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Unlike "Classic Space" Trains and Castle are not Lego-themes per se. Otherwise I would say the City -and weirdly the Friend- sets of this years should count with the generic Sci-Fi /Space theme Lego had in the past, that now is known as "Classic Space".

I don't think it already has been discussed here, do you people think the very closed up builds of the buildings are actually fun for children that would want to play with them? Because if you think of it, most play sets are either open from the back, or they open in a way that gives you access while still providing a sense of outside and inside or transforming it into a different build, this being very common for many castle sets. The space bases of this year on the other hand don't really work that way when opened up anymore. Obviously I cannot really talk about the dome, but the crane base becomes really flimsy when opened, as it really misses an endpoint and the landing gear things on the side start to collide very soon and have to be turned away. Also, as the crane with the useless backpack rack is still in the middle of the whole building it doesn't create a nice play area either as the space actually inside the base is still extremly restricted. The dome looks the same from the pictures. Either it is closed and can basically not be played with, or it is opened but looses basically all it dome-iness to provide like 3 studs to play on.

Makes also sense. But I still wonder who's idea it was to put a bed into the dome with the weird alien plants xD

And there is a shower xD. Also I think the towel holder is on the wrong side,because I have no idea what the silver ring could be else.

Wonder where that kitchen is supposed to hide if it isn't made up of just something on a 2x1 base. Something I also noticed: The dome is made up from trans black, but even on those marketing pictures it looks way to blue for my taste. The color seems to only really work smaller quantities and without much backlight giving it that shiny black look. Even the small rover imho has this problem..

$50 stil seems to be to expensive for what you get. But this set has clearly the better impelementation of the living quarter module. Simply because it is open in the back it allows for slighlty more space inside and a better acess compared to the Command Rovers, that wastes huge ammount of space and bricks to provide the slot for the module with its tiny 6x6 playspace inside.

I mean, there are four sides to the building. One has an airlock to the outside and a single screen, one has a closed up but coupling airlock and nothing else. One has somthing that looks like a bed and one has an actually used airlock and a microscope in the corner. Could really contain more science stuff I think there is also not much use when closed, but it could actually look quite nice. Also the question is, what the attached module contains. And if there are others coming to actually use the open module space.

After playing around a bit digitally, I have come to the conclusion, that the modules have a stupid size. They are to small to do anything usefull with them, especially if you want them to fit with the Rover or the spaceship from the base, while they are still so large and blocky, that designing aroound them is annoying.

I have a suspicion that the modules were originally supposed to be fitted with a crane eye, as both "ground" sets with these modules have a crane quite prominently. At some point it became clear that it didn't quite work, so they changed their mind. The large base wis this huge crane at its core was given this tiny pallet in order to have something to lift. The crane on the rover, maybe once similiar in size to that on the land train the arctic subtheme with the frozen mamoth some years ago, was shrunken down instead. Right now, the crane is barely better than the one in the 4+ set and definitly not fitting to be one of the main features on such a large set. The pilots' team leader should have been in the space station, the scinteiest (green) in the rover and the construction/mining leader in the base. This way each of the larger sets, would have gotten an appropriate commander as minifig.

Thanks, I already wondered why there were two very similiar files xD

Is it normal that I had to manually rewrite the LDDExtended.lif to get the new colours in my palette?

Wait, isn't that also commonly known as "Snail Droid" and always grey? Or am I thinking about something different?

Has anyone else the problem, that the silver stickers from some of the Alien ships are already falling apart?

As 75369 and 70 are connsecutive numbers could they actually be battlepacks? The piece-count would be slightly large for one, but so far we do not now that they are actually at $15 do we?

Has anyone an idea what the two guns for the heavies in the 501st battlepack are supposed to be? In Battlefront he has no weapon, that looks anythzing like this.

One of the big plus points RR always had over PM was at least in my eyes that they actually had quite some transport vehicles. The Tunnel transport was of course the greatest of them. What I like about your moc is how it caught the appearance of quite a large flying vehicle, but with a stubbyness that could make it fit into a underground tunnel.

I do not know if this belongs here: But has anybody already found a way to render your models after using custom bricks?

You know what is funny? I was just putting together my idea for speculative Power Miners 2.0 and went to the forum to search for ideas, finding your thread, I had no idea existed.

In my eyes, an Octurptarra should come in an Episode III form. Why? Because it is the unique way to get Glactic Marines. Anakin, Rex or Bad Batch have so many other options for sets, it would be a waste to put them into the set.

A Jedi temple would more likely as a "Jedi Councile Chamber". Anakin, Obi-Wan plus four or five additional Jedi, either Ep. I or Ep. III, 600pcs. to 800pcs., about 100€. A set heavily focused on the figures with a bit of roundish floor, seats for the jedi and some wall-parts.

You assume, they won't try to get 120$ for a Y-Wing? To be fair I assume he will come in some sort of overly expensive speeder like the last one.

Speaking of Endor, I would like to see a smaller AT-ST again.

"Commander" will be definitley that officer, meaning a normal clone with an antenna and either a printed or cloth Kama. "Heavy" gets a different body-print and a visor, maybe another leg print. Maybe black shoulder bag or backpack (single printed tile) but not both I wonder about the sniper, as there is currently no clip-on binocular for him. Worst Option: You are supposed to use the third visor for him. Better Options: Bring back the P2 ARF helmet or a new acessory for the helmet (unlikely). I also wonder ho they will represent the sniper-rifle. A normal long blaster without modifications would be kinda lame wouldn't it?

Imho that AT-HE always looked way to random for me, like it was designed just to have a middle between a AT-TE and an AT-AT.