Hi All,

Been stalking this place for a while now and thought I'd actually sign up and chat.

Just wondering if anyone can help please, I am currently bricklinking to build Yoda 7194, currently I have all parts for this (weighed in at £143 all in pretty good right)

However I'd like to be able to make his head rotate, but I cannot find any part that would do the job, Does anyone know if Lego make a circular piece at all that would allow this? At present I need something along the lines of part 73603 which is 4x4 turn table but this involves placing some kind of scaffolding inside Yoda and changing out some exterior parts for longer bricks and the Jade Green bricks are stupidly expensive.

In an ideal world an 8x8 turntable would be perfect but it doesn't appear to exist according to Brickowl etc. I hope this makes sense anyway.

 

Thanks,

But, I thought the head of set 7194 is already able to rotate without modding anything 

For set 7194, Yoda's head can indeed rotate courtesy of a 4x4 turntable that is built into the body.  Suitable alternatives include parts 61485 4x4 turntable base and 604744x4 round plate.

1 hour ago, therealharbinger said:

currently I have all parts for this (weighed in at £143 all in pretty good right)

Wow! Firstly - in this case you already have the required turntable, just start building .  Secondly - how did you manage to all the sand green parts for then head? Used, New, mix of both?

9 minutes ago, NathanR said:

For set 7194, Yoda's head can indeed rotate courtesy of a 4x4 turntable that is built into the body.  Suitable alternatives include parts 61485 4x4 turntable base and 604744x4 round plate.

Wow! Firstly - in this case you already have the required turntable, just start building .  Secondly - how did you manage to all the sand green parts for then head? Used, New, mix of both?

Ok sorry maybe I didn't explain this properly, I do not have the full part list of 7194, I have them all bar the rotating part and the unique red Lego branded brick that shows at the back, I guess I should have looked if it actually included it with the official product or not, my bad sorry.

All parts were bought of Bricklink. But I found that someone selling all parts at once was stupidly expensive, between £400 and £1k...If I scrolled down the list to like people listing  12/ 75 listings I could get them for like £20 here and there and I just scanned and scanned and bought a few separate batches, worked out much cheaper than buying them all in one place, just took a few hours longer, they are al used but I am hoping it will just pass off for Yoda having a "realistic" brown robe (doubt he had it laundered daily) and the fact being 900 years old he shouldn't be all one shade of green (this is me convincing myself that it will not be an immaculate build here) and I can always scrub the entire block clean after anyway.

But it looks like the 4x4 turntable will fit, just in LDD it doesn't seem to look right and it bugs out when it comes to producing the build instructions, if I remove the part it works fine. Just located the part, £13...which is expensive but I have to make up for minimum spend and postage. not the end of the world.

Hopefully I'll get it finished in the coming weeks and show it off.

51 minutes ago, therealharbinger said:

All parts were bought of Bricklink. But I found that someone selling all parts at once was stupidly expensive, between £400 and £1k...If I scrolled down the list to like people listing  12/ 75 listings I could get them for like £20 here and there and I just scanned and scanned and bought a few separate batches, worked out much cheaper than buying them all in one place, just took a few hours longer, they are al used but I am hoping it will just pass off for Yoda having a "realistic" brown robe (doubt he had it laundered daily) and the fact being 900 years old he shouldn't be all one shade of green (this is me convincing myself that it will not be an immaculate build here) and I can always scrub the entire block clean after anyway.

Definitely a smart call to get the pieces together bit by bit instead in one lot. Thats just calling for super-inflated prices. I can indeed only recommend to invest the time searching and picking them together and spend the saved money on more Lego instead.

Nicely done!  I would suggest to skip the official turntable.  a suitable replacement can be made by stacking: 4x4 plate, 61485, then 2x 60474, should all fit ok and be a lot cheaper than £13!

Also, I would advise against using LDD instructions - given you have so many parts from the official build, surely it's easier to just download the official instruction manual?

 

Edited July 31, 20177 yr by NathanR

8 minutes ago, NathanR said:

Nicely done!  I would suggest to skip the official turntable.  a suitable replacement can be made by stacking: 4x4 plate, 61485, then 2x 60474, should all fit ok and be a lot cheaper than £13!

Also, I would advise against using LDD instructions - given you have so many parts from the official build, surely it's easier to just download the official instruction manual?

 

I have bought the official turntable part already, I thought for the sake of it let's just do it as intended.

The LDD instructions were actually fine, I much prefer it in 3D rather the official top down 2D that this set launched with. The body is complete just need to assemble his head and hope to god this £13 turntable actually fits and it works.

Also for anyone curious as to how I landed this so cheap, there are tons of people selling the small green 2x2 corners but in small batches, like 8 Pence each, when you've uploaded the bulk list to Bricklink, click these parts only in the filter and one of the other cheap sand colour bricks and scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll find people selling 5 here and 7 there but with masses of the sand bricks for next to nothing, it took me 27 orders worth to get the whole set but saved me a ton. Will post pictures of him once it arrives.

Should be a fun build, and sounds like you did pretty well on the expensive colors (even with the added shipping for 27 orders).  What's with that turntable, though?  Just out of curiosity- is it a special color as well or something?  Looks like it's a regular black 3403c01 which Bricklink seems to have readily available for under 10 cents.

Hi therealharbinger, and welcome to Eurobricks!

You've done very well if you've managed to source all of the parts for that!  It's always a set that I've admired, but I'd not considered Bricklinking one due to the potential rarity/cost of the Sand Green parts.  I'm looking forwars to seeing your photos of the finished model.

I hope you don't mind but I've re-named the thread so that it reflects the content

50 minutes ago, Lobot said:

but I'd not considered Bricklinking one due to the potential rarity/cost of the Sand Green parts.

Me neither, until now.  About a year back I tried repainting Yoda's head to olive green (possibly more accurate...?) but the required part types don't exist in the colour.  Though with the 1x2 sand green jumper appearing in the "Adventure Time" ideas set, and the sand green featuring heavily in the upcoming Ninjago movies sets, Yoda might become a bit easier to build in the future...

Hi All,

Need to bump this to get some help please.

Does anyone know the actual difference between part 3794 and 15573? Reason being the parts I was sent when I bought 3794 were the wrong colour ( I was sent brown) and these seem to be frighteningly expensive to buy, some £1.50 a pop which is ridiculous.

The latter I can get for 20p a piece which at this point I am more than willing to do, but I don't know and cannot see what the difference is on the underside or if it would work as a substitute? Any ideas please.

The only difference is 15573 has the notches in the bottom to allow a stud in the middle, whereas 3794 can only be stacked on a 2-wide base reliably.

if you aren't putting the jumpers over buttons, you should be fine.