never clipped on the last 4 or 5 sub-assemblies.

...or starts throwing them away when you're not at home.

It's just like DIS to try and put the chicken back in the egg. They've tried it before with things in my other hobby, amusement parks, but it never worked. They used to try to say things like "nothing's going on at Animal Kingdom", meanwhile everyone could see the gigantic mountain being built for everest, coaster track and all. They are less stupid about stuff like that now, admitting that there's construction, but not normally discussing details. I guess the control freaks over there found a new target, and AFOLs are it, because nobody seems to be taking down anything for Hasbro toys. Besides, major GP sites like Gizmodo and Yahoo have posted the pics at this point. There's really no rational explanation for trying to hide the sets now.

lol, yes. I have like 40 brick separators.

On the back of the Rey's Speeder box: Is she using a hoverboard? Did we get a BTTF mixup?

um, 16:1? I think it's a lot smaller scale than that if the dark brown thing is an MTT! An MTT is 31 meters long! Yours is 6 studs long I think? That would be more than 6800:1 :)