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Scaling is always difficult due to the proportions of a minifig. Add in that as gifted as the model makers were back in 1976/77 I don't think 100% accuracy to scale was as important. I don't think they ever thought Lego builders would be obsessing over their studio models 40 years later. The Falcon has always been a tricky one... its outside was always portrayed slightly smaller than its interior would suggest. The large scale of the UCS set feels right as does the Slave 1 (at least to me). Same with the recent TIE Fighter. When I've looked at the images of the trench run the two TIEs flanking Vader's Advanced do feel the same as the scaling of the recent Rebel's Advanced alongside two of the new TIEs. Hopefully the new X-Wing will fit with these and feel right to me too. Just need to sort the Y-Wing situation next. ;)

I've made several posts on Flickr regarding Cyclops bricks. I won't be dropping it. Several people have made Paypal claims against him and been unsuccessful. I know a few people who are in the process of making claims against him at the moment. I'm waiting to see how they go before making a claim myself.

Some of us have bought several of those UCS torsos to kit out our TIE pilots. ;) I’m seriously looking into getting pad printed arms done with just the Imperial symbol on them. Silver on black and black on light bley. Unfortunatey the Snowspeeder arms are two colour and that would probably make it prohibitively expensive for just one use.

Retardedly low size limit is there because EB isn’t a hosting site. Upload to flickr or similar and post a link. So without the second image, what, pray tell, was for sale that is supposed to be sold out?

No X-Wing from the summer wave?

Light Blue Grey

Mr Incredibles's Legs work well if you rub the top 'pant' area off. I've done that for a custom Star Wars figure that I wanted the boots on.

Especially with that officer being the closest version we have to Cassian Andor's Imperial disguise!

You really can't have enough of those dual moulded 'boot' legs.

The design of that Bellatrix figure is just the old one from the Burrow set. It can't be that one people are talking about can it?

Yeah. I’ve had issues like that one a couple of things I’ve removed the print from. I’m not sure if you’re in the UK but I used Brasso which is a polish. I had the main issues when I used a version of it which was impregnated into a cloth so you had to rub quite hard. I’ve since picked up a bottle of it which is liquid... I just use a healthy amount and flood the area while rubbing gently. Once it starts to come off it comes away pretty easily. I just don’t press as hard as I used to. Before the regular stormtroopers were so plentiful I used a toothpick dipped into the liquid to change the Jumptrooper to regular Stormie by removing the scuff marks.

I’ve done that to the Ghostbusters legs. Print came off fine and the legs look great.

Yeah. I feel your pain. My TIE pilots all have the UCS printed arms (now THAT hurt)... although I've made some of it back by selling on full TIE Pilot figures at a profit. I'm holding off picking up the printed arm torsos from the UCS Snowspeeder for the rest of my Snowie Pilots. Then there's the Stormtroopers, X-Wing Pilots, Grey Uniform Imperials, Gunners, Navy Fleet Troopers............ I'm still sorely tempted to try and get some arms pad printed in silver on black as well as black on grey. Single colour artwork and same artwork for all arms. Shouldn't be too expensive.

*Reads comment. Nods in agreement all the way through. Subconsciously opens new browser window and adds 3 packs of Stormtrooper arms to the basket*

Thanks MKJoshA. That looks like it could be really interesting. I played the first couple of Dark Forces games and remember just how much of a nostalgia hit that was. Now to try and find some reference as it was so long ago!

It's not available double points in store... at least in the Liverpool store. They have a small note near both the Y-Wing and the Falcon to say double points isn't valid. I'm not sure if that would change if you bought one but it's there. I was also told that the Y-Wing Poster is only available to black card holders with a spend of over £30 and isn't available to non-black card holders, no matter how much they spend.

