LEGO Star Wars 2011 Pictures & Rumors

[nrg]

Looks like the entire January wave (minus SE 7968 and 7969) are up on Amazon for preorder.

I'll grab all and add to the Gallery and flickr.

7868 and 7869 not 7968 and 7969

[KimT]

7868 and 7869 not 7968 and 7969

Sorry for the wrong button - if you'd check the first post, then you'll se that the sets are numbered correctly.

Did you have any trouble understanding what I meant or are you just keen on correcting?

[Supersonic]

It's not only that the piece count for the T-6 is suspiciously low, it is also the exact same number the Halo has. Looks like a copy&paste mistake to me.

The Halo is also made of some very big bricks, btw.

[Stardusty]

I saw those stickers on T-6 before, on older pictures...

Who cares, I won't apply them when I get it.

[willybob]

Just preordered those from Amazon.fr :

1 "Lego Star Wars - 7913 - Jeu de Construction - Clone Trooper Battle Pack"

LEGO; Jouet; EUR 13,10

Vendu par : Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

1 "Lego Star Wars - 7914 - Jeu de Construction - Mandalorians Battle Pack"

LEGO; Jouet; EUR 13,10

Vendu par : Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

1 "Lego Star Wars - 7915 - Jeu de Construction - Imperial V - Wing Starfighter"

LEGO; Jouet; EUR 26,30

Vendu par : Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

1 "Lego Star Wars - 7929 - Jeu de Construction - The Battle Of Naboo"

LEGO; Jouet; EUR 27,90

Vendu par : Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

1 "Lego Star Wars - 7930 - Jeu de Construction - Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship"

LEGO; Jouet; EUR 51,20

Vendu par : Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

1 "Lego Star Wars - 7931 - Jeu de Construction - T - 6 Jedi Shuttle"

LEGO; Jouet; EUR 69,80

Vendu par : Amazon EU S.a.r.L.

They confirmed the order, but they claim they cannot provide delay yet.

If i get more news i will post them

[prateek]

Great pictures of the Naboo set and the Clone BP by Karlijntje2 here.

Also his Youtube review

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I don't really like the green rectangles all over the ARF helmet.

[Forresto]

Can I just say this and KimT I know this is going to displease you but........

New Blaster pistols! What did I say? I was right! Boo yeah!

Sorry but I was the only one to point that out and since nobody believed me, I thought I should bring that back up

Great pictures of the Naboo set and the Clone BP by Karlijntje2 here.

Also his Youtube review

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[General Magma]

Can I just say this and KimT I know this is going to displease you but........

New Blaster pistols! What did I say? I was right! Boo yeah!

Sorry but I was the only one to point that out and since nobody believed me, I thought I should bring that back up

You were not the only one.

The clonetropers actually look quite good, but I'll just buy that battlepack when I have some spare money left.

Not really interested in the battlepacks, with my planned Naboo and Endor projects.

Now we just need summer set pictures.

~ General Magma

Edited December 10, 2010 by General Magma

[Delta 38]

I don't really like the green rectangles all over the ARF helmet.

I like them, but maybe that's just because I like more detail. They might look better if they were in grey or something, though.

Unfortunately, the ARF doesn't have printed legs. If they're going to make printed legs for the other two, they might as well just create printed legs without markings for regular Clones. A bit annoying, but the bomb squad troopers and commanders will be the highlight of my collection anyway, so it doesn't matter if they do stand out. I don't need printed arms, but I think printed legs is necessary.

[CMP]

Sorry but I was the only one to point that out and since nobody believed me, I thought I should bring that back up

You think you were the only one to point that out? I thought it was obvious. Just didn't see it in the Madno battle pack until a certain picture.

It was pretty clear there was a new scoped pistol with Aurra and the Commander.

Edited December 10, 2010 by CallMePie

[afosl]

The Gungans are probably still the high point for me. Also, I missed the last V wing, so now I have chance to get one if I still want to. Looking at the astro droid for that set, two things spring to mind. It seems a bit odd that the Mando battle pack isn't using that metallic grey/silver colour for their helmets. Even the old Jango Fett figure had a silver helmet and jet pack. Spread the metallic love, Lego. Do the Mando's look grey in the cartoon?

Also, maybe, just maybe, we might see a new R2-D2 with an accurate silver dome instead of white or grey, as much as that improved the figure before. A topic for a 2012 picture and rumour thread next year, maybe?

[prateek]

Do the Mando's look grey in the cartoon?

Yes

[afosl]

Yes

<snip>

That explains that, then. Thanks

[The Legonater]

Sorry but I was the only one to point that out and since nobody believed me, I thought I should bring that back up

Funny, seeing as a whole lot of people believed.

[Forresto]

You were not the only one.

The clonetropers actually look quite good, but I'll just buy that battlepack when I have some spare money left.

Not really interested in the battlepacks, with my planned Naboo and Endor projects.

Now we just need summer set pictures.

~ General Magma

I like them, but maybe that's just because I like more detail. They might look better if they were in grey or something, though.

Unfortunately, the ARF doesn't have printed legs. If they're going to make printed legs for the other two, they might as well just create printed legs without markings for regular Clones. A bit annoying, but the bomb squad troopers and commanders will be the highlight of my collection anyway, so it doesn't matter if they do stand out. I don't need printed arms, but I think printed legs is necessary.

Well I brought it up at least 3 times and everyone who commented said I was wrong. I was the first to bring it up for the final pics back about a month ago.

