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Wow that looks fantastic! Excellent work!

I haven't been involved very much but I agree with Elementary, this is such a cool concept I don't mind if it goes for another ten weeks. This really feels epic.

It makes me beyond happy that Han is going to enlist in the Imperial Academy like in the old books. I hope they keep his first meeting with Chewbacca the same as well since it's fairly compelling, however if they change it i'll be okay. I don't think it's going to be so bad afterall.

Gregor, who is also a clone commando was in this episode arc. The fact that we don't have official Lego Commandos, considering how popular they are, is absurd. At this point i'm going to just buy third party.

I think this comes down to a fundamental difference in how we view the Force and I don't think we're ever going to agree and that's okay. Just know I'm pushing back not because I'm trying to win am arguement, I'm trying to explain my interpretation and why these aspects o the films don't bother me. The reason I have a problem with the lightsaber part of Rey is because a lightsaber is a tool, an implement that requires finesse to handle. You don't just pick up a sword and know how to duel people who have been training their whole lives the next day. The force is different. The force is more spiritual. I think reading Siddartha by Herman Hesse, and studying Buddhism in high school shaped my views on it. You don't need to be a jedi or have lots of training to be a powerful force user, it's more how attuned you are to the force, how connected your being is, how at peace you are with your existance. It's why Anakain is Obi Wan's equal despite Obi Wan having ten years more training. Annakin is more Rey is more attuned to the force. It's more then that but this post is already too long as is The thing about the sequels is that the light side and dark side dynamic is flipped. Darth Vader is interesting because he's fairly unconflicted (movie canon) till Return of the Jedi while Luke is conflicted between light side and dark side until finally going mostly light by the end of Return. In the sequels Rey is the straight and narrow Darth Vader and Kylo Ren is the dynamic interesting character. As for the rock thing, correct me if I'm wrong but that's the only impreesibe thing she does with the force. Thats not all that impressive compared to Snoke, Luke, and Kylo. As for themes of failure, that's Empire Strikes Back. The Rebellion escapes but is shathere for the moment. Yoda fails to teach Luke. Luke fails to complete his training, defeat Vader, etc... Vader fails to turn Luke. The Falcon is on the run the whole movie. Han gets capured and frozen. Leia and Chewie lose Han. C3PO gets torn apart. Lano loses on his end of the deal with Vader and loses Cloud City. Ozzel, Needa, and Piett all fail Vader. The list goes on. The only people who come out on top are the Empire, the Emperor, Boba Fett, and Jabba. That's it. It's pretty dismal for everyone else.

He blew up the most advanced battle station in the galaxy because it was set up in his story that he can bullseye womprats on a crappy air speeder. We never see this and oddly enough I don't think we've ever seen that depicted in canon or the EU, we just hear he can do it and accept it. Or somehow his experience as a farm kid taught him how to shoot a rope from a small gun and leap a bottomless gorge whilst holding someone and somehow now fall or drop her in the thirty foot distance from one platform to the next. Or somehow his experience farming, shooting with a rifle, and firing the cannons of a crappy airspeeder enable him to have the skill of firing the turret of an entirely alien ship to him, and destroy multiple Tie Fighters flown by elite pilots. Until Scarif, and the heavy losses the Rebels took, we never had a great reason other then assuming Biggs put in a good word, for why Luke was even given an X-Wing. That's not how the military works or how even rebels work. A crappy airspeeder is not training for an interstellar snub fighter that requires a lot of finesse in the vacuum. Rey is a scavenger on a desert planet who has no social skills and is a tech geek. So of course she can fix things, that's why she's still alive in the first place, its all she does and if she couldn't fix old junky tech Unkar would've left her for the sand wisps a long time ago. Apart from that she worked directly for Unkarr at some point and is familiar with his ships, with the implication being she has flown the falcon before. Why can she fly it as well as she does? Well we don't know how many times she's flown before, we only know that she has. How many womp rats did Luke bullseye? Same thing, all we know that he's done it and we don't need to know how many times to understand his ability. The only part of Rey's capabilities that makes little sense is her capability with a lightsaber. She's a little too good for how little she's trained. To be fair though she hasn't actually won a lightsaber fight to Kylo, she won a mental force battle that requires concentration to an unstable dude who just killed his father (leaving him more conflicted and unstable), and has been shot with what the movie establishes is a gun that fires heavy last projectiles. I mean seriously he was hit with a gun that sent stormtroopers flying through the air and he's still standing? That's impressive. She beat three* Praetorian guards, who she fought almost one at a time while Kylo took on three at a time. Advantage Rey. Look I agree that is the one scene its definitely a stretch for what her capability should be, but to have her impaired would've ruined perhaps one of the top greatest fight scenes in Star Wars, if not most films in recent years. To me its up there with some of the crazy fights from John Wick. The Cinematography and camera work is gorgeous especially right after Rey and Kylo look at each other and go back to back with the guards rushing them. Plus Snoke's guards are far more useful then Palpatine's. Where the heck were they when their boss got pitched down a bottomless pit?

Not bad at all, quite excellent updates, I specially love the face on the Rebel Navy Trooper (a fig like the scout trooper helmet) in desperate need of an update. I love your Death Star Gunner Officer, quite clever, and I think fits the color scheme very well.

I think my fundamental problem with Nexo Knights is how little compatibility it had with other themes. Having distinct features and design is great but when you're as weird as Nexo Knights you better have solid waves of sets to carry you. What made Power Miners so great is the first few waves were really strong, especially that first wave.

Same problem, sorry.

I feel dumb for only realizing now that Hoth is technically a desert planet. Could Ice planets exist then? Wouldn't glacial planet be more apt for those?

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That is absolutely fantastic. I didn't know what to expect what to think when I saw the subject title but I am not disappointed.

Gorgeous work. The amber core pops like nobody's business.

Well let's not get into it but there's a difference between plot and story. The plot is what we got (the sequence of shots from start to end) the story is why we got it. The plot of the prequels is undebatably rough. The story is brilliant just executed shoddily. Edit: I got no sleep last night so I may have flipped the terms Ahhh good to know. That's too bad then.

So its an odd to write it, but I live in a swamp or rather in the barometric region of swampland. Unfortunately as a side effect of that, dust mixing with the humidity in the air can lead to more grimy looking dust. Now i'm at a loss of what to do in regards of cleaning. My plan was to take a Q-Tip and some water and scrub it off. Will this cause water damage to the parts? I've never had to dust Lego before let alone scrub them.

I thought the SSD was the rumor for the next UCS? Was that fake?

So do we think the Brick Suits are going to have some form of anti-stud on the back?

I was never a fan of the stud shooter Lego bowcaster instead preferring a straight up iteration of the weapon without the novelty function. However if you don't put the grey trigger on it and place an all black joystick piece, positioned as so, you essentially have a bowcaster that looks more like a *real* weapon. *Pardon the awful dark tan hips on Chewie* I've been playing a lot of Battlefront II recently, fantastic game now that the pay to win is out (there is a grind though ), and I've begun to appreciate the Resistance Officer. The dark tan belt from a Rogue One rebel trooper is perfect at making the Resistance Officer's tunic appear to be a longer tunic. The effect is much better in person then the photos can show. They also have a holster on their right hip in the game so I figured why not use one I had from the CMF i've had sitting around. I think it looks quite good myself.

I am always up for more games!

Zuvio, the character who was to be...absolutely not significant in any conceivable way. Yet I still find so many of them. Rose too. Of course most egregious is the AT-ACT Pilot, my local Target has thirty of them...THIRTY! I'm so happy I found a Black Series 6 inch Thrawn this last Force Friday as I haven't seen another since. The good figures never stay in stock from Ashoka to even basic Stormtroopers.

Just bought a hardcover of the Han Solo Trilogy, the original EU origin story for Han Solo, in order to see how it compares to the new film's take on the scoundrel. Read the first chapter and its pretty good so far. At a young age Han is a talented swoop racer. While the stories are going to be significantly different, Han Solo is still a drag racer in the new movie. Although I wonder if that has more to do with Harrison Ford in American Graffiti then anything else. I don't think Forces of Destiny really panned out well for them, they're cheaply made and not that compelling. Plus Star Wars is in an odd place where its so large its own merchandise is competing against itself amongst the various brands. http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/with-star-wars-toys-the-force-is-strong-but-retail-sales-arent/

He looks pretty darn good!

Wow that's really good especially his frock coat! I especially love how you connect the hair to the beard. I like the beard although I feel like its up a little high, but I suppose in this format that can't really be helped.

See I was thinking it was more this kind of situation. Lets get metaphysical with the bricks!

This was fun! Thanks for letting me play! Good luck town!