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Lighting it all up! After having put together the instructions for the added Landing Gear MOC to our modified version of the 75355 X-Wing UCS, it was a proud moment to finally being able to step back and take it all in. Your response and feedback has been a great joy to take part of with a few remarks that needed to be addressed, quickly adding those to the revised instructions. This, I have found, is a guilty pleasure of mine to find any excuse to keep tinkering with our creation but it has reached a point where I think it is safe to say that we have reached our final revision of our instructions... However, in the back of my mind I always had an idea of adding lights to it. The scene from "The Empire Strikes Back" in the swamps of Dagobah pops into my head where you can clearly see the "landing lights" close to the landing pods. Not only coupled with the engine exhausts and a cockpit that was begging for the attention of its spectators, we also now have an excellent self supportive landing gear so there were many options to find an excuse to put a light source in. Having spent nearly two days of disassembling, wiring, testing different light combinations, rewiring (too many times) and then putting it all together, I must say I'm very pleased with the final result. Have a look! The bricks used can be found here and the lights were all sourced from lightmybricks.com. The light components (all LMB version 1.0) used were: 1x Large Bit Lights (Cool White) 30 cm - for the cockpit 12x Bit Lights (Warm White) 30 cm - for the landing gear, wings and rear panel 4x Bit Lights (Pink) 30 cm - for the engine exhausts 4x 6-port Expansion Boards 1x 8-port Expansion Board 2x Connecting Cables - 30 cm 2x Connecting Cables - 5 cm 1x USB Power Cable 1x Power bank (5V/2A) I'm sure there are more clever ways to do this using less components for connecting it all together (or more if you only want one wire from each wing), adding effect boards such as a Multi-Effects Board for pulsating engine exhausts, etc. But since we do not have a flashing Christmas tree in our house, I decided to go with a static light display. Cheers! -Rich

The swap from the 2x3 plate to two 1x3 plates was done so that the 2x2 hinge plate can be centered onto them. It was originally like this in our prototype but got accidentally changed during the process of reducing the part count for the overall build. As for the canopy, the hinge itself only allows for a few locked in angles which are 0°, 45°, 68° and 90°. This is by far the most limiting piece of the original set, not only the angles but the way it is widened towards the front instead of the opposite as in the screen reference. AU$200 including shipping is not bad at all and we hope you have a great time building it!

Here is a comparison between the original Lego set 75355 X-wing Starfighter UCS and GotB's MOD. Update! The instruction package is now available over at Rebrickable.com!

Thanks for the feedback on the manual and we hope you'll enjoy the building experience! As to answering your questions... 1. We do not see any point of releasing a separate parts list as we are using more than 75% of the original set. The unused parts are very common pieces and at the end of the day you will spend more on the uncommon ones included with the set, such as the printed canopy, sticker sheet and the engine intake pieces to name a few. I would suggest to keep an eye out for this set on sale if you wish to save (it was recently sold with a 20% discount at the official Lego store). 2. The cutting line is at the recommended size that we send to our print shop that cuts out only the inside of this line. It may look thick when zoomed in, but they are made for 1x1 and 1x2 tiles and quite small in size when printed. If you wish to remove this line I would suggest using any graphic software of your choice. Edit: Having gone through the process of uploading it all to Rebrickable, it was necessary to create a complete part list as you initially requested. This can be found here.

Thanks! Let me indulge you on this with the following screen shot from rebrickable. The majority of the parts are readily available as we’ve put in a great effort to make it easy for everyone to upgrade their 75355 X-wing. You can download the parts list together with the manual to see if you like it.