I've just got back from the Lego store and the Y-Wing looked like a beautiful model... but actually too big for my liking. The scale is quite strange with it having the R2 unit and the pilot sit in the cockpit. They're really dwarfed by the whole size of it. It's getting close to the length of the UCS Falcon. As I'm now trying to focus on things being minifig scale I'm probably going to pass on it and see about MOD/MOCing a minifig scale one eventually, based on the Rogue One version but larger.

They’re not there just yet...

Sorry, fella. :) I've heard from a little bird that those grey and black arms may be sold in packs soon of around 5 pairs. Stormie arms are looking like they may be in packs on 10 as well as sold individually. That should at least save me a little as I need a LOT of them.

Speak to your bank managers...

That should bring Hamley's prices down to round about retail everywhere else then. :)

I don't know if the controversy over the last Jabbas Palace has passed but I seem to remember at the time there being a statement about the release and it's similarity to a Turkish mosque. Lego said that it was just showing the palace as seen in Star Wars... there was a general sense at the time that it wouldn't be released again (or at least for quite a while, I can't remember it exactly but it rings a bell)... same with whether or not there'll be a Slave Leia figure released again. The fact that the likeness of the Palace has appeared again on packaging might indicate that it's something they'd look at. There's really no need for it to be there as it's just over Barriss' shoulder but if I was a Lego designer I'd be doing stuff like that all day long to mess with people's heads. There's been loads of things that have appeared on Lego SW packaging that doesn't necessarily preclude an imminent release. People will still point at something and say 'Look... I told you it was coming' even if it's 3-4 years later. It's Star Wars and the OT is a finite visual world so releases will be repeated and images will appear on packaging. We've had Death Stars appearing in the back of things before now from a completely different movie. The TIE Fighter has a Star Destroyer below it on the box... I'm not looking at that as any kind of clue to an upcoming release.

I actually think the regular Biker Scout legs look the best on them. In a perfect world they'd be dual moulded for white boots but I can live without that for having the correct design and print on them. The figure is very much improved with the dual moulded arms though.

It's not really about what people think it is. It's simply whether or not the build is to the correct size in proportion to a minifigure. Something that is built too large or too small can't be minifigure scale as it's obviously not built to that particular size. If you're building a family car, as stated in the link to Brickwiki, system scale might very well be minifigure scale, but when were dealing with vehicles in the SW universe then that can change. That's why sets such as the smaller, regular Millennium Falcon sets are considered system scale but are never recognised as minifigure scale. Yes you can put a couple of minifigures in the cockpit and have them dotted around the interior but it's clearly not minifigure scale as the Falcon cockpit should seat more than that. It's never really been an issue. We get regular sets and they're neither one thing or the other... but when we have alternate scales for certain vessels they tend to be differentiated by being called 'system' or 'minifig' scale. 10212 Imperial Shuttle v 75094 Shuttle Tydirium is another good example. Both basically the same vessel but one was £80 as part of a regular wave and one was almost £250 many years earlier. They made the larger UCS 'true minifigure scale' as it was the size it should be based on the size of a minifigure. Same with UCS Slave 1 and UCS Falcon. Designer of the UCS Slave 1 also states it clearly at around 25 seconds into the video here The reason I'm happy to discuss what minifigure scale means in relation to this year's SW theme is my focus of collecting mainly minifigure scale vehicles at this point. I've got the system scale Y-Wing from RO but I'll probably sell it on and replace with the UCS set seeing as it's so close to minifigure scale. It's what's also spurred me on to sell the 10240 Red Five and stick with the upcoming X-Wing from the Summer Wave.

With regards to certain Star Wars vessels it isn't. As someone pointed out, the 75105 and 7965 Falcon is system scale but the UCS Falcon is minifig scale. 8097 Slave 1 is system scale but the 75060 is minifig scale. 75172 Y-Wing is system scale... but the new UCS set could be more like the recent Snowspeeder which is a display piece and is oversized. It may actually be slightly oversized but is closer to minifig scale. Then you have things like the TIE Fighters, Snowspeeders and X-Wings with which the system scale sets ARE the same as minifig scale.