[filospinato]

Thanks for the higher res pics, very nice! Definitely sold on the Clone BP and Mando BP, starting to warm up to the bounty hunter ship. Pretty slick mechanism to rotate the engines for landing, sliding that upper piece backwards. Very cool.

[Fallenangel]

Also, maybe, just maybe, we might see a new R2-D2 with an accurate silver dome instead of white or grey, as much as that improved the figure before. A topic for a 2012 picture and rumour thread next year, maybe?

You realize that the reason only part of the dome was printed initially is because Artoo would be horrendously out of scale with minifigures if the entire head were printed (much like it is now - but something about LEGO Star Wars changed after the winter of '07). The way I see it, LEGO knew that a few customers would complain about the ridiculously oversized astro-droid so they only printed part of the dome; this way, if you scrapped the body and just stuck the head on, say, an X-wing, it would look like Artoo's head and part of his body were sticking out of the hull the way it does in the film! What I'm wondering is why they didn't just print part of the body detail on the head as well instead of printing it on the separate body piece and leaving that unsightly white gap...

With the current head print, Artoo is finally somewhat to scale with himself, but completely out of whack with Luke and Threepio.

Actually, I'm glad that the Mandalorian armor isn't a metallic color - Jango's shiny armor completely kills the battle-worn image that Boba Fett's original suit had.

[XimenaPaulina]

I don't really like the green rectangles all over the ARF helmet.

I for one, like it simply because it's accurate. I might've been wrong saying Arealight's version is better, but the close-up pic of the ARF reveals the articulated detail in the air-breather part, and those helmer prints are just spot-on. And I no longer have complaints on the closed eye visor, this printed one actually looks good already.

See how accurate it is?

Edited December 11, 2010 by KielDaMan

[Fallenangel]

Judging from KielDaMan's reference picture, that mold is quite impressive! If this were 2007 LEGO would never have included the breather details. I think that this may exceed the 2005 LEGO V-wing pilot in detailing - very, very nice.

Something bothers me, though - they can make this, but they can't give Darth Vader a neck? Having just that triangle portion and then a straight edge gives a really weird look to the helmet. If LEGO is responding to AFOLS' demands for more detailed molds, I might as well take advantage. They've already perfected the stormtrooper, TIE pilot, and AT-AT drivers' helmets - it's time the Dark Lord gets a new mold to fit his new torso print.

[CMP]

Well I brought it up at least 3 times and everyone who commented said I was wrong. I was the first to bring it up for the final pics back about a month ago.

You were not the first to bring it up when the first pictures appeared.

[Jar Jar]

Hello all, while searching "7931" on the internet, I've stumbled upon close up pictures of Shaak Ti on google images! :)

And quite a beauty, I must say!

Edited December 11, 2010 by Jar Jar

[XimenaPaulina]

Something bothers me, though - they can make this, but they can't give Darth Vader a neck? Having just that triangle portion and then a straight edge gives a really weird look to the helmet. If LEGO is responding to AFOLS' demands for more detailed molds, I might as well take advantage. They've already perfected the stormtrooper, TIE pilot, and AT-AT drivers' helmets - it's time the Dark Lord gets a new mold to fit his new torso print.

Well since the last Vader was made, two-three years ago(?), and if the minifig detailing in the past couple of years is any indication, then there is a high possibility of an updated and more detailed Vader minifig in a future set. But that is something to be discussed in another topic, though it's nice to bring that issue up considering the upcoming release of highly accurate and detailed minifigs of the 2011 line-up.

Hello all, while searching "7931" on the internet, I've stumbled upon close up pictures of Shaak Ti on google images! :)

And quite a beauty, I must say!

Thanks for sharing this Jar Jar!

Shaak Ti is a real beauty! The more I see this, and the Saesee fig, the more I'm drawn to buy the T-6 set.

[prateek]

That head piece is astounding! Great job Lego

[Ceroknight]

Shaak Ti looks fantastic,

The battle pack is a must buy, lots of new back printing

[Aanchir]

You realize that the reason only part of the dome was printed initially is because Artoo would be horrendously out of scale with minifigures if the entire head were printed (much like it is now - but something about LEGO Star Wars changed after the winter of '07). The way I see it, LEGO knew that a few customers would complain about the ridiculously oversized astro-droid so they only printed part of the dome; this way, if you scrapped the body and just stuck the head on, say, an X-wing, it would look like Artoo's head and part of his body were sticking out of the hull the way it does in the film! What I'm wondering is why they didn't just print part of the body detail on the head as well instead of printing it on the separate body piece and leaving that unsightly white gap...

With the current head print, Artoo is finally somewhat to scale with himself, but completely out of whack with Luke and Threepio.

Do you have a source for this? I'm fairly certain that the reason R2-D2's head print was different in the early days is because LEGO could only print one surface of the dome-- the top. The 2x2 dome piece today has several decoration surfaces, just as a minifigure head has three-- the front, the back, and the top.

This is supported by LEGO Digital Designer, where the top print of the modern-style R2-D2 is available, but none of the other surface prints are. The surfaces appear, and if you wanted you could do something really zany and put another decoration on there (for instance, a minifig face or a pizza), but only one decoration that belongs on the 2x2 dome is available. Easy to overlook, of course, because the print cannot be applied with the regular decoration tool and its ID number has to be typed manually into an LXFML to get it onto LDD.

Image of dome with top surface printed

LXF file of dome with top surface printed

This is also the reason the Buzz Droid's dome pieces had the same perimeters for their decoration as the old-style R2-D2's dome. Today's astromechs, in contrast, have printing that extends almost the entire span of the brick from top stud to base.