2004/2005 Sets and discussion thread

[sam89]

Thanks for the pics, it looks excellent! I love the new Emperor!

[mutley777]

the final duel set had imperial officer's these are imperial commander's :) i was right about the uk price tag.

[sam89]

On page 30-31 of the new Online S@H Catalogue you can see a new MINI Jedi Starfighter from Episode III. Will this be part of a new line of MINIs? Hopefully we'll find out soon.

[Jipay]

I have now 40 half stormies *wacko*

[mutley777]

looks good. :) i hope so.

[mutley777]

ask lego if you can buy 40 replacement legs. :D

[theoryzero]

Thank you theoryzero ! I am glad fbtb didn't accept your membership yet  :P I cant wait to get my set now... :| Oh one question : where did you find it ?

It is fine with me. I would, of course, posted over here anyways. This site is very resourceful for finding info on the latest sets so I check over here even though I don't live in Europa.

Anyhow! Surprisingly I did not get this set from S@H or my local Lego store at the Mall of America. No, I did not pay for same day shipping and in fact, the Lego store was not sure they would get it when I called on Tuesday night. I checked over there last night because I was doing some shopping at the mall anyways, and no luck. Next I went to TRU to get some of the Bionicle tubs and just about fell over when I saw the Imperial Inspection set there. So, yes, it is coming to retail (at least at TRU), and in some places, it is already there. Happy hunting!

TZ

[Jipay]

Damn, you lucky guy ! It's great to know this set will come to retail since it means sales and cheap new stormies :-D This definitly looks like an imperial army pack to me :)

[sam89]

Rebelscum asked Lego whether this set will be available at retail and Lego said it will only be available at S@H and TRU.

[Jipay]

Well just like the Y-wing and tie fighter then ! But anyways, TRU is doing sales a lot so it's good. The only bad point is for people who are not living nearby a TRU and cannot be delivered by S@H... Both usually concerns the same people and this is not normal... :'(

[ApophisV]

Dudes, a dream come true..... *wub*

*satis* *satis* *satis* *satis*

Let's hope we'll see the whole line soon!!! (And in stores even sooner... ;))

[Jipay]

Since it's written hard to find I would say it's an exckusive of some sort. But since it's also written sneak pic who knows ? In any case I'm sure that if lego can earn some money by releasing this, they will

[ApophisV]

If they really release a whole line, I wonder what size it will be? This model looks like its bigger than wave 1 minis but smaller than wave 2 / 3 minis.... Lets hope they will get back to basic and release some sets in the size of the first ones...

[David85]

The mini Star Wars sets never were the same size, or to scale, so it doesn't matter what size they make them.

[Orlego]

Your Lego store did not carry the Y-wing and tie fighter combo set? Our store had them from the beginning.

[sam89]

I think this set looks pretty good. It's a bit too wide, but it couldn't really have been made any thinner. The cockpit looks good I think.

What other MINIs do you think we could get? Maybe a Tri-Droid, ARC-170 and Turbo Tank?

[theoryzero]

Sorry guys, no pictures until next week. This is Valentine's Day weekend, I'll be out of town.

Anyhow, some observations:

- A quick glance at the instructions makes the shuttle look exactly the same, step by step, piece by piece. The hinged door in the back now uses click hinges, but I did not notice any other major difference with the exception of the bleys.

- Vader's face is different, he now has scars on both sides and no longer has eyebrows. I think this may be the version of the face that ships with 7263, but I cannot be sure since I do not have that set yet.

- No lightsaber for Vader.

- Stormtrooper heads are still blank and yellow, I was half-expecting flesh tones! :-D

- In case you did not notice in the pics, the Imperial Commander torso is the same as the Imperial Officer in 7201.

Finally, I think any SW Lego fan would of loved to have this be the first version of the 7166. I thought that set was spectacular then, so I am not surprised they barely changed the shuttle. This is truly a cool set with lots of figs. I own over 350 sets and I cannot remember any that had 10 figs that came with it.

TZ

[Jipay]

turbo tank could be hard to make IMO. Especially the weels *wacko*

[David85]

Just use the 2x2 round plate thingies for the wheels.

[sam89]

Over on FBTB, jungle1006 asked whether he was allowed to post info on two new Star Wars sets but the mods said no. So after a PM I found out the following information.

Someone showed him a catalogue at a store which had two new sets, a Sandcrawler and a UCS Death Star. The Sandcrawler came with 3 Jawas, R2D2 and C3P0. If he remembers correctly, the UCS Death Star costed $300.

I'd like to see the Sandcrawler (who wouldn't) but I'd be a disappointed if it only came with those figs (maybe there were more droids hidden inside?). I don't fancy paying $300 for a giant ball though, so I'd prefer it to be a Death Star II, although I'm still not sure if I'd get that for the price.

[CopMike]

This IS an exciting week! *satis*

Ok - first the Sandcrawler. A wet dream coming alive! :oD I

[Jipay]

A UCS deathstar would be cool, but still, 300$ is not a little sum, especially for a ball, complete or not. I'm sure the whole thing would be a giant greeblies stuff. Maybe if it is a playset like the cloud city, it could be better but it wouldn't be that expensive. i've never heard of a dealer catalogue with prices on it though.

As for the jawas, it wouldn't surprise me if it comes with those figs. 5 is still normal.

I am really surprised by the number of different dealer's catalogue in the hyperspace lately. It's like 1 different for every shop around :/

[mahjqa]

A UCS deathstar would be cool, but still, 300$ is not a little sum.

You'll be having more newgrey than you'll ever need. Maybe a lot of AFOLs will pick it up for that reason.

(I hope it's a deathstar2, yeah)

[mahjqa]

And another thing, slightly offtopic, but:

Does anyone here know wether the ARC-170_Starfighter cockpit will fit in front of the new Jedi starfighter cockpit? That'd ROCK.

(too lazy to use the EDIT button)

[Jipay]

Beein lazy is common to all the people of this board. We won't beat you for a new reply since it also increases the stats. 300$ of new gery, why not, bu it depends what you got...