On 4/2/2011 at 10:04 PM, r4-g9 said:

i don't know if this has been posted before but i have found a new picture of the may calander and if you buy $75 or more on lego star wars you have a chance to win a limted edition minifigure from star wars, and the new sets might be out than to!

it looks like the minifig will be some sort of arf trooper.

(this picture is from yellowcastle on brickset

  On 4/2/2011 at 10:30 PM, will said:

is that the same minifig that's on the lego webpage?

edit: clearly not!

  On 4/3/2011 at 12:20 AM, ceroknight said:

A black scout?

I believe it's an ARF (though unconfirmed variant), and there's already an on-going discussion here.

When specifically do the summer sets come out? June? July? August?

Edited April 3, 201113 yr by DarthR2-D2

  On 4/3/2011 at 8:39 PM, DarthR2-D2 said:

When specifically do the summer sets come out? June? July? August?

All of these come out in June:

7956 Ewok Attack

7657 Dathomir Speeder

7959 Geonosian Starfighter

7961 Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator

7962 Anakin's and Sebulba's Podracers

7964 Republic Frigate

7965 Millennium Falcon

And this one in Winter (December, Janurary and February):

7958 Star Wars Advent Calendar

And these two are unknown:

7877 Naboo Fighter

7879 Hoth Echo Base

  On 4/3/2011 at 9:58 PM, Lord Of The Fries said:

All of these come out in June:

7956 Ewok Attack

7657 Dathomir Speeder

7959 Geonosian Starfighter

7961 Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator

7962 Anakin's and Sebulba's Podracers

7964 Republic Frigate

7965 Millennium Falcon

And this one in Winter (December, Janurary and February):

7958 Star Wars Advent Calendar

And these two are unknown:

7877 Naboo Fighter

7879 Hoth Echo Base

The 7877 Naboo Fighter is not unknown. There is a picture

I can't tell. How does the cockpit open on the Naboo fighter? Does it pop off or lift or slide or what?

  On 4/3/2011 at 9:58 PM, Lord Of The Fries said:

And this one in Winter (December, Janurary and February):

7958 Star Wars Advent Calendar

Surely the advent calendar will come out in Nov-Dec?

  On 4/3/2011 at 11:09 PM, DarthR2-D2 said:

I can't tell. How does the cockpit open on the Naboo fighter? Does it pop off or lift or slide or what?

Well, I'm 90% sure it can pop off.

I sure hope there is no missile at the underside of the new Naboo ship.

It looks like the cockpit list off to me.

  On 4/4/2011 at 12:29 AM, Fives said:

I sure hope there is no missile at the underside of the new Naboo ship.

Looks like we get flick-fires on the cargo sled insted. Double

  On 4/4/2011 at 12:29 AM, Fives said:

I sure hope there is no missile at the underside of the new Naboo ship.

? But then Ani can't fire the torpedo and accidentally destroy the droid control ship. Besides, those flick-fire missiles have got to go somewhere.

  On 4/4/2011 at 1:25 AM, fallenangel309 said:

? But then Ani can't fire the torpedo and accidentally destroy the droid control ship. Besides, those flick-fire missiles have got to go somewhere.

They don't have to go somewhere. We've had a few nice sets without them. I really don't mind the spring missiles though. (Except when you bump the set, the missile fires, and blows up the set displayed in front of it )

  On 4/4/2011 at 1:39 AM, Frolando22 said:

They don't have to go somewhere. We've had a few nice sets without them. I really don't mind the spring missiles though. (Except when you bump the set, the missile fires, and blows up the set displayed in front of it )

They'll be going somewhere for sure...Ani has to blow up that ship! All I care about though is that you can spin it, because that's a neat trick.

  On 4/3/2011 at 8:39 PM, DarthR2-D2 said:

When specifically do the summer sets come out? June? July? August?

  On 4/3/2011 at 9:58 PM, Lord Of The Fries said:

All of these come out in June:

Even though the release date is June, so far as I know that's for select European countries; in the US (where DarthR2-D2 is), you have to wait 'til August.

  On 4/4/2011 at 1:58 AM, StoutFiles said:

They'll be going somewhere for sure...Ani has to blow up that ship! All I care about though is that you can spin it, because that's a neat trick.

:laugh:

What's funny is that in

review of 7141 the reviewer actually does spin it - and it turns out that 7141 spins fairly well!

  On 4/4/2011 at 1:39 AM, Frolando22 said:

They don't have to go somewhere. We've had a few nice sets without them. I really don't mind the spring missiles though. (Except when you bump the set, the missile fires, and blows up the set displayed in front of it )

Or when your brother comes along, picks up the set, launches the missile and causes it to disappear into your huge crate of unsorted bricks. Happen to you often

  On 4/3/2011 at 10:02 PM, qui gon jinn said:

The 7877 Naboo Fighter is not unknown. There is a picture

I meant the realese date.

  On 4/4/2011 at 12:29 AM, Fives said:

I sure hope there is no missile at the underside of the new Naboo ship.

It doesn't look as if there are any, but I want missiles underneath personally.

  On 4/4/2011 at 12:29 AM, Fives said:

I sure hope there is no missile at the underside of the new Naboo ship.

It doesn't look as if there are any, but I want missiles underneath personally.

  On 4/4/2011 at 1:58 AM, StoutFiles said:

They'll be going somewhere for sure...Ani has to blow up that ship! All I care about though is that you can spin it, because that's a neat trick.

best comment ever i do sure hope the ship brings, at least, 20 flick fire missiles because i do want to shoot the hell outta little Ani minifig with all that cone+technic beam goodness...

  On 4/3/2011 at 11:09 PM, DarthR2-D2 said:

I can't tell. How does the cockpit open on the Naboo fighter? Does it pop off or lift or slide or what?

In my opinion it's swinging up. It will probably be this part in transparent:

  On 4/4/2011 at 11:00 AM, Veganwarrior said:

In my opinion it's swinging up. It will probably be this part in transparent:

snip

It's rather hard to tell from the picture, but swinging up isn't really the correct way it should open. Technically the real cockpit piece should slide forward, though I have doubts that we'll get that. The simple lifting up of the cockpit piece, like in previous versions, will do.

That is probably the cockpit we will be getting. The flick fire missiles have never really bothered me. They add a dorky play feature that even I enjoy from time to time.I just hope the flick mechanism isn't to unwieldy or ugly looking...

Here is a vote for that Grevious' Starfigher cockpit technique. Ingenious masterpiece.

But yeah, probably not.

I'll probably get a little backlash on this one, but the Naboo Fighter was probably my favorite ship design of the entire prequel trilogy. Been awhile since TLG released one, and they didn't really disappoint as far as I can tell. Nice little model right there.