CloudCity91

Perfect, that is a perfect example. The 9:55 point is exactly where the meeting with the bountyhunters took place but the 9:42 mark is the entire bridge. If those doorways are the exact same than Vader should be able to walk straight down the bridge through the middle of the door but at the 9:55 mark he has to step to his right to make it out the door because it is much smaller and not centred in proportion to the other side of the main bridge. Is the 9:42 mark CGIed to make it look grander than it really is and the 9:55 is the real "soundstage"? It's fun that after thirty years we can still find something "new" about these movies. :) Jim

Okay I'll accept your premise and roll with it but what about the "doorway", they are clearly not the same dimensions/scale at all? Jim

And herein lies a lot of my problem, as I don't think the meeting with the Bounty Hunters actually took place on the 'Main Bridge" of the Executor. Saint says this is the Bridge with whom I agree and from another angle But the first thing that screams out to me is that the computers are back to back to each other, secondly the "doorway area" is way too large to be the place where Vader met with the Bounty Hunters. These are the three pics I used in reference to my MOC and hence my confusion as they (the main bridge/the bounty hunter meeting) look like they take place in two separate sections of the ship entirely. Any thoughts? Jim

Just did...thanks for the tip. Jim

A month or so ago I was in Chicago and I picked up a 2nd Death Star for two reasons. A) I wanted the mini figures so I could fill up my 1st DS better and B) To have a ton of brand new Lego to build my 1st MOC. I knew I really wanted to build a playset featuring the gathering of the Bounty Hunters on the Star Destroyer Avenger. Although I liked my first "bridge" the "trench was too tall for the minifigs to be in scale and to my wifes horror I broke it all up. So instead I expanded on the bridge, scaled it correctly and gave it a roof etc etc and sent some pics over to Killerbee and it was done. With all the extra pieces I still had left over I started to build my own Star Destroyer but didn't have enough pieces to finish it correctly. I was pretty upset but then the next day I thought to myself why not attach my bridge to my SD hull and create a vintage style Kenner Darth Vader's Star Destroyer playset. I had never seen that done before and thought it would be kind of unique. To add to my MOC, I also totally destroyed a Lego Thomas the Train Lego store display and modified it to a SW Lego display as well. It's like two MOC's in one :) Let me know what you think. Jim

I actually think I like the oldest one, #7130, the best. I bought it for my son new when he was three years old. He didn't like Lego then nor does he now but when I bought my first AT-AT I remembered that this was laying around the house somewhere and I had to look online for an instruction sheet to build it. Anyways I think I prefer it because it is done mostly in grey, and I think that fit's Lucas' vision of being a "used universe, rather than the bright, shiny, new and very white looking the new Lego Snowspeeders are. Jim After two days here you have just become my favourite member of all time Jim

I have $300 worth of sand, I`ve spent way more than that on Lego in the past 6 weeks. Heck, one of the first items I just had to have was a sealed Cloud City playset. So between three AT-AT`s, 1 Hoth Base, 4 Echo bases, a Death Star, X-Wing, Endor Playset, Mon Calamari Starcruiser as well as a sealed Cloud City, I`d say I have a little more invested than in my sand collection :) Jim I`m sorry I never even thought of that and hope I didn`t offend anybody. Yes they are prints of Alex Schomburg comic book covers he did in the 40`s for Captain America, the Human Torch and All Winners comics. Jim

A back drop is the next step indeed, baby blue horizon with snow mountains!!! As for the sand and how fine it is, both of you are correct. It's so fine that the minifigs don't stand without being half buried. I was also planning for AT-AT footprints, and people footprints all over the place but it just won't hold/make the impression. Of course you don't learn that lesson until AFTER you dump a few hundred dollars in sand in a giant fish bowl :) Jim

OMFG you are right, I'm so stupid :( Jim

I can't take crdit for the "little ice wall" unfortunately :( I was upstairs putting the AT-ST together and my wife starts yelling at me from the basement, "Quick, come Quick" she exclaims. Well just when I think the house is being set on fire she asks "What do you think of my ice wall?" It's her favourite part too. I think I'm starting to figure this out now though, an MOC can be a diorama but the Lego is built without the instructions/or not to factory specs? I get it. ;) Jim

Having only discovered SW Lego in the past six weeks, as I was putting together my AT-AT I knew I wanted to build a diorama. So this past weekend I got around to putting it all together and it is almost exactly the way I envisioned it but did I "cheat" by using sand and enclosing it in glass? Would purists be dissapointed because it is not 100% Lego? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